OpeOluwani Akintayo 31 August 2017, Sweetcrude, Lagos — The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has limited to 90-days, the length…
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“The Federal Government is doing its best to ensure improvement in electricity supply. Government has embarked on serious expansion of transmission capacity with some power plants already completed, while others have reached advance stages of completion,” he added.
“Several years after the country’s power sector was privatized, millions of Nigerian households particularly the socially and economically vulnerable sectors of the population continue to complain about outrageous bills for electricity not consumed, and poor power supply from distribution firms.”
23 January 2017, Lagos – The Nigeria Labour Congress has said that the estimated billing of consumers by electricity distribution…
The commission said its decision to sanction Discos that may default on its directive was sequel to the rising complaints from all categories of electricity customers over estimated bills they considered irreconcilable with the available power supply in the networks operated by the Discos.
According to Ibrahim, “The power firms are making money through estimated billings perhaps because the investors, who bought the assets of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), borrowed money to acquire these assets.”
The NERC boss stressed the refusal of Discos to provide electricity meters to their customers was a criminal act, adding they were ripping off consumers and that it would not accept it.
Oscarline Onwuemenyi 14 April 2016, Sweetcrude, Abuja – The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has decried the rampant cases of…
He said that the act of crazy billing of consumers was because the metering gap was much, adding that GENCOS, DISCOS and TCN went through privatisation uninformed roughly about 30 months ago.
*Storm brewing over plan to cap estimated billing, initiate ISO Oscarline Onwuemenyi 10 June 2015, Sweetcrude, Abuja – The National…