Nigeria: Electricity - the High Cost of Living in Darkness

15 January 2018

Revealed: How and why Nigerians pay extortionist bills for little or no power supply

AS was often the case in the past, officials of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC, recently stormed the popular Festac Town in Lagos for another round of mass disconnection due to what they claimed was the continued refusal by the residents to pay their electricity bills. But it was a mission that almost turned into a tragic misadventure.

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