{"id":74099,"date":"2025-08-25T06:45:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74099"},"modified":"2025-08-25T06:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T06:45:25","slug":"kano-manufacturers-seek-ndphc-power-amid-disco-failures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/25\/kano-manufacturers-seek-ndphc-power-amid-disco-failures\/","title":{"rendered":"Kano Manufacturers Seek NDPHC Power Amid Disco Failures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Manufacturers in Kano State have signaled plans to bypass electricity distribution companies (DisCos), and source power directly from the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), to address the crippling energy shortages hampering industrial production.<\/p>\n<p>The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Kano Branch, made this known during a recent visit to NDPHC\u2019s headquarters, where they sought inclusion in the company\u2019s Eligible Customer Programme.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation, led by Ali Madugu, Managing Director of Dala Foods, stressed that steady power supply is vital to reviving industries and safeguarding jobs in the state.<\/p>\n<p>In her response, NDPHC Managing Director\/CEO, Jennifer Adighije, welcomed the request and pledged the company\u2019s readiness to collaborate with manufacturers within regulatory frameworks and infrastructure readiness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to partnering with the manufacturing sector to drive industrial growth, create jobs, and boost socio-economic development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within the eligible customer framework, we are ready to work with MAN in Kano to make this happen,\u201d Adighije said.<\/p>\n<p>She highlighted recent progress in plant availability, including the revival of Omotosho and Alaoji power plants, noting that NDPHC plans to commercialize 200 megawatts of its stranded 2,000 megawatts by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Supporting her remarks, NDPHC Executive Directors; Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama (Corporate Services, Commercial and Strategy) and Bello Babayo Bello (Networks), outlined a roadmap for Kano manufacturers to access available power.<\/p>\n<p>Adighije also criticized the poor energy uptake by DisCos, which she said has limited NDPHC\u2019s ability to fully deploy its capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting ended on an optimistic note, with both sides describing the partnership as a pathway to unlocking Kano\u2019s industrial potential and strengthening Nigeria\u2019s manufacturing sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Manufacturers in Kano State have signaled plans to bypass electricity distribution companies (DisCos), and source power directly from the Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), to address the crippling energy shortages hampering industrial production. The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), Kano Branch, made this known during a recent visit to NDPHC\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":74100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1720,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74101,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74099\/revisions\/74101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}