Showing posts with label generation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label generation. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Lagos State Almost Self-Sufficient In Power Generation – Fashola



Lagos State Government has said its energy reform initiatives are yielding positive result with the state close to being self-sufficient in its power needs.
To this end, it said a number of public institutions was being moved out of the national grid and connected to the power being generated from the power plants built by the state government.


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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Five Customers Feared Dead As Robbers Storm First Generation Bank In Delta, Cart Away Millions



Five persons were feared killed yesterday when an 11-man robbery gang attacked a first generation bank in Agbor, Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State, and carting away unspecified amount of cash.It was learnt that the dare-devil robbers, armed to the teeth with sophisticated weapons, blew-up the bank vault.
According to eye witness accounts, the robbers shot sporadically into the air to scare bystanders away just as customers who were inside the banking hall doing transactions scampered for safety.he incident, which took place in the morning lasted for several minutes and the men of the underworld had a field day despite the fact that security operatives were stationed some few metres away at the Divisional Police Headquarters, Agbor.
Confirming the incident, State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Lucky Uyabeme, said the police command has intensified a full-scale manhunt for the fleeing robbers.

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

1,074MW drop in Power generation



The poor supply of electricity being witnessed across the country currently is as a result of a significant drop in power generation from a peak of 4,517 megawatts attained on December 21, 2012 to 3,443MW on Tuesday.
The 1,074MW drop is, however, a slight improvement over the 2,987.6MW peak generation recorded on April 6, 2013, when a whopping 1,529.4MW was lost.
The drop in power generation, our correspondent gathered from the Ministry of Power, was as a result of low gas supply to thermal power plants.

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