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merits:
Yes at that time you only use what you recharge once your point finished light with trip off until you recharge and you can recharge any amount you want at time at your own time.

Thank you so much

ExAngel007:
A young woman identified as Onyinoi Ni'mat Suleiman, was reportedly kidnapped and k!lled by unknown assailants in Abuja.

The deceased, fondly known as Nimmy Sauce, was a former producer and presenter at Prestige FM in Minna, Niger State.

Details of the incident are still sketchy at the time of filing this report however it was gathered that she was abducted and st@bbed to d@ath on her way home from work on Thursday, October 17, 2024.

Her former colleague, Ahmed Sakpe Isah, confirmed the sad incident in a Facebook post on Friday.


“INNA LILLAHI WA INNA ILAIHIR RAJI'UN It's with a heavy heart that we announce the death of our pioneer Presenter, Prestige FM, Ni'mat Suleiman (MIMI SAUCE). She was kidnapped and stabbed to d@ath on her way back from
work in Abuja. Allah ya gafartamki Allah ya miki rahma. Oh Allah grant us the patience to be able to bear this loss. May Allah forgive you,” he wrote.

Her friend, Zahra Abubakar, also confirmed the incident.

“It's with heavy heart I announce the death of my life time friend who turned sister Ni'imatullah Suleiman. She was kidnapped and stabbed to d@ath on her way back from work in Abuja yesterday. Allah ya gafartamaki Allah ya miki
rahma. Oh Allah grant us the patience to be able to bear this loss. Subhanallah. Ya Rabb this is indeed heavy,” she wrote.

One Austin Abraham wrote: “I am so sorry Nimat that you had to go in the manner that you did. No amount of sun can dry this tears flowing through. This pool of tears I am in is drowning me. And I can't swim in it. This is the most painful way to go my friendship. The thought of how you begged and cried for your life in the hand of your kidnapers. I could only imagine.. how your innocent blood just littered the ground.

God have mercy. Nimat!!!!”l

Who are these people with no human empathy...

merits:
Yes all will clear

Thank you for your input, and may I ask again after clearing the debt, will the meter return to normal, and stop accumulating negative amount...

merits:
l paid off orelse it will continue accumulating the earlier the better you paid off.

I should pay off all the outstanding debt right, it will clear?

merits:
Yes you have to cleared that debt or settle insider staff to wipe the debt for you.I got mine 2020 that's was I experienced and I have to cleared the debt.

How did u go about the negative amount displayed

Caseless:
Mojec? it's easy and good meter.

Just tender a letter.

Ok, thank you

Dedynast:
You can only tell if your meter has crossed over "in the negative units" from your UIU - display/control box.

Check the UIU for a period (like three consecutive days). If the units do not reduce, then your meter is most probably bypassed, hence your tenants are free-riding (stealing energy) and that's why the units have not been exhausted since installation.

If however the UIU is not showing negative values and your check shows that the units are reducing, then you have nothing to be worried about.

Thank you for this. I'll keep an eye on it...

Caseless:
You're welcome. Go to any service center of IBEDC near you and present the letter physically, they acknowledge and you take a copy with you. That can protect you when issues come up. It's that letter they forward to NERC before they send the metering guys to come and check.

Since the seals are intact, we have 2 possibilities now.

What brand of meter is it?

It is a single phased meter from mojec company...

Money miss road

Some government office holder are just something else

Tuchel my man...

lebete3000:
This one don turn postpaid

Haa postpaid meter dey, never heard of it...

justdream:
The meter must have entered TAMPER mode and the users tried to clear it using a "quack". They must have been told not to allow the Meter's Unit to get to Zero (0) but they ignored. After the Zero mark, the meter starts reading backwards in the negative region.

Solution:
Abandon the Meter and apply for a new one. Its safer that way.

Thank you for Ur input. I will make a case with them then I see next line of action...

LOVEGINO:
abeg make una dey flex am dey go. Country hard.

Haa debt go dey pile up oo Naso them do the former meter, piled debt on it and abandon it...

frankputer:
I was told that I should replace it,
Main while they will want to connect me manually because they don’t want to repair the meter for me.
So that I will pay unmetered bill,
I ran for my dear life, and continue to use my solar.
NO DISPLAY is the error name the recorded on the report.
My meter is still on the pole,
I want to get a meter engineer to fix it.

Lol unmetered bill is a big and huge scam I support u running. I had a single phased meter that also got damaged with no/invalid meter number recorded on the report. They ask me to go and buy another meter. I left their office and secretly switched to an abandoned meter with about 369k debt left on it before I purchased this new meter I came to report here for the shops...
I know the cost of meter and the cos t of estimated bill they will give me prior to issuing a new meter wic can take upto 6 months and more, so paying off debt on the previous meter is a good idea for me...

Elidrisy20:
Between NEPA and bandits, I no know who wicked pass

NEPA just dey frustrate people life

Caseless:
There are 2 possibilities here that can give meter the chance to get into this "negative" situation: Either the meter has factory issue that makes it to allow electricity to pass through even when it's out of unit or, the customer is tapping from the incomer wires(service mains) before the meter - that's external bypass. Since some of these meters have their relays on the neutral, whatever they think they have been taking is recorded in negative value for them.

Did you see the meter on negative when you visited and they were still having light?

Do the meters have all the factory and IBEDC seals intact?

Sometimes, people go to these guys to help them "tamper" with these meters internally and it could lead to the negative accumulation. That's internal bypass. Like I explained above, external bypass could lead to this accumulation,too - depending on the meter type and the position of the relays.

