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Exclusive: Consumers purchasing power drops as cash crunch bites harder in FCT

Ihesiulo Grace 8 February 2023 0

..As traders, others lament, say policy not friendly By Doosuur Iwambe As the economic blow continues to weigh in on every sector in the country as a result of the newly redesigned naira notes by the Federal government, consumers who are in a state of despair and anguish all over the country

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NERC to enforce compensation to electricity consumers for under-supply from July

Ihesiulo Grace 1 June 2021 0

Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has moved to enforce compensation to electricity consumers for the under-supply of power to their homes and businesses with effect from July. This follows several complaints by energy consumers that the Service-Based Tariff (SBT), which has led to a huge increase in electricity bills paid by […]

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Electricity consumers decry tariff hike, say many people are finding it difficult to pay

Ihesiulo Grace 21 May 2020 0

Lagos – Some consumers in Lagos on Thursday decried the hike in electricity billings which had been proposed to take-off on June 1. The consumers decried this in separate interviews in Lagos. They described the move as insensitive to the plight of people who were still grappling with the distorted livelihoods occasioned by the ravaging […]

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Electricity consumers in Kaduna kick against proposed tariff hike

Ihesiulo Grace 26 February 2020 0

Some electricity consumers in Kaduna state on have kicked against the proposed increase of electricity tariff. The consumers made their stand known during a public hearing on the application made by the Kaduna Electric to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) for electricity tariff review. The public hearing had the theme: “Investment toward improvement of

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Ensure consumers get value for money, others, SON tells Guinness

Ihesiulo Grace 21 November 2018 0

Director-General, Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), Osita Aboloma Esq. has challenged the Management of Guinness Nigeria Plc to ensure that Nigerian Consumers get value for money at all times while also ensuring their safety. This admonition was given at the end of a facility tour of Guinness Breweries factory in Ogba, Lagos by a SON […]

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ECOWAS launches quality certification mark

Ihesiulo Grace 28 July 2018 0

Consumers in the West African sub region will begin to experience no qualms in identifying genuine products and services as ECOWAS launches a quality compliance mark, ECOMark. This quality compliance tool is within the framework of the West Africa Quality System Programme (WAQSP), which can be seen as a follow up effort towards the attainment […]

Entertainment News

Glo’s Professor Johnbull carpets fraudulent consumer practices

Ihesiulo Grace 18 June 2018 0

Consumers who tinker with their meters with a view to cheating public utility services’ providers are up for excoriation in the latest episode of the popular Globacom-Sponsored Professor Johnbull. The episode is entitled Cold Meters and takes critical look at unsavoury practices among consumers that can negatively impact public utility services, especially electricity

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Install pre-paid meters, South-East electricity consumers beg DISCOs

Ihesiulo Grace 20 April 2018 0

Electricity consumers in the South-East have urged electricity Distribution Companies (DISCOs) to strive to install pre-paid meters to all consumers to check over-billing and estimated billing that causes disagreements. The consumers made their feelings known Thursday in Enugu during a forum of the House of Representative Ad-Hoc Committee to Curb Excessive Electricity

Editorial

Poor performance of Telcoms networks operations

Ihesiulo Grace 12 April 2018 0

The poor performance of the telecommunication networks in the country has come to the fore again. At the recent 81st telecoms consumers parliament organisation organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in Lagos, participants deplored the dismal performance of the telecommunication networks in recent time. Participants implored telecommunications consumers

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Cross River water board vows to disconnect debtor consumers

Ihesiulo Grace 9 April 2018 0

The Cross River Water Board Limited says it will henceforth disconnect water supply to all consumers, including government establishments that fail to pay their bills regularly. The Administrator of the board, Dr. Stephen Odey, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Calabar on Sunday. Odey said that this was part […]

Energy

NBS: 3.45 million Nigerians metered

Ihesiulo Grace 13 February 2018 0

As of Q4 2017, only 46.16% equivalent to 3.45 million consumers of the total 7.48 million power consumers in Nigeria were metered, according to a power sector report compiled by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The NBS report, Power Sector Report: Energy Generated and Sent Out and Consumed and Load Allocation, metering data indicates […]

Tech

9mobile Sale: No room financially, technically deficient coys – NCC

Ihesiulo Grace 19 December 2017 0

The NCC has insisted that there is no going back on the handover of 9Mobile to the preferred bidder, adding that technically and financially unstable company stand no chance. This was made known by the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC at the 82nd edition of Telecoms Consumers Parliament in Abuja recently. Dambatta confirms that five […]

Money

Stanbic IBTC finances N6bn new manufacturing plant in Lagos

Ihesiulo Grace 5 December 2017 0

Stanbic IBTC Capital and Stanbic IBTC Bank, both subsidiaries of Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, acted as the sole arranger and lender respectively on the N6 billion medium- term facility to Kellogg Tolaram Nigeria Limited to finance the construction of a new cereal manufacturing plant in the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lagos. The factory, with a […]

Business Energy

FG directs NERC to allow consumers buy meters

Ihesiulo Grace 21 November 2017 0

The Federal Government has directed the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to reinstate the regulation that allows power consumers to purchase meters from approved vendors. NERC, had in September last year, directed the 11 electricity distribution companies operating in the country to formally wind down the alternative meter financing scheme (Credited

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Dangote hosts investors, stakeholders, consumers at Lagos Fair

Ihesiulo Grace 7 November 2017 0

Dangote Group, a leading participant in the on-going Lagos International Trade Fair will be hosting investors, distributors, dealers as well as the consumers tomorrow Tuesday during its Day during which the company management team will espouse on the strategies of the company to remain a leading pan-African conglomerate. Group Executive Director of the Company who […]

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FG should revoke sale of power stations -operator

Ihesiulo Grace 7 March 2017 0

The federal government has been urged to revoke the sale of power stations due to nonperformance of the power companies. The executive chairman, Mak Mera Nigeria Limited, Chief Michael Olorunfemi, stated this in an exclusive interview with the Daily Times in Lagos last weekend. “The federal government should revoke the sale of power companies due […]

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Consumers compensated N2.5bn by CPC’s order in 2016

Ihesiulo Grace 15 December 2016 0

The Consumer Protection Council (CPC) has disclosed that it has ordered a redress of consumers of up to N2.5 billion between January and November as refunds and composition in the resolution of their complaints on unsatisfactory services and products.The Director General of the CPC, Mrs. Dupe Atoki, made this know Wednesday in Lagos during the […]