The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has directed electricity distribution companies (DisCos) in the country to ensure that Band A customers get the required 20 hours...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has ordered Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) to replace customers’ faulty and obsolete metres at no cost. This followed reports that...
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), on Monday, accused the Federal Government of deliberately prolonging the power outage in Northern Nigeria, deepening the region’s economic woes. The...
In a bold move to tackle Nigeria’s persistent power transmission issues, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is considering a plan that would require power distribution...
The Association for Public Policy Analysis of the Electricity Consumers Protection and Advocacy Centre on Wednesday urged the House of Representatives to conclude its investigation into...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has resolved to conduct an investigative hearing on the recurring incidents of grid collapse and power outages in the country....
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has revealed that customers from Benin Republic, Niger, and Togo owe the country $5.79 million for electricity supply in the...
A fresh data by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has shown that the numbers of meter installation by electricity distribution companies (DisCos) in Nigeria dipped...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has slammed a fine of ₦3.10 billion on the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) and Ikeja Electric Distribution Company (IE)...
Nigeria’s power generation has reached a three-year peak of 5,313 megawatts, according to the Federal Ministry of Power. This milestone, announced on Monday, marks a significant...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has handed over regulatory control of the electricity market in Edo State to the Edo State Electricity Regulatory Commission (ESERC)....
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has revealed that 23 electricity workers died in the line of duty in the first quarter of this year in...
Data from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has revealed a rise in monthly revenue for electricity distribution companies (Discos) despite ongoing complaints of low power...
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Joe Ajaero was at the vanguard of the protest organized against the recent hike in electricity tariff at...
Following an increase in the tariff of electricity consumer under Band A, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have directed their members...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has unbundled the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and ordered it to transfer all market and system operation functions to...
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....
