President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed his administration’s strong commitment to power reform. Yet Nigeria still faces chronic outages, high losses and weak metering. AI offers a practical toolkit—forecasting demand, detecting theft, optimising smart-meter data, predicting outages. The reform journey has begun, but the losses endure. In recent remarks, President Tinubu told a visiting Siemens Energy delegation that “there is no industrial growth or economic development without power. I believe that power is the most significant discovery of humanity in the last 1000 years.”   His statement reflects a clear priority: electricity supply must improve for Nigeria’s economic recovery and national well-being. Yet the scale of the problem remains daunting. According to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), in the fourth quarter of 2024 the aggregate technical, commercial and collection losses (ATC&C) remained high; billing efficiency was only 70.87 % in that quarter....