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The Federal Ministry of Power is proposing to spend N8 billion to orient Nigerians on prompt payment of electricity bills in 2025.

The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, disclosed this while defending the ministry’s budget before the National Assembly joint committee on power on Monday, January 13.

According to Adelabu, the advocacy would be done through social, digital and print mediums in order to reach all Nigerians. Adelabu explained that many Nigerians need orientation to realise that the power sector is a national asset that needs protection.

“We are a people of over 200 million strength. So we need to go through all the loopholes, through social media, throughdigital media, through the print media, to actually orientate and do this advocacy. So we have N8 billion.

In terms of advocacy, we believe that our people need to be re-educated. They need to be re-orientated to know that the power assets are national assets, and we should all jointly own it.

Our people need to know that they should avoid power theft. When they see something, they must say something. Our people need to know that they must pay their bills regularly.

All these need to be passed across. We believe that the power sector needs to do a lot of advocacy, re-orientation and re- education of our people''

Adelabu said


https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2025/1/fg-to-spend-n8bn-on-orientating-nigerians-on-payment-of-electricity-bills-minister.html

People will still not pay and hide when them see nepa officials

U go enter new house, one week later, landlord go tell u say ona deh owe nepa 3million naira

It's better to use the money and build a dungeon where u will arrest those that didn't pay than this rubbish

And some said we have no money as a country ?

Why not use the money to increase our power output ?

Foolishness! 8 billion naira into the pockets of corrupt people.
Everyone should have a PREPAID metre.

F000l stop!

This is absolute madness

Why not use the said money to procure and install prepaid meters for all the customers and no more enlightenment is need

Get legislative backups to criminalize genuine meter tampering.

This is not rocket science, once all are metered, the DISCOs will be forced automatically to stop rejecting supply

So many wrong people in right positions of Authority

3rd world most corrupt president for a reason.

Between corruption and tribalism, I don't know which would finally sink this country to into the great abyss.

What happend to prepaid meters.

This shows he is not ready to enforce Disco to meter their customers.

It high time government made some advertisement time patriotic contributions of local media.

See them? No improvement in power generation after allegedly infusing about 30B but they are still entrenching corruption in the power sector. Shameless crooked criminals

No consign me 😂

Everyone knows NEPA bill ain't free
They want to teach us how to pay bills

ExAngel007:
The Federal Ministry of Power is proposing to spend N8 billion to orient Nigerians on prompt payment of electricity bills in 2025.

The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, disclosed this while defending the ministry’s budget before the National Assembly joint committee on power on Monday, January 13.

According to Adelabu, the advocacy would be done through social, digital and print mediums in order to reach all Nigerians. Adelabu explained that many Nigerians need orientation to realise that the power sector is a national asset that needs protection.

Adelabu said


https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2025/1/fg-to-spend-n8bn-on-orientating-nigerians-on-payment-of-electricity-bills-minister.html

Spoted Ole! In the Ministry of.....

Use it for subsidy. Mandate Civics in schools to teach our civil responsibilities.

Pl

What a country we live in.

BoldBrainz:
Adelabu has always had the face of a thief!

How?

They are just looking for all means to steal.

Why not just make Prepaid Meters available for consumers.

greatiyk4u:
This is absolute madness

Why not use the said money to procure and install prepaid meters for all the customers and no more enlightenment is need

Get legislative backups to criminalize genuine meter tampering.

This is not rocket science, once all are metered, the DISCOs will be forced automatically to stop rejecting supply

So many wrong people in right positions of Authority

You are right. Spot on.,👏

Funny, it will Favour Nigerians more if they share that 8 billion equally.

Na here I don confirm say some so-called leaders no get sense

This Minister is looking for an excuse to squander money. Why not use the 8 billion naira to offset the outstanding bills for the poor and give them a clean slate with prepaid meters? The National Orientation Agency is there to disseminate information, they have the budget for that - use them instead of duplicating their work.

After which people will still not pay,how do you defend that nonsense at the senate . everybody knows light will be disconnected if he doesn't pay,imagine how many people 8billion will meter.

Why not use it and pay some people’s bills?
No wonder Tinubu appears on the list of most corrupt presidents just after one year in office

What is the use of the National Assembly if they can’t stop this nonsense?


Maybe Nigeria deserves military rule

That Money should metre all unmetred houses in Nigeria if judiciously utilized.
Leaderships with misplaced prioritise.

8bn just to hire hilux vehicles and megaphones and a few jobless people to make noise across cities.

And that will now suddenly make Nigerians to start paying their bills rather than bypassing?

Omo, the IQ of some of these leaders no suppose reach 0.5.

Forumites:
Why not use the money to increase our power output ?

Money wey dem dey budget to share...! Lol!

Eni pe