Ikeoluwa Juliana Ogungbangbe

Ghana has launched a $182 million energy efficiency plan to cut power waste in public institutions and generate GH¢2.57 billion in electricity savings.

Nigeria’s oil regulator has confirmed a fresh licensing round for Q3 2026, backed by presidential approval and rising investor confidence in the upstream sector.

Liberia’s first-ever solar farm is already supplying electricity to the national grid, even as construction at the Mount Coffee site continues.

Nigeria’s renewable energy industry and its electricity regulator have deepened ties, pledging stronger policy coordination and a faster clean energy transition.

Senegal’s state gas company is advancing a $1.15 billion pipeline network as its CEO heads to Houston to pitch the project to global investors.

NNPC is heading into Nigeria’s biggest energy conference with record crude output, a new Gas Master Plan and fresh international supply agreements in hand.

ECG has started a GH¢34 million transformer upgrade at Batsonaa Primary Substation in Accra, part of a nationwide programme to strengthen Ghana’s electricity distribution network.

Gambia’s businesses are bleeding from power outages lasting up to 10 hours daily as NAWEC battles a supply deficit exceeding 50 percent of national demand.

Ethiopia banned fossil fuel vehicle imports in 2024, the world’s first such policy. Now over 100,000 of its 1.2 million registered vehicles are electric and powered by hydropower.

Nigeria received $3.653 billion in World Bank power loans since 2001, yet daily blackouts persist, the national grid keeps collapsing and generator dependence remains the norm.