Electricity Subsidy of 4 Trillion Naira: Electrifying Sanity for 220 Million Nigerians
A close relative who recently relocated to the United Kingdom and resides in a region that is one-and-half-hours by road towards the East of the administrative & commercial capital, London, had conducted a self-audit of her power usage for me over the phone yesterday 31 st July 2025. For her two-bedroom apartment that has its kitchen-within-the living room setting, the last 30 days electricity bill (in summer – not a winter period where home heaters usually shoot up power consumption) amounted to £103 (one hundred and three British pounds). She could monitor it clearly on her home-installed meter. The three occupants of the modest house are 1 adult, 1 teenager adolescent and 1 pre-adolescent, who survive on 1 television, 1 plugged-in Wi-Fi device, 1 unit of a 4-phased electric cooker, 1 kitchen heat extractor, 4 mobile phones, 3 laptop computers, 14 light bulbs and 12 electric sockets. Assuredly, she reminded me that all these appliances do not connect to power at the same t...