THE number of customer complaints across all the electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) hit 328,696 in Q3, 2024, climbing 14.35 per cent when compared to Q2, last year, the latest report by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has disclosed. The quarterly NERC document also showed that electricity customers nationwide got …
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THE House of Representatives has asked the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, and the distribution companies, DISCOs, to reverse the tariff hike for Band A customers. This directive was given on Tuesday after the adoption of a report presented by the House Committee on Power. It would be recalled that …
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Dr Sam Amadi, former Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, is currently the Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts. Dr Amadi, who is a fellow at the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government is a political analyst on …
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The United Nations General Assembly, in 2014, declared 15 July as World Youth Skills Day. The declaration was meant to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship. Since then, World Youth Skills Day has provided a unique opportunity for dialogue between …
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MOJEC Meter Asset Management Company (M3AC) has partnered with the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) to ensure 24-hour meter delivery to interested customers through the MAP Initiative. This is by extension a continuation of Phase 2 of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) approved ‘Meter Asset Provider (MAP)’ initiative, whose …
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The Chief Executive Officer of Century Power Generation Limited, Dr. Chukwueloka Umeh, says that for Nigeria to meet its National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP) target to meter 30 million consumers over two years, local manufacturers must be empowered to enable them to ramp up production in order to meet the …
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The Chief Executive Officer of Century Power Generation Limited, Dr. Chukwueloka Umeh, says that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (NERC’s) failure to increase electricity tariff in smaller steady steps from 2015 as stipulated in the Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO) has made the almost 100 percent increase for some consumers very …
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The Managing Director/CEO, Century Power Generation Ltd, Dr. Chukwueloka Umeh has said that the total deregulation of the power sector will motivate investors to put money into all areas of the broken value-chain which will ensure that consumers enjoy quality power supply. Dr. Umeh who was speaking at a virtual …
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Industry leaders in the energy sector have called on the Federal Government to allow market forces to determine the price of power rather than the present system of price-fixing by the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). They were speaking at the 2019 Energy Sustainability Conference which held in Lagos. The …
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) issued a press release warning the Minister of Power, Babatunde Fashola, that the proposed 45 percent increase in the electricity tariff violate a 2013 ruling by United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteurs. The SERAP press release in its entirety can be found below. Socio-Economic …
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