This paper aims at providing a better understanding of the effect of electricity access on consumption, education and employment outcomes at the household level in Nigeria. The country hosts the second largest population without access to electricity in the world after India, but has received so far very little attention in this respect from the academic community. The literature also does not generally agree on the impact of access to electricity on the aforementioned outcomes. The results show that, once the possible endogeneity in the relationships under investigation is tackled and that household-specific effects are taken into account, electricity access has indeed a significant impact on both household consumption, girls’ education and employment of man. The paper discusses also some of the mechanisms that can lead to the observed findings.