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9ice Owes PHCN Electricity Bills Over N60k?

9ice Owes PHCN Electricity Bills Over N60k?
According to source providing Stella Dimokorkus, Crooner Abolore Akande a-k-a 9ice might be owing over N60k light bill at his Ahmadiya Abule egba Lagos home.

Some PHCN officials visited his home and disconnected his light cables and after the officials left,a miracle happened and the cables were noticed to be ‘reconnected’.

The Phcn officials paid another visit to 9ice’s home about two weeks later…

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Sokoto Governor, Wamakko, Aides Beat PHCN Officials With Koboko Over Power Failure

Sokoto Governor, Wamakko, Aides Beat PHCN Officials With Koboko Over Power Failure
An unusual occurrence happened in Sokoto State this past Saturday as the governor of the state unleashed a horse whip, locally referred to as Koboko which he used to beat officials of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) after accusing them of being responsible for the frequent power outages in his home town, Wamakko.

 

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Despite Owning Julius Berger, Babangida is Soon to Own Part of PHCN!

Despite Owning Julius Berger, Babangida is Soon to Own Part of PHCN!

Despite Owning Julius Berger, Babangida is Soon to Own Part of PHCN!

Only recently, NaijaPundit brought you an exclusive Wikileaks documents which gave unchallenged details that former Nigerian military strongman, Ibrahim Babangida, partially owns the German Staffed engineering and construction company, Julius Berger (click here for the Wikileaks document). Apparently not satisfied with that, Babangida…

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PHCN crisis parley ends in deadlock

PHCN crisis parley ends in deadlock

The talks between the Federal Government and labour over the power sector crisis yesterday ended in a stalemate.

Minister of Power Barth Nnaji and officials of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) failed to turn up at the…

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Tariff Hike: Consumers Groan under the Weight of PHCN Extortion

Tariff Hike: Consumers Groan under the Weight of PHCN Extortion

The Federal Government increase in electricity tariff was applied on June 1st, 2012 and many Nigerians did not protest then. However as the PHCN electricity bills for July were distributed, the story began to change.

Electricity consumers that routinely paid a certain amount for electricity consumption, found that the amount had now quadrupled.

Kunle Bello, a resident of Iwaya, Lagos, who lives in a 2 bedroom apartment, found that the…

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Senate summons PHCN boss over delay in power projects

Senate summons PHCN boss over delay in power projects

BY HENRY UMORU

ABUJA—THE Senate has identified non-supervision of power projects across the country as the reason for their non-completion and why the much desired electricity supply was still evasive, just as it summoned the Chief Executive Officer of Kaduna Electricity Distribution…

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Ibadan Residents Groan Under PHCN Extortionists

Ibadan Residents Groan Under PHCN Extortionists

Published on May 30, 2012 by pmnews

The residents of Ibadan, capital of Oyo State, southwest Nigeria, have called on the management of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to prevail on its staff to stop exporting money from them before…

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Reps order military, police to pay PHCN debts

Reps order military, police to pay PHCN debts

House of Representatives on Thursday ordered the Armed Forces, the Nigeria Police Force and other agencies to pay debts owed the Power Holding Company of Nigeria

The House, which frowned upon the development, directed that such debts should be paid within one…

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Three PHCN giants go down with power outage

Three PHCN giants go down with power outage

Govt sacks MD, ED as generation crashes to 3200MW Three key Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) officials were sacked yesterday, as the government got desperate to reverse the slide in electricity supply.Sacked are Akinwumi Bada, an…

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