NaijaToday Investigative Desk | June 21, 2026

If you are reading this in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt, Enugu, or virtually any other city in Nigeria, that statement is almost certainly true. The only variable is how long the outage lasted, how many times it happened, and what it cost you — in generator fuel, in spoiled food, in work interrupted, in the particular low-grade exhaustion that comes from living in a country that cannot reliably keep the lights on.

Diezani Alison-Madueke — former Minister of Petroleum Resources, former President of OPEC, the most powerful woman in Nigerian government history — has been acquitted of bribery charges in the United Kingdom.