Electricity consumers, who are without prepaid meters fixed to the apartments or premises, can track their bills to see whether they are being over-charged. Although, the Electricity Power Reforms Act (EPRA) mandates power suppliers to provide pre-paid meters to consumers, many households still do not have them. As a result, service providers issue unmetered customers […]
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A major complaint by consumers of banking services in Nigeria is the multiplicity of charges being levied on transactions. Some of such charges are questionable and against regulatory instructions. Consumertrics findings reveal a preponderance of bank customers is unhappy with the reality but often fail to ask questions, or lodge a complaint in situations of
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The e-Commerce market in Nigeria has grown in leaps and bounds, owing to factors such as convenience and the offer of products varieties. Nigeria has the 33rd largest online market in the world, contributing $7 billion in global e-commerce revenue (as per 2021). While this is cheering news, online market is saturated and unstructured. In
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As electricity consumers in Nigeria continue to face incessant outages in recent months, the industry regulator orders generating companies to ramp up supply. According to the order by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), GenCos are urged to attain GenCos gets marching order as electricity consumers face poor supply by July 1. Sanusi Garba, chairman
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Consumertrics urges beer consumers to disregard a phoney freebie purported to be from Heineken as such is merely a scam. This warning follows Heineken’s disclaimer of the fake competition that offere consumers free beer for Father’s Day. The message has been circulating on WhatsApp, offering consumers the chance to win one of 5,000 coolers full
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N964 million for the provision of satellite-based education system equipment in three primary schools in each of the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Information and Culture Minister, Lai Mohammed, revealed this at the end of the Council’s meeting, chaired by President Muhammadu
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The Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association (NOGASA) has said the price of diesel may shoot up from N800 to N1500. The body said this at a press briefing, held in Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital. Bennett Korie, the body’s president said, “If you go round now you will see that about 75% of filling stations
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Meta announced today that it’s rolling out new tools on Instagram and Quest VR headsets that are designed to give parents additional supervision controls. On Instagram, parents and guardians can now send invitations to their teens to initiate supervision tools. Prior to this change, only teens could send invitations. Parents and guardians can now also set specific
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The price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies crumbled Monday, after a major cryptocurrency lender effectively failed and halted all withdrawals from its platform, citing “extreme market conditions.” It’s the latest high-profile collapse of a pillar of the cryptocurrency industry. These meltdowns have erased tens of billions of dollars of investors’ assets and spurred urgent calls
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The Lagos State Government has said it would adopt the Nigeria ‘Startup Bill’, in the bid to fast-track the growth of the startups in the country. Tunbosun Alake, who is Special Adviser on Innovation & Technology to Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwoolu, said this at an event, the Co-Create 2022 tech expo. For its part, the
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