Nigeria, Aug. 6 -- The Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IkejaElectric) says it stopped the metering of customers due to the exhaustion of prepaid meters assigned to the company by the Nigerian government under the National Mass Metering Programme (NMMP).

Felix Ofulue, the spokesperson of the DisCo, said this on Friday while addressing the press in Lagos.

Mr Ofulue said the company received about 106,000 meters in the NMMP and has since distributed it to customers.

"We have practically done 99.9% of the meters, we have exhausted the meters completely. People are not getting meter now because we don't have any on ground," he said.

The Nigerian government in 2020 approved the NMMP to cater for the shortfall in the metering of elec...