Nigeria’s House of Representatives, on Monday, charged the electricity industry regulator, Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to halt the implementation of the newly increased electricity tariff....
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has given the 11 electricity distribution companies till April 11 to refund customers wrongly billed at the new rate. The...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has imposed a hefty fine of N200 million on the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) for overcharging customers. In an...
The Federal Government through the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has explained why Distribution Companies (DisCos) in the country were given approval to increase tariff of...
The Federal Government, on Monday, ordered the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to withdraw lincences of non-performing electricity distribution companies (DisCos). The government accused the DisCos...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has sanctioned 11 electricity distribution companies (DisCos) for non-compliance with capping of estimated bills for customers. The commission disclosed this...
Nigerians have been thrown into darkness yet again as the national grid has suffered another collapse. The news of the collapse was announced by the Abuja...
In a bid to boost power supply in Lagos State, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has issued two power licences to the Alaro Connect Free...
The Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Mr. Sanusi Garba, said on Wednesday the Federal Government would continue to subsidise electricity to ease the...
The House of Representatives Committee on Finance on Monday queried the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) over a missing N3 billion in the agency. The committee, therefore,...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said on Wednesday the Federal Government paid N135.23 billion to subsidise electricity consumption in the second quarter of this year....
The Federal Government, on Monday, announced an application named the Power Outage Reporting System that allows customers to alert distribution firms under the watchful eye of...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has approved an increase in the price of prepaid electricity meters in the country. The commission announced the increase in...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Wednesday urged citizens using prepaid meters to update them before November next year. In a post on X, formerly...
The Federal Government paid a total of N36 billion to subsidise electricity consumption in the country in the first quarter of 2023, the Nigerian Electricity Regulation...
The federal government’s proposed increase in energy rates by 40% starting July 1 has been criticised by the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) as being insensitive and...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over failure to reverse a recent increase in electricity tariff. The group...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Wednesday assured the citizens of improved power supply from July 1. The NERC Chairman, Sanusi Garba, gave the assurance...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) will from July 1, 2022 review electricity tariff, about six months after carrying out a similar exercise. NERC stated its...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has dismissed reports on the increase in electricity tariff. There were reports on Thursday that the commission had approved a...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has announced that electricity companies in Nigeria can adjust their tariff upwards. The new approval was scheduled to take effect...
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) said electricity Distributing Companies (DISCOS) should make refunds to electricity consumers who purchased meters. Discos have been overwhelmed...
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has warned Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) to bill consumers per hour amid shortage of power supply in the...
Following the takeover of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) by United Bank of Africa (UBA), the company’s core investors, CEC Africa Investment Limited and KANN Consortium...
The Senate Committee on Power on Monday dismissed a petition against a Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) nominee, Yusuf Ali. The Chairman of the Committee, Gabriel...
Nigerians connected to the National grid and supplied electricity only paid back 68.7 percent for the energy consumed. This is according to documents obtained from the...
Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has called on Nigerians to be more vigilant handling electrical appliances. This is as the commission revealed that Nigeria recorded 167...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has reiterated that electricity consumers are not required to pay directly for the meters issued to them under the National...
The National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has increased the price of pre-paid meters in the country. In a circular with reference number NERC/REG/MAP/GEN/751/2, titled: “Review of...
The Nigerian Labour Congress has warned the Federal Government over breaching the agreement on the consensus to suspend any increase in electricity tariff. This was contained...
The House of Representatives has urged the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to rescind its decision to further increase electricity tariff in June. The call was...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has given approval to Ikeja Electric Plc to invest the sum of N121.92 billion for infrastructure upgrade across its network...
Some government agencies, on Wednesday, opted out of Federal Government’s funding and refunded millions of naira revenues due to the Consolidated Revenue of the Federation. Ripples...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Friday directed the Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) to replace over three million faulty and obsolete meters for their customers....
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has disclosed that it is in the process of reviewing the Meter Asset Provider (MAP) Regulation 2018 to fast-track the...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has revealed that Nigeria may be forced to cut off power supply to the Republics of Niger and Benin over...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has stated that a total of 8.734 million Megawatts-hour (MWh) of electricity was generated in the second quarter of 2020....
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) says it will commence enforcement of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) billing cap order to ensure effective...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said on Friday 62.63 percent of electricity consumers in the country were on estimated billing as of September 2020. NERC...
Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has denied approving a 50 percent increase in electricity tariffs. NERC made the denial in a statement on its Twitter handle...
Nigerians are in for another tough year after the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) approved a new increase in electricity tariff with effect from January 1....
Members of the House of Representatives committee on power on Wednesday frowned at the 2021 budget of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) demanded for N2.1...
The Nigerian government has directed electricity distribution companies (Discos) to prolong the suspension of new electricity tariffs by a week. James Momoh, chair of the Nigerian...
In line with the agreement reached between the federal government and the organised labour, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Tuesday night issued an order...
Landlords with outstanding bills cannot transfer the payment obligation to tenants just renting their properties, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said Tuesday. The NERC made...
Electricity customers will henceforth cease to make one-off payment for meters but rather will pay for them via periodic tariff costs, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Friday directed the electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) not to increase tariffs of customers enjoying less than 12 hours of...
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Tuesday evening urged the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to take decisive action on the plan by the electricity distribution companies...
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the players in the power sector to carry out mass metering of unmetered customers nationwide. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC)...
The Chairman of Senate Committee on Power, Gabriel Suswam, said on Monday the National Assembly was working with the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to put...