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i personally dnt like to owe people money
bad credit history is not desirable

EdoBoy90:
OP, You Lied In Your Mode Of Transportation. In that area, don't compare Abuja and Lagos. Abuja mode of transportation is very organised and decent. No Touts or Agberoes. Good road network in Abuja than Lagos...

When I was in Lagos, I woke up 4am to work and got home in 11pm but here in Abuja I walk up 6:30am to work then get home 6.00pm or 6:30pm
Op, before you say anything, I have experience in both places

everytin is expensive in abuja including transportation, i also have experience with both cities. lagos is better for young starters, dnt get it twisted

you have all assumed a condescending posture to midwife an infant entity.
the issue at hand is critical and key but most of ur comments stems from tribal and ethnic bigotry
we are completely finished in dis country

the hunger wey dey beat d old lady no dey look age oh
buhari era

Heavance:
So we are many living with this thought?

bro, if u are exposed and know wat is obtainable in saner climes, u will not settle down in naija as an average nigerian youth.

johnime:
A thread on why PREPAID METER being distributed TO ALL may never be achieved in Nigeria.
After the Nigerian Police, Nigerian Electricity distribution companies are next on the list when it comes to corruption. This has been in existence from time immemorial, just like barracks, many government have come and gone but the deep rooted corruption in the system remains


In April 2016, I moved in to my current apartment. The apartment was still connected to an old meter and there was an outstanding payment of about N385,000.00 to be paid. This wasn't revealed to me before I made payment for the rent, as usual (that's how they all do).This became a worry and an absolute headache. I asked the landlord why it was so and she made me understand that the apartment was not in use for 5years.I asked how come it wasn't reported to NEPA so they'd stop the billing, she gave me a copy of the letter she wrote to them. So I took the matter up, wrote several mails to Eko electricity company and the matter was on for 11months, note that in the space of this 11 months, I never got a monthly bill lesser than 24,000.00. You want to ask if I have a factory in my apartment? No I don't. So it extended from wanting the company to zerorize the ridiculous outstanding balance in the billing account to fighting and contesting the outrageous billing system which do not in any way represent my true electricity consumption and wanting a Prepaid Meter

The battle began.
After several exchange of mails betweens myself and Eko Electric and no solution was forthcoming, I moved the matter to NERC, the regulatory body for all electricity distribution companies in Nigeria. I filed a petition against Ekedp and the undertaking in charge of my area.

Lo and behold, after three days from the petition submission to NERC, I got a call from the marketing manager for my area pleading for me to make myself available to allow them come to my house and take inventory of the electrical appliances I use.

NERC is working yeah? Right. A staff of the Ekedp came to take the inventory and at the end of the computations, we calculated and multiplied each appliance by the estimated units they consume per day and multiplied by 31days.

Recall I said I never got a bill less than 24k in a month?Then we arrived at a figure that even the Eko electric staff who came to take the inventory opened his mouth and couldn't close it. What I should be billed based on having 24hour light per day(which is not even possible) in 31 days was 4,800.00. I almost ran mad. I took a copy of the report, scanned it and attached it to my next petition to NERC.
At this point, the marketing manager attached to my undertaking had started calling and begging me to stop the petitions. That they could all get sacked if matters gets escalated further.Then in September 2017, after all the troubles and how I never got tired if pursuing the issue, I got a mail from Eko electricity to come with some required documents in order to fill a form for a PREPAID METER.

I went there and did as they requested.
At Last, on 27 November 2017, I was on leave.
I was at my gate then this Alfa looking guy was parading and trying to see house number on the fence. My instinct told me to ask if he was asking for Ayo, then he said yes. He was the prepaid meter installer, he was with my new prepaid meter. I also recall that before the whole issue started, I was discouraged severally that I can never be given prepaid meter due to the outstanding balance on the billing account, I paid no mind to all the people that said that and went ahead with my case.
I got the Prepaid meter for FREE. After a week, bill was brought and boom, outstanding balance has been cleared from 385,000.00 to zero balance.
How did I achieve this? I mean I didn't pay a dime to anyone and I never for once bribed my way in all my dealings.I achieved this simply because;

1. I knew my right.
2. I wouldn't settle for mediocrity
3. I never stopped pushing even after several months and it seemed unachievable
4. I was ready to take the matter up anywhere
5. I was informed.

