Nigeria, April 5 -- The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has imposed sanctions on the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) for wrongly applying the new electricity tariffs on some residents of the Nigerian capital.

The sanctions include a N200 million fine and a directive that the wrongly billed customers should be appropriately refunded.

The sanctions were announced in a Friday statement by the NERC management following complaints by several Auja residents who tried to buy electricity units days after a tariff increase was announced.

NERC had on Wednesday ordered the immediate upward review of electricity tariffs from Wednesday, 3 April.

The NERC Vice Chairperson, Musiliu Oseni, who disclosed this while spea...