Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki broke with niceties and elite consensus recently when he walked out from his office the managing director of Benin Distribution Company, Mrs Funke Osibodu. The chief executive of one of […]
Trapped in the morass of a toxic privatisation, the Nigerian power sector is in dire need of a reversal of fortunes. Five years into the ownership swap deal, the promised gains of a massive injection […]
“We bought our distribution company cash down for $82m in 2013; we are willing to take $72m in 24 hours and leave.” When one gets to know that the above excerpt was ascribed to Alh. […]
Did you know that around 51.4% of Nigeria’s population lives within a rural area? Rural areas in Nigeria are defined as locations that have a population less than 50,000. They are also classified as areas […]
COMMUNIQUE DRAWN AT THE 2 ND EDITION OF THE POWER SAFETY SUMMIT (PSS) HELD AT THE NICON LUXURY HOTEL, ABUJA FROM 27TH NOVEMBER 2018 The 2 nd Edition of the Power Safety Summit (PSS) […]
Lack of proper structure has been identified as the biggest challenge of the power sector in Nigeria. Over the years, pre-privatization and post-privatization period, the challenge of an adequate structure has been recurrent, and instead […]
I always look forward to my google alerts especially when it drops under the Federal Government, Electricity and Power sector tabs, it excites me with the hope that there may be some sort of effort […]
Five years post-privatisation, reality has dawned on most Nigerians that the exercise was not the elixir to the ailing electric power challenges in the country. For other countries like India and Singapore, privatisation was used […]
The Federal Government, it would be recalled, handed over assets of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to the investors on Friday, November 1, 2013. The idea ordinarily was meant to attract foreign and […]
The Nigerian power sector is one riddled with unreliable and insufficient power supply which is characterised by frequent power outages and continuous load shedding (including technical issues). This inefficiency is caused by many factors, and […]
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