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There Is Something About Pantami: Power, Piety, and the Politics of Gombe State, By Baba El-Yakubu

Baba El-yakubu — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 07:26:40 +0000

There Is Something About Pantami: Power, Piety, and the Politics of Gombe State By Baba El-Yakubu Last weekend, at the wedding ceremony of my friend’s son, a professor at ATBU, Bauchi State, the conversations that drifted between greetings, laughter, and shared meals revealed something deeper than social pleasantries. As is often the case in Northern […]

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When Power Crumbles: Nigeria’s Political Titans and the Reckoning They Cannot Escape, By Haroon Aremu

Haroon Aremu — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:18:59 +0000

When Power Crumbles: Nigeria’s Political Titans and the Reckoning They Cannot Escape By Haroon Aremu He once rode through Abuja behind blaring sirens, aides scrambling, admirers stretching their necks for a glimpse. Today, the same man answers questions in stark rooms, stripped of titles, power, and applause. In Nigeria, this scene is no longer shocking; […]

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Nigeria’s Power Grid: A Child’s Plaything in an Economic Crisis?

Haroon Aremu — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:21:43 +0000

Nigeria’s Power Grid: A Child’s Plaything in an Economic Crisis? By Haroon Aremu Three days after relocating to Canada, a friend messaged me with a recently all-too-familiar question, “Is the national grid back up?” This simple question covers the profound frustration of Nigerians who have grown accustomed to erratic electricity supply. Insufficient power supply has […]

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FG targets $10b for stable power

Prnigeria — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:00:58 +0000

FG targets $10b for stable power The Federal Government is banking on the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement to bridge the investment gap in the power sector. Power Minister Adebayo Adelabu, who said that the government will need $10 billion to provide uninterrupted power, described the challenges in the power sector as enormous. Attacks by vandals […]

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Power supply will be fully restored to North in 2 week – Minister assures

Prnigeria — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:11:04 +0000

Power supply will be fully restored to North in 2 week – Minister assures Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has explained why the North suffered total blackout for several days. He said the ongoing engineering work on the vandalised facility has resulted in partial power supply in the North and maintained that the Shiroro-Mando plant […]

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Professor Zulum and his ‘empty seat of power’

Isa Gusau — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 08:27:41 +0000

Professor Zulum and his ‘empty seat of power’ By Isa Gusau From the most part of March 2020 to date, I have observed that Borno’s governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, abandons the executive red chair, and desk in his main office at the Government House in Maiduguri. So far, Prof has left that elegant ‘seat […]

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Accountability, Synergy Among Stakeholders Key for Power Stability- Minister

Etore Thomas — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:22:11 +0000

Accountability, Synergy Among Stakeholders key for Power Stability- Minister The Minister of Power Engr. Sale Mamman has said the Nigerian power sector is being repositioned towards a holistic realignment for an effective delivery of electricity, saying that synergy and accountability are critical to sustaining the sector. The Minister stated this during a virtual meeting with the African Development Bank (AfDB) on Thursday, set up to […]

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REVEALED: How Buhari Plans to Revitalise Economy – Osinbajo

Laolu Akande — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 14:06:54 +0000

REVEALED: How Buhari Plans to Revitalise Economy , by Osinbajo *Healthcare funding increases with Stimulus package, VP adds Despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic globally, the Buhari administration would not relent in its efforts towards improving the country’s healthcare infrastructure and economy, while creating more jobs for millions of Nigerians in different sectors, […]

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FG Inaugurates Committee to Review Inherited Ground, Tenement Rates of Ex-PHCN

Etore E. Thomas — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 13:24:08 +0000

FG Inaugurates Committee to Review Inherited Ground, Tenement Rates of Ex-PHCN The Federal Government on Tuesday, 2nd June, 2020 in Abuja, inaugurated an Inter-Ministerial Committee on Inherited Ground Rent and Tenement Rates of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) with a call on members to undertake a holistic review of all matters relating to […]

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AfDB earmarked $200 million to Enhance Rural Electrification in Nigeria

Gift Seddon, Osima — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:35:11 +0000

AfDB earmarked $200 million to Enhance Rural Electrification in Nigeria The Minister of State, Power, Goddy Jedy-Agba, OFR, has described electricity as the bedrock of sustainable socio-economic national development, saying no nation’s economy would make meaningful headway without the support of an efficient power sector. He made this disclosure Monday, in Abuja when he had […]

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Mamman Pledges to Combat Power problems

Etore E. Thomas — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:14:49 +0000

Mamman Pledges to Combat Power problems The newly appointed Minister of Power, Engr. Sale Mamman has noted that the Power Sector is not only the central nervous system, but also the indispensable vehicle for the delivery of all government policies as they relate to the social, economic and industrial development of any country. Mamman who […]

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Incremental To Steady, Uninterrupted Power Supply: Fashola Says It’s Achievable With Cooperation Of Citizens

Hakeem Bello — Mon, 23 May 2016 10:58:47 +0000

The Power, Works and Housing Minister, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, has again assured the nation that incremental, steady and eventual uninterrupted power supply is achievable in the country appealing, however, that it could only happen if the citizenry cooperate with the government by taking ownership of and protecting the various power supply facilities across the country.

Fashola, who spoke to newsmen in Lagos after delivering a keynote address at the Nigeria Urban Design Forum 2016 at the LCCI Conference Centre in Ikeja, said government is ready and willing and has mapped out its programme to take the country to incremental power from where it intends to move to steady power and ultimately to uninterrupted power supply.

The Minister, who was responding to a journalist’s question on why power generation had gone down explained that the only way government could realize its programme was if those involved stopped some of the practices like cutting gas pipelines through which gas for the supply of over 80 percent of electricity to the whole country goes to the various gas plants across the country.

“But one of the things we should stop doing is to stop cutting gas pipelines and all of you (the media men and women) must sensitise all of those who are involved because that’s why supply is down”,he said

The Minister, who noted that 23 of the nation’s power plants are gas powered, added that it was important for those involved to stop vandalizing and cutting gas pipelines adding that it was also imperative that all those involved in the act be sensitized on the evil consequences of their nefarious act to the economy and the people of Nigeria.

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Minister Blames Failure In The Power Sector For The Nation’s Woes

Timothy Oyedeji — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 07:58:11 +0000

He therefore reasoned that the new inductees should see themselves, as “Agent of positive change hence they are expected to confronting frontally the myriad of problems militating against our quest for development through co-ordinated and innovative means of providing practical solutions to issues, which can take Nigeria into the future.

He therefore commended them for being part of the strategies Government hopes to use in battling the age – long lack of stable and reliable electricity, as it intends to use youth manpower training platform to redress the deficiency in profession and technical capacity in the power sector.

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Energy Policy Document To Fast Track Robust Energy Mix– Ps Power

Timothy Oyedeji — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:26:54 +0000

………Says Dependent on Thermal would soon be Reversed Speaking at the launch of Nigeria’s National Renewable Energy Plan, Energy Efficiency Action Plan and the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Action Agenda, the Permanent Secretary (Power), Amb. (Dr.) Godknows Igali, has assured all stakeholders that Nigeria will soon fully harness its vast solar energy potentials, […]

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