The national grid has been hit with another system collapse, worsening the blackout being experienced by households and businesses in parts of the country. The collapse occurred early in the afternoon on Wednesday and was confirmed by two of the electricity distribution company in Nigeria. In a text message sent to customers, Eko Electricity Distribution Company, said, “Dear customer, the present outage is due to a system collapse on the National Grid. TCN (Transmission Company...

ABUJA — The Minister of Power, Mr. Saleh Mamman says the reduction in the capacity of the Mambilla power project from 3,500 megawatts to 1,500 megawatts, saying it was to ensure adequate funding by lenders. The Minister, who disclosed this while appearing before the Senate Committee on Power, said the capacity of the power project was reduced to 1,500 megawatts to make it bankable and acceptable to the lenders. “We discovered that the 3,050 megawatts...

GOMBE — Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC) says 19, 317 households have so far been metered in Gombe state, according to Dr. Adakole Elijah, JEDC’s Head of Corporate Communications. Elijah, who disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gombe, added that efforts were ongoing to meter more households, in line with the directive of the Federal Government as well as JEDC’s desire to end estimated billing of customers. He...