Power-starved Nigeria banks on its gas

Deposits of materials like oil and natural gas are a valuable heritage of all generations in the countries owning them.

Commercial banks in Tanzania are expecting to benefit from ongoing discoveries of natural gas.

Symbion Power, which stopped its operations, announced yesterday that tests have started on turbines at Ubungo using natural gas from Mnazi Bay in Mtwara.

>Tanzania aims to double its power production to 3,000 megawatts by 2016 at a cost of around $1.21 billion to meet rising demand by using its vast natural gas supplies; Reuters reported yesterday quoting an official with the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco).

Tear gas at Kenyan primary school

During the U.S. Africa Head of State Summit this week in Washington, D.C., the Government of Rwanda’s Energy Water and Sanitation Authority (EWSA) awarded Symbion Power a 50 megawatt Independent Power Production (IPP) project using methane gas from Lake Kivu, it was announced today by Paul Hinks, Chief Executive Officer, Symbion Power.
Symbion will build, own and operate a 50 MW power station by constructing gas extraction facilities to lift, separate, and process methane gas, which is...

Scores of people are reported killed in an explosion at an industrial gas plant in southern Nigeria.

Security forces fire tear gas inside Nigeria's parliament in an apparent attempt to stop a senior politician from taking part in a debate over militant group Boko Haram.

The removal of the revered emir of Kano raises questions about the continued role of Nigeria's traditional rulers.