By C. Don Adinuba On Tuesday, July 1, while travelling with him from Enugu to Aba, his phone kept on ringing endlessly. Typical of him, Bart Nnaji took every call and addressed each caller patiently, carefully, and politely. One call struck me in particular. It was a widow from his rural community who reported that…
By Femi Anamelechi Aba Power, Nigeria’s 12th electricity distribution company (DisCo), has attributed the success of its ongoing free meter campaign to the cooperation of its customers. In an interview with journalists today, the Aba Power Managing Director, Ugo Opiegbe, said without the “enthusiastic cooperation of our teeming customers, we would not have recorded the…
By Femi Anamelechi There is growing public outrage over the alleged assault of an Aba Power staff member, Miss Ubochi Onyinyechi, by Mr. Chidi Ehiemere, a former Auditor General of Abia State. Mr. Ehiemere, who also previously served as Chairman of Obingwa Local Government Area and is an elder in the United Evangelical Church (Qua…
By Femi Anamelechi The ongoing Free Mass meter Rollout has been a blessing to both Aba Power and its customers, according to the utility’s Managing Director, Ugo Opiegbe. Opiegbe told the staff of Aba Power, Nigeria’s 12th electricity distribution company (DisCo), this morning that the rollout “is a win-win for both the company and customers,…
By Femi Anamelechi Aba Power, Nigeria’s newest electricity distribution company (DisCo), is leading four local and foreign firms to assemble smart electricity meters in Aba, the Abia State economic nerve centre.The disclosure was made today by Mrs. Agatha Nnaji, Group Managing Director of the Geometric Power group, the Aba Power parent company, when the Abia…
By Femi Anamelechi The Enugu State Regulatory Commission (EERC), has issued an instruction to MainPower Electricity Distribution Company, formerly Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, to refund over 20,000 estimated customers over “wrongful billing” by the company. This was contained in a public notice issued by EERC on Monday where the Commission said that its order…
By Femi Anamelechi The South-East Zone of the Electricity Consumers Association of Nigeria (ECAN) has accused an Aba-based legal practitioner, Larry Iroka, of playing to the gallery in guiding his client, Aba Electricity Consumers Forum, on clear and decided legal matters. The aggrieved Customers Association made this public at Awka, Anambra State, after its monthly…
By Femi Anamelechi An Abia State High Court judge has ruled that State High Courts have no jurisdiction to entertain matters under the 2023 Electricity Act; The Abia State High Court on the submissions agreed with one the erudite highly respected Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), Chief Mike Ahamba, who submitted last April 29 in…
It was for a divine purpose that I met Pascal Gabriel Dozie over 30 years ago. Our first meeting was in the early 1990s when we were members of the Vision 2010 Committee, a team set up to provide a strategic direction for Nigeria to become a higher-medium income nation by 2010. Some credible sources…
By Femi Anamelechi Geometric Power has resumed regular supply of electricity to residents of ABA as Gas supply to the 188MW Geometric Power Plant has resumed three days after it was suspended due to what industry experts call a process upset and a gas leak in the associated gas gathering (AGG) facilities of a leading…