Now imagine how many people are out there who don't even know how to go about such tedious and draining process. I learnt that a lot of people even paid as much as 40k to get the prepaid meter. Something that's supposed to be free. Since the prepaid meter was installed in November 27 2017, I have not exhausted the 303 units that came with it which is calculated to be 7,200.00

And I still have 140units left to use. That's over four (4) months now
Do you now see why these people will never allow dream of every homes having a prepaid meter become a reality?
Because such development will block all holes where the electricity distribution corrupt members of staff perpetrate their fraudulent activities and corruption from.

They know that they will be forced to give light more in order to generate revenue and will not be able to charge people outrageously as they are currently doing and remitting the proceeds of their criminal act to their pockets.

Stand up and Fight for what is your right. Prepaid meter is your right, fight for it to the latter. If you believe that your monthly electricity bill do not represent your consumption, make a case.If you're in Lagos, Ikeja Electricity company and Eko electricity company are there for you. If they fail, involve NERC.
That will be all, for now.




Due to popular demand, these are the email addresses you can forward your complaints to -
Ikeja Electricity Distribution - customercare@ikejaelectric.com
Eko Electricity Distribution - customercare@ekedp.com
Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission - complaints@nerc.gov.ng

thank you very much my guy, u r my type of person, they think they can play on our intelligence in this country. This same tin happened between me and first bank with Consumer Protection Council coming in two settle the matter to my favour. some federal agencies surprisingly are still very upright.

Biety:
You mean we should run away from our ancestral land and never return...
you've surely forgoten the yoruba adage that says ILE LABO ISINMI OKO.
There is no place like home and this country is our home.

The other day someone advised young Nigerians to stop going to UK universities because the govt of UK no longer give job to Nigeria students after graduation. They'ld rather employ an uneducated or a less qualified europeans instead of a learned Nigeria..
Are you now telling us to keep running to a place we are not needed/ respected? If all syrians had fled because of ISIS, the terror group would have destroyed their country completely, but because they took their stand help came.
PUTIN, iran, and china are HELPING THEM because they didn't do what you are advising us to do.
They didn't abandon their country even when ISIS was controlling 80% of syria territory, with determination, the syrian govt has reclaimed most of its teritory from the terror group and now at the verge of defeating ISIS completely.
What we can learn from them is that nobody will fight your battle for you. And you cannot win any battle by running away.
NB: my post do not mean i believe anyone is trying to islamize this country. The islamisation agenda is nothing but a conspiracy theory the politicians are using to deceive people like the OP.

he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day

resurgentxtian4:
Baba, which kind hustle person wan hustle again? I no sabi yahoo or any of that stuff. I am just an employee in a firm.

I know things will get later sha but I can’t even venture marriage as I am already over due sef. Our women just want to pour their problems on a man in the name of marriage and this guy has no time for that. I only wanna escape this Nigerian jungle and start a family in a sane, secular and free society.

we r currently in d same situation bro. salary tins, just spend less, save 70 or 80% of ur monthly income, make all d girls go boil beans, gather ur money and kala ur mamu. lol

resurgentxtian4:
Make God help us ooo. It’s a lot of money to love but where there is a will, there’s a way.

A lot of people have left already that I am already feeling left behind. If only I knew it would come to this years ago when money still dey small. . God dey sha.

God go help us, double ur hustle wit focus on d kind of life u deserve, then go for it.

resurgentxtian4:
It’s like you are in my head.

That’s exactly what my thought is these days.

