The Independent National Electoral Commission’s (INEC) gender policy is a response to the National Gender Policy (2006) and Vision 20:20 (2009) which recognize that gender equality and women’s empowerment are basic human rights that lie at the heart of equitable development and which call on all state and non-state actors to promote gender equality through their institutional practices and policies. This policy therefore seeks to encourage and expand the participation of all in the political and electoral spaces. It demonstrates the Commission’s commitment to the goal of deepening Nigeria’s democratic experience by outlining measures that can collectively be taken to ensure that the participation of nearly half of the population of the country in its affairs is broadened.

These regulations apply to all independent electricity distribution systems, owners, operators and users in Nigeria. The objective of these Regulations is to provide standard rules for the issuance of distribution licences to qualified operators and licensees to engage in electricity distribution, independent of the distribution system operated by the distribution company of Nigeria

These regulations apply to all electricity connections to customers’ premises in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The objective of these regulations is to provide standard rules and methodology for the determination of connection charges for electricity supply to ensure safe, secure and efficient electricity supply.

These regulations shall govern the supply of electric power to eligible customers as may be declared by the minister from time to time in line with section 27 of the act. Its objectives are to provide standard rules to facilitate competition in the supply of electricity, promote the rapid expansion of generation capacity and opportunity for improvement in quality of supply, encourage third party access to transmission and distribution infrastructure as a precursor to full retail competition in the Nigerian electricity market, allow licensed generation companies yet to be contracted to access customers that are limited to service, thus improving the financial liquidity of the electricity industry and enhancing the stability and operational efficiency of generation companies arising from the flatter load profiles of eligible customers and possibly lower technical losses, depending on the required network interconnection.

This guideline document’s objective is to ensure that only qualified persons are certified by the Commission to perform the functions of metering service providers in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI)

This regulatory document provides detailed procedures to be followed in conducting electricity tariff reviews in line with the Act and the multi-year tariff order (MYTO) methodology. It also highlights the responsibilities of tariff review applicants, timelines, costs, submission requirements and detailed guidelines.

These regulations provide for the procedure for investing in electricity networks in Nigeria. The primary objective of these regulations is to create strong incentives to encourage the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and the distribution companies to make appropriate and sustainable investments in capacity expansion. It also provides regulatory certainty by having a process that allows Nigerian NERC to track the investments utilities make whilst still monitoring the mechanism it adopts for utilities to recover prudential costs they incur to maintain the technical safety, security and reliability of the transportation networks.

This regulatory document has an overarching objective to provide standard rules to encourage the development of independent and competitive meter services in NESI, eliminate estimated billing practices in NESI, attract private investment to the provision of metering services in NESI, close the metering gap through accelerated meter roll out in NESI and enhance revenue assurance in NESI.

This document emphasizes that the distribution companies must ensure all data tables submitted are well-justified in the text and a clear linkage between the data tables and the text is provided. They should also maintain consistent terminology between their pip narrative and the data tables. The distribution companies are expected to show how their strategy will contribute to meeting the goals of the Federal Government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, the PSRP and energy access targets over the period.

This document defines mini-grid as any electricity supply system with its own power generation capacity, supplying electricity to more than one customer and which can operate in isolation from or be connected to a distribution licensee’s network. Within this regulation, the term mini-grid is used for any isolated or interconnected mini-grid generating between 0kW and 1MW of generation capacity. The regulations apply to all mini-grids with generation capacity of up to 1MW, the owners, operators and users of the mini-grids as well as all other private or public stakeholders such as the distribution licensees or any federal or state institution or agency interacting with mini-grid owners, operators and users in Nigeria.

These regulations apply to all embedded generators licensees, applications for embedded generation licences being processed by the Commission, and prospective embedded generators, unless otherwise specified. The document defines the role of distribution licensees. Some of these functions include: forecasting the future demand on its distribution system; analyzing the impact of the connection of new facilities such as generation unit(s), loads, distribution lines, or substations; planning the expansion of the distribution system to ensure its adequacy to meet forecast demand and the connection of new facilities; identifying and correcting problems on quality of supply, power quality and system losses in distribution system; and distribution planning and system studies.

These regulations apply to all independent electricity distribution systems, and the owners, operators and users of the distribution systems. Rule 9 of the document provides for license application procedure. It emphasizes that all applications and related proceedings before the commission for grant of an independent electricity distribution system licence shall be governed by the application for licences regulations, including amendments and statutory re-enactments thereof.

The regulations fully recognize that hi – tech OEM equipment e.g. Turbines have little scope for national content in the near term. However, it is expected that the maintenance of such equipment has significant scope for national content.

This document describes the requirements regulating the generation, transmission, distribution, and user’s site standards, guides, and recommended practices for use in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI). This document makes a general provision for qualification of engineering personnel. it emphasizes that any person engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution, system operation, and trading in electricity or in any aspect in the value chain of electricity supply, including but not limited to engineering designs, installations, commissioning, decommissioning and maintenance of electric power systems for the purpose of achieving safe and reliable supply, and utilization of electricity in Nigeria, shall comply with the provisions of the Electric Power Sector Reform (EPSR) Act 2005, the Nigerian Electricity Supply and Installation Standards (NESIS) regulations, license terms and conditions and all other regulations, codes, standards made pursuant to the EPSR Act.

This is an Act to create a number of miscellaneous offences with stiff penalties and for the trial of such offenders. This act defines various offences, including the willful setting on fire of cultivations and the sale of goods prohibited from importation by any law force in Nigeria. The act empowers the Federal High Court to try any person for any of such offences.

This regulation sets out the minimum physical, functional, interface and data requirements for a smart metering system. This covers all classes and types of smart meters , communication systems, and other components of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) deployment in order to measure electrical energy consumption, support billing (Multi-Tariff and Multi-Source), pre-paid and credit payment functionality, remote load control (connection/disconnection) and to report events/alarms to other control and monitoring systems e.g. outage management systems (OMS). The system shall provide information and data to support smart grid applications and have the capability of extending its functionality to load control, demand response and demand side management (DSM) services.

This is an act to provide for the control of the importation, sale, advertisement, distribution, or offer as sample or gift of breast-milk substitutes or infant formula to members of the public.

These regulations were developed in pursuance of the objective to empower the Commission to preserve efficient industry and market structures, to ensure the optimal utilization of resources for the provision of electricity services, to ensure the safety, security, reliability and quality of service in the production and delivery of electricity to consumers and to regulate people engaged in the generation, transmission, system operation, distribution and trading of electricity.

This document provides the requirements for the installation, earthing and the maintenance of electric fences, outlining ways to improve the performance and safety of electric fences. The regulations apply to electric fences intended for the protection of properties against theft and damage.

The objective of this Regulation is to promote the delibrate utilization of Nigerian human and material resources, goods, works and services in the energy industry and to build capabilities in Nigeria to supoort increased investment in the industry.