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Nigerian households and businesses are buying their way out of the national grid at a pace that has now placed the country among the biggest markets for small scale solar investment across Sub Saharan Africa, according to a new BloombergNEF assessment that credits arithmetic rather than climate policy for the shift. The report, titled…
Nigeria’s electricity distribution companies ended 2025 with a curious paradox on their books. They pumped out more power, banked record revenue and connected more meters than ever before, yet quietly watched more than a million paying customers walk away. Fresh figures from the National Bureau of Statistics, drawn from data compiled by the…
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…
A brief airport stopover by President Bola Tinubu in Jos has handed Labour Party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Peter Obi, a fresh political opening to revisit one of the administration’s most consequential campaign promises and to argue, pointedly, that the president has failed on his own terms. In a post on his verified X account…
Nigeria’s electricity generation has collapsed below the 4,000-megawatt (MW) mark as a persistent gas shortage chokes the nation’s thermal power plants. The Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) confirmed on Thursday that total grid output slumped to 3,940MW by 5:00 a.m., forcing widespread load shedding across all distribution networks. Within a three-hour window on Thursday morning,…
