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Nigeria’s presidential CNG initiative says over 120,000 vehicles have converted to compressed natural gas as the government pushes it as a cheaper petrol alternative.

The ECOWAS Parliament adopted a landmark joint committee report in Dakar, pushing mini-grids and renewable energy to electrify West Africa’s rural communities by 2030.

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.

KEY POINTS Nigeria flared about 76.92 billion standard cubic feet of natural gas between January and May 2026, according to data from the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission. The figures …

KEY POINTS The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) has revealed that Dangote Petroleum Refinery relied significantly on imported gasoline blendstock to support its fuel production between January …

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.

KEY POINTS The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has praised billionaire industrialist Aliko Dangote for his investment in the Dangote Refinery, saying the project helped prevent Nigeria’s economy from …

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