The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, has approved 481 Band A areas for the purpose of implementing the new tariff.

Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) - 107
Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JED PLC) - 64
Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) - 45
Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) - 44
Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) - 44
Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) - 43
Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) - 43
Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) - 30
Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company (KAEDC) - 25
Eko Electricity Distribution Plc (EKEDC) - 21
Yola Electricity Distribution Company (YEDC) - 15

In its directive to the companies, NERC, stated: “All DisCos shall ensure that ONLY the newly approved Band A feeders listed in their April 2024 supplementary orders are maintained as Band A for the purpose of vending to prepaid customers and billing for postpaid customers on their networks.

“All DisCos are required to immediately post on their websites the schedule of approved Band A feeders that have been affected by the rate review.

“All DisCos shall set up a portal by 10th April 2024 on their website that allows all customers to check their current Bands by entering their meter or account numbers.

“All customers wrongly billed at the new rate should be refunded through energy tokens no later than Thursday the 11th of April 2024, and file evidence of compliance with the Commission by the 12th of April 2024.

“The Commission shall monitor compliance with the requirements and shall continue to provide to all stakeholders as required.”

A 28-year-old travel content creator, Pelumi Nubi, has completed her solo road trip from London, United Kingdom, to Lagos, Nigeria.

The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Lagos State Governor, Gboyega Akosile, announced her arrival via his X account on Sunday.

He said the Lagos State Government welcomed Nubi, a Nigerian-British citizen, who undertook the solo drive at the Nigeria-Benin Republic border.

He wrote, “Lagos State Government gives a hero’s welcome to peluminubi_ , a Nigeria-British citizen who who did a solo drive from London to Lagos.

“Pelumi was received at the Nigeria-Benin Republic border on behalf of Lagos State Government by the Commissioner of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mrs Toke Benson-Awoyinka; and the Special Adviser, Tourism, Arts and Culture, Idris Aregbe. Welcome home!”

Nubi embarked on her solo trip in a car on January 30, 2024.

The average power bill of a 3 bedroom flat with 3 ACs and 20 hours of power should be within the range of N220k monthly.

But trust me, this stuff will humble you. Power is not cheap and a rude shock awaits a lot of Nigerians.

aieromon:

"Poor man" has never enjoyed electricity, they have only benefited from dirt cheap power. If you must enjoy, prepare to pay a premium cost.

aieromon:


Let's look at the facts on ground.

House 1
Power load = 2000W
Average of 20hrs/day gives 600 hours in a 30 day calendar month.
Power consumption = 2kW * 600h = 1200kWh
Cost of power consumed = ₦225 * 1200 = ₦270,000

House 2
Power load = 2000W
Power is generated using a 2.5 kVA petrol generator. Running wattage is 2000W.
Fuel efficiency = 1.1litres/hour (15 litres in 14 hours at 50% load - generator will consume more if we increase the load but let us stick with this for the purpose of this comparison)
For House 2 to generate 600hrs in a month requires 660L of PMS.
At ₦560/litre, House 2 will spend a sum of ₦369,600 in an attempt to replicate power supply from DISCOs. Maintenance cost has not been factored in these calculations.

A lot of small scale businesses spend up to ₦178,000 monthly running petrol generators.

Power is not cheap!

larride:


The project is not even a LASG project, it's a federal govt project, I dont know why Lagos is the one sending them letters of RoW and not the federal ministry of works.

Jorussia:
Where is he from?

Nwagba was born on September 7, 1987, in Aba, Abia state, where he hails from. He attended Kings College, Lagos and holds a first-class degree in electrical engineering from Howard University and an MBA from Harvard, both in the US. While at Howard, he served as the student government president.

Dpharisee:
Building a railway hub at Abuja Airport is misplacement of priority by previous Govts, why not build it at Gwagwalada or Abaji, how many passengers will disembark from an international flight and wait one hour for a train to take them to city centre when he can pay N7000 to registered taxi operators or Uber.
Meanwhile thousands of workers, traders and students commute daily from Abaji and Gwagwalada to the city and there is no railway terminus for them, the airport railway shouldn't have come first before the masses.

Wike has done well for ensuring that its completed despite the above points

Phase 1 of the Abuja Light Rail consisting of Lot 1A & 3 with a total length of 45.3 kilometres was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari in July 2018 with three coaches conveying people from the Metro Station in the Central Business District (CBD) to the Nnadi Azikiwe International Airport with a brief stop-over at Idu interchange for passengers going to Kaduna.

Yourprick:
I noticed how wike has been the one inspecting projects in the FCT, what's now the use of the minister of works are there limits to what he can do?

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Engineer Uzoma Nwagba as the new Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Consumer Credit Corporation (CREDICORP).

