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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.

NNPC has renewed its airborne methane detection agreement with TotalEnergies for another 24 months to advance its near-zero emissions target by 2030.

Nigeria earned $2.53 billion from gas exports in Q1 2026 as the CBN reported a 256% surge in the country’s current account surplus to $4.98 billion.

Inspired Evolution has launched Zafiri, a $176 million blended finance vehicle to expand electricity access across sub-Saharan Africa through distributed renewable energy.

Johannesburg’s mayor promised residents the lights are staying on but no signed deal with Eskom has been made public and the legal process continues.

ExxonMobil has signed a preliminary deal to supply LNG to South Africa’s Zululand Energy Terminal, the country’s first planned LNG import facility.

ECOWAS has set a 48 percent renewable energy target for 2030 as over 190 million West Africans remain without electricity access, a regional parliament meeting in Dakar heard.

Shell has appointed Elohor Aiboni as its first Nigerian Executive Vice President and Country Chair Nigeria, effective August 1, replacing Marno de Jong.

KEY POINTS Former Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been acquitted of all bribery-related charges by a London court, bringing to a close an 11-year legal saga surrounding …