With Solar Power Nigeria can Generate $2bn Annually – Report Nigerians struggling with unreliable electricity may soon find relief, and the country could see a significant economic boost, according to a new report by Shell-funded impact investment company, All On. The report estimates that Nigeria has...

FG Partners Investors to Deploy Five Million Solar Power to Communities   The Federal Government is partnering with investors to deploy five million solar power connections in communities that are not connected to the national electricity grid. Under its Solar Power Naija Programme, the government, through the...

Solar Power - The Portent Solution to Nigeria's Energy Crisis, by Umar Farouk Ahmad   “We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using nature's inexhaustible sources of energy – sun, wind and tide.… I’d put...

NYSC Corper Creates Awareness on Solar, Provides Alternative Energies to Schools in FCT     A serving member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Engr Umar Farouk Ahmad, has unveiled a solar inverter system and streetlights he installed at Government Secondary Schools (GSS) Jabi and Wuse,...

FG Disburses $1.1m Grant To Boost Solar Power In Rural Areas         The Managing Director/Chief Executive, Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Mr. Ahmad Salihijo, said the agency had disbursed over $1.1 million to 12 solar power companies as part of efforts to boost rural electrification across the...

FG To Establish Solar Power Plant In BUK   The Federal Government will on Tuesday (today) inaugurate an off-grid solar hybrid power plant in Bayero University, Kano under its Energising Education Programme. The Rural Electrification Agency said in a statement that the inauguration would include the launch...