The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, MDCAN, has urged the federal government to as a matter of urgency subsidise electricity tariffs for public hospitals and educational institutions.
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The Organised Labour has demanded the complete reversal of the power sector privatisation and recovery of all public electricity assets sold.
The House of Representatives has urged the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to suspend the implementation of the new tariff.
“This decision blatantly disregards the economic struggles of Nigerian workers, especially considering the uncertain minimum wage situation.”
They wrote to us and said they want a new tariff because dollar has changed and so on and so forth. For a week in the whole of July of last year, we held rate case hearings which is in line with international best practices. We invited consumers to discuss the proposal by the DisCos.
The Nigerian government says the new electricity tariff hike will only affect 1.5 million people, which according to it is…
The problem is that everybody in this country knows this is a lie and no sector of society regularly gets a minimum of 20 hours of electricity a day. You cannot build a new policy on lies and such a huge increase of tariff in the middle of the most severe cost of living crisis in Nigerian history cannot stand. The new tariff is also aimed at eliminating annual electricity subsidies of NGN1.14 trillion we are told.
The Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN), has bemoaned the hike in electricity tariff in the country.
The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has described the plans to increase electricity tariff from July 1 as outrageous.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says the number of Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) customers in Nigeria increased from 11.06 million in Q4 2022 to 11.27 million in Q1 2023.