{"id":66009,"date":"2025-05-19T09:36:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66009"},"modified":"2025-05-19T09:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T09:36:54","slug":"chinese-firms-take-bill-as-nigerian-metre-makers-cry-foul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/19\/chinese-firms-take-bill-as-nigerian-metre-makers-cry-foul\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Firms Take Bill as Nigerian Metre Makers Cry Foul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Transmission Company of Nigeria has awarded over N160 billion worth of electricity metering contracts to Chinese firms, bypassing local manufacturers in a move that has sparked industry outrage and raised questions about the government\u2019s commitment to its Nigeria First Policy.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, funded by a World Bank loan, covers the supply of 1.25 million metres.<\/p>\n<p>However, only 75,000 have been delivered and remain unused, according to the Association of Metre Manufacturers of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a slap in the face of local industry,\u201d said AMMON President Durosola Omogbenigun. \u201cDespite repeated calls for support, our manufacturers have been ignored while foreign firms reap the benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even more worrying, AMMON revealed, is TCN\u2019s plan to begin a second World Bank-backed procurement for another 1.55 million metres, again tilting in favour of foreign suppliers.<\/p>\n<p>This, the association warns, could severely damage Nigeria\u2019s metre manufacturing sector, which has already delivered over N350 billion worth of metres between 2021 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The group called on President Tinubu to intervene and enforce the Nigeria First Policy he recently approved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNigerian companies have the skill, capacity, and commitment. What we need now is government backing,\u201d AMMON stated, urging immediate policy alignment with the Renewed Hope Agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Transmission Company of Nigeria has awarded over N160 billion worth of electricity metering contracts to Chinese firms, bypassing local manufacturers in a move that has sparked industry outrage and raised questions about the government\u2019s commitment to its Nigeria First Policy. The deal, funded by a World Bank loan, covers the supply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":66010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66011,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66009\/revisions\/66011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}