The number one trending hashtag on Twitter NG right now is #NepaWahala.
In case you didn’t know, NEPA stands for Never Expect Power Again National Electric Power Authority, the defunct power generation and distribution body in Nigeria. In 2005, it was renamed to PHCN which stands for Please Hold a Candle Now Power Holding Company of Nigeria.
In 2013, PHCN ceased to exist after its assets were sold to private companies. The Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC) continued to carry out the role of regulation of the new power companies.
PHCN was divided into several distribution and generation companies, but two things remained the same, the name NEPA and… no light!
Twitter users in Nigeria are sharing their experiences. Sit back, grab your guguru and zobo, and enjoy!
How your neighbours be trooping in with their phones when they hear the sound of your Gen #NepaWahala pic.twitter.com/PkDKMxCQL8
— FAVOUR ONYEOZIRI (@Rouvafe) May 19, 2017
When nepa brings light I’m like ” Better do everything you can iron for the month,charge the lamp,infact charge the socket😂.#NepaWahala
— Tune (@Tune_papi) May 19, 2017
#NepaWahala me coming back from class and asking
Me: when did nepa take light
Neighbour: just now
Me: pic.twitter.com/kWbH2fDWPq— Olayinka (@omoniyi435) May 19, 2017
Think this is complicated? don’t pay NEPA bills, it takes Nepa officials just 5 seconds to detect which wire leads to your house #NepaWahala pic.twitter.com/FoCdtU5Akq
— FAVOUR ONYEOZIRI (@Rouvafe) May 19, 2017
After using the fan to chase mosquitoes away for 2 hours, then NEPA takes the light by 12 midnight. #NepaWahala
Mosquitoes: pic.twitter.com/DlXxalbW0m
— FAVOUR ONYEOZIRI (@Rouvafe) May 19, 2017
How you look when there’s light in the next house,but there’s no light in your house.#NepaWahala pic.twitter.com/8xy9GRVi6P
— FEMI💗 (@ThePelumii) May 19, 2017
#nepawahala
After it rains,don’t bother expecting light because NEPA will spread their wires pic.twitter.com/YeRE6Z7amu— ELIJAY (@elijah020) May 19, 2017
When they bring light & you hear a loud bang, the the light goes off. Issa transformer problem, issa 2 years darkness. enjoy #NepaWahala pic.twitter.com/QwLktTNjPx
— FAVOUR ONYEOZIRI (@Rouvafe) May 19, 2017
when children randomly shout ‘Up NEPA’ when there’s no light. #NepaWahala pic.twitter.com/FBhvnTiWW7
— FAVOUR ONYEOZIRI (@Rouvafe) May 19, 2017
#Nepawahala
After rushing your chores and homework and NEPA takes the lights immediately you sit down to watch a movie pic.twitter.com/l9PYwdruUT— Your Father (@DrKraken4) May 19, 2017
I bet everyone has at one point or the other tried to predict the pattern with which Nepa supplies electricity. #NepaWahala pic.twitter.com/M4RT5sBxF7
— FAVOUR ONYEOZIRI (@Rouvafe) May 19, 2017
NepaMan: we brought your light bill
Me: but no light for a month.
Bill is 28k #NepaWahala
Darkness: pic.twitter.com/TqfIl9gKlG— Minomi👑 (@Mimsy_12) May 19, 2017
#Nepawahala
We used light for 12 hours undisrupted and we dey shout our light don good oooNepa Bill; pic.twitter.com/qJTK71tQhj
— Biobaku Soliu (@kesmalindo) May 19, 2017
When there is light and you see NEPA in your street #NepaWahala pic.twitter.com/oh3aLuzbxz
— Happy Boy (@Raheem_Leleyi) May 19, 2017
#nepawahala
nepa brings light
“Plugs phone” “plugs torchlight”
“plugs rechargeable fan” “puts on AC”
“puts on refrigerator”Nepa: pic.twitter.com/rJ6CyNnMoV
— toby_nas (@Tobiloba_sneh) May 19, 2017
When you’re on prepaid meter but you’ve hacked into it and didn’t pay light bill for one year and then nepa finds out #NepaWahala pic.twitter.com/ZVTLMarw8n
— Ilesanmi Omowunmi (@fresh_tycoon) May 19, 2017
After reading all the #Nepawahala tweets
NEPA:Hope you have money for fuel? pic.twitter.com/MIadQU0oTj
— Warri Child (@Iam_Patriche) May 19, 2017
Nepa brings light
Me : pick race from bus stop to the house
Nepali takes light immediately I got home
Me:#NepaWahala pic.twitter.com/nUT9oj7w2I— JVO _TWISTED (@MonkTwisted) May 19, 2017
This is how Nepa officials look at you when they notice you have paid your complete bill #nepawahala pic.twitter.com/rtc1Qs3bf3
— magic moment (@urchbilz) May 19, 2017
My reaction when i heard my Dad telling his Yankee based friend that light 🚦 in Nigeria is now stable just like that of America #NepaWahala pic.twitter.com/eynJUpNbWh
