For some time now, a group of brilliant young professionals within the Agency have been working on something that I believe will fundamentally strengthen how we measure, monitor, and communicate the impact of electrification across Nigeria.
I often say that every connection tells a story. Every mini-grid, every solar home system, every energized institution creates real outcomes for people, businesses, schools, healthcare facilities, and communities. The challenge has always been finding better ways to capture those outcomes at scale.
What I have seen from our team gives me great confidence that we are moving in the right direction. More importantly, it reminds me that the next generation of public servants is already stepping forward with the creativity, technical skills, and ambition needed to transform how government works.
We are almost ready to unveil this, and I can say that I am incredibly proud of the young minds behind this initiative, and I look forward to officially sharing it with the public soon.
Watch this space.
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This project is also a reflection of the Federal Government's commitment to expanding energy access through renewable energy solutions. I would like to acknowledge the Honourable Minister of Power, whose strong support for decentralized renewable energy continues to accelerate electrification efforts across underserved communities in Nigeria. His commitment to ensuring that clean energy reaches communities that need it most remains instrumental to our progress.
I would also like to appreciate the Honourable Minister of Steel Development, Prince Shuaibu Abubakar Audu, who was very key in the facilitation of this project for his support and commitment to the development of Kogi State. Partnerships and collaboration remain essential as we continue to bridge Nigeria's energy access gap.
Every groundbreaking ceremony is ultimately a promise. A promise that reliable electricity can unlock economic growth, strengthen livelihoods, and create a better future for communities across Nigeria.
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The most exciting projects are often the ones that redefine what is possible.
Yesterday, I joined stakeholders in Egume, Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State for the groundbreaking of what is set to become one of Nigeria's largest renewable energy powered mini-grid projects. Under the REA-DARES Minimum Subsidy Tender (MST) Programme, funded by the World Bank and being implemented by Mahaskati, this project is expected to deliver over 8,100 connections and up to 20MW of peak capacity to a community of more than 21,000 people.
For Egume, this means far more than electricity. It means improved healthcare services across its health facilities, better learning environments for students, stronger support for local businesses, and increased productivity across key agricultural value chains including cassava, rice, yam, cowpea, and oil palm production.
What makes this particularly significant is that it represents the scale of ambition now possible as Nigeria continues to advance reforms that support expanded renewable energy deployment. It is also one of several transformative energy projects currently underway across Kogi State as we work to ensure that underserved communities are connected to opportunity.
⚡️BREAKING: The US has banned the Iranian National Football team from staying on its territory before or after a World Cup match
The Iranian team will stay and train in Mexico; it will only be allowed to enter the US on match days and must leave after the game
Iran is the only country subjected to such treatment by the United States
Just Basic things! Basic o! We use to complain about No light and standard of living … How did we get here that we are literally pleading to be safe In Our own country!
Chibok.
The FG gave an order that schools should be shut down in that area.
The state government led by Shettima opened the school without informing the FG and without taking measures.
Guess what, nobody blamed Shettima. GEJ was blamed all through.
Both communism and capitalism are ideologies—ideas. This means they are not fixed or objective; they can be innovated, transformed, and practiced in ways that fit the context and reality of the practitioner. It's time for Africans to stop accepting static definitions and rigid patterns of theories and ideas.
You're retarded.
This is like a white person saying because many Nigerians are yahoo boys and ruin lives...
You, Mr. Akinola are also a criminal and should be thrown in jail if you sneeze wrongly.
Your true enemies are not the tattered, malnourished young men cosplaying as Islamic crusaders.
Your enemies are the people who equip them with weaponry our army does not have, solar panels and 100s of Starlink dishes.
Your enemies are the ones who tell your government that they won't give them loans if they don't integrate murderers back into society.
Your enemies are the people who orchestrated a regime change operation in 2015 that turned Nigeria from a country slated to hit 1T GDP this decade into the poverty capital of the world.
Keep chasing smoke you hear?
Another quality solar installation completed.
Clean wiring, proper component placement, and attention to detail remain the foundation of a reliable solar system.
Kudos to the technician behind this project.
Send a DM for professional installers!!
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We are one of the wealthiest tribes in Nigeria, yet we rarely invest enough of that wealth in telling our own stories and preserving our history. So, what is the value of the money if it cannot be used for things that truly matter to us?
Our billionaire brothers gifted Carter Efe 50M for defeating Portable. Imagine if that same level of support was given to filmmakers, historians, and storytellers to document the experiences of our people during the Nigerian Civil War.
Throughout the BBC documentary, the Igbo people were repeatedly referred to as “REBELS.” It was frustrating because many of our fathers and mothers saw themselves as fighting for survival in the face of what they believed was an attempt to wipe them out. Yet, because others are telling the story, they get to decide the language and perspective.
Earlier this year, a documentary about the rise of hip-hop in the Southeast was released, and it was produced by a Yoruba journalist Ade Adeayo. While there’s nothing wrong with that, it raises an important question: why are we not investing more in telling our own stories ourselves?
If we don’t document our history, culture, struggles, and achievements, others will do it for us and they will NEVER tell it the way we would.
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
Mental decolonization is not about rejecting all Western knowledge.
It is about no longer using Western knowledge as the only lens through which you understand yourself and your world.