...news, reports, issues... about Lagos
AMONG the growing concerns for motorists in Lagos State at the moment are the illegal activities of some unruly miscreants operating under the guise of local government officials. Their major haunt are the highways where they lay in wait to impound and tow away the vehicles of their victims for whatever imaginable or conceivable offence. […]
In a string of setbacks for Nigeria’s power sector, the national grid has reportedly collapsed nine times under President Bola Tinubu, prompting widespread concerns about the stability and effectiveness of the country’s electricity infrastructure. Tinubu, in his 2024 New Year message to Nigerians, had said significant improvement in electricity service supply was expected in the next 12 months, banking […]
Nationwide darkness looms as the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, has insisted on withdrawing their services if the Nigerian Government fails to rescind the recently approved electricity tariff hike. In a statement by its acting General Secretary, Dominic Igwebike, NUEE told the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu that if nothing was done about the […]
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, said the Federal Government is still paying subsidy on electricity despite the recent hike in tariff paid by Band A customers. Adelabu stated this in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Thursday. The minister said the government has about N1.8trn to pay in electricity subsidy for 2024. […]
Barely one week after the new tariff regime which increased electricity tariff by 231 per cent for category A consumers, there are indications that the electricity supply capacity is grossly inadequate to meet the 20 hours per day minimum benchmark for the new tariff while accommodating another category of consumers. The 11 Electricity Distribution Companies, DisCos, […]
The 11 electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) raked in N3.2 trillion in the last four years, growing revenue by as much as 109 per cent between 2020 and 2023, a period of four years. However, while in 2020, Nigerians received 22,042.28 Gwh of power, in 2023, the year with the latest data, power supply rose marginally […]
Some electricity distribution companies have continued to blame technical faults and other challenges for their inability to supply 20-hour power to customers on Band A feeders. The DisCos on their various social media platforms had appealed to the customers in Band A, seeking their understanding for their failure to meet up with the required minimum […]
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, FCPCC says unless electricity customers are metered by electricity distribution companies, DISCOS implementation of the new tariff hike will cause dissatisfaction. Adamu Abdullahi, the acting Executive Vice Chairman of FCCPC disclosed this on Sunday in a statement lauding the N200 million sanction imposed on Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, AEDC by […]
About 24 hours after raising the electricity tariff for premium customers by over 230 per cent, Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr. Musiliu Oseni, yesterday, defended the decision, stressing that it will bolster electricity supply nationwide. Oseni insisted that the move will help reduce incidence of national grid collapses as well […]
At the backdrop of a huge discrepancy between the number of feeders covered as Band A customers by electricity distribution companies (DisCos) and what was approved by the Nigeria Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC) the DisCos are now making moves to return some of the consumers to Band A to charge the new tariff. Vanguard learnt […]
