By News Agency of Nigeria Listen To The Report Residents of Calabar, the Cross Rivers State capital have started to count their losses following 49 days of power outage in the capital city. Some of the residents, who spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday, lamented how the development had
By Ogar Monday Listen To The Report As Cross River State continues on its voyage of darkness, the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHED, has gotten approval from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, for the increment of electricity tariffs across the various classes of customers. The approval, contained in the Multi-Year Tariff Order 2022
By Sylvia Akpan The Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution plc (PHED) in a public service announcement has expressed its dissatisfaction over the current intermittent disruption in power supply experienced in its franchise area: Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, and River State. The announcement was made on its Facebook page. It revealed that the cause of the
By Omolola Afolabi, HumAngle Gberefu is a coastal community of mostly farmers and fishers in Badagry, a border town in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria. It was from here that thousands of Nigerians were kept and sold during the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The sites and relics of that history are still there to remind visitors of the
By Tayo Olu, The Whistler September 26 was an unusual day for a nursing mother (names withheld) who left her baby at home and hurried to submit an application for a prepaid meter at the office of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) in Kagini, a suburb of the Federal Capital Territory. She needed a prepaid
By Agba Jalingo and Jonathan Ugbal Years after Nigeria privatized its power sector, the ghost of its corrupt past has continued to haunt consumers in South – South Nigeria. Despite repeated warnings, commitments and investments, Nigerians are yet to see improvement in the supply of electricity. CrossRiverWatch spoke to respondents in Akwa Ibom, Cross River
By Patrick Obia Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHED, has apologized for the unstable public power supply witnessed in its franchise States will be rectified soon. PHED in a public announcement on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, said the outage is as a result of generation constraint which has led to the intermittent supplies and will
By Ushang Ewa The Federal Government on Friday commissioned the second 60kWP solar hybrid mini-grid in Cross River State in a month. The first was commissioned at the bottom hill of the Obudu mountain resort in Obanliku Local Government Area of northern Cross River State. And, the Minister for State, in charge of power, Prince