Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress have suspended the strike earlier scheduled to commence today (Monday). The latest development followed an agreement organised labour reached with the Federal Government at a meeting held on Sunday night into the early hours of today. The strike was suspended after theRead More

…Says landlords’ bills shouldn’t be forced on tenants OpeOluwani Akintayo Lagos — The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has urged customers who have been charged beyond the capped bill by electricity Distribution Companies or Discos to get in touch with it via writing as the Discos would be made to giveRead More

OpeOluwani Akintayo Lagos — Electricity distribution companies, DisCos will commence collection of full tariffs starting from 2021 following recent increment by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC. Latest tariff review documents issued to each of the 11 distribution companies by NERC, ‘Extraordinary Review of Multi Year Tariff Order 2015’ says 100Read More

The Managing Director of Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) Engr. Adeoye Fadeyibi FNSE on Wednesday named among the lead judges at the ongoing Lagos Smart Meter Hackathon 2020.   The Smart Meter Hackathon is an initiative of the Lagos State Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in partnership with Eko Innovation Centre to design, develop, and produce smart meteringRead More

Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) has announced grouping of its customers into five service bands depicting the quantity and quality of supply they receive. General Manager, Corporate Communications of the Company, Godwin Idemudia, who declared this in a chat with newsmen, noted that this is for quality service delivery in line with promise made onRead More

Trade Union Congress (TUC) has given the federal government 7-day ultimatum to reverse the hike in prices of electricity, petrol and all other social services in the country to status quo ante (prior to increase).   In a statement signed by Comrade Quadri Olaleye, President of TUC and Comrade (Barr)Read More

OpeOluwani Akintayo Lagos — While it is no longer news that electricity tariffs were hiked by between 50% and 100% depending on the location, what most electricity consumers are concerned with is how to cut down on electricity usage thereby saving cost. The first step is to identify the biggest energy-consumingRead More

The World Bank-backed power plant $900m Azura-Edo Independent Power Plant in Edo state has been unable to source dollars through the Central Bank of Nigeria, which has restricted access to the greenback in an effort to support the local naira currency, according to an industry executive and a financier briefedRead More

By Olatunde Dodondawa Nigerians have called on the Federal Government to establish a metering agency that will be responsible for metering only. The calls become imperative due to the recent hike in electricity tariff without improvement in power supply while many customers have no control over their energy consumption dueRead More

By Olatunde Dodondawa     Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is set to deploy data loggers in all power feeders belonging to Distribution Companies (Discos) to prevent them from ripping Nigerians off, following the transition of tariffs regime to the number of hours supplied. A data logger is a specialisedRead More