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NERC plans strange variations in power supply, tariff regime on new hike

If the revelations of the chairman of Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Prof James Momoh on Monday, is anything to takeaway, it means that the Nigeria poor should get ready to receive and pay for poor quality of electricity which…

NERC, ANED may clash over programmed delay in metering next month

Whereas new regulation due from Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) from February is expected to enforce metering for electricity consumers, signals from the umbrella body of electricity distribution companies (DisCos), the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distribution Companies (ANED), indicate lack…

FCCPC ends Lagos Town Hall Meetings, warns Discos on infrastructure, meters

Two-Day separate sensitization programmes carried out by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), in collaboration with the MacArthur Foundation, to facilitate dialogue and proffer solutions to difficult consumer issues in electricity sector ended in Lagos yesterday. Both programmes…

NERC reveals Discos’ fraud against consumers in estimated billing scheme

The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Prof James Momoh, has opened up on the procedure to be followed to generate bills for yet to be metered electricity customers which had been violated with impunity over the years…

We’ll end Discos’ customer-metering slipperiness with deadline soon—NERC

Strong indications have emerged revealing that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, (NERC), may have observed that all the Electricity Distribution Companies (Discos), are deliberately delaying the metering of their customers with prepaid. Chairman of the federal agency, Prof. James Momoh,…

NERC ready to review current electricity tariff regime over soaring protests

Considering the rising complaints from Nigerian electricity consumers, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has agreed to review the current tariff regime. Newly inaugurated Chairman of NERC, Prof. James Momoh, said all necessary calculations on electricity tariff will be done…