Ikeoluwa Juliana Ogungbangbe

Daystar Power Group has installed 6.884 megawatts of solar power across four Nestle manufacturing facilities in Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Senegal.

Nigeria’s LPG retailers say US-Iran tensions and global supply disruptions are pushing cooking gas prices higher, hurting millions who switched to cleaner energy.

Nigeria spent $1.39bn importing foreign crude in Q1 2026, a 309% surge, even as the Dangote refinery scales up domestic output.

Liberia’s LEC is scaling back power imports from Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea after gaining 42 new megawatts from domestic sources.

UEDCL has commissioned new transformer projects in Wakiso to fix low voltage, overloading and unreliable power supply in fast-growing peri-urban communities.

NNPC has renewed its airborne methane detection agreement with TotalEnergies for another 24 months to advance its near-zero emissions target by 2030.

Nigeria earned $2.53 billion from gas exports in Q1 2026 as the CBN reported a 256% surge in the country’s current account surplus to $4.98 billion.

Inspired Evolution has launched Zafiri, a $176 million blended finance vehicle to expand electricity access across sub-Saharan Africa through distributed renewable energy.

Johannesburg’s mayor promised residents the lights are staying on but no signed deal with Eskom has been made public and the legal process continues.

ExxonMobil has signed a preliminary deal to supply LNG to South Africa’s Zululand Energy Terminal, the country’s first planned LNG import facility.