Nigeria’s electricity distribution companies recorded a combined revenue of about N2.33tn in 2025, despite persistent consumer complaints over poor service delivery, estimated billing, and frequent power outages across the country. An analysis…
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DisCos apologise as national grid collapse hits hard on Nigerians
News Update THE Electricity Distribution Companies, DisCos, have apologized to Nigerians, as instability occasioned by national power grid collapse, crippled operations in homes and businesses nationwide. Nigeria’s weak electricity grid collapsed again…
Provide meters, end estimated billing regime – Ekiti Govt tells DISCOS
Voice Air Media, VAM News Update The Ekiti State Government has urged electricity distribution companies operating in the state to ensure that all electricity consumers are metered to put an end to…
Labour To Take Over NERC, DisCos Offices On Monday
Voice Air Media, VAM News Update THE Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) will picket the office of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and distribution companies (DisCos)’s…
Discos make N1tn amid grid crisis, unmetered customers hit 5.8m
Despite the persistent epileptic power supply nationwide, revenue generation by electricity distribution companies in Nigeria surged to N1.1trn within the 12 months of 2023, a new report has revealed. The figure…
FG: Discos overbilled 7.1million customers in nine months
Power distribution companies overbilled about 7.1 million unmetered electricity consumers between January and September 2023, an analysis of the latest monthly number of overbilled customers showed. In the various Regulatory Interventions…
2024 Budget: FG to sell part of DisCos, Osogbo Machine Tools, others
VAM News Update THE Federal Government has said it would offload its 40 per cent stake in some key public utilities and companies to fund part of the 2024 budget. Director General…
Discos Shun Opposition, Insist Nigerians To Pay More For Electricity Tariff
VOICE AIR MEDIA News Update Power distribution companies, on Sunday night, confirmed and insisted that the tariffs payable by electricity consumers across the country would increase from July 1, 2023, despite the…
Message To DisCos: Why Nigerians Should Not Bear The Cost Of Electricity Provision
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has said certain costs of providing electricity in Nigeria shouldn’t not be borne by the citizens In a statement on Sunday, the agency made…
DisCos to increase electricity tariff September 1
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has directed the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) to increase their tariff effect from 1st September 2021. According to a document, the NERC has given the…