₦airaland Forum

iwaeda:
Those of us who have been paying Band A at N215, yet will hardly get minimum hours. Tinubu is big conn man.

You don't know even know that disco have seen be privitalize by Jonathan. Nobody in Lagos complain of no frequent light on band A but only the cost. You can't be in one village in abia state and be dishing lies. Band A do have minimum of atleast 18 hours per day. I use band A too. Be bold to tell us your current location.

iwaeda:
Those of us who have been paying Band A at N215, yet will hardly get minimum hours. Tinubu is big conn man.

Your Disco is a rogue organization. In Abuja, any time AEDC fails to live up to the band A mark, they degrade the area to the appropriate band. Nobody will agree with them to continue to pay for a band level when they can't meet up with it. The band of a thing should not fixed. You guys should press their until they bend.

LOL

The truth is, NIgerians do not want to pay what needs to be paid to get light 24/7.

Nigerians want cheap power. Or free power. They will now quote me and tell me that discos are not giving value for money...when 20% of disco customers are band A , and are thus paying cost reflective tarrifs...the rest are subsidised. Yes, 1trillion naira profit was made...when experts say we need 10 trillion naira yearly to fix power. 1 trillion cannot cover what 10 trillion can cover...no matter how much we pretend it can, or how many times we shout 'corruption'. To think that way is basically engaging in magical thinking.

GEJ knew...which is why he left subsides, because if he did the right thing and told Nigerians the cold hard truth that power was expensive, and they have to pay cost reflective tarrifs back in 2013, they would have rioted. Buhari same thing. Tinubu...wanted to also carry on the pretence, but funding forced him to at least bring in band A

Forget party, forget agbado, forget all that crap. If you like, call me tinubu supporter, taxman, insensitive, evil, etc. But until we accept that we have to pay cost reflective tarrif for power, just as we accepted we would for gsm, and see what happened there....we are never going to have the investment, funding, and so on needed to get light 24/7.

Like I said, I also think tinubu must go in 2027. I never have ever voted for the man in my life. He is just as bad as buhari. But the power situation is not about who is in office, it is about what we are ready to pay into it....and what measures we put in place to enable investors make a profit too...and see return on investment. Subsides and cheap power don't help. That is what I learned when I was trying to understand why GEJ was trying to privatise power in 2013. And why I hold the views I hold today.

We can face facts, or lie to ourselves.

AntiChristian:
Which LG is this happening? And Una dey look? E Pele o!

That guy is lieing. Nobody uses band A and don't have atleast 18 hours light per day. The disco knows they are making a lot of money and so there are always light. That guy don't use band A if he is even living in Lagos. Let him be bold to tell us his area.

Hmmmm....

What the Band A, B, C, D, E has achieved, in my own opinion, is that the NERC are "taxing" the rich, to subsidized the "privilege".

This is a common practice in developed countries, where you tax the rich the more.

If the subsidy is completely removed ...it doesn't mean Band A will pay less...NO ..it only mean Band B, C, D and E will have to be paying what Band A is currently paying!
Whereas, Band A areas enjoy more stable electricity, compare to Band B, C, D ..


Make dem think am well o

First time reading good news from Nass and T-pain regime. This is a welcome development

miracle002:
Why are Nigerians complaining now that there is stable light. What if they scrap it and there is no more stable light again that we are enjoying now. Will it be the best?

It is better we pay more to enjoy stable light than to pay little and have no light at all. I know that it is not easy to generate stable electricity. It is expensive

Is it not because of the Raining season?
Wait till we enter into the dry season and see whether you will be sleeping with light Again

Abeg let them scrap Band A

Today today!

Cost of electricity dey shock Nigerians

Abeg

Government should give all Nigerians 24 hrs light like other countries around us and given prepaid meter to every house in Nigeria.

Na which LG u dey cos ... for this my side na 1k for 4units and steady light 247

seunoyeleyep:
If not that some Nigerians are docile, why should anyone even accept such idea. I see the jobless youths here almost every time claiming they enjoy 24hr uninterrupted power supply.

In my place, you are not even guaranteed of any fixed units. Today, you see 20 units for a thousand, tomorrow it has reduced to 17. In fact, at a time, it was 4 units to a thousand. Guess what, I don't even know the band. Today, the tell us we are in band A and tomorrow they say it is band C. Same house, same country.

We never had it this bad in the days of our darling PDP which these corrupt elements said wasn't good enough for the country.


Now that it affects the so called rich, they are even scrapping the whole arrangement. Shockingly, the miscreants here will quickly change tune. There is enough reason to heap curses on every APC elements for sure.

I paid tru a proxy .and i got mine for close to 200k within 6months. In naija..if u want to DIY..make sure its your car only. The rest..always go tru proxy. If not..u go old. Nin sef samething.all sectors...nothing like DIY. Dem go frustrate your efforts.or shey na immigration

ShobayoEmma:
Instead of prepaid meter, they gave us bandit A,BC and D.

I paid for this prepaid meter through skyebank then with the receipt still with me till today, the prepaid has not arrived since almost 10 years now with one of their official recently saying I should go and pay for another one.