I just pity our girls.

na dem sabi oh, all mallam wit him kettle
my sis don jah wit her baby leave her hubby for here.
its a race against time bro.
d country na hell fire

shiit fcckin hole country

mollymotion:
How is it scam

u will die a fool. so u did not see the video of yobe youths hailing boko haram abi?
continue to fool urself. u get luck say u nor dey near me, na big fight we for dey fight now

without bn told, any sensible youth should be planning towards dis.
i am 31 and will not get married until i leave dis hell hole as dat will further make tins worse for me to leave easily
plenty girls around me want marriage, but i say not in nigeria

very good movie.
anyday i hear of boko haram attack in the north na to go buy beer and drink to the news.
fools

Mobsync:
I noticed it too.

The picture is most likely a fake. More like a still from a BH propaganda video, judging by its poor quality.

The top has also been cut, probably to remove the BH logo at the top.

The news is only carried by this okay.ng blog.

u fool. the video is all over the internet, na picture u still dey here dey argue.
mumu

we warned you idiots, didn't we?

dem visit AFRIKA SHRINE for ALAUSA

see him face like puff puff after him don chop neighbours shitt taya make maye for pay, e clear say warri girls don suffer taya for him hand wit all him criminal proceeds, na him type dey collect person babe wit ease. MUGU! money miss road, u collect dis kind money and u still sit down for 9ja
now money wey plenty people chop togeda, only u go suffer the consequences now! ntor
even the wire wire guys outside naija assisting them do collect 40% and send 60% of the total sum to the local yahoo boi in 9ja
make una leave street, una no wan hear. OBOLO! mugu! ozuor

playing games with the lives of nigerians for political gains.
why not capture shekau to show us u r working huh?
for 3 years u were unable to capture shekau, but under one week, u rescued the girls from shekau.
continue to fool urselves

she neva mature for brain
more like, cognitively delayed

this woman's strategy has failed!
some political critics get recognized and given appointment just to silence them and maintain peace.
it worked for FFK against GEJ
unfortunately, Buhari has refused to give in to Oby's blackmail.
if buhari had appointed her as minister, all dis plenty noise for no dey.
na wetin she wan chop she dey find abeg!

his likes are the reason ladies dnt respect men dis days.
how can u tink without ur head and brain in d first place?

DuBLINGreenb:
If it is free you are the product

The word GIFT exist for a reason, go away with your negativity

call a spade a spade!
the dress is fcckin inappropriate n too casual for a formal engagement/environment.
u will certainly rciv a query for damaging the reputation of ur acclaimed intl company

sleeping with a prostitute is a load too heavy to carry mehn!
Imagine the number of people using the same toilet!
GAWD!
Ladies make una sorry for una self abeg una

chai!
shitthole country
fantastically corrupt people
from north to south same bs everyday

God help me not to react violently against my woman no matter what she does. I pray in Jesus name.

CrescentMoon:
That's the problem. I'm naturally nice. Where I live, 3 men already know they may lose their wives to me one day. If you have been sad for the past ten years, and you meet me today, you will forget all your sorrows. A woman in my house got the hint that I'm planning to leave the building, she came to me and begged me not to leave without giving any reason tangible. She said her twin children love me more than their father.

self control is very important in everything. dont take ur niceness beyond the confines of logic and common sense. NICENESS IS NOTHING WITHOUT CONTROL.

PinkStarsFallIn:
Trust me brov am not d one u should b telling
this. Based on my background walahi i know better..
Im just being a coward man. That part of sitting her down n talking to her has been on my mind like crazy but i fear it would make her feel cheap n uncomfortable afterwards.
Im just wishing she would come to her senses
And b d 1 to end dis advances.
I dont know why simple friendship allways lead me to bad office romances.
Im just tired.

u r not tired yet bro, the real tiredness will come wen her husband beat u finish. On a serious note, we both know ur d one leading her on cos most ladies r weak emotionally

U hav bn jilted.
Stay woke next time.

The set of people that benefitted immensely from nigeria but failed to make the country work for the rest of us.
He is from my place but I dnt care.

Bros but wen I was in uni, I do see some army officers come to my sch to study na. Cnt u work n sch at the same time?
Naija hard, b4 u resign, u don save money for uni wahala?