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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.

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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.

Zambia’s electrification team toured rural Dodoma to learn how Tanzania turned village power into a driver of small businesses, schools and local jobs.

Liberia’s foreign minister pressed Washington for a transformative energy compact and a legal pathway for 4,000 Liberians whose protected status expires at month’s end.