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  • Feb, Fri, 2020
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AEDC to install 320,000 meters in Niger, Kogi, Nasarawa, FCT 2020 – MD

AEDC to instal neter

Prepaid meters

 

AEDC
By Mercy Osajiugo
Minna, Feb. 29, 2020 (NAN) The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) says it will install 320, 000 meters for consumers yet to have meters in Niger, Kogi, Nasarawa and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in 2020
The Managing-Director (AEDC), Mr Earnest Mupwaya, represented by the General-Manager, Mr Isah Abdul-Rahaman, disclosed this in Minna on Friday at the AEDC Niger Region Customers Engagement/Consultation and Tariff Review Exercise.
“This is our goal in 2020 and that is what we are working towards, however, as I speak, FCT is more metered.
“We want to close up the gap and install over 320,000 meters this year alone in the region, and by 2021 we shall surely close the remaining gap” he said.

The region according to him, is made of Niger, Kogi, Nasarawa and FCT.
Mupwaya said that what informed the consultation and tariff review exercise was to make progress in the power sector and also meet the desire of the customers with better services.
“You will all agree with me that people are yearning for power and it is not there. We do not have enough meters or transformers to go round.
“The yearnings of consumers informed this meeting and at the end, AEDC will be able to meet up with yearnings of the people to serve them better.
“We are surely going to meet up by giving everybody meter, give more power supply, buy more transformers and make every customer happy for the contract entered,” he said.
According to Mupwaya, the feedback from all the stakeholders is very beneficial as AEDC has learnt valuable lesson on how customers received their services, saying that the customers are the company’s mirror.
“We have received various complaints that will make us to go back to the drawing board.
The complaint is a guide; because the customers are our mirror, they have shown us where we are doing well and where we defaulted.
“All that has formed a very good feedback for AEDC management to re-plan and re-strategise so that at the end the customers will be happy for good service
rendered,” he said.
He then appreciated consumers for their good conduct and maturity despite the problems. He tasked them to continue to engage them in dialogue rather than in dispute saying that will make everyone happy.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that many stakeholders were present including Tailors Association of Nigeria, Printers Association of Nigeria, Welders Association of Nigeria, and Carpenter Association of Nigeria among others. (NAN)
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Edited by Isaac Aregbesola

Economy

(Video) Economic News Summary for July 16 – 22, 2018  

 

  1. The Debt Management Office (DMO) has said that the Federal Government will issue another Green Bond before the end of the year, to finance capital projects in the 2018 budget.

Ms Patience Oniha, DMO Director-General, at the listing ceremony of the pioneer FGN N10.69 billion Green Bond in Lagos, however said the amount to be raised in the second tranche had not been determined by government.

  1. The Apapa Area 1 Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has generated N176.75 billion in the first half of 2018, up from the N165.74 billion it generated during the same period in 2017.

The command’s Spokesman, Mrs Nkeiruka Nwala, said the increase in revenue was due to the implementation of the Nigeria Integrated Customs Information System II, which had blocked revenue leakages in cargo clearance procedures.

  1. The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company says it has spent N10 billion on the purchase and installation of certified prepaid metres for its customers in the South-East zone.

It’s Head of Communications, Mr Emeka Ezeh, said the company inherited more than 700,000 unmetred customers from the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria.

He, however, said that due to inadequate funds, the company could not provide metres to all its customers.

  1. The American Business Council says Nigeria attracted a Foreign Direct Investment of not less than 1.3 billion dollars from the U.S. in 2017.

Darrel McGraw, Vice President of the council, said a survey, which was conducted in collaboration with Accenture, KPMG, PWC, and the U.S. Embassy, provided an overall economic impact of U.S. companies in Nigeria.

 

  1. The African Union Commission has said that it will partner with institutions and organisations that have the capacity to fix Africa’s infrastructure deficit to ensure the realisation of its Vision 2063 Goal.

The Senior Technical Advisor, Department of Trade and Industry, AUC, Dr Oswald Chinyamakabru, said the AU was committed to a significant reduction of poverty in member countries.

  1. The German government through the German International Cooperation says it committed 45.6 million Euros to supporting development programmes in Nigeria, in the past three years.

The “Aid Information Management System’’ website, a Development Assistance Database of the Nigeria’s Ministry of Budget and National Planning, revealed that the funds were committed to new and ongoing programmes between 2015 and 2017.