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Electricity Tariff: Nigerians Paying For Darkness – Reps

The Deputy Minority of the House of Representatives, Toby Okechukwu has raised the alarm on the recently announced increment in electricity tariffs.

Mr. Okechukwu while speaking to THISDAY queried the basis for the increment which resulted in the Enugu zone being charged more than Lagos. He said that the House through its committee on Power will interrogate the increment.

According to the new increment released by Nigeria, Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC) electricity consumers in Ikeja got an increment from N13.34 per kWh since under the 2015 MYTO when the last review was carried out to N21.80 per kWh, while consumers

Shutdown of PH DisCo Plunges Bayelsa into Darkness

People of Bayelsa State celebrated the Christmas and New Year festivities in darkness as the power outage occasioned by the altercation between Ijaw youths and Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) entered day 10 thursday.

Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) had after almost a year of unbearably erratic power supply in the state besieged the offices of PHEDC, forcing the staff to ground operations or improve on their services.

The youths have since occupied the premises to protest the poor power supply to residents after several negotiations for PHEDC to supply …