Taraba State has signed $268 million in loans from the ECOWAS development bank to build a solar plant, a vast rice scheme and an industrial park.
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Sub-Saharan Africa now accounts for 86 per cent of the world’s electricity access gap, with 563 million people still living without power, a report finds.
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KEY POINTS The latest evaluation of South Africa’s energy infrastructure and tariff framework highlights an increasingly unsustainable financial burden. Industrial operations and everyday consumers are absorbing the shock of consecutive …
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KEY POINTS • Sabah will implement scheduled power cuts after a disruption at a Petronas-operated offshore gas platform reduced electricity generation. • The outages are intended to stabilise the state’s …
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KEY POINTS The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, has called on the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited to urgently conclude its proposed technical equity partnership with two …
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KEY POINTS The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has imported two cargoes of crude oil from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), marking the first time the facility has sourced crude from the …
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KEY POINTS South Africa’s state-owned electricity utility, Eskom, says it has continued to maintain a stable and reliable power supply as electricity demand increases during the country’s winter season. In …
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KEY POINTS Motorists in Lagos and several other major Nigerian cities are increasingly spending hours in long queues to refill their vehicles with Compressed Natural Gas, CNG, raising fresh concerns …
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Nigerian manufacturers have won a court order halting 1.55 million smart meter imports, putting the World Bank’s $500m metering programme at risk of cancellation
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Nigeria’s gas output has climbed to 7.85 billion cubic feet per day this year, with exports hitting a five-year high across power, industry and homes.