edicolove: It is sad that many of you dumbheads can not think intelligently. The government is providing prepaid meters and you all are talking crap. Can't you see that if the government provide prepaid meters and don't provide power, they will be the loosers. Now PHCN/government are collecting free money from monthly estimated bills and they come out to provide prepaid meters and you lot are spewing garbage. Don't you see that providing prepaid meters will force their hand to provide regular electricity as they will go totally bankrupt if they don't?

Its obvious so many here on NL are kids without brains! The result of poor education!

Cachez: Don't let anyone deceive you with the belief of government giving you free meters. What the Chairman Sam Amadi said on Channel TV was that the cost of the prepaid meters will be factored into the billing and spread over some months for people to pay up.

LeoMax: IF THEY GIVE ME FREE METER, I WILL CONNECT IT TO MY GENERATOR AND USE IT TO MONITOR MY FUEL CONSUMPTION

LeoMax: IF THEY GIVE ME FREE METER, I WILL CONNECT IT TO MY GENERATOR AND USE IT TO MONITOR MY FUEL CONSUMPTION

otokx: Sam Amadi and Barth Nnaji are some of the people that should be tried for high treason against the Nigerian state and its people. What is the point of prepaid meters or do they prepay and dispense darkness in totality? So they have now got meters that we also charge us for the hours of darkness encountered? These people are very wicked.

TroGunn: People stop the negativity. We all know PHCN must be completely privatized if we ever want better service. And the tariff will increase, but it'll still be way cheaper than running generators. This govt has been useless, but they got this spot on. Everyone must have prepaid meters. If they don't give u electricity, then it's their loss too because they'll only make money when u use electricity.
At N11/kwh ( 6.8cents/kwh) our rate is likely too cheap to be profitable for investors, compared to other countries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing.

The NLC should chill. We need power and will pay slightly more for it.

jidsoon: Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi, says provision has been made for free installation of meters in the new electricity tariff proposed by the Federal Government. The new regime takes off on June 1.

He said the electricity distribution companies have been ordered to provide meters for their customers between 12 to 18 months, starting from June 1. He said only a connection fee would now be paid for meters of N5,000 by customers.

Amadi said this when he visited the customer services centre of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company.

He said the new tariff was a bitter pill Nigerians should endure for improved electricity supply which calls for better services from the distribution companies and accurate billing system.

According to the NERC boss, customer service is the core of the new tarrif order.

He said: “I think the Nigerian people will understand our predicament if we improve on our customer service. That is why we have made customer care the niche of the new tariff. We can really improve in terms of transparency and accountability especially in billing.

“We (NERC) will be having periodic check on the distribution companies because this is the most important component of the Multi-Year Tariff Order. Every CEO of the companies should ensure they have a forum office where customers’ complaints can be dealt with.”

A forum office constitutes member(s) of staff of the distributor company, NERC and civil society organisation who would address complaints from electricity consumers who did not get satisfactory attention from the PHCN.

He said it was illegal for communities to buy transformers, adding that it was the job of the PHCN to do so. He, however, said governments at all levels could do so to empower the people and upon installation, it becomes the property of the PHCN.

Chief Executive officer of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, Engineer Abdulganiyu Umar, corroborated Amadi’s position, saying, “It is illegal for communities to buy transformers and it is also illegal for any PHCN staff to collect money from people in the name of procuring transformers for them.

“If anyone has evidence of such incident against my staff, we should be notified and we will deal with it.”

He warned PHCN customers to be wary of crooks who masquerade as community helpers to defraud them of money, insisting that “PHCN has not authorised anybody to collect money on its behalf.”

—Henry Ojelu



http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2012/05/18/electricity-consumers-to-get-free-prepaid-meters/

edicolove: It is sad that many of you dumbheads can not think intelligently. The government is providing prepaid meters and you all are talking crap. Can't you see that if the government provide prepaid meters and don't provide power, they will be the loosers. Now PHCN/government are collecting free money from monthly estimated bills and they come out to provide prepaid meters and you lot are spewing garbage. Don't you see that providing prepaid meters will force their hand to provide regular electricity as they will go totally bankrupt if they don't?

Its obvious so many here on NL are kids without brains! The result of poor education!

edicolove: It is sad that many of you dumbheads can not think intelligently. The government is providing prepaid meters and you all are talking crap. Can't you see that if the government provide prepaid meters and don't provide power, they will be the loosers. Now PHCN/government are collecting free money from monthly estimated bills and they come out to provide prepaid meters and you lot are spewing garbage. Don't you see that providing prepaid meters will force their hand to provide regular electricity as they will go totally bankrupt if they don't?

Its obvious so many here on NL are kids without brains! The result of poor education!