Tag: BEDC
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Ondo South: Tofowomo Resolves Metering Challenges, Collaborates BEDC To End Darkness
In line with his New Year Message to the good people of Ondo South, distinguished Senator Nicholas Tofowomo, representing Ondo South Senatorial District at the Senate,,on Tuesday, met with the management of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC ) and stakeholders from Ondo South Senatorial District on two issues bothering on electricity supply to the affected…
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Licence cancellation: FG queries BEDC, 6 other Discos, gives deadline
Power distribution companies have till December 7 to submit their written responses providing reasons why their licences should not be cancelled, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission declared on Tuesday. In an updated document on the notice of hearing on the petitions by Discos on the Minor Review and Minimum Remittance Order dated November 5, 2019,…
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Blackouts: NERC To Enforce Directive Issued To BEDC For Reconnection of Ondo South
Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) says it will compel the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) to comply with it directive of July 10, 2017 to reconnect some communities in parts of Ondo South back to the national grid. Vice chairman, Sanusi Garba disclosed this while addressing protesters drawn from civil society groups in Delta, Edo,…
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Tension As BEDC Workers Plan To Down Tools Over Poor Working Condition
The Edo Civil Society Organisation (EDOSCOS) has hinted Starnews that some angry staff of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) are in fresh plan to down tools over what they described as unfair treatment and poor working condition. In a statement made available to newsmen yesterday in Benin by Osazee Edigin, Public Relations Officer of Edo Civil Society…
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BEDC Disconnected 32 Communities In Edo State–Edo Govt
No fewer than 444 communities, spread across the 18 Local Government Areas of Edo are without electricity, Mr Yekini Idaiye, the State Commissioner for Energy and Water Resources says. Idaye made the disclosure in an interview in Benin on Saturday. He said from the figure, 157 communities were yet to be connected to the national…
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BEDC Has Failed Our People, FG Must Not Renew Its Licence -Ondo Council of Obas
The Ondo state Council of Obas has passed a vote of no confidence on the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) for poor service delivery and failure to distribute pre-paid metres to residents of the state. The traditional rulers said years of inefficiency and erratic power supply by BEDC to the people of Ondo north and…
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Video: Ondo Youths Block Lagos -Benin Express Way In Ore To Protest 4 Years Blackouts
Collection of various youths across the four local government areas of Ondo State, Okitipupa, Ilaje, Irele and Ese Odo local government respectively who were thrown into darkness by the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), have taken to the Lagos-Benin Express way in Ore, blocking the road to protest four years blackouts they said they have…
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Opinion:Why BEDC Operating License Should Not Be Renewed By FG
By Pastor Olumide Akinrinlola The Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) is one of the Nigerian Electricity Distribution Company (discos) whose operating license expires in September this year. It will be the joy of Nigerians under the coverage areas of BEDC in Edo, Ondo, Ekiti, Delta etc, if this justifications is considered by the administration of…
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Edo Resident Allegedly Electrocuted By Fallen Live Cable of BEDC
There is serious commotion in Eyaen Primary School in Benin City under Ikpoba-Okha local government area of Edo State over the electrocution of yet to be identified man by alleged naked live wire that fell from the electricity poles of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC). Starnews gathered that pupils of Eyaen Primary School in Benin City have gone on…
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Edo, Ondo, Delta, Ekiti Mobilise Mega Protest Against Renewal of BEDC License
Civil society groups and notable Non Governmental Organisation (NGOs) in Edo, Ondo, Delta, and Ekiti State respectively, have resolved to launch a mass protest at Abuja, against the renewal of the operational license of the Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC, by the Federal government over what the groups described as total failure of the company…