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This new data shows the total customer count for all 11 Nigerian electricity distribution companies (Q3 2024).
2.58$ million customers for IBEDC! That's a huge slice of the 12.4$ million total customers across all 11 DisCos in Nigeria.
Is your service provider, like Abuja DisCo (1.27m) or Eko DisCo (0.72m), delivering on reliability for its millions of customers? What's the biggest power issue you face? Why do you think the customer count varies so widely across the different DisCos?
Check out the full breakdown below and tell us in the comments what your experience has been like! 👇

Total number of customers across Nigeria’s electricity distribution companies (Q3 2024)

1. Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company: 2.58m
2. Benin Electricity Distribution Company: 1.42m
3. Enugu Electricity Distribution Company: 1.37m
4. Abuja Electricity Distribution Company: 1.27m
5. Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company: 1.17m
6. Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company: 0.89m
7. Yola Electricity Distribution Company: 0.82m
8. Jos Electricity Distribution Company: 0.75m
9. Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company: 0.73m
10. Eko Electricity Distribution Company: 0.72m
11. Kano Electricity Distribution Company: 0.67m

Total: 12.4m

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This is the actual census of Nigeria

And we have over 200 million population. This government is finished, This regime is a total waste. Awon omo ale jatijati

Ibadan has tried to cover many homes.

moscow007:
This is the actual census of Nigeria

Do you know the number of people that does not have meter?

LAMBA....Kano Kano khai, this statistics get kleg

It shows likely most Kano residents are not metered and are enjoying free electricity. Else this number should be more than both EKO, Ikeja and Ibadan electricity distribution companies combined.

moscow007:
This is the actual census of Nigeria

Lol.
Na household dem dey count now, not individuals, is it everybody in your house that has a meter to themselves, how did you think they got the information...

South West still remain the economic base of Nigeria.

Looking at this data, if I want to invest in this line of business, na SW I go run to sharpaly.

The North said they have massive population. It didn't show up on this data or is their population for election rigging or cornering of the Nigeria's resources alone?

This is actually the number of documented customers. There's are so many buildings in nigeria that are not registered and yet benefit from the national grid.

If you go up north, one house fit register with disco, and he will be supplying light to other houses. It's a common practice in niger state.

The only way discos can get the accurate figure is by installing smart electricity meters for everyone

I still believe Nigeria population isn't up to 200 million. Our census is so flawed with fake figures flying around just for political gains and manoeuvring.

Even our elections with total number of voter turn out attest to the fake population figures.

There is a huge deficit in this sector when it comes to revenue generation, they keep increasing tariffs when they are suppose to find a way to make it all inclusive to generate more money. I can't even mathematically approximate it to 13 million Nigerians out of over 200million. If 50 million people were to pay for electricity it won't warrant to increments of electricity bill.

DrMB:
This
new data shows the total customer count for all 11 Nigerian electricity distribution companies (Q3 2024).
2.58$ million customers for IBEDC! That's a huge slice of the 12.4$ million total customers across all 11 DisCos in Nigeria.
Is your service provider, like Abuja DisCo (1.27m) or Eko DisCo (0.72m), delivering on reliability for its millions of customers? What's the biggest power issue you face? Why do you think the customer count varies so widely across the different DisCos?
Check out the full breakdown below and tell us in the comments what your experience has been like! 👇

mrlycan:
And we have over 200 million population. This government is finished, This regime is a total waste. Awon omo ale jatijati

Are you saying each person will be a customer?

So if a family of 5 own a 3 bedroom flat. Do you expect each of their customers to be a customer of DISCOs?

Also you mean previous regime provided the customer base and Tinubu ensured the customers deplete or what?

Dey read before commenting online nao.

IBEDC is the largest company, yet the worst invested. Customers literally have to buy transformers, cables and other electrification materials themselves to be able to use light.

Orathird:
Do you know the number of people that does not have meter?

Or not even electricity connection

moscow007:
This is the actual census of Nigeria

You meant to say , number of household in urban and city centres...and maybe some rural areas?

