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KEY POINTS The Glencore-Merafe Chrome Venture has suspended planned layoffs after South Africa’s energy regulator approved a reduced electricity tariff of 62 cents per kilowatt-hour for the ferrochrome industry, offering …

KEY POINTS Global oil prices plunged on Monday after the United States and Iran announced that they had reached an initial agreement aimed at ending their conflict and restoring maritime …

KEY POINTS The rapid expansion of the Dangote Petroleum Refinery has significantly reduced West Africa’s reliance on imported refined petroleum products, reshaping regional energy trade flows and shipping patterns. New …

KEY POINTS The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project SERAP has filed a lawsuit against the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited NNPCL at the Federal High Court in Abuja, challenging its …

KEY POINTS South Africa’s state-owned power utility, Eskom, has come under renewed scrutiny after disclosing that it paid about R5.4 billion in staff bonuses in the 2025 financial year, despite …

KEY POINTS Nigeria’s telecom operators spend hundreds of billions of naira every year keeping their networks alive on diesel. MTN Nigeria has decided it is done subsidizing that problem. The …

ECOWAS Parliament has opened a five-day meeting in Dakar to develop strategies for expanding renewable energy and rural electrification across West Africa.

TotalEnergies has resumed its $20 billion Mozambique gas project after a five-year suspension, reigniting both hopes for prosperity and frustration over unfulfilled community promises.

President Tinubu praised the REA as Nigeria inaugurated its largest solar hybrid mini-grid projects in North-Central, providing clean power to over 5,000 households.

KEY POINTS British energy giant Shell has temporarily halted its $3 billion share buyback programme as it prepares for a crucial shareholder vote related to its proposed acquisition of Canadian …