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Ikeja Electric introduces E-Bills to enhance customer experience

Nigeria’s leading electricity distribution company, Ikeja Electric Plc (IE) has introduced its electronic billing (e-billing) platform, which enables customers to receive electricity bills promptly and conveniently, via channels such as SMS, USSD, email, IE Bill portal and IE mobile Application….

FG mulls transformer plant, sends 60 Nigerian engineers for training in China

60 Nigerian electrical engineers Tuesday left Nigeria for China under a new programme powered by the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to train Nigerians on latest technologies in electric transformer manufacturing. Business Hilights gathered that on completion…

‘Prepaid metering: Extend Discos August 31 deadline to meter MDAs to all Nigerians’

More reactions have continued to trail the recent matching order handed down to all Discos by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to meter all ministries, departments and agencies of both federal and state governments before the end of August….

W’Bank’s latest blacklist of Chinese firms may frustrate AEC’s Beijing tour

To support growing energy cooperation and investment between China and Africa, the African Energy Chamber (AEC) is organizing a working visit to Beijing this week. However, there seems to be a drawback as latest release of names of blacklisted Chinese…

Can NNPC meet its 2013 targets with prevailing pace, crude swap deals?

Whereas the new management structure at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has set fresh target of 2023 to turnaround the moribund states of all four national refineries, industry analysts say they are yet to see clear roadmap from the…

Nationwide protests loading as FG succumbs to ANED’s pressure to hike tariff

Majority of Nigerian electricity consumers are warming up to track down the Federal Government should it further with the plan to dance according to the tunes of electricity distributors under the aegis of Association of Electricity Distributors of Nigeria (ANED)…

NGFCP driving innovative, scalable approaches to gas flare reduction—Derefaka

The Program Manager, Nigeria Gas Flare Commercialisation Programme (NGFCP), Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Mr Justice Derefaka, has explained that the design of the NGFCP was an innovative and scalable approach to gas flare reduction in Nigeria. He said the…

E’Guinea close to becoming Africa’s gas hub—Report

Equatorial Guinea Tuesday, made yet another step closer to becoming a gas hub for Africa today as it inaugurated the first LNG storage and regasification plant to be built on the West African coast. While West Africa is a major…

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N’Delta communities to gain more from gas flare commercialization—Derefaka

More facts have emerged from the recently concluded workshop for all the qualified applicants in the gas flare commercialization bidding process in Abuja revealing that apart from raising the economy of the nation, the host communities will gain much during…

Shocker: 888mmcf/d flared gas in 178 sites in N’Delta equivalent to 5GW—NGFCP boss

The Program Manager, Nigeria Gas Flare Commercialisation Programme (NGFCP), Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Mr Justice Derefaka, has explained that the average total number gas and carbon dioxide flared in confirmed 178 gas flare sites across Niger Delta is equivalent…