Electricity has been restored to the Nigerian High Commission in Pretoria after the diplomatic mission settled outstanding municipal utility debts owed to the City of Tshwane.
Electricity supply to the Nigerian High Commission in Pretoria, South Africa, has been restored after the mission cleared unpaid municipal service bills, the City of Tshwane has announced. Power was disconnected on Monday as part of enforcement action by the municipality over outstanding utility charges owed by the diplomatic mission.
The disconnection was confirmed by the City of Tshwane’s executive mayor, Nasiphi Moya, in a post on X (formerly Twitter), where she shared a photograph of the High Commission building and stated that the mission was indebted to the city. “We’ve disconnected electricity at the High Commission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. They owe the city for utility services,” Moya wrote, later adding that electricity would be restored once the debt was cleared. “We thank the High Commission of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for honouring its debt to the city. The city will reconnect electricity,” she said.
The restoration followed the reported payment of the outstanding balance by the Nigerian High Commission, which has yet to issue an official statement on the incident. The development is the latest in a series of similar occurrences, following a 2023 power disconnection at the Nigerian consulate in Johannesburg over an estimated R600,000 debt and another reported outage at the High Commission in September 2025 due to accumulated unpaid electricity charges.