LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian athletes competing in the 10,000m final at the ongoing National Sports Festival in Ogun State were forced to run in darkness after the floodlights at the newly renovated MKO Abiola Stadium suddenly went off mid-race. A video obtained by SaharaReporters captured the chaotic moment when the stadium lights failed, plunging…
By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The unending darkness permeating Nigeria today,unarguably, was the mistake of 2013 when majority stakes in the electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) were sold to private investors as part of larger efforts to improve electricity supply, which was hitherto,disrupted by constant power failure across the country. Unfortunately, after 12 years…
LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of thousands of Texans are without power and many could be in the dark for several days after fierce and deadly storms tore through the state Tuesday and over the holiday weekend, leaving people to pick up the pieces of devastated homes and businesses amid uncomfortably hot weather. More than 280,000…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-City Power, an electricity distribution company in South Africa, has cut off power supply to the Nigerian consulate in Johannesburg over “unpaid bills”. On Wednesday, the DisCo said the consulate was owing at least R600,000 (about $35,000). “We are on our 2nd day of revenue collection drive around Alexandra Service Delivery Centre(SDC)….
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid the scarcity of water for use at the Ikeja Cantonment, soldiers have started levying themselves for an immediate solution. The Nation gathered that the soldiers have suffered perennial water scarcity for over three years, no thanks to lack of power supply to pump water from the only borehole serving Blocks 1…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company on Wednesday disconnected the home of the late Shehu Shagari, the Second Republic President of Nigeria, over unpaid bills to the tune of over N6 million. The former president died on December 28, 2018 at the age of 93. Confirming the disconnection of Sama Road, Sokoto home…