Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the authorities to re-visit and fast-track prosecution of all corruption cases in the power sector and recover stolen public funds.

Senior staff of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), under the auspices of the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC), have pledged to support power growth.

About two weeks ago, the Minister of Power, Sale Mamman ordered the suspension of the Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Damilola Ogunbiyi and asked for the immediate stepping down of the Managing Director of the Nigerian...

Minister of Power, Sale Mamman has charged stakeholders in the sector to put in place an effective implementation process that would ensure efficient service delivery.

The power sector is no exception from the ups and down recorded in 2017. The year started with a generally low mood in terms of the quantum of power generation available for distribution from none to a peak of 5,222MW.

Nigeria’s electricity sector lost more than N540 billion to series of constraints that beset its operations in 2017, which made it difficult for the operators to supply the needed power to consumers.

“One of the major challenges of the power sector is availability of requisite infrastructure that will ensure for effective and effective power generation and distribution,” it stated.

Major stakeholders the power value chain which includes governments, power generation companies, transmission and distribution companies, developers, investors, manufacturers, technology providers, and so on, will converge at the Future Energy....

Before The Guardian colloquium in Lagos, there had been reports of yet another power sector restructuring plan, which sought to focus mainly on renewable energy that has not been fully integrated into the energy mix.

Why should our power generation emit maximum carbon dioxide and generate only 4,000 Megawatts when we can actually generate more energy at the same rate of carbon dioxide emission?

“Government did not make a dime from the sale of the electricity assets, all monies realized were used to settle old electricity staffs. After acquisition of the assets, those who acquired had no money to take it to the next level.”

The optimism is driven by the imminent completion of the Obiafu/Obrikon-Oben (OB3) gas transmission pipeline system currently being developed by NNPC and its Indigenous EPC contractor companies.