As crews continue to restore power, questions remain about whether more tree trimming could have reduced that impact.

BPE leads push to close over 5m meter gap Only about 200,000 smart meters have been installed under the federal ...

Nigeria's $500m DISREP metering programme faces a slow rollout, with only 200,000 smart meters installed, undermining efforts ...

BY MOSES BABATUNDE When the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) approved a significant increase in electricity tariffs ...

The Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Dr Sam Amadi, has criticised the growing wave of state ...

Energy theft is the silent cancer eating Nigeria’s power sector alive. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) estimates that aggregate technical, commercial ...

Electricity distribution companies failed to bill customers for power worth N72.86bn in November 2025, according to commercial performance data released by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory ...

Nigeria’s power sector has entered a new phase with the signing of the Electricity Act (Amendment) Bill 2025 into law. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu gave his assent on 2 February 2026, introducing ...

From Adanna Nnamani, AbujaThe Federal Government, in collaboration with the World Bank, is set to inject $500 million into Nigeria’s ailing electricity distribution sector under the Distribution ...

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said it has commenced sanctions against nine electricity distribution ...

Over the years, the Nigeria’s power sector has remained a section that seems pathetic in spite of the trillions of naira being reportedly allocated therein. This ugly scenario has consistently made ...