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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Electricity meters now sell for N60,000
The cost of acquiring pre-paid electricity meters by consumers in the country has risen due to the fall in the value of the naira following the currency’s recent devaluation by the Central Bank of Nigeria.
A single-phase meter, according to findings by our correspondent, can now be obtained for N39,375, while the three-phase meter now goes for N60,909.
Before now, the single-phase and three-phase meters were selling for N25,000 and N50,000.
However, with the latest development, the cost of the single-phase meter has risen by 56 per cent, while that of the three-phase meter has jumped by 20 per cent.
This means that household electricity consumers, who are majorly the users of single-phase meters, will pay more for the devices in relative terms compared to the users of the three-phase meters.
Our correspondent gathered that the price increase was because most of the meters in the Nigerian electricity market were imported and that the rising exchange rate of the naira to the United States dollar was posing a huge problem to importers of the product.
Certain habits appear healthy, but they harm
Ours is an age of information overload. And the deluge of information comes under various issues that relate to our existence, especially when it comes to our health and how to live disease-free.
Whether you’re reading newspapers or magazines, listening to radio or television, or surfing the Internet, you will come across many discussions, postings and write-ups about the dos and don’ts of living healthy. Many are helpful, quite a lot border on half-truth, while a lot more may be dangerous, outright.
Here are two supposedly healthy habits that we engage in but which physicians have warned against.
Vagina douching
When you walk through the aisles of upscale supermarkets that abound all over these days, a visit to the feminine section will greet you with array of feminine hygiene products that promise you clean, fresh feeling below the belt.
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