The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is working to ensure that firms, which applied to serve as meter asset providers under the new metering arrangements, begin...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has said that power distribution companies in the country must fully automate their commercial system operations in the sector. According...
The latest quarterly report of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has shown that the nation’s power grid collapsed 97 times since the privatisation of the...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has outlined the gains inherent in government’s new metering policy, the Meter Asset Provider policy, MAP,...
Three of Nigeria’s international customers who were supplied up to 300 megawatts (MW) of electricity in 2018, are still indebted to the country, a quarterly report...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said the low level metering in the power sector is responsible for low revenue collection by electricity distribution companies...
The Power generation companies (Gencos) have blamed electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) for the current low power supply to Nigerians....
A total grid collapse on December 21 increased Nigeria’s total grid colapse in 2018 to 12, data from the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing has...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has lamented poor remittances by electricity distribution companies to the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Plc (NBET) for the energy sold...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has issued six new power generation licenses to investors willing to invest in the nation’s power sector. According to the...
There are indications that the Federal Government is set to begin fresh negotiations with preferred bidders for three power generation plants of the National Independent Power...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said an average of 1,185 electricity complaints about various electricity services rendered by power distribution companies were made in the...
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) said it was ready to deploy 222,728 prepaid meters for its customers in the Federal Capital Territory, Kogi, Niger and...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has decried the frequent increase in electricity tariff without significant improvement in power supply in the country....
The total number of power consumers with prepaid meters by electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) in the country rose by 6.23 percent in the first quarter of...
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has stated that Nigeria must fix the power sector in order to alleviate poverty. Dogara also reiterated...
The Electricity Distribution Companies in the country said the problem of epileptic power supply in the country may not end in the next five years if...
The seeming suspicious mode of relationship between the federal government and electricity distribution companies (Discos) in Nigeria’s power sector on Friday got a little more scrappier...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Wednesday suspended the board of directors and other management staff of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) over failure of...
The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said it has issued power generation and distribution licenses to two firms in Ariaria Market in Aba, Abia state. Ariaria...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said it has given “No Objection” approval to another set of nine firms seeking to procure and install meters for...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Tuesday said it has commenced the process of reviewing the financial model that would determine the electricity tariff payable...
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday kicked against the move by the House of Representatives to criminalise estimated billing by...
As Nigerians continue to cry out over the non-availability of pre-paid meters, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says it has given approval to 22 firms...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has warned that there will be chaos in the power sector if the National Assembly criminalises the issuance of estimated bills...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Tuesday ordered the 11 power distribution companies to engage the services of the recently approved independent Meter Asset Providers in...
The Federal Government on Thursday directed the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to revert to the former situation where power consumers were allowed to purchase meters...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Thursday said it had slammed a fine of N50million on Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) The regulatory agency explained...
In a bid to avert incidence such as system collapse, the Transmission Company of Nigeria, has urged the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to carry out...
Another battle seems brewing in the power sector as the generating companies (Gencos) have vowed to resist a new government policy directing consumers of electricity in...
Every indication points at one thing: Nigeria may not enjoy stable power supply throughout the Muhamnadu Buhari’s administration, even until 2022. And this is despite all...
President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Prof. James Momoh for the position of Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). The President’s nominee to the Senate...
Another crisis is brewing in the power sector, as the supervising ministry directs the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to set a minimum recapitalisation base for...
The Minister for Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has urged all stakeholders in power sector to ensure total compliance to all conditions in their...
Assailed by grieving Nigerians, Minister for Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has offered six excuses for the lingering power outage experienced by homes and industries....
The Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy on Tuesday rejected the nomination of Akintunde Akinwande, as chairman of the Governing Board of the Nigerian...
A new crisis that may further worsen electricity supply in Nigeria is brewing, with a faceoff between the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and service providers....
The board chairman nominee for the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has finally declined the offer. After weeks of speculations over his disposition, Prof. AKintunde Akinwande...
Prof. Akintunde Ibitayo Akinwande, nominated for the Chairmanship of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has seemingly made a u-turn in accepting the nomination. He has said...
The chairman-designate of Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Professor Akintunde Akinwande, has rejected his nomination by President Muhammadu Buhari. The appointee’s absence at the Senate screening...
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has insisted that the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos over increase in electricity tariff stands despite the...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and Distribution Companies (Discos) are insisting on 45 per cent tariff increase regardless of the recent court ruling. While NERC...
Solar power consumption may soon be captured in the electricity tariff regime, Ripples Nigeria has learnt. The final details of this proposal is being worked out...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) on Wednesday sought understanding from Nigerians over the drop in power supply lately. The Acting Chief Executive of NERC, Dr....
The Senate on Tuesday mandated the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to halt the 45 percent tariff increase being implemented by electricity distribution companies. This development...
By Ali Smart The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, may appear to be grandstanding judging by its insistence that the new electricity tariff which became operational...
Organised labour, under the aegis of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC and Trade Union Congress, TUC, have started a nationwide protest against recent electricity tariffs hike by...
in from Ali Smart . . . A human rights lawyer, Bar. Toluwani Yemi-Adebiyi, on Friday, approached the Federal High Court to charge the management of the...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has directed electricity distribution companies DİSCOS, not to connect new customers without first providing them with meters, just as it...
By Ali Smart… The Federal Government, through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has increased energy tarrif, while also dropping the fixed charges being paid by...
