[ad_1] Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar says the hike in electricity tariff will worsen the hardship Nigerians are already going through. Atiku said this in a statement on Friday in Abuja. The Nigerian
[ad_1] The Minister of Power, Dr. Adebayo Adelabu yesterday, said the Federal Government has spent about N2.9 trillion on electricity subsidy. He said the government is still subsidising 85 per cent of electricity supply
[ad_1] Nigeria was thrown into darkness on Thursday afternoon following the collapse of the electricity grid controlled from Osogbo, Osun State, around 4:32 p.m. A source in one of the distribution companies (DisCo)
[ad_1] The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Thursday, unveiled new minimum capital requirements for banks, pegging the minimum capital base for commercial banks with international authorisation at N500 billion. Acting Director, Corporate
[ad_1] South Africa’s former President, Jacob Zuma, has been disqualified from contesting in the upcoming general election scheduled for May, as announced by the country’s electoral commission, the IEC. The commission did not
[ad_1] The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) on Thursday said that it plans to replace almost all the over 5,000 pipelines network scattered across the country in the next three years. Nigeria
[ad_1] Air Peace, on Saturday, commenced its Lagos-London flight services. The commencement of the service came a month after it announced plans to begin direct flight operations to London on March 30 during
[ad_1] The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, on Sunday, said for over 60 years, Nigerian leaders have looked like men in a drunken stupor who stumble and fumble while searching for
[ad_1] Incessant national grid collapse in the country has become a national embarrassment, just as the state of the power sector itself. Last week, the country suffered another grid collapse at a time
[ad_1] Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa have emerged Africa’s most polluted countries in terms of air pollution disease burden, amid health consequences and exacerbated impacts on climate change, a new report by Greenpeace
