Showing posts with label Industry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Industry. Show all posts
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Oil Workers Want FG To Reverse Sale Of OMLs 40, 42
The
unions in the oil and gas sector on Wednesday in Abuja appealed to the Federal
Government to reverse the sale of Oil Mining Leases (OMLs) 40 and 42.
Mr Isaac
Aberare, the General Secretary, National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Workers (NUPENG) made the appeal in an interview with the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN).
Aberare
said that the sale of OML 40 and 42 would shortchange the workers, Nigerians
and the country as a whole.
Kaduna Electric Explains Power Rationing
The management of the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company has attributed the rationing of power amongst its customers, which has become severe lately, to low energy allocation from the national grid.
A press statement issued by the head, Corporate Communication of the company, AbdulAzeez Abdullahi, in Kaduna yesterday, revealed that the allocation has been drastically reduced by almost half.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Abuja Electricity Company Denies Disconnecting Metered Customers
The Management of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has denied that its staff have disconnected metered customers to increase its revenue.
Some metered customers within Karu, FCT, and Mararaba in Nasarawa State had alleged that officials of the company disconnected them in order to generate estimated bills to meet revenue targets.
Where Nigeria’s Power Roadmap Missed Road
Despite investing over $30 billion in the sector in the past 15 years, Nigeria’s epileptic power supply has taken a turn for the worse in recent months. Today, the total electricity supply is less than 2,100 megawatts (MW) for a country of over 170 million people. As a result, the citizens and businesses have resorted to use of electric generators to the point where some industry experts are now placing the frontal cost including imported fuel as high as the size of annual national budget. This mire has provoked a wide range of debates with a host of powerful
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