Tag: Electricity Tariff

Just In! FG increases prices of electricity meters

Aminu Imam

The Federal Government has raised the cost of both single-phase and three-phase electricity meters beginning from November 15, 2021. It announced this in a circular dated November 11, 2021, issued by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, (NERC), and addressed to managing directors, all electricity distribution companies and all meter asset providers. The circular was entitled: ‘Review of the unit price of end-use meters under the Meter Asset Provider and National Mass Metering Regulations’. In the document, the regulator raised the price of a single-phase meter from the current cost of…

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Electricity tariff: NLC reiterates nationwide industrial action against FG’s increment plans

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), has reiterated its readiness to embark on a nationwide industrial action should the government at any time declare an increment in electricity tariff without fulfilling the terms of the agreements it reached with labour. The NLC also stated that it need not give the government another notice for industrial action as its August 30, 2021 notice on the matter was explicit. According to a press release issued and signed by the NLC President, Comrade Ayuba Wabba, and made available to newsmen, the mother labour union…

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Again, NLC warns FG against electricity tariff hike

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), has warned the Federal Government against flouting their agreement on electricity tariff increase. In a statement issued yesterday, in Abuja, the NLC president, Ayuba Wabba, said the FGN-labour committee on electricity had agreed on September 28, 2020, that power distribution companies should halt any increase in energy tariff till further notice. Wabba said the attention of the NLC has been drawn to a media report that the electricity tariff would rise by over a hundred percent with effect from January, 2022. ”The story was purportedly distilled from…

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Electricity tariff hike: Group to monitor October consumers’ bills to ensure no increment  

Aminu Imam

A group, the All Electricity Consumers Protection Forum, (AECPF), says it will monitor the bills of customers for the month of October to ensure that there is no increment by electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos). The group made this known in a letter to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), yesterday, in Lagos. The letter, which was signed by its National Coordinator, Adeola Samuel-Ilori, said electricity consumer groups were vehemently against any form of increment in tariffs by the DisCos. Samuel-Ilori noted that the group would continue to maintain vigilance even…

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Electricity tariff hike: NLC threatens nationwide strike

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), has threatened to embark on a nationwide strike if the Federal Government should implement its proposed hike in electricity tariff. There have been reports of a purported hike in electricity tariff, taking effect from September 1, 2021. According to the NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, the Congress wanted to believe that the new move was just speculation. Wabba, in a statement issued yesterday, titled, ‘Notice on speculations on increase in electricity tariffs,’ warned that the NLC would not fold its arm and allow an increase in…

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Electricity: Nigerians, Labour unions, CSOs, kick ahead planned tariff increase

Aminu Imam

There is palpable tension among electricity users following the speculations that the Federal Government may effect another tariff increase on September 1, 2021, based on details contained in a new tariff order issued by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, (NERC) to Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) and Electricity Generation Companies (GenCos), informing them of the approval to increase electricity tariffs. Recall that the Minister of Power, Engr. Sale Mamman, admitted in April that the electricity tariff was to be increased in July, but not “significantly”. According to him, instead of a…

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Showdown imminent, as Labour lashes out on FG over planned Sept 1st electricity tariff hike

Aminu Imam

The Deputy President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, Joe Ajaero has lashed out at the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, (NERC) on the recent directive to Electricity Distribution Companies, (DisCos) to increase tariff from September 1, 2021. In a telephone conversation with newsmen yesterday, Ajaero who is also the secretary-general of the Nigerian Union of Electricity employees, (NUEE), said the NERC has decided to ignore agreements reached with workers on electricity generation and distribution. Ajaero, who is equally a member of a 7-man Federal Government and organised Labour Committee on Electricity…

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High electricity tariff: Labour insists on N15 kw/h reduction

Aminu Imam

The Nigeria Labour Congress, (NLC), yesterday, sounded a note of warning to the Federal Government, insisting that the agreement reached with Organised Labour on the reduction of electricity tariff by N15 per kilowatt-hour, (KWH), by December must be respected. NLC said, “The posture of the Federal Government to flout agreements is completely unacceptable and would be resisted.” NLC, in a statement by its President, Ayuba Wabba, also demanded a 40 percent reduction of gas price to the Electricity Generating Companies, GENCOs, contending that instead of the $2.50 per standard cubic…

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Electricity: Consumers to pay more as FG sets to end N30bn monthly subsidy

Aminu Imam

Electricity consumers may have to contend with higher charges following the Federal Government’s decision to end most of its subsidy payments in the electricity sector come next year, 2022. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo gave the hint while speaking yesterday, during the opening of the 14th Nigerian Association for Energy Economics/IAEE conference, