OpeOluwani Akintayo Lagos — Following recent controversies over the state of the Azura-Edo power deal, Special Adviser to the President…
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She added that, unfortunately, this proposal comes at a time when the power sector is facing critical and strangulating financial challenges in building the capacity for the sustainable electricity supply that will drive the growth of our economy.
“Year in year out, the ministry presents the same items in the budget and asks for more funds to execute the same projects,” the Senator Eyinnaya Abaribe-led committee said.
The governor who expressed satisfaction at the level of work at the multi-million Naira power plant said that with the presidents commitment to the project, it is a sure deal that the December 2019 deadline for delivery of the plant would be a reality.
The Director of Operations at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, an arm of the World Bank Group, Sarvesh Suri, said a full range of instruments would be deployed to help the government mobilise investments directly from the private sector and through private sector guarantees.
14 December 2016, Sweetcrude, Kaduna – The Chairman, Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, has called…
It specifically noted its disappointment that electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) which took over from the erstwhile Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) are performing worse than their predecessors.
30 November 2016, Sweetcrude, Lagos – The National Assembly plans to sanction the country’s power sector regulator, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory…
Abaribe also told the agency to ensure compulsory testing of all electricity equipment before they are certified for installation in any part of Nigeria.
15 May 2015, Lagos – There were ominous signs on Thursday that the recent epileptic power supply would grow worse as…
