November 30

• Customs Chief Hands Over 306 NIPP Containers

  This Day

  The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has handed over a total of 306 containers of National Independent Power Project (NIPP) equipment recovered from the seaports in Lagos to the... Read more »

• NIPP Chief Suspends Leave to Save Power Projects

  This Day

  The Managing Director of Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), the special intervention vehicle of Nigeria's three tiers of government managing the National Integrated Power... Read more »

• Commerce's Blank At Launch of 'Doing Business in Africa' [document]

  State Department

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• Solar Systems Ideal for Rural Areas [column]

  The Herald

  Solar systems for power and heating are ideally suited for use in agriculture and rural environments and provide a viable and economical solution and substitute for Zesa... Read more »

• Go Hi-Tech, Farmers Told

  The Star

  Farmers have been urged to adopt modern farming techniques to increase productivity. The chairman of the Kenya National Federation of Agricultural Producers Nduati Kariuki said it... Read more »

• NERC Gives States Dec 31 Deadline to End Electricity Assets Valuation

  Daily Trust

  The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) yesterday gave state governments till December 31 to submit a detailed valuation of their investments in electricity... Read more »

• Senator Petitions Minister Over Power Projects in Katsina

  Daily Trust

  Senate Deputy Minority Whip Senator Abu Ibrahim (CPC, Katsina South) has petitioned the Minister of State for Power, Zainab Kuchi, over the exclusion from the 2013 budget seven... Read more »

• Official Acknowledges Few Use of Solar Energy

  ANGOP

  The national director of renewal energy, Sandra Cristovão, has acknowledged that the use of solar energy in the country is not yet significant, taking into account the... Read more »

• Oil Chaos - MPs Face Expulsion

  Observer

  After a chaotic oil debate in Parliament on Tuesday, Speaker Rebecca Kadaga wants the errant MPs found guilty of turning the chambers into a theatre of horseplay, expelled from the... Read more »

• Gwagwalada PHCN Warns Against Avoiding Prepaid Meters

  Daily Trust

  The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) in Gwagwalada, Tuesday cautioned consumers against avoiding prepaid meter. Read more »

• Sambo to UK Investors - FG Has Made Progress in Security, Power

  Daily Trust

  Vice-President Namadi Sambo has told potential investors in the UK that the government has provided all the necessary facilities to make Nigeria competitive and attractive to... Read more »

• 15-Year-Old Boy Electrocuted in Kibera

  The Star

  A 15 year old boy has been electrocuted in Kibera, along Olympic Area. Eye witnesses allege that police and the Kenya Power company have refused to remove the body from the scene... Read more »

November 29

• Bamboo Fuel Strikes Fire in Africa

  AlertNet

  What do wood floors, t-shirts, beer, fire-proof ceilings, window-blinds, bicycles, chopsticks, and the veneer on the inside of a luxury car have in common? They can all be made... Read more »

• Kofi Annan: The World Must Tackle Corruption in Africa's Oil, Gas, and Mining

  Africa Progress Panel

  Private companies, civil society, government officials, and academics discuss the options for using Africa’s natural resource wealth to benefit its populations more fairly. Read more »

• NERC Petitions Presidency Over Wamakko's Alleged Assault of PHCN Worker

  This Day

  The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has written to President Goodluck Jonathan, urging him to initiate a full-fledged investigation into the alleged assault of... Read more »

• LEC Needs to Step Up - Says LBA President

  Informer

  The President of the Liberia Business Association Mr. Maxwell Kemayan has renewed his call for the restoration of electricity in Liberia, in order to help improve Liberia's... Read more »

• Arandis Expo to Woo Investors

  New Era

  The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry, Tjekero Tweya, on Tuesday launched the Arandis Investment Conference, Mineral, Mining and Energy Expo. Read more »

• Government Wants Cooperation With Zambia in Electricity Field

  ANGOP

  The deputy governor of south-east Kuando Kubango province for technical and infrastructure service, Joaquim Ndumba Malachi said on Tuesday that the local government, under the... Read more »

• UNIDO Adopts Zesco Project for Biomass Model

  Times of Zambia

  THE United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) has adopted the 1.2 megawatt capacity Zesco Shiwang'andu Biomass Power Station in Muchinga Province as a model south... Read more »

• Natural Resources Benefit Entire Country - Guebuza

  AIM

  Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Tuesday took the example of the Cahora Bassa dam, in the western province of Tete, to show how natural resources should benefit the entire... Read more »

• U.S.$ 1.2 Billion Dollars of Projects Approved for Nacala

  AIM

  The Mozambican authorities have approved private sector projects budgeted at 1.2 billion US dollars to be implemented in the Nacala Corridor, in the north of the country, according... Read more »

• Renewable Energy Certificate Awarded to Conference [press release]

  SA Govt

  Ahead of plenary sessions today at the Eastern Cape - European Union Renewable Energy Conference which is currently being held at the East London ICC, the conference was awarded a... Read more »

• Ellies Renewable Energy Wins Best Energy Project of the Year Award [press release]

  Biz-Community

  Ellies Renewable Energy was recently awarded the Best Energy Project of the Year award and placed second in the Energy Company of the Year category at the Southern African... Read more »

• Brikama Residents Complain Lack of Electricity Is Nawec Supplying One Section At the Expense of Others?

  Foroyaa

  Information reaching this paper across Brikama town has it that the residents of the said town in Kombo Central are experiencing electricity shortage and are alleging... Read more »

• Uncertainty Looms Over Power Assets Sale After Onagoruwa's Sack

  This Day

  Nigeria's privatisation of state-owned companies faces uncertainty after the head of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) was fired with key sales yet to be concluded, the... Read more »