— #I_FOLLOW_BACK #FFB (@sire_autodidact) May 19, 2017
Wen light was not in ur area 4 the past 6 months but govt says, we’ve achieved a lot in da power sector #NepaWahala pic.twitter.com/wkPxvUMPej
— Ebube Agu N’eche Agu (@UcheMiyagi) May 19, 2017
#NepaWahala
That guilty feeling you get when Nepa gives you light straight for 2days.. pic.twitter.com/Qd2Pw2SJUN— Prince Lustwig (@IamNomba4) May 19, 2017
When every house on the street has light and no light in your house #NepaWahala pic.twitter.com/aIeYoNVvaU
— ¢нєяι ‘∂єℓαנα (@MissCheriDelaja) May 19, 2017
The day I came back to naija at the airport nepa took light. As per welcome back son #nepawahala
— BOBBYtheDANCER (@Capt_Boobby) May 19, 2017
The expression you display wen Nepa decides to give u light after three months of darkness #NepaWahala pic.twitter.com/1T7GNw7FQJ
— Ifeanyi (@JoshXclusive) May 19, 2017
*Transformer blows*
Me: Nepa is going to fix it first thing tomorrow morning. I am very confident of that.
Nepa: pic.twitter.com/mZPMovBR3v— Demola (@_demzyy) May 19, 2017
Wait, we’ve had light since yesterday, its almost 24hrs now #NepaWahala pic.twitter.com/m79X1i4A9F
— Happy Boy (@Raheem_Leleyi) May 19, 2017
This will probably continue till after midnight (WAT) so keep refreshing for more! #TGIF!
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Editor’s Note: This post has been updated to properly relay some information in paragraph three.
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this Favour guy issa Twitter comedian sha,,u keep imagining how he does those stuvs
I hate to say this but please get your facts right or don’t state them at all! NERC is a regulatory body, was regulating the old PHCN and the entire electricity sector and IS still regulating the now- private firms (distribution and generation). The transmission is still government owned; as TCN… PHCN was a government-owned monopoly, which got unbundled. PHCN didn’t transition to NERC; NERC has been in existence since…This blunder is just like stating the defunct NITEL became replaced by the NCC (est. 1982).
This your long explanation will not bring light abeg
Whatever!
All of them na NEPA, and there’s no light…..dazzal!
This one that you even had the energy to type this ogonogo akuko, it’s as if NEPA is giving you steady light in your area. Because person wey never see light for 6 months doesn’t care about the history of NEPA/PHCN. All that matters is steady light.
Lol @manny. But the truth is our ( i.e the general public) lack of knowledge on who does what, issa problem, and a huge one at that. How do we know who to hold responsible? Everything is not the presidents fault! And to think that a news platform, (or maybe just the writer of this report) doesn’t know as a journalist or quasi-journalist is pathetic.
I no understand all d grammar. Kuku ki me.
No worries my peeps. APC, magic party, got you!
For once, Naija got “CHANGE”
Enoy! !!
“#NepaWahala is Trending on Twitter NG! See Hilarious Tweets”
Where is this hilarity you speak of?
I see nothing but hollow, idiotic tweets trying hard to be funny but failing completely. Sad.
@A Real Nigerian, there is a dangling modifier somewhere in your sentence: “…hollow, idiotic tweets trying to be funny…” Can ‘a tweet’ try to be funny or can ‘ someone who tweets’ try to be funny?
You can’t just come here everyday and attack people for expressing their opinions and at the same time torment our eyes with your grammatical constructions. I know you like to think you have a good command of English. Apku girl!
You must be depressed to not find any of these funny. Whatever you’re going through, Jesus can handle it. Pele
While things like constant light are non issues in many countries, what year do you think Nigeria will have constant power. My prediction is 2098.
It was on weekend and I just returned from a trip. Turned out I was blacked out. Thing is, my landlord had light and it was consistent all through the weekend. O boi! That was when I knew the full definition of envy. Each time I was told ” Kpele” Monday go soon come, I felt my chest doing me somehow…I can relate to the tweets.
It’s practically cheaper to live abroad than Nigeria. Abroad you get what you pay for and your income covers it. But here it’s the opposite.
All I see is Odunlade Adekola