The House of Representatives has urged the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to suspend a fresh increase in electricity tariff proposed to take off next month. It said the majority of Nigerians could not afford the additional burden of a fresh tariff hike amid the hardship they already faced. In a resolution passed in plenary…
President Buhari yesterday announced that the government has made funding available for DisCos to immediately roll out 1,000,000 meters to consumers for free. This according to the president is under the first phase of the presidential mass metering initiative of which deployment had already started in parts of Kano, Kaduna, Lagos and Abuja. President Bujari…
Nigerians are expected to get a high electricity bill from November 2020 due to the implementation of the revised service-based reflective tariff. Discos across the country began charging the new tariff as approved by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Sunday 1st November 2020. In a statement being circulated by most of the Discos,…
The FG has agreed to provide a tariff relief of N10.20kobo per kilowatt of electricity for Nigerians for the next three months and also distribute six million free meters to electricity consumers. The ad-hoc committee set up by the Federal Government and organised labour last month has agreed to adopt a two-phase approach to proffer…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Tuesday ordered all electricity distribution companies (DisCos) in the country to suspend for two weeks the implementation of the new electricity tariffs that was introduced on September 1. This directive, according to the commission, is in line with the Federal Government’s agreement with the Labour Union. The suspension…
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission NERC has clarified that the outstanding electricity bills of landlords are not to be enforced on new tenants. The NERC Commissioner, Finance and Management Services, Nathan Shatti, made this known during a live question and answer programme on “meters and metering” on Wednesday. During the programme, which was streamed live…