Tag Archives: Power

**No Power No Vote By Ebun-olu Adegboruwa, Esq Yesterday, I posted a story in respect of the revolution that happened in Egypt, where Siemens constructed a 14.4 gigawatts power plant in just two years with the sun of $7.2b. The main focus was partly to show that between 2015 when the Buhari administration took over power, and now, the problem …

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The Lumos service is combining the power of the sun and your MTN mobile phone to bring a new type of power to Nigeria The complex dilemma of how to power Nigeria dominates politics and economics, yet hundreds of thousands of people are discovering the answer is to literally take power into their own hands. This week, the Lumos (www.Lumos-Global.com) …

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The senate has urged the federal government to appoint a separate minister for the ministry of power to ensure optimal performance. Under the present administration, the ministry of power is combined with those of works and housing, with Babatunde Fashola overseeing them. The senate also urged the government to immediately incorporate special purpose vehicles (SPVs) for the implementation of alternative …

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Century Power Limited, a subsidiary of the Obijackson Group, owners of Nestoil Limited, will boost electricity generating capacity by 1,500 megawatts (Mw) on completion of its proposed power plant in Okija, Anambra State. The power station, known as Century Power Generation Plant, will be built in three phases. The first phase will  have a generation capacity of 495Mw and is expected …

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The Transmission Company of Nigeria says the nation’s power generation rose from 3,528MW to 4,043MW between February 1 and February 15. TCN, in its website, said that the 515MW increase in generation as at February 15 was due to slight increase in gas supply to some power generating companies. It said, “The total output of 4,043 megawatts from all the …

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As Nigerians continued to grope in darkness for several hours, power generation capacity made a positive rebound of 3, 128.50MegaWatt on Friday. The Discos received zero MW allocation from the system operator, Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN on Thursday. According to the country’s operational report, as at March 31, the peak power generation of March 30, stood at 3, 766.7megawatt, …

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