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KEY POINTS Nigeria’s crude oil exports are projected to fall by about 14 per cent in March, with scheduled loadings for four major crude grades estimated at roughly 793,000 barrels …

KEY POINTS South Africa’s energy regulator has approved an application by state-owned power utility Eskom to reduce electricity tariffs by 35 per cent for two distressed ferrochrome producers battling high …

KEY POINTS The Federal Government of Nigeria has successfully raised ₦501 billion through its inaugural power sector bond under the Presidential Power Sector Debt Reduction Programme (PPSDRP), achieving 100 per …

KEY POINTS The Nigerian Independent System Operator, NISO, has traced Tuesday’s national grid disturbance to a voltage fluctuation at the Gombe Transmission Substation, clarifying that the incident did not amount …

KEY POINTS The Niger State Government has entered into a partnership with the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) to develop a $163 million solar electrification project aimed at boosting electricity supply …

KEY POINTS Nigeria’s energy conversation has long been dominated by a familiar promise from the Dangote Group: once local refining begins at scale, fuel will become cheaper, scarcity will disappear, …

KEY POINTS Members of South Africa’s energy regulator, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa, Nersa, have expressed uncertainty over Eskom’s request for an interim electricity tariff for Samancor and …

KEY POINTS The Nigerian Railway Corporation, NRC, has announced plans to deploy Liquefied Natural Gas, LNG-powered trains and expand Nigeria’s rail network to 10,000 kilometres within the next five years, …

KEY POINTS When much of the national transmission infrastructure was conceived decades ago, Nigeria’s economy was smaller, less industrialised, and far less digitally connected. Today, Africa’s largest economy is powered …

KEY POINTS Nigeria’s power distribution companies, DisCos, recorded a combined revenue of N208.78 billion in November 2025, according to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC. The figure represents a 1.01 …