Okechukwu Nnodim, AbujaThe President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd. ), has ordered operators in the power sector to carry out mass metering of unmetered customers nationwide, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission announced on Wednesday night. In a tweet via its official Twitter handle, the NERC also declared that it had not approved any increase in electricity tariffs, as reported in some quarters on Wednesday. It said, “In all cases, poor and vulnerable Nigerians will not experience any increase. “This means that unmetered customers will not experience any cost increase beyond what is chargeable to metered customers in the same area,” the regulator said.

Source: Punch August 26, 2020 21:45 UTC