More than 5.3 million electricity consumers across Nigeria remain trapped in a deepening dispute between the federal government and distribution companies over who should foot the bill for installing supposedly ‘free’ meters, threatening to derail the country's ambitious plans to eliminate estimated billing.
"Every month, they send me a bill for N15,000, sometimes N20,000," said Chioma Okafor, a small business owner in Oshodi, who has waited three years for a meter. “I don't even use that much power. When I complain, they tell me to get a me