Solution: ask the shop owners to vend unit equaling the amount of negative value on the meter, the negative would clear out. They should avoid allowing it to go completely out of units before recharging. That can be a temporary solution.

If you observe on the incoming wire without any "puncture" or opening to show they're taking supply by bypassing the meters, then Check the seals to see if their intact, if they're intact, then call the IBEDC team to come and inspect by writing letter to them and do keep a copy of the letter.


If you allow them to come on their own routine inspection to find out about this, I can't describe how much you might end up paying.

If it's factory issues, the MAP will be called to retrieve the meters and take them to lab for checks. If it's internal bypass, you're in trouble and if it's external bypass they're doing, tell them to stop as they'd be caught somedays - they should always recharge to clear the negative.

Every negative indication points to the 3 possibilities elaborated above: internal or external infraction and, or factory issues inate to the meter.

Act fast!

Thank you so much for this elaborate information. The meter seal are still intact. I have already alerted an electrician to help me check the wire connections if they are tampered with then I'll be going to ibedc office physically before the end of today. I have also wrote a mail with attached screenshot which has not been responded.

LegendHero:
Source: https://punchng.com/jumia-exits-south-africa-tunisia-faces-nigeria-others/

Alot of citizens will glbe unemployed. This doesn't look good...

Iseoluwani:
thank you

U wlc

Iseoluwani:
there is a way they will do it that they will tap it without touching the prepaid. the best time for you to check is in the evening when nepa wont be moving around the community, by then they must have tapped it.

Ok, I'll have it examined..

Iseoluwani:
can u gimme the website to check mine pls

Depend on the distribution company your state is allocated to.

Mine is Ibadan electricity distribution company ibedc so the website for it is;

https://ibedc.com/index

alyarmouk:
Olopa ma ko everybody.
Dey do like say u no no say Dem don hack d meter, change seal.

Who come hack am. Wetin wey b say Na NEPA bring am themselves...

Holamidhe:
My current meter has same issue. I am currently in the negative. The positive side is, I won't rush to buy unit but I try to balance it up quickly. It is not unusual.

Urgent attention need to be taken. As the meter no off, tenant think them don see awoof and debt dey pile up...

Iseoluwani:
they have tapped it

I'll ask an electrician to check the installation and wiring again...

freakyavia:
if you get there ask for a break down they would give you a bill showing the dates and time and the unit used its a break down

Okay, thank you

correctguy101:
Just type...

Digital Electric Meter on jumia.. it's not moe than 12k...

Nigerians are crazy.. paying for what they don't use all the time... Me no dey gree in my little world I live .. as I gentle reach... SMH

No b lie, Na craze person dey use cure craze. I'll check it on Jumia. Thanks

A boiling water to cook did this, must have been booked for a long period. I am sad and I can't imagine how uneasy u will be feeling. I pray for your quick recovery.

mrvitalis:
The free lights u were using before they installed the meters... U would keep paying gradually till it's paid

They didn't use any free light. They were in total darkness bfr the meter was brought to them...

TheWorldLeader:
There were no postpaid accounts? For there not to be a postpaid account before installation of a new meter then it means the house was not connected to pole.( it’s like saying you just built the house, applied and you got it right away)

I’m sure you had an account that you paid to every month before the meter came….. either ways for you to have a prepaid acct you definitely must have an account and that is what they convert to your prepaid when the meter is installed, the meter also inherits all the debt on the account before the prepaid account was installed.

Before the meter came, they were not using light. They were not paying any amount monthly, they were in the dark for the period the meter was brought for them. If u can glance thru the post again, I said they were using a meter earlier and they abandon it just because of the huge debt on it. They could purchase 10k worth of unit on it and would last them for just 2 days so they got tired that was why I requested for a new meter with a fresh details.
I can get Ur point sir, during the registration of the new meter, it was a senior official who got it for me, so he advised I used a fresh and different name for the meter hence a postpaid account wasnt created as u said but I want to believe the PHCN did their own postpaid estimated bill and that was the 58k on the screenshot before the -7k.

seunjungle1:
My meter can never borrow pass 10 unit before it trip off

Is it that the meter has not borrow upto to 10 unit but there is a negative balance of 7k thou...

frankputer:
My meter went from borrowing to a fault called “ no display”
So I think it’s same thing that happened to me.
The name of my meter is Mojec.
Kindly check the name of your meter producer.

Ok I'll check the meter manuals to know the name of the meter.
Concerning Ur meter that got a fault called not display, were u asked to buy new one or how do u resolve it....

Dedynast:
I want to assume the negative readings you're talking about is on the meter display and not the one in the screenshot/bill you shared.

What you've experienced though is a defect that is not quite uncommon. Usually when your meter gets to zero, it should cut off supply. Certain times during installers, some installers do not completely set up the meter, so this defect happens.

Report to any of the customer complaints office closest to you.

They will generate a code to "roll back the negative readings on the meter. You'd be asked to pay for the units consumed into the negative units. And they'd program the meter correctly. You shouldn't get penalized for it, unless one of your tenants intentionally tampered with the meter after installation.

Thank you for your input. I didn't check the meter display, I only log on Ibadan electricity distribution company website and requested for the outstanding bill on the meter which bring about the outcome of the screenshot I posted.
Although, there was a time the dashboard/control box beside the meter caught fire and got burnt and a new one was fixed so in the course of the box replacement I am not certain if there is a wrong connection of wires...