Category: Power

Courts Jail IBEDC Power Assets’ Vandals for 2 years

ADEOLA YUSUF

How we secured conviction against the transformer, Cables vamdals in two Courts , IBEDC Management declares in a statement to Platforms Africa    Two Courts sitting in 8badan have jailed two men; Yusuff Olatunji and Ademola Toheeb, after they found them guilty of vanadalism of key power assets belonging to Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company Plc. (IBEDC). Platforms Africa reports that the Grade A, Customary Court of Appeal, Ibadan and Magistrate Court, Moniya, Ibadan, read the conviction judgments on 15th October, 2021 and 22nd November, 2021 respectively. The IBEDC, which confirmed…

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BREAKING: Nigeria Hikes Electricity Meters’ Prices

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigerian Government has hiked the cost of both single-phase and three-phase meters for the about six million un-metered individual and business electricity consumers in the country. Platforms Africa reports that a circular dated November 11, 2021, issued by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, showed that the hike in prices is beginning from Monday, November 15, 2021. The circular, with reference number NERC/REG/MAP/GEN/751/2, entitled ‘Review of the unit price of end-use meters under the Meter Asset Provider and National Mass Metering Regulations,’ was addressed to managing directors, all electricity distribution…

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Experts Seek End To Nigeria’s surging electrical fire outbreak in buildings

ADEOLA YUSUF

Experts at a roundtable session organised by Eaton in Lagos, Nigeria’s  commercial capital, have craved enhancement for safety of buildings against incessant electrical fire outbreaks across the country. A statement sent to Platforms Africa showed that the annual event was a ln avenue for experts, regulators, MEP consultants, contractors and other stakeholders to discuss safety in Buildings and sustainable ways to curbing electrical fire outbreaks. READ ALSO: Why, How NNPC GMD, Kyari, Bagged “The Sun Man of The Year” Award – MD/E-i-C How UI, UNILAG, LASU Researchers, Others Broke Guiness…

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Ikeja Electric Deepens Billing Transparency for Customers, Launches SingleView App

ADEOLA YUSUF

Why we harmonised customers accounts activities on one platform, CEO Ikeja Electric, Folake Soetan, answers Platforms Africa’s and-then-what questions about SingleView App     Nigeria’s power utility giant, Ikeja Electric, has deepened billing transparency and feedback Channel for its customers as it launched SingleView App. Platforms Africa reports that SingleView is a one-stop shop application where all details about customers profile, vending and power usage, among others, are displayed in a single view at the front end of the application. Speaking at launch of the App held at the corporate…

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EXCLUSIVE: Blackout as IBEDC customers go occultic, padlock isolators with ritual fringes

ADEOLA YUSUF

Pray for us, power utility firm begs Nigerians over Magboro crisis, assures Okeho community of better days ahead   Customers of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) have gone occultic in their face-off with the utility firm as they padlocked the IBEDC isolators in Magboro with ritual fringes. Platforms Africa reports exclusively that this incident has grounded the operations of the company in the axis and thrown hundreds of thousands of customers on the supply chain in Mowe, Aseese, Magboro, Ibafo and environs into total blackout. Magboro, an Ogun state community…

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EKEDC Underscores Customer Service Practitioners’ Resilience, Strenght

ADEOLA YUSUF

Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has disclosed the need to celebrates the resilience, strength, and tenacity of customer service practitioners, in the face of the new normal that has been forced on the world by the corona virus pandemic. The utility firm said this as it flagged off activities for the 2021 Customer Service week celebration. Platforms Africa reports that thr Company in a statement by its General Manager, Corporate Communications, Godwin Idemudia, disclosed that the week-long event has been designed to reflect the theme of this year’s celebration which…

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Outages Imminent in Lagos as Ikeja Electric Announces 132KV Lines Upgrade

ADEOLA YUSUF

Major Power outages are imminent at Lagos State Secretariat, The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (General Hospital), The Ikeja High Court, and The Ikeja Mall (Shoprite), among others.   Nigeria’s largest Electricity Distribution company, Ikeja Electric (IE), has announced the planned re-conductoring of 132KV lines embarked upon by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), aimed at expanding the capacity to wheel more power. Platforms Africa reports that the Chief Technical Officer, Ikeja Electric (IE), Jide Kumapayi, who disclosed this while addressing journalists, said the upgrade by the TCN couldn’t have…

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Multi-million dollars NNPC Maiduguri Power Project’s construction begins

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Governor of Borno State, Northwest Nigeria, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum has described the groundbreaking ceremony of the Maiduguri & Environs Emergency Power Project (MEPP) as the happiest day of his life and a huge relief to the people of Maiduguri, who have been without power supply for nine months. Platforms Africa reports that the governor was quoted by a statement from.the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to have said in Maiduguri during the event. According to the Governor, NNPC’s commercial investments in the 50mw combined gas power plant will…

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Why we awarded Abeokuta-Sagamu-Mowe 33KV Lines’ 5 segments to different contractors – IBEDC

ADEOLA YUSUF

IBEDC has stated that the Abeokuta-Sagamu-Mowe 33KV Lines Near Completion   The Management of Ibadan Electricity Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) has declared that it awarded the Abeokuta-Sagamu-Mowe 33KV Lines’ five segments to different contractors to hasten completion. Restating its commitment to the completion of the construction work on the 33KV dual-circuit line, the utility firm maintained in a statement to Platforms Africa that this would enable communities at Mowe, Magboro, Ibafo and environs benefit from the newly commissioned Abeokuta Transmission Station at Kobape. The statement signed by the company’s Chief…

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B’Haram: Nigeria Suffers N1.7bn Power Assets Vandalism in 9 mths  —Minister

ADEOLA YUSUF

Nigeria has suffered the loss of N1.7 billion revenues from January to September, 2021,  due to power loss buoyed by power infrastructure vandalism by the Boko Haram sect in Maiduguri, Northeast Nigeria. Platforms Africa reports that the country’s Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, who declared this at a Town Hall Meeting in Maiduguri, organised to address vandalism of power and telecommunications infrastructure, maintained that the loss was suffered through the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). The event organised by the Ministry of Information and Culture, was attended by Borno Governor,…

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