What of other households in villages , where electricity has not reached?

Also, number of household, is not equivalent to population of the household.

So, we can't use this as a representative of census

Solar is taking over. Let then carry their yeye light go

Oyo is a massive State.

How come Lagos, Kano etc appear quite low.

Kano,Kaduna, and Oyo are very similar in average per capita income levels, yet according this electricity data Oyo has nearly 4 times more electricity customers than Kano.

Yet, according to Nigeria's abracadabra population statistics Kano is more populated than Oyo and was given more local governments than Oyo

The level of injustice perpetrated by past military governments in this country is serious.

This electricity statistics is even more reliable that the number of sim cards registered per state since one individual can have multiple sims.

Medoo:
There is a huge deficit in this sector when it comes to revenue generation, they keep increasing tariffs when they are suppose to find a way to make it all inclusive to generate more money. I can't even mathematically approximate it to 13 million Nigerians out of over 200million. If 50 million people were to pay for electricity it won't warrant to increments of electricity bill.

That sector needs fresh investment.
Majority of these discos don't have the technical and financial power to turn things around.

Most of the infrastructures are already old.

Hemanwel:
The higher the customers, the higher the revenue that will be generated. Based on this premise, suffice to say that Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company is the richest of them all.

What are the customers using?

You can't compare a customer in his small brown leaking roof home with only a radio and his phone charging points to the customer in Aba who has AC's and refrigerator plus pressing iron in his apartment.


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Also, I am yet to see any data that supports the claim that Lagos has 25 million people.

According to this electricity statistics, the state has fewer electricity customers than Oyo.

Even if one allows for the higher population density per house in Lagos, the lower number of electricity customers doesn't support the claim that there are over 25m people in Lagos.

The usually relatively low number of voter turn outs during elections also undermine the 25m population claim.

It's either a lot of the people in the North do not have access to electricity or the Northern population is over inflated.

Also Lagos is a bit surprising, the two Lagos Discos is not even up to 1.5m people despite Lagos having the most people and highest electricity access?

Small Abuja has more customers than the whole of Lagos?

I know IBEDC serves the whole of Oyo and Ogun and parts of Ondo States I think so no surprise there.

BEDC serves Delta, Edo and parts of Ondo too

This figure under-reported.

JAWBONE:
It's either a lot of the people in the North do not have access to electricity or the Northern population is over inflated.

Also Lagos is a bit surprising, the two Lagos Discos is not even up to 1.5m people despite Lagos having the most people and highest electricity access?

Small Abuja has more customers than the whole of Lagos?

I know IBEDC serves the whole of Oyo and Ogun and parts of Ondo States I think so no surprise there.

BEDC serves Delta, Edo and parts of Ondo too

A lot of people in the north don't have a cess to electricity

Smartcitizen:
What are the customers using?

You can't compare a customer in his small brown leaking roof home with only a radio and his phone charging points to the customer in Aba who has AC's and refrigerator plus pressing iron in his apartment.


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What is the population of the man with AC in Aba to the man with AC in Ibadan? Oh, you think the picture of the brown roof is what defines the totality of Ibadan? That's narrow-minded though! The population of those with AC in Ibadan will swallow that of Aba and change go still remain. .

Mind you, that small brown leaking roof house with his hot plate might actually be consuming close to the house with AC but cooks with gas. Electricity consumption pattern is dynamic.

Coldplay007:
Lol.
Na household dem dey count now, not individuals, is it everybody in your house that has a meter to themselves, how did you think they got the information...

That just shows the poor logical thinking faculty of Nigerians. They won't pause to think first before typing.

Hemanwel:
The higher the customers, the higher the revenue that will be generated. Based on this premise, suffice to say that Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company is the richest of them all.

IBDC is actually one of the most useless discos in the SW. The richest in Nigeria is IKeja electric and EEDC

Many of us are not customer ooo... we are just paying into the account of some unknown firemen