Azura's Ops Team says: "In 2019, we produced 8% of Nigeria's on-grid electricity; our availability rate was 97.4%; we suffered zero gas constraints; and our reliability rate was 99.7%". Azura's MD replies: "Stop looking in the rear-view mirror. It's 2020 and there's work to do."

In the Christmas Hols, the Azura-Edo CSR team ran a 3 day medical programme for 2,400 people in its host community. Said the Scrooges: “Bah Humbug! We’re an old-fashioned power business, not an NGO”. But they were no match for the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present & Yet to Come.

#GetRealAboutEnergyPoverty Note 1/3: In the 2 years it took to build the natural gas-fired 461 MW Azura-Edo IPP, 18,000 MW of diesel gensets were sold in Nigeria. So can we please stop pretending that Africa’s energy needs can be met without a massive increase in baseload power.

#GetRealAboutEnergyPoverty Note 2/3: Had the dirty & inefficient diesel gensets been replaced with baseload power running on (relatively) clean natural gas, it would have lowered Nigeria’s CO2e emissions by more than 10 million tonnes per annum.

#GetRealAboutEnergyPoverty Note 3/3: Funding institutions that no longer wish to invest in baseload power in Africa need to be honest about the social consequences. Delays in investment in Africa’s on-grid sector will increase BOTH energy poverty AND carbon emissions.

As the UK Govt prepares for the 2020 UK-Africa Investment Summit, we thank the UK Govt for its support for the Azura-Edo IPP. CDC (the UK’s DFI) is one of the largest investors in our power plant. An exemplar of true Anglo-Nigerian partnership, impacting the lives of >12m people.

This week, Azura will be joining @tradegovuk in the call to #InvestInAfrica. But reciprocity is the basis for true partnership. African countries possess a wealth of entrepreneurship, innovation & resilience. This is why we also support efforts to #LearnFromAfrica.

Azura’s CEO, Edu Okeke, with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (legendary Nigerian stateswoman) and Catriona Laing (UK High Commissioner to Nigeria) at #InvestInAfrica

"When you have to explain yourself, everyone can openly assess the merits of your logic" (Ray Dalio). Vide the last 30 days, during which Azura's peak output was more than 8.7% of Nigeria's on-grid total. Radical transparency available for download at azuraedo.com/our-app/

At the Azura-Edo IPP, we're not sure if it makes sense to use the word "celebrate" to mark the fact that today is International Women's Day. Women comprise 25% of our workforce; so there is still plenty of room for improvement!

Azura staff making a donation of medical supplies and masks to the Edo State Govt.

There have have been several press articles about the Azura-Edo IPP. As the facts & dates therein are occasionally incorrect or misleading, we thought it might be helpful to issue this brief guide to the project’s chronology and current operational status: azuraedo.com/s/Azura-Dates-…

A huge THANK YOU to Azura Edo for their on-going support to Africa Nature Investors Foundation and #GaskahaGumti National Park. Their support goes towards protection of the park in partnership with its surrounding communities. Sharon Ikeazor Environment Ministry WCS Nigeria 💚 @HMEnvng National Park Service-Nigeria Elephant Protection Initiative

Eid Mubarak to all our staff, partners and stakeholders.

It's great to see Olu Akpata emerge as the new President-Elect of the Nigerian Bar Association. Under Olu's judicious guidance, Templars has acted as legal counsel to Azura for nearly ten years now. 24 Carat legal brain. And a lovely guy to boot.

It’s been a few weeks now since Mr Olorunkoya started his Executive MBA at Oxford...so we thought we’d take a quick peek at his peer group. Yep...you can always judge a man by the company he keeps. Scroll down sbs.ox.ac.uk/programmes/mba…

Azura Power is proud to support the Edo State Skills Development Agency (De Philips Filmz) at a time when new technologies are rapidly transforming the Nigerian labour market; bringing new challenges as well as new opportunities. nigerianobservernews.com/2020/12/azura-…

Speaking at the Center on Global Energy Policy Summit today, VP of Nigeria Prof. Yemi Osinbajo drew on some of the Hub’s research in his remarks on the meaning of climate justice and climate action in low-emitting, energy poor countries. Watch his full remarks: youtube.com/watch?v=zbouDt…

Last Friday's Netflix episode of "Explained" (subject matter: "The End of Oil") had superb contributions by Damilola Ogunbiyi and Nimmo Bassey, both of whom stressed that for Nigeria and other SSA nations, the energy transition must also be a just & equitable transition.

#Nigeria, rich in natural resources but still #energy poor, cannot afford to transition at the expense of affordable and reliable energy for people, cities and industry. We need multiple pathways to net-zero, writes Prof. Yemi Osinbajo in Foreign Affairs #SDG7 fam.ag/2WDPIwo