Electricity consumers who bypass their meters will be forced to pay up to ₦450,000 as fine, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has declared. According to NERC, financial sanctions ranging from ₦50,000 to ₦450,000 for meter bypass by power consumers have been drafted by it and have been endorsed by the 11 electricity distribution companies operating […]
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Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission is considering a request by one of the existing 11 power distribution companies to increase the penalty for electricity theft from ₦50,000 to ₦200,000. This is coming as the commission has said the indebtedness of Discos is a major reason why they often reject part of electricity allocated to them by […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Prof. James Momoh as the Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement made available to journalists on Friday. According to Shehu, the name of the nominee has been sent to the Senate […]
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Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has hit a N21.2m fine on the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company for not treating the electricity customer complaints referred to it by the commission and implementing the decisions of the NERC’s forum office or The forum office is the second level in the commission’s redress mechanism where complaints from electricity consumers that are not […]
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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Wednesday begged Nigerians to exercise patience with the power generation and distribution companies with respect to the drop in electricity supply and the attendant blackouts being experienced nationwide. According to NERC, the drop in power supply is due to vandalism of critical installations and heavy downpour witnessed in parts […]
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The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday dismissed an application by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) seeking to stay proceedings in the suit on electricity tariff hike. Justice Mohammed Idris refused the motion for being unmeritorious. He awarded a punitive cost of N10,000 against NERC. Activist-lawyer Toluwani Adebiyi, who obtained an order restraining NERC […]
Read More THE country may be thrown into a blackout in the near future if the advice by the Senate to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to reverse the new electricity tariffs is heeded, power distribution companies have said. This is coming as NERC stated that it had not received any official communication from the National Assembly […]
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THE new tariffs approved for electricity consumers across the country will become effective on Monday and will enable the power distribution, generation and transmission companies to acquire needed infrastructure, the acting Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Dr. Anthony Akah, has said. Akah, who said this when he led top executives of the regulatory […]
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There are indications that the planned increment in electricity tariff by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) due to take off on February 3, 2016 may be shelved as stakeholders particularly the Nigeria Electricity Consumers Advocacy Network (NECAN) yesterday kicked against it. This development was the outcome of a meeting convened by the ad hoc […]
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DISTURBED by the insistence of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission to enforce the new power tariffs from February 1, consumers have resolved to petition the National Assembly and the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on the matter. Towards the end of December last year, NERC announced a new tariff regime in […]
Read More The Dr. Sam Amadi-led management of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) is alleged to have breached a subsisting court order which compelled the former to discountenance electricity tariff in the interim pending the adjudication of the case before the Federal High Court in Lagos. Toluwani Adebiyi, a lawyer particularly faulted the new electricity tariff […]
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