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BEDC installs over 22,000 meters for customers The Punch
Published 13 May 2021
The Benin Electricity Distribution Company Plc says it has installed more than 25 per cent of the 90,870 meters targeted for customers under the first phase of the National Mass Metering Programme.
It said in a communiqué issued at the end of a Town Hall meeting titled ‘Facilitating metering and combating electricity theft in BEDC states’ organised recently by the Stakeholders Democracy Network for critical stakeholders in the electricity sector in Benin City, Edo State.
The communiqué stated that the company would remove estimated billing for unmetered customers in its four franchise states of Delta, Edo, Ekiti and Ondo over a period of six months as part of the NNMP.
Daily Post Nigeria
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Electricity consumers within Osogbo, the Osun State capital are lamenting the extortion from electric meter installers during the concluded National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP).
The NMMP, which is an initiative of the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Distribution Companies (DisCos) is in collaboration with local meter manufacturers to provide electricity meters to all unmetered customers.
Many of the customers lamented that installers were demanding the sum of N2,000 from them before they would install the prepaid meters.
A customer, Alhaja Sidikat Adeyanju stated that what made her complain about a meter was that she was having difficulty recharging her old metre.
Vanguard News
Metering: FG takes delivery of 656,752 prepaid meters
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By Udeme Akpan
The Federal Government has taken delivery of 656,752 prepaid meters, under the phase 0 of the Central Bank of Nigeria-funded National Mass Metering Programme, NMMP.
This represents almost 85 percent of the one million meters to be provided to Nigerians, whose bills are still based on estimation.
However, of the 656,752 prepaid meters, 305,962 have already been installed for consumers, according to the Special Adviser to the President on Infrastructure, Mr. Ahmad Zakari.
In an interview with Vanguard, weekend, he said: “The major problem faced by the indigenous producers and Meter Asset Providers, MAPs is the pace of ramp-up of available personnel for installation. Another problem is the lack of a vital plastic component as one of the two major global suppliers (based in Germany) had shut down during the Coronavirus pandemic, resulting in pressure to the value chain.
Vanguard News
Electricity Consumers praise CBN for N120bn power intervention
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By Obas Esiedesa
As a part effort to support and grow revenue of the power sector, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, last week disclosed that it has disbursed about N3.6 billion for procurement of pre-paid meters to stabilise the billing system in electricity consumption in Nigeria as part of its N120.2 billion investments in distribution companies, DisCos, for infrastructure capital expenditure.
With about 55.5 percent of Nigeria’s 8.3 million electricity customers still without meters, the CBN intervention was described by the consumer group, Electricity Consumers Association, as a game-changer.