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That&#8217;s according to the Special Adviser to the Minister of Power on Strategic Communications and Media, Bolaji Tunji who says two million meters are expected every year and the delivery of the first batch will start by the first quarter of next year. Meanwhile, Nigeria\u2019s Senate has begun a probe into the activities of generation companies, the Transmission Company of Nigeria, and Distribution Companies, for inefficiencies since the privatization of the power sector. George Etomi, Founder of George Etomi and Partners joins CNBC Africa for more on these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1077],"tags":[8259,691],"class_list":["post-83905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-metering","tag-nigeria","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Can Nigeria meet metering target? - GuardianTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nigeria&#039;s Presidential Metering Initiative is still on course with the sum of 700 billion naira set aside from the federation account for the implementation of the distribution of free electricity meters under the Initiative.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/can-nigeria-meet-metering-target\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can Nigeria meet metering target? 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