ENERGY
DANGOTE SAID HE’LL FIX THE LIGHTS
Aliko Dangote announced plans for a 20,000-megawatt power project last week. Nigeria’s government has been trying to reach 6,000 megawatts for years. It hasn’t managed it. Nigeria runs on 3,331 megawatts. That’s what the national grid reliably delivers to a country of…
FIFTY PERCENT AT THE PUMP
Nigeria is projected to earn an additional N6.8 trillion in oil revenue in 2026. Petrol prices at the pump have risen by over 50 percent since February. The earnings and the pain are not going to the same place. One forecast, from BMI, puts Nigeria’s additional oil…
THE POSTPONED COLLAPSE
Monday 20 April, 2026 Nigeria’s airlines didn’t shut down today. They came close enough. Today was supposed to be the day Nigerian skies went quiet. Jet A1 fuel went from N900 per litre at the end of February to N3,300 per litre by mid-April. That is a 267 per cent…
HALF THE BILL
Friday 17 April, 2026 The federal government paid ₦418.79 billion in electricity subsidies in one quarter. The grid still averaged below 5,400 megawatts for 250 million people. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission released its Q4 2025 quarterly report this…
THE SHUTDOWN NOTICE
Thursday 16 April, 2026 Nigeria’s fuel marketers have priced domestic airlines out of the sky. Monday is the deadline. What is happening to Nigerian aviation fuel prices in 2026? On February 28, a litre of Jet A1 cost Nigerian airlines ₦900. On April 15, it cost…
APPROVED DOESN’T MEAN FIXED
Thursday 16 April, 2026 The government announced ₦3.3trn to fix Nigerian electricity. Generation has fallen since. Nigeria’s power sector has a ritual. An announcement arrives. A figure is named. Officials say the cycle that has been running for a decade is finally…
THE QUESTION THIS WEEK
Thursday 16 April, 2026 If deregulation was supposed to fix Nigerian energy, what exactly has it fixed? Something happened this week that is worth sitting with. Nigeria spent years building the case for removing energy subsidies. The argument was real. Subsidies were…
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