Nigeria Targets 70,000MW Despite Collapsing Grid

The Decentralised Grid: How Small Businesses and Estates are Quietly Divorcing the National Grid

Across commercial hubs and gated residential communities in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, and Ibadan, a quiet infrastructure divorce is underway. Commercial clusters, private housing estates, and small manufacturing firms are systematically disconnecting their primary operations from the national grid. Spurred by relentless grid collapses, steep distribution company (DisCo) tariff revisions, and the erratic delivery of…

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NERC Orders DisCos to Fund Network Upgrades

Power Subsidy Hits N418bn as Systemic Losses Bleed Sector

Nigeria’s electricity sector remains a fiscal black hole, with the Federal Government incurring N418.79bn in subsidy obligations during the final quarter of 2025. A new report from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) reveals that the state continues to shoulder over 52 per cent of generation costs. This massive intervention serves only to paper over…

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