Abuja residents who are eager to convert from the Power Holding Company of Nigeria post-paid analogue billing system to the pre-paid digital billing system have besieged the Wuse Zone 4 office of PHCN where the prepaid metres are issued.

By the federal government's appropriation of over N2 billion to power generator sets the raging battle between light and darkness has been finally won and lost.

SOUTH-South leaders are to meet over appointment of Alhaji Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo as the new group managing director, GMD, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) by President Umaru Yar'Adua.

Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Alhassan Zaku, said the Federal Government would collaborate with any country that could assist it in improving electricity supply in the country.

RESIDENTS of Amuru District have asked the Government to clarify reports about the oil find in the district.

Federal Government's failure to release over N600 billion from the excess crude fund for the completion of power projects is threatening the targeted 6,000-megawatts (mw) power generation by the end of the year.

The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Finance, John Enoh (PDP, Cross River) yesterday revealed that Nigeria will get over N300 billion from oil revenue only in 2009, just as he said so far, over N350 billion has

The Cosmetics Manufacture and Ethics Association of Nigeria (COSMEAN), has warned that the cosmetics industry faces the risk of collapse, if regular power supply is not guaranteed in the country by the government.

ORGANISED Labour in the nation's electricity industry, under the umbrella of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), yesterday, declared Ekiti State unsafe for workers especially Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), workers, following the recent Mr. Kehinde Fasuba, Head

Katsina State branch of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has introduced 7, 000 prepaid electricity meters as part of efforts to sanitise settlement of electricity bill by its customers.

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has sanctioned eight filling stations for diversion, hoarding as well as overpricing of petroleum products in Rivers State.

Algeria and the Netherlands have begun discussion on a possible partnership involving Nigeria and Royal Dutch Shell in a project aimed as exporting Nigeria's gas to Europe across the Sahara.

Newly appointed Minister of Niger Delta, Chief Uffot Ekaette has promised radical transformation of the Niger Delta which in over 50 years of oil exploration has been deprived of commensurate development in relation to their contribution to the growth of

By now, almost every Nigerian must have come to terms with the very distressing fact that President Umaru Yar'Adua has nothing to offer Nigeria. Unfortunately, Nigeria is one of a few countries in the world - we share the ignominy

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has expressed worry over the inability of Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) to supply sufficient gas for generation and distribution of electricity to consumers in the Country.

THE country's oil majors - African Petroleum Plc, Chevron, Oando Plc, Mobil, Conoil and Total are set to tackle the Federal Government over a $319,802,907.09 debt.

The global financial crisis has continued to rain heavy blows on citizens causing governments and institutions to fashion out austerity measures to cope with the monster.

Governor Namadi Sambo of Kaduna State, said yesterdaythat his administration would generate 30MW of electricity from Gurara Dam in the Kagarko/Kachia Local Government Area.

Determined to actualise his industrialization dream of its degraded environment, the Executive Chairman of Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC), Chief Wellington Okirika has led a powerful delegation to inspect the workability of the Tema Modular refinery in

The government through EWURA is bracing to ensure that consumers are protected through price intervention, but economists say where the market forces of demand and supply determine prices, intervention has its own risks.