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…
By Femi Anamelechi Electricity consumers in the Southeast geopolitical zone have lauded Aba Power Electricity Ltd for supplying people and businesses in the Aba Ring-fenced Area of Abia State uninterrupted power in the last 45 days.Aba Power provides electricity to nine of the 17 local government areas (LGAs) in Abia State known as the Aba…
By Prof. Bart Nnaji, CON, NNOM, FAS, FAEng. Chairman, Geometric Power Group Education represents progress. The most fundamental difference between the developed nations and the developing ones is the level and quality of education. A leading African American civil rights activist, Ella J. Baker (1903-1986), famously quipped, “show the light, and the people will find…
By Femi Anamelechi The Aba Independent Power Project, developed by Geometric Power, Nigeria’s only integrated electric power company has been described as world class by Mr. Richard Mills who is the American Ambassador to Nigeria. He made known his assessment of Geometric Power after he led a team of top American embassy officials on a…
By Femi Anamelechi Electricity consumers in Nigeria’s Southeast geopolitical zone have advised the Federal Government to create a second transmission network to grapple with the problem of constant collapse of the national grid.Responding to the nationwide collapse of the transmission network on Wednesday (September 10), the Electricity Consumers Association of Nigeria (ECAN) in the five…
By Femi Anamelechi The APC led government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has secured $238m support to strengthen Nigeria’s national power grid, following high-level engagements led by Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Japan. The $238 million JICA loan, complemented by Nigeria’s N19 billion counterpart funding,…
