{"id":189922,"date":"2025-01-29T02:07:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T00:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-prepaid-meters-university-don-alleges-massive-extortion-of-customers-by-discos-officials\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T02:07:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T00:07:43","slug":"nigeria-prepaid-meters-university-don-alleges-massive-extortion-of-customers-by-discos-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-prepaid-meters-university-don-alleges-massive-extortion-of-customers-by-discos-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Prepaid Meters &#8211; University Don Alleges Massive Extortion of Customers By Discos&#8217; Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Chinedu Eze<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">University don and Associate Professor,Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Lagos State University (LASU), Dr Tunde Akanni, has alleged that the officials of the Ikeja Electric Distribution Company (IKEDC) engage in &#8220;rampaging extortion&#8221; in the bid to replace old Unistar Prepaid meters with new ones, calling the attention of the company and the general public to this dastardly act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"83\">In a petition addressed to the Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency (LASCOPA) and also extended&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501280658.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinedu Eze University don and Associate Professor,Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Lagos State University (LASU), Dr Tunde Akanni, has alleged that the officials of the Ikeja Electric Distribution Company (IKEDC) engage in &#8220;rampaging extortion&#8221; in the bid to replace old Unistar Prepaid meters with new ones, calling the attention of the company and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,20138,11214,13472,15946,8735,6958,8031,257,4687,393,6651,6173,254,5148],"class_list":["post-189922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleges","tag-customers","tag-discos","tag-don","tag-extortion","tag-massive","tag-meters","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-officials","tag-prepaid","tag-south-africa-today","tag-university"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}