Energy

Oyo Gas Depot Fire Update: Victims Responding to Treatment

By Online Editor February 16, 2020 15 0

Three members of staff of a cooking gas Depot in Oyo town who sustained injuries during yesterday’s fire incident are recuperating at the State Hospital. One of the doctors attending to the victims, and who did not want his name mentioned, said they were responding to treatment. Radio Nigeria correspondent reports that but for the intervention […]Read More...

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Breaking: Cooking Gas Depot on Fire in Oyo Town

By Online Editor February 15, 2020 28 0

A cooking gas depot in Oyo town around State Hospital along Ogbomoso road is reportedly on fire. The report says Oyo State Fire Service has mobilized its personnel from Ibadan to the scene of the incident.Read More...

Energy

Dept. of Petroleum Resources Commences Awareness on PMS to CNG

By Online Editor February 13, 2020 15 0

For Nigeria automobiles to switch from premium motor spirit, PMS, energy to compressed natural gas, CNG energy, Abeokuta office of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, has commenced sensitisation of the motoring publics.  At a media sensitisation on the use of compressed natural gas in Abeokuta, the controller of the Field Office, Mrs. Muinat Bello-Zagi Read More...

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Fire Services Extinguish Fire at TCN Ayede Sub Region

By Online Editor February 5, 2020 43 0

Firefighting trucks numbering about ten and back up water tankers from private, federal and state fire services were this morning deployed to the Transmission Company of Nigeria, to stop an outbreak of fire in the regional substation.  Despite the intensity of the fire, men of the fire service maneuvered their ways to quench the fire, […]Read More...

Energy

Pic Speaks: Fire outbreak at Transmission Company of Nigeria, Ibadan

By Online Editor February 5, 2020 26 0

There is a fire outbreak at the Transmission Company of Nigeria. Ayede Sub Region, Ibadan. Mosope KehindeRead More...

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Osun Residents Frown at Planned Hike in Electricity Tariffs

By Online Editor January 7, 2020 22 0

Osun State residents have frowned at the resolve of the eleven electricity distribution companies, Discos, to hike electricity tariffs across board from April 1, 2020. Those who spoke in Ilesa, Ile-Ife and Osogbo, the state capital with our correspondent, Temitope Mosadomi, described the development as another policy to further impoverish the citizenry. Her reports.Read More...

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Gas Explosion Kills Scores in Kaduna

By Online Editor January 4, 2020 67 0

Massive gas explosion has kills scores of people and crippled social activities in Sabon Tasha, Kaduna. Eye witnesses say the incident occurred at about Two o’clock at a gas selling plant opposite the Sabon Tasha filling station. One of the eye witnesses, Lekan Oyediran, said three shops within the area were affected. The eye witnesses […]Read More...

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Ondo Govt. Proposes Law to Regulate Electricity

By Online Editor September 19, 2019 53 0

The Ondo State Government says it is proposing an “Electricity Law” to regulate generation and distribution in the state.  The Special Adviser to the Governor on Energy, Mr Tunji Light-Ariyo disclosed this while playing host to the Assembly Committee on Public Utilities and Transport on familiarisation visit at the State Electricity Board Office, Akure.  Mr Read More...

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Ondo Communities to be Connected to National Grid after 12 Years Blackout

By Online Editor September 9, 2019 49 0

After twelve years of total blackout, communities in the southern senatorial district of Ondo State are to be reconnected to the national grid following completion of Federal Government’s power projects in the areas. These projects are to be inaugurated by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in few weeks time. The Executive Director, Niger Delta Power Holding Company, Read More...

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VP Osinbajo Decries Capacity of Power Distribution Companies

By Online Editor August 15, 2019 46 0

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has decried the low distribution capacity of four thousand megawatts by all the eleven distribution companies, DISCOS, in the country, leaving an excess of more than five thousand mega watts of unused electricity to waste away. Prof. Osinbajo made this known while speaking at the commissioning of the new 2x60mva, 132/33kv […]Read More...