nigeria's power sector

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said that the 10,000 megawatts target given by the Buhari administration, needed to supply the country with adequate electricity by the end of 2019 is achievable. Mr Fashola stated this while speaking as a guest on Channels...

A civil society group, Campaign for Democracy (CD) South-East zone, has slammed the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) a 30-day ultimatum to either fix the lingering epileptic power supply in Nigeria or resign his appointment as a minister of the federal republic...

Few days after President Muhammadu Buhari received phone call from the United States, US, President, Donald Trump, an initiative of the US country to light up Africa, ‘Power Africa,’ says it’s planning to invest about one billion dollars on the power sector in Nigeria. The programme’s...

Senate President Bukola Saraki on Tuesday criticised how the power sector was privatised under the last administration, saying it was sold to individuals who had no idea about how to run it. He said the mistakes of past governments “born out of ignorance, selfish interests and fraud”...