Tinubu, a bad man with good intentions

Lol…best decision ever…I no know where adelabu go discover this kain idea

seunoyeleyep:
If not that some Nigerians are docile, why should anyone even accept such idea. I see the jobless youths here almost every time claiming they enjoy 24hr uninterrupted power supply.

In my place, you are not even guaranteed of any fixed units. Today, you see 20 units for a thousand, tomorrow it has reduced to 17. In fact, at a time, it was 4 units to a thousand. Guess what, I don't even know the band. Today, the tell us we are in band A and tomorrow they say it is band C. Same house, same country.

We never had it this bad in the days of our darling PDP which these corrupt elements said wasn't good enough for the country.


Now that it affects the so called rich, they are even scrapping the whole arrangement. Shockingly, the miscreants here will quickly change tune. There is enough reason to heap curses on every APC elements for sure.

I think we are experiencing same issue

AntiChristian:
I don't even know why the discrimination exists in the first place!

Band A is N225.2125 per kWh!

If you manage 5 kWh per day you'll spend N33,781.875 in 30days! but make we no lie light dey dey wella!

In my house in Abuja, N100k recharge last only 3 days and its Band A. Its been so heartbreaking coughing such amount on light every 3 days.

I totally support it, it is a big scam and a total rip off from that failure called Adelabu.

All electricity Band whatever should be stop, give light to everybody and stop those yeye bands or drum nonsense.

So for that period of time they have used that to cash out ok..

miracle002:
Why are Nigerians complaining now that there is stable light. What if they scrap it and there is no more stable light again that we are enjoying now. Will it be the best?

It is better we pay more to enjoy stable light than to pay little and have no light at all. I know that it is not easy to generate stable electricity. It is expensive

What does the word stable really mean to you? I'm thinking it's subjective but looking at it from a general perspective, it should mean uninterrupted or minimal power supply for at least 20 hours a day. If that's the case, then there's nothing stable about the current supply of electricity in my location and it's band A. Context matters here. Also if there's any small rain, you'll hardly see light for over 30 hours. Tell me, how's that stable to you?

Brendaniel:
This people don't tackle problems from the root cause, do they think keeping or scrapping the band plans will bring a lasting solution to the issue of power in Nigeria or really help the tariff to customers

If they wanted to raise funds, providing electricity to all would have been a better option than having a band.

miracle002:
Why are Nigerians complaining now that there is stable light. What if they scrap it and there is no more stable light again that we are enjoying now. Will it be the best?

It is better we pay more to enjoy stable light than to pay little and have no light at all. I know that it is not easy to generate stable electricity. It is expensive

You have speak well,we should truly look at the other side of the coin and try to balance the issue.

Rayjnr:
Government responsibility is security and welfare, and tinubu hates the welfare of the common man

They distributed the inefficiencies on other bands to you and charge you for it! You say light dey Wella, you have been scammed

gbadexy:
Don't rejoice too soon. I hope everyone won't be paying the band A bill eventually.

that's the plan from the onset. It is called capitalism. So they might bring it to a unified price of #150 per KWh

DeOTR:
Your Disco is a rogue organization. In Abuja, any time AEDC fails to live up to the band A mark, they degrade the area to the appropriate band. Nobody will agree with them to continue to pay for a band level when they can't meet up with it. The band of a thing should not fixed. You guys should press their until they bend.

EKEDP don't downgrade, rather they send mails, complaining of faulty lines. We get average of 17 hours rather than minimum of 20 for Band A.

AntiChristian:
I don't even know why the discrimination exists in the first place!

Band A is N225.2125 per kWh!

If you manage 5 kWh per day you'll spend N33,781.875 in 30days! but make we no lie light dey dey wella!

Band A has light but other bands don't because they see band A as a cash cow

ShobayoEmma:
Instead of prepaid meter, they gave us bandit A,BC and D.

I paid for this prepaid meter through skyebank then with the receipt still with me till today, the prepaid has not arrived since almost 10 years now with one of their official recently saying I should go and pay for another one.



Tinubu, a bad man with good intentions

10 years ago and you're still blaming Tinubu? Are you alright!

Lanretoye:
band A is not 215 per unit pls stop leing,obviously you are not the one responsible for your electricity payment,na online una go Dey form wetin una no be

It is even actually N225, I just bought N50k and got 222 units. Stop defending evil. Most places in Lekki-Ajah are on Band A.

BETTER... And the Gencos, Transcos and Discos must ensure optimal service delivery at an affordable price.

I don’t think they need to scrap it. They should adjust the pricing. Like band A 140, band B 120, Band C 100, band E 80. The increase and hours of electricity should be redistributed to all bands according. Also improve and readjust the electricity distribution to other areas with light and give them meters.

gidigbam1:
In my house in Abuja, N100k recharge last only 3 days and its Band A. Its been so heartbreaking coughing such amount on light every 3 days.

what are you doing with light?

The fraud in the power sector is higher than the one in oil & gas.

AntiChristian:
I don't even know why the discrimination exists in the first place!

Band A is N225.2125 per kWh!

If you manage 5 kWh per day you'll spend N33,781.875 in 30days! but make we no lie light dey dey wella!

Light d dey is not the issue but our affordability of pay bills, given the current economic reality