{"id":196949,"date":"2025-04-28T06:14:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T04:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-what-nigeria-needs-to-resolve-electricity-grid-challenges-nemsa-boss\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T06:14:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T04:14:47","slug":"nigeria-what-nigeria-needs-to-resolve-electricity-grid-challenges-nemsa-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-what-nigeria-needs-to-resolve-electricity-grid-challenges-nemsa-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: What Nigeria Needs to Resolve Electricity Grid Challenges &#8211; Nemsa Boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Over time, these electricity network or grid has become outdated, inefficient, and prone to power outages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nigeria&#8217;s electricity network continues to grapple with severe liquidity challenges, significantly impacting the nation&#8217;s power supply, the Managing Director of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nemsa.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency<\/a><\/strong> (NEMSA), Tukur Tahir, has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Mr Tahir, in an interview with some energy correspondents, in Abuja on Thursday, said the liquidity issue is affecting the utility companies&#8217; ability&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504250222.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over time, these electricity network or grid has become outdated, inefficient, and prone to power outages. Nigeria&#8217;s electricity network continues to grapple with severe liquidity challenges, significantly impacting the nation&#8217;s power supply, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA), Tukur Tahir, has said. Mr Tahir, in an interview with some energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6962,6977,4895,14458,44213,257,4687,393,14942,254],"class_list":["post-196949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boss","tag-challenges","tag-electricity","tag-grid","tag-nemsa","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-resolve","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}