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NIGELEC

The ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulation Authority (ERERA), first proposed in 1999, includes the creation of a seven nation joint power grid covering SONABEL (Burkina Faso), CIE (Cote d’Ivoire), VRA (Ghana), CEB (Benin), the government of Togo, PHCN (Nigeria) and NIGELEC.

Privatization of NIGELEC, urged by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund since the 1980s, has been delayed several times. The most recent of two Nigerien calls for potential private foreign investors -- in November 2002 -- was unsuccessful. As recently as 2006 the World Bank offered the government of Niger over US$ 2.20 million (which in 2007 significanlyt un-disbursed) to develop some alternate form of privatization program for the untility (Public Private Partnerships, etc), even while noting the improved efficiency of the company.

The Goudel plant for instance, the newest of the two Niamey NIGELEC plants, generates power from diesel turbines comparable to those on ocean going ships. The plant is only capable of supplying a quarter of Niamey's needs in the cooler part of the year and a seventh in the hot season, and thus is mostly used as a backup generator when power flowing from Nigeria is cut.

In September 2008 Zakari Alzouma a reporter for the paper Le Canard déchaîné was arrested for defamation of NIGELEC head Foukori Ibrahim, after the paper reported that Begian counsul Smith Degener had died in Foukori's office of a heart attack after an argument with the utilities chief. In just two months later, Foukori again pressed charges against two reporters for the paper "L'Evénement" after their paper alleged fraudulant hiring practices at the utility. All three, after serving jail time, were given suspended sentances and forced to pay damages to mister Foukori.

http://www.oit.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/pdconv.pl?host=status01&textbase=iloeng&document=1539&chapter=3&query=Niger%40ref&highlight=&querytype=bool&context=0

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Niger: gros délestages d'électricité à Niamey, le Nigeria mis en cause AFP. 6 May 2008

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A Niamey, 30.000 manifestants contre la forte hausse des prix REUTERS 10.07.2008

http://www.romandie.com/infos/news2/080710130034.3voz45uq.asp

Des milliers de Nigériens manifestent contre les coupures d'électricité AFP / 10 juillet 2008

http://www.french.xinhuanet.com/french/2008-07/05/content_664080.htm Le gouvernement nigérien envisage des mesures pour garantir l'indépendance énergétique du pays 2008-07-05

http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/niger-to-spend-20-billion-francs-to-tackle-electricity-problem-200807068340.html

Niger to spend 20 billion francs to tackle electricity problem

05/07/2008

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Where NEPA Is Winning.

Phillip Oladunjoye Newswatch (Nigeria) January 05, 2004

http://www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/five-west-african-states-study-joint-power-grid-2007-12-12 Five West African states study joint power grid]. Reuters. 12 December 2007

Interconnexion électrique sous régionale : 200 milliards pour réduire les coûts de l’électricité.

S. Nadoun COULIBALY

Sidwaya (Burkina Faso) 21 February 2008