Where Nigeria’s electricity distributors were metering customers

Coverage differed by more than 50 percentage points

Eko’s June rate was 88.70% and Ikeja’s 87.91%. Jos was at 35.42%, Yola at 36.20% and Kaduna at 39.83%. The Eko to Jos gap was 53.28 percentage points. These rates describe the distributor’s stock of active customer accounts with meters on 30 June. Source 1

Ibadan added the most meters while remaining below the national rate

Ibadan added 102,090 meters in the second quarter, 29.15% of all reported deployments. Its June coverage was 57.62%, below the overall 61.51%. The distributor also had the largest active customer base, at 2,536,676, making the scale of its existing account base important to the comparison. Source 1

Quarterly installation counts need the revised first-quarter base

The second-quarter report revised the first-quarter total from 357,495 to 426,985 after updated submissions. On the revised base, 350,270 second-quarter deployments represented a 17.97% decline. Enugu increased from 6,118 to 17,645. Ikeja went from 46,330 to 7,842. Source 1

Coverage and installations use different time boundaries

The June coverage table is a snapshot. The deployment table counts customers metered during each quarter. The regulator attributes 205,486 second-quarter deployments to the Distribution Sector Recovery Program and 123,833 to the Meter Asset Provider framework. These are installation channels, separate from how many active accounts were metered at quarter-end. Source 1 Source 2

Sources

• Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, second quarter 2026 report, tables 15 and 16
• Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, second quarter 2026 highlights