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Blessing Unoka won the Pan-African Low Carbon Track at the Future of Energy Conference Innovation Challenge in Accra. Speaking to ENN, the Sambal Enterprise founder describes processing soya milk and maize flour at a Lagos farm gate on solar and battery storage, sending the waste to a biodigester, and returning the fertiliser to the farmers she buys from.

The Enugu State Electricity Regulatory Commission set Band A tariffs at N160.4 per kilowatt hour for Mainpower Electricity Distribution. Reaching that number meant treating generation as N45.75 per kilowatt hour. The current average is N112.60. NERC has put the difference at N66.85 and called it a subsidy assumption.

Namibia, the DRC, Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, South Africa, Mali and Burkina Faso have all banned the export of unprocessed minerals. Tunde Muritala Arisekola advises 54 African Union member states on minerals policy, and his argument is that the ban is the easy part.

Abubakar Shuaibu spent five years campaigning on energy access in Nigeria before founding Astound Power. Speaking to ENN, he explains why he moved from arguing for connections to building them, what state equity changes for a minigrid developer, and where the financing still falls short for young companies.

David Arinze of the Energy Transition Challenge Fund, who also leads the Nigeria Economic Summit Group’s Renewable Energy Thematic Working Group, on why the figure everyone quotes is misread, what a solar factory importing its own glass reveals about Nigerian manufacturing, and where catalytic capital stops working.

The grids are synchronised, all fourteen continental countries are connected and two national utilities have already moved into surplus by buying across a border. What has not been tested is whether a market with no new generation behind it can keep clearing. The West African Power Pool and the ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority now […]

DARES has reached 5.3 million Nigerians against a target of 16.2 million at the project’s close, with solar home unit deployments at 1.046 million against 2.75 million. The World Bank has released further funding after Nigeria met four performance conditions, while rating political and macroeconomic risk high.

Nextier and The Electricity Hub both research the Nigerian power and policy landscape and publish through their own podcasts and platforms. Their involvement around the Nigeria NOW! Global Investors Expo in November puts domestic analysis alongside the international coverage a summit of this kind usually attracts.