Tag Archives: power supply

“A transmission tower’s integrity in Lagos is being threatened as miscreants have turned its location to a dump site, illegal refining and burning of rubbish, it was learnt.”- The Nation The tower, located in Surulere area of Lagos, according to the Acting Managing Director/Chief Executive of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Mr. Usman Gur Mohammed, is being threatened by the ...

The Minister of Power Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola has explained why there is poor power supply in the country. The Nation reports that the Minister spoke to State House reporters after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by acting President Yemi Osinbajo. The FEC meeting approved the upward review of the contract for the completion of the Odogunyan ...

With adequate policies, Nigeria could surmount her poor electricity supply through the tonnes of wastes that are generated on daily basis in the country. The Guardian reports that this was contained in a communiqué by the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), at the end of the African Engineering conference on energy held last week in Uyo, Akwa Ibom. According to The ...

According to The Guardian, experts at the ongoing Water Africa and West Africa Building and Construction Exhibition and Seminars have urged government to consider the adoption of small hydropower technology to improve power generation in the country. They maintained that since the focus of generating bulk power to be fed into the national grid had not improved electricity supply, government ...

Vanguard reports that the management of Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, has pleaded with its customers over power outage, blaming it on faulty 100MVA transformer at Ejigbo Transmission Station, as well as other multiple faults along the network in that area. In a statement made available to Vanguard, the management of IE stated that, “it regrets the prolonged outage witnessed by ...

Federal Government has promised that the 40 federal universities can expect access to uninterrupted power supply within the next 12-18 months, beginning from December 2017. According to a statement issued in Abuja by the Director of Press and Public Relations in the Ministry of Education, Ben Goong, the government plans to achieve this through its Energising Education Programme Initiative by utilising off-grid Independent Power ...