Power Sector Funding: CBN disburses N55.4B to power companies
By Channels TV
21 May 2016 |
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Why is the government funding them?, don’t they collect money from their customers even for services not rendered?. This is a sheer public waste. if they can not sustain their business like the other privately owned companies, they need to get out of business.
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