PHOTOS: Poor Facilities And Maintenance Embedding Nigeria In Darkness – Findings – Part 2
Lagos – In effect, this has made everyone a GENco. In each household, or for business owners, the brunt bearer has to supply its own power through generating sets, generally referred to as ‘I better pass my neighbour’, because of…
PHOTOS: Poor Facilities And Maintenance Embedding Nigeria In Darkness – Findings
Lagos – Going through some of the images captured during a short trip to the just concluded 10th Global Investigative Journalism Conference 2017 in South Africa, a shot of a beautifully lit Johannesburg, taken by this writer during…
‘We can no longer pay for darkness’
• Lagos communities revolt, bemoan outage, ‘crazy’ billing
• How consumers can calculate electricity consumed
• ‘We will disconnect any community once we perceive violence’
The trees dotting the corporate headquarters of Ikeja…
INVESTIGATION: How electricity distribution officials racketeer, extort customers in need of prepaid…
Disguised, for two weeks, as a desperate customer in need of a prepaid meter, TAIWO ADEBULU investigates racketeering rings among officials of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC). In this report, he details how the officials…
Why we are on the streets
Lagos out-of-school children
Undue extortion, fear of failure, finance frustrate our education —Victims
FOR six years, Agosu Meka was in the company of his fisherman father, Mr. Meka, in Sogunro Community, Iwaya, Yaba area of Lagos. His…
Concerns Over Rampant Cases Of Electrocution
There have been concerns about rampant electrical accidents and electrocutions in Nigeria in recent times. Many people have lamented that what is even most worrisome is the fact that more lives and properties are being endangered with…
Despite huge allocations, special schools in South-West cry for attention
Their stories are rarely told. And when they are told, it is often from the angle of pity, discrimination and pathetic livelihood. But in an eight-week investigation across three southwestern states - Lagos, Ogun and Oyo, our correspondent…
Meter by-pass: An albatross in electricity market
Meter by-pass is heightening collection losses of AEDC thereby negating part of the Power Purchase Agreement between the federal government and the private investor writes ONU OKORIE
Yarfado Mohammed of plot 6 Army Estate Kurudu Abuja…
Billing disputes, ineptitude drain commercial returns
The huge debt burden on the electricity distribution companies in the country will inevitably crumble the nation’s electric power sector unless the operators address the billing disputes associated with outrageous electricity bills…
FCT rural communities and challenge of power supply
Imagine the experiences of people that live in an environment where there is no form of any electric power when the sun sets and when it is night.
The once told story of unpleasant experiences and dilemma occasioned by lack of…
Kept in darkness by abandoned projects
Imagine the experiences of people that live in an environment where there is no form of any electric power when the sun sets and when it is night. The once told story of unpleasant experiences and dilemma occasioned by lack of electricity…
Power agencies ineffective in handling customers complaints – Investigation
By Etuka Sunday
Although the impression is that Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC)’s Customer Care Unit (CCU) and Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC)’s Forum Office are places where electricity customers get…