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Mr President Why Are You Lying To Ghanaians About The Power Crises? – Berla Mundi Quizzes Nana Addo

04/23/2024 12:47 am

Multiple Award winning media personality, Berla Mundi who is tired about the current power outages in the country has asked President Nana Addo why his appointed Ministers keep lying to the general public. In a recent Tweet, Berla lamented about staying in darkness for hours due to the power outages. She also revealed how she … Read more

The Most Useless Company In Ghana – ECG Customers Cry Out As They Sleep In Darkness Over Faulty Prepaid Meters

11/15/2022 9:33 am

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

Customers of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) using its new prepaid meters in Accra, Tema and other parts of the country have been plunged into darkness for over five days now as the company is unable to recharge the meters. On social media – from Twitter to Facebook – customers have been crying out … Read more

ECG Announces One-Week Dumsor In Parts of Accra and Tema Starting May 8th

05/8/2020 5:07 pm

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has announced a one-week planned dumsor to hit Accra and Tema. According to the company, from today, May 8th till May 14th, parts of the capital and its environs would experience blackouts which we’ve fondly named ‘dumsor’. READ ALSO: I Hope You Deliver Safely – IG User Trolls Osebo … Read more

Confusion Reigns Among Prepaid Customers Regarding Government’s 50% Electricity Reduction Pledge – A Prime Time Clarification Is Needed

04/23/2020 3:56 pm

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

Two weeks ago, President Akufo-Addo announced that as part of measures to combat the economic effects of the lockdown, government was going to absorb 50% of electricity costs for consumers who use over 50 kWh every month. Immediately the announcement went out, users of prepaid electricity started wondering whether they would be part of the … Read more

Controversial Preacher Sheperd Bushiri Charges Church Members to Watch Sermons from Home During Lockdown

04/23/2020 7:57 am

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

Controversial Malawian preacher based in South Africa, Sheperd Bushiri, known for performing the craziest miracles you can ever think of, is charging his church members money to watch his sermons from home during this lockdown. Followers of his church, the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) in South Africa, have to pay 80 rand for a monthly … Read more

‘We’ve Given You People Light But You Didn’t Buy Anything for Us, We Shall See’ – ‘ECG’ Responds After Medikal Buys New iPhone for Shatta Wale

01/22/2020 1:59 pm

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

Are you enjoying no dumsor in your area? Personally I am so I can say ECG have been doing quite well of late. However, our greatest fear is the day they lose their minds and start dropping dumsor left and right once again. READ ALSO: Shatta Wale Receives iPhone 11 Pro From Medikal After Pleading … Read more

PURC Announces 11.7% Increase in Electricity Tariffs – Water Increase Coming Soon

06/21/2019 1:09 pm

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

As if life wasn’t already hard enough for Ghanaians, there is a new price increase in electricity bills just around the horizon. In a press statement released Friday, June 21st, the Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC) have announced that effective July 1st, there would be an 11.7% in electricity tariffs. READ ALSO: You Only … Read more

How ECG/PDS Stole Money From Bridget Otoo Through Their APP — READ

05/16/2019 1:12 pm

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

Broadcaster Bridget Otoo has narrated how the app created by PDS to help customers conveniently pay their bills instead turned into a money stealing machine and stole her money without her receiving any service in return.

It’s only in Ghana that such things happen – instead of such electronic platforms making life easier for Ghanaians, it rather gives us more unnecessary headaches. And even the ones which work are burdened with unnecessary service charges, such as mobile money or mobile banking.

VIDEO: Actress Bibi Bright Exposes ‘Corrupt’ ECG Official Who Charged Her Ridiculous Fee Before Replacing Her Faulty Meter

01/14/2019 6:37 pm

by Clement Enoku

Actress Bibi Bright who claims she campaigned for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has taken to her Instagram page to expose a ‘corrupt’ ECG official who charged her ridiculous fee before fixing her meter at home.

According to Bibi Bright, she challenged the ECG official after he charged her Ghc500 before changing her faulty meter.

ECG Wants PURC To Increase Electricity Tarrifs By 38%

11/13/2018 8:41 am

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

The government managed to secure a tariff reduction for Ghanaians earlier this year when the latest tariff review was carried out by the Public Utilities and Regulatory Commission (PURC), but that relief could prove to be shortlived and indeed, more damaging in the long run.

In the latest tariff review process, which is currently ongoing between the PURC and stakeholders in the sector including ECG, VRA, GRIDco and others, the national power distributor is asking for an increase in tariffs by as much as 38%.

DKB 'Rapes' ECG Over Prepaid Credit Crisis Hitting Accra (Video)

12/8/2017 10:33 am

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

An angry Derrick Kobina Bonney (DKB), completely tore into the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in a video uploaded to social media complaining about the issue of lack of prepaid electricity.
Whilst ECG has successfully migrated several customers from the post paid system onto prepaid, they have now created a new crisis as in recent days their network has been down and people cannot buy credits to keep their electricity on.

ECG Accountant In The Eastern Region Commits Suicide

05/18/2017 12:46 pm

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

An accountant for the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in Suhum in the Eastern Region has committed suicide.

According to reports, Joseph Frimpong Addo killed himself by ingesting weedicide, a poisonous material used to kill weeds.

Pissed Off Customer Writes To ECG After Some Technicians Refused To Fix A Problem For Him Unless He Paid ‘Noko Fio’

04/7/2017 8:38 am

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

A pissed off ECG Customer has written a letter to the company’s top brass to complain after officials attempted to extort him before carrying out some repair works on his meter.

Kwame Owusu-Ansah of Abeka Lapaz posted his letter of frustration addressed to the branch manager of ECG at Achimota-St Johns.

Energy Ministry Writes Two-Page Letter To Ghanaians Explaining The Dumsor And Its End

02/28/2017 9:40 am

by Sel The Bomb

In a recent time of the new NPP government, some part of Ghana has experienced an intermittent power supply and accordingly, some people have bitterly complained about the fear of the possible return of Dumsor. An energy supply canker during the infamous Mahama era that the NPP promised to fix when given the mandate.

Good news from myjoyonline.com is that Energy Minister Boakye Agyarko has announced the end of the “intermittent power outages”, following a successful new deal the government has reached with Ivory Coast to increase its power supply to Ghana despite the US$60 million debt accrued by the country.

MTN And ECG Looking To Make Prepaid Credits Available Via Mobile Money Platform

08/6/2016 7:44 am

by Nii Smiley Byte, Managing Editor

MTN are straining to get their mobile money platform into every nook and cranny of our lives; and whilst it’s not necessarily a bad thing, they simply charge too damn much.
Paying 1% on any cash transaction, especially one designed for use by the middle and lower class, is simply exorbitant.

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