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Dr Moses Arigu, the NERC Consumer Affairs Commissioner, made the remarks during the inauguration of Customer Complaints Forum Office on Sunday in Osogbo.

The Chairman of the NERC, Prof. James Momoh, who stated this on Wednesday in Lokoja during the maiden edition of the forum said there were 2,165 unresolved complaints from consumers in Lokoja alone from January to September.

TCN’s Managing Director, Mohammed Usman, made the call in an interview with journalists in Abuja on Sunday.

His lawyer, G. E. Ezeuko (SAN), in a letter to the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of BEDC, Funke Osibodu, demanded for remedies and issued notice to commence legal proceedings.

Angela Olanrewaju, Head, Branding and Corporate Communications of IBEDC, disclosed this on Wednesday.

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission says only four out 11 Electricity Distribution Companies in the country have metered up to 50 per cent of electricity customers under their coverage areas.

The Managing Director of TCN, Usman Mohammed, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Thursday.

ANED said this in a statement on Sunday in response to Fashola’s accusation that the body was not known to the government and its spokesperson, Sunday Oduntan, was an interloper.

Some electricity consumers in Lagos on Wednesday lauded the Federal Government’s directive that the Distribution Companies should provide meters for their customers rather than giving them estimated bills.

Godwin Idemudia, the General Manager, Corporate Communications Unit, EKEDC announced the development in a statement on Wednesday in Lagos.

The Electric Power Sector Reform Act of 2005 established NERC’s authority to impose mandatory reliability standards on the transmission system and to impose penalties on companies that manipulate the electricity markets. It also…

Those presented for confirmation are Prof. Akintunde I. Akinwande, Chairman; Sanusi Garba, Vice Chairman; Nathan R. Shanti, Commissioner; Dr. Moses Arigu, Commissioner; Dafe C. Akpeneye, Commissioner; Prof. Frank Okafor, Commissioner; and…

Akah said the call became imperative in view of the serious challenge of high estimated billing due to poor metering by the Distribution Companies and low power generation

The Commission said this classification became following its directive to electricity distribution companies not to mass disconnect and subsequent attempt by some electricity customers to ride on that to evade settling their debts

He said: "We cannot accept this tariff increase in this hard economy and the illegal process that gave rise to the increase should be revisited

"The new tariff, besides eliminating fixed charge, has a robust mechanism to ensure that DISCOs (Distribution Companies) fully meter their consumers and eliminate ‘crazy’ billing within one year," Akah said

According to the statement, NERC has directed all the distribution companies to abide by this directive and should not connect new customers without first providing them with meters

It added that Ossiomo Distribution Company would generate 55mw of gas power through embedded generation. Other companies are Cummins Power Generation Nigeria Limited in Ikeja with capacity for 3.5mw, off-grid, and Lafarge Africa Plc for…

In the motion, Gololo described the board’s approval of the payment of such package as unconstitutional, saying that it was not authorised by the National Assembly in the 2015 Appropriation Act

The House of Representatives on Tuesday constituted an ad hoc committee to look into the activities of the National Electricity Regulatory Commission and the Electricity Distribution Companies in Nigeria. This followed a motion on the…