According to a statement by Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, on Friday night, the appointment was in keeping with the President’s dedicated efforts to ensure financial inclusion and economic prosperity for the majority of Nigerians.

Engineer Nwagba, 36, holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School and a first-class Bachelor of Engineering from Howard University, Washington DC.

Prior to his appointment, Ngalale said Engineer Nwagba served as Chief Operating Officer of the Bank of Industry (BoI), in charge of driving micro-credit and other financial interventions at the institution.

“He had also served as Senior Investment Associate, specializing in financial services (banking, insurance, pensions) at the African Capital Alliance.

“Engineer Nwagba was a Software Engineer at Microsoft, where he led multiple teams charged with building enterprise and mobile software for emerging markets (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and Nigeria), before his transition to finance.

“The President expects the new Chief Executive Officer of this critical agency to bring to bear his wealth of experience in finance and technology, as well as his record in driving financial interventions across Nigeria in this new role in order to expand access to credit to all classes of Nigerian citizens, while promoting financial inclusion, and enhancing the quality of life of the Nigerian people as they access the tangibles of prosperity,” the statement said.

There are strong indications that the LP Deputy Governorship candidate Mrs Alufokhai may have submitted false information on her form EC9 as displayed by the commission.

On page 2 of her affidavit sworn at the Epe Division of the High Court on March 22, 2024, Alufokhai stated that she was born on May 18, 1981 in Imo State; yet on page 4 of the same affidavit, she claimed that she obtained her First School Leaving Certificate in 1981 - the same year she was born.

It was gathered that the Labour Party governorship candidate, Akpata, had been unsettled since the discrepancies were noticed.

SaharaReporters learnt that the possibility that it could have been a mistake was considered. However, it was also learnt that Akpata had been lobbying to replace his running mate before the April 15, 2024 deadline INEC had fixed as the last day for the replacement of candidates.

SaharaReporters learnt that in turn, Mrs Alufokhai has informed the party that she has no intention of withdrawing; and has pushed back at Akpata, claiming he should be the one replaced because he deposed in his affidavit that he had not only taken up a second nationality in a foreign country but that he had also sworn an oath of total allegiance to Vanuatu’s President.

“How can anyone be talking about primary school certificate when they themselves have sworn that they are loyal to a foreign country? Olu should remove the log in his eye before he comes to harass me,” a member of the party executive council said he overheard Mrs Alufokhai saying at its secretariat in Abuja.

Akpata, who is a cousin of Governor Godwin Obaseki, is from the majority Edo South. He seems to have tried to play a game of numbers when he decided to pick his running mate from Edo North – the second-largest voting population bloc in the state.

Sources informed SaharaReporters that Akpata's controversial emergence as the LP governorship candidate in the alleged heavily dollarized party primaries meant he had to concede the selection of his deputy to Julius Abure and other party chieftains as part of his commitment to the reconciliation process.

According to the sources, they reportedly convinced him that Mrs. Yinka Alufokhai “was a powerful grassroots mobiliser; and that as a young woman with Igbo roots, the Obidient Movement would easily adopt her”.

Many Labour Party chieftains have faulted the choice of Mrs Alufokhai, who was sacked a year ago as Owan West Local Government Chairman for allegations of fraud and anti-party activities. Sources close to Akpata say he is now convinced she is part of a plot concocted by the LP National Chairman Abure to sabotage his ticket after the latter’s public humiliation and arrest days before the LP governorship primaries in Benin City, one of the sources said.

Before Akpata emerged as LP candidate, Abure had publicly stated that he believed that for equity, fairness and justice, power should rotate to Edo Central. Several LP aspirants have since passed public votes of no-confidence on the LP primaries and the LP candidate.

On his part, Akpata is also enmeshed in deep controversy over the Oath of Allegiance he swore to another country and revealed in the particulars displayed by INEC.

In a shocking revelation, Akpata swore an Oath of Allegiance to Vanuatu – a small island country with a population of about 350,000 people. To become an honorary citizen which gives you a Vanuatu passport, one is expected to make a ‘minimum donation’ of $US130,000 to the government. Vanuatuan passports provide visa-free travel to 113 countries.

While Nigerian law does not prohibit Nigerians from taking dual citizenships; swearing an oath of allegiance to a foreign power might disqualify a candidate from seeking public office.

The National Working Committee of the party is jittery over the revelations and has summoned an emergency meeting to address the new developments.

When SaharaReporters contacted Mrs Alufokhai, she said that it was a typographical error.

She said that her date of birth is May 18, 1981, and that her First School Leaving Certificate (FSLC) was obtained in 1989.

"My date of birth is 18/05/1981. My FSLC was obtained in 1989. So for my date of birth and FSLC to bear the same year, that's a typographical error as you can see," she said in a message to SaharaReporters.

naptu2:
They have downgraded him to Band B.

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, on Tuesday informed Chief Executive Officers of electricity distribution companies that the last schedule of the 2008/2013 regime of Multi Year Tariff Order (MYTO) will be operational as from July 1, 2011.

This development will see to a marginal increase in kilowatt hour of electricity from N8.50 to N10.00 from that date.

Commenting on the development, NERC Chairman, Dr. Sam Amadi said, “The marginal increase was since approved in 2008 and we have the responsibility to inform the public as part of our commitment to transparency.”

Despite condemnation by Nigerians over the increase in electricity charges without improved power supply, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has said the increase in fixed charges for electricity consumers is aimed at guaranteeing stable electricity supply in the nearest future.

Addressing a news conference in Abuja, NERC’s chairman, Dr Sam Amadi says the tariff paid by consumers is fair, reasonable and necessary to guarantee continuous improvement in electricity supply to homes and businesses in Nigeria.

He added that the multi-year tariff order of N500 fixed charge for 2012 was slightly increased to N700 with effect from June 2013 and as such there has not been an arbitrary increase of tariffs.

Electricity consumers in the country have been lamenting the annual increase in fixed charges which comes into effect on the 1st of June every year.

Chairman of NERC, Dr. Sam Amadi, says the new electricity tariff hike expected to come into effect by the end of October is aimed at ensuring cost-reflective tariffs in the Nigerian electricity supply industry.

He said the tariff review will bring about a cost-reflective tariffs in the industry, capable of attracting private investments, especially foreign direct investments, FDIs. It is also aimed at ensuring that these investments were bankable, Amadi said.

The Electric Power Sector Reform Act (2005) empowers NERC to review electricity tariffs in favour of Gencos and Discos, if market variables such as gas and its transportation cost, as well as naira to dollar ratio and inflation shift by over 5 percent.

The NERC chairman however warned that a balance needed to be maintained between investments attraction and winning the confidence of consumers.

“Bills will go up, but service quality also has to be ensured. We have to bear that in mind,” Amadi told a gathering of Nigerian power sector operators as well as local and foreign investors, including representatives from Manitoba Hydro International and the Africa Finance Corporation.

However, justifying NERC’s stance, immediate past Chairman of NERC, Dr. Sam Amadi, described the Senate’s directive as illegal, unconstitutional and a direct encroachment on executive independence.

He told Vanguard: “The order by the Senate for NERC to rescind the tariff is a direct infringement on the independence of the executive to initiate policies, in this case through NERC. It is a subtle derogation of the powers of the executive. It offends the concept of separation of power. The legislature should not interfere and direct executive action. That is clearly against the law. It is unconstitutional.”

He argued that until a new board was reconstituted to consider reviewing or totally suspending the order, “nobody anywhere can validly review or suspend the current tariff.”

coolbatty:
Good Morning boss.
My toyota corolla was vandalized yesterday and brainbox stolen.
What could be the matching part number. Vin:

immortalcrown:

Meanwhile, what did the TikTok user do against Eniola?

Blessing Nwakaego said a friend who claimed to know Eniola Badmus narrated the false story to her, and that she, in turn, narrated the story to a male friend, Chimabia (now at large), who asked her to do a video of the false storyline that Eniola Badmus specialises in introducing young Nigerian girls to men,” he said.

Nwakaego said after making the video, Chimabia gave her N200,000 and asked her to post it on her TikTok from where other platforms copied it.

Nosa said over three million viewers viewed the maligning video online.

He tendered the petition written by Eniola Badmus asking the police to investigate the matter and bring those behind the falsehood to book.

Blessing Nwakaego’s statement was also tendered and admitted in evidence.

tunjijones:
This an old news na.

Eteka1:

(1) Does a Director of Lands in the Ministry have such powers to allocate land to anyone?

(2) If the Director has no such powers, can Nicholas Ukachukwu then Legally claim ownership of the Land having been wrongfully allocated?

lexy2014:


you say "power is not cheap".

is the power available?

socialmediaman:

Are you willing to pay N178,000 monthly for electricity for a 24-hour supply?

House 1 ₦225/kWh
House 2 ₦600/kWh

cybertuns:
Correct ATF gear oil for Lexus IS250 2008?
... how many litres for a full change?

Angelfrost:


I doubt that... Only Band A?!!

That's less than 20% of Nigerian homes and buildings.

That means dem never ready.

The Federal Government government, through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has approved a hike in the electricity rates for consumers categorized under Band A.

This is contained in a press statement by the Vice Chairman of NERC Musliu Oseni on Wednesday.

Oseni, the Vice Chairman of NERC, stated that the tariff hike would result in customers paying N225 per kilowatt hour, up from the existing N66.

He mentioned that these customers account for 15% of the 12 million electricity consumers in the nation.