Abstract

The implication of the establishment of a seemingly parallel regulatory agency with overlapping responsibilities for the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) which has been generally described as struggling due to incessant power outages and inefficient electricity power supply is the focus of this paper. The paper adopts a comparative analysis of the functions of the two regulatory agencies that is the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and the National Electricity Management Services Authority (NEMSA) against the background of the principles and philosophy behind ...