The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), has signed into law the constitutional amendment allowing states in the country to licence, generate, transmit, and distribute electricity. This was made known in a tweet by the presidential media spokesperson, Tolu Ogunlesi, on Friday. He tweeted, “President #MBuhari has signed 16 constitution amendment bills into law. By […]
The World Bank has said that it has deployed 100 solar-powered mini-grids in Nigeria under its National Electrification Project, adding that its market-driven approach has expedited the process. The bank disclosed this in a statement yesterday, and added that powering 380 million people in Africa by 2030 would require the construction of more than 160,000 […]