Category: Power

‘Four MDs, 1 Director,’ Axxela Announces Strategic Reorganisation + Names

ADEOLA YUSUF

How the next-phase realignment will drive future growth, company gives details   Axxela Limited, a gas and power portfolio company in sub-Saharan Africa, has announced a bold organisational restructuring as part of its strategic commitment to accelerating growth and expanding market influence. This transformation to a group structure, the company said in a statement to Platforms Africa, “marks a significant milestone in the company’s journey to support Nigeria’s energy transition agenda, deliver increased customer value, and advance its pan-African expansion aspirations.” Over the past two decades, Axxela has nurtured its…

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PUNCH Pulls Report On National Grid Collapse From Website

ADEOLA YUSUF

‘The newspaper, which earlier reported the collapse to be the 13th grid failure in 13 months gives no reason for deleting the story’   Nigeria’s top newspaper, The PUNCH, has pulled the report it earlier published on its website about a purported national power grid collapse. Platforms Africa reports that the most widely read newspaper earlier reported that the grid recorded its first major collapse for the first time in 2025 barely ten days into the new year. The collapse, according to the newspaper, has resulted in a nationwide blackout…

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‘Blame Bandits,’ Power Minister Says As 6,000 MW Promise To Nigerians In 2024 Failed

ADEOLA YUSUF

Mr. Adelabu had told Nigerians that the power supply would improve by December as the above N200 per kilowatt hour tariff hike slammed on Nigerians was based on improved service delivery. The promise made by the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, to increase power generation to 6,000 megawatts (MW) by December 2024 has hit the rock, Platforms Africa reports. As of January 1, 2025, the day after the failed promise, this reputable media group reports authoritatively that the country’s generation was about 1, 550 MW short of the 6,000 MW…

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’12th Time In 2024,’ National Grid Collapses Again

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigeria’s electricity transmission system known as national grid collapsed again on Wednesday, plunging the country into darkness. Platforms Africa reports that this failure is the 12 th collapse from January to December 11, 2024. Within one week in October, the grid collapsed three times with its attendant blackouts, sparking reactions from Nigerians. How Greed Led To Frequent Collapse of National Grid – EFCC 2027: ‘There’s Vacancy in Aso Rock,’ Bode George Says Tinubu Yet To Get It Right Abuja Airport Shut As Plane Skids Off Runway Malaria Kills 597,000…

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’11 Years After Privatisation,’ 50% of DisCos Customers Still On Estimated Billing

ADEOLA YUSUF

. ‘With CAPMI, NMMP, MAP’ 6.15 metered, 6.13 million still receive estimated bills monthly   Fifty (50) per cent of electricity consumers in Nigeria are still on the estimated billing system 11 years after power privatisation. Platforms Africa reports that the electricity industry was privatised with the sales of the assets in the generation and the distribution strata of the industry on Friday, November 1, 2013. Between November 2013 and November 2024, about 3.03 million prepaid electricity meters were installed across Nigeria as part of various initiatives, raising the total…

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Minister:Power Sector Needs $10bn Investment For 24-Hour Electricity

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Federal Government says it needs $10 billion Public-Private-Partnership investment in the power sector, in the next five to 10 years, to achieve 24 hours power supply. Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu disclosed this when the Director-General, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), Dr Jobson Ewalefoh, paid him a courtesy visit. A statement on the visit was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja, by Mr Ifeanyi Nwoko, Acting Head, Media and Publicity, ICRC. In the statement, Adelabu said that the government alone, could not…

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‘What Vandals Got To Do With It,’ Abuja Suffers Power Supply Disruption

ADEOLA YUSUF

Suspected vandals have again attacked the 330kV Lokoja – Gwagwalada transmission line 1, disrupting power supply to Abuja     The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, in a statement on Sunday said the attack which took place in the early hours of Saturday 9th November 2024 affected three of its transmission towers. Early on Saturday, TCN engineers attempted to re-energize the 330kV Lokoja–Gwagwalada transmission line 1, but the line tripped. After efforts to reclose the line failed, a patrol team of TCN linesmen was dispatched to physically trace the line…

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‘2nd time In 3 Days,’ National Grid Collapses Again

ADEOLA YUSUF

10th grid failure from the eleven months so far used in 2024 plunges Nigeria into an outage   Nigeria’s electricity transmission system, also known as the national power grid failed once again on Thursday just two days after a previous breakdown. Platforms Africa reports that the latest grid collpase, which rocked Nigeria precisely at 11:29 a.m., marked the 10th time of such failure that plunged many parts of the country into darkness. ‘3rd Time in 5 Days,’ National Grid Collapses Again Data from the Nigerian System Operator showed a dramatic…

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‘9th Time In 11 Months,’ National Grid Collapses Again

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigeria’s Transmission System also known as national power grid, siffered another collapse on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, marking the ninth time that the residents of the country have been plunged into total darkness. According to data from the Nigerian System Operator’s portal (niggrid.org), power generation dropped to an unprecedented zero megawatts from 2:00 pm, affecting all 22 operational generation companies (GenCos) nationwide. This latest blackout is another blow to Nigeria’s struggling power sector, which has been plagued by instability, insufficient capacity, and frequent grid disturbances. The Transmission Company of…

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‘No River? No Palaver,’ 10 Countries With No Single River

ADEOLA YUSUF

Citizens of countries with abundance of river water flock to these nations that have none in a way that may have rendered useless the principle of water for development. Here is the miracle of 10 and how they cope with ‘riverlessness’! Call them riverless and you won’t be wrong. Countries like Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Vatican function, relying on alternative sources of water supply. Here are 10 countries without rivers from around the WORLD and how they source for alternatives to make up for their lack of even…

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