By Femi Anamelechi Aba Power, Nigeria’s newest electricity distribution company (DisCo), has blacklisted one of its major wire and cable suppliers for failure to provide it with wires at the weekend to resume immediate electricity supply to a community in Abia State which had been without power for three weeks following the destruction of six…
By Clement Olumba “When a man decides to publicly show off his dance steps, he must be ready to accept unfavorable comments.” It is no longer news that the Nigerian nation has continued to wallow in darkness forced upon her due to inadequate electricity power supply. Decade after decade the story remains the same and…
By Femi Anamelechi Aba Power, Nigeria’s newest electricity company (DisCo), has assured the people of Umuomainta in Mbawsi-Nsulu of Ngwa North Local Government Area of Abia State that they will celebrate Easter this weekend with light. The assurance is contained in a statement by the Aba Power Senior Brand and Communications Manager, Edise Ekong, this…
By Femi Anamelechi Against the background of Nigeria’s deteriorating electric power crisis, a leading Nigerian energy expert, Professor Bart Nnaji, has outlined a number of measures he says the country has to take immediately to arrest the situation. Delivering the 30th, 31st and 32nd graduation lecture of the Abia State University at Uturu, Professor Nnaji,…
By Femi Anamelechi Electricity consumers in nine of the 17 local government areas (LGAs) in Abia State serviced by Aba Power, Nigeria’s 12th electricity distribution firm, will experience a significant reduction in electricity supply starting from Thursday, it has been learnt. Edise Ekong, the Brand and Communications Senior Manager with Aba Power, confirmed to newsmen…
By Femi Anamelechi The managing Director of Aha Plant, Ugo Opiegbe has vehemently declared that It no longer makes economic sense for any manufacturing company to set up a power plant to provide electricity for its operations in Aba and its environs in Abia State.The Managing Director made the bold declaration during a telephone interview…
By Femi Anamelechi A team of Course 34 participants from the National Defence College in Abuja has visited the Geometric Power group headquarters in the Osisioma Industrial Layout of Aba in Abia State as part of the efforts to prepare the participants for greater public service responsibilities.Led by Air Commodore Liongonfa I. Nanso, the team…
Electricity Restored in Aba After 11-hour Outage Caused by Gas Shortage By Femi Anamelechi Electricity was this evening restored in Aba and the environs after about 11 hours, the first time the area has experienced a power failure in the last two months.The outage, which started at 4.33 am on Monday and ended at 5.06…
By Femi Anamelechi Geometric Power, Nigeria’s foremost integrated electricity group, has suffered its first blackout in 60 days.The blackout started at 4.33 am, according to Edise Ekong, the Senior Brand and Communication Manager of Aba Power Electricity Company Ltd, the distribution subsidiary of the group.Ekong, in a statement in Aba early this morning, attributed the…
By Femi Anamelechi The Ahiajioku Research Centre, a parastatal of the Imo State government set up to research and promote the Igbo civilization, will honour the founder and chairman of the Geometric Power Group, Professor Bart Nnaji, for successfully delivering the over $800m Aba Independent Power project in Abia State. The honour will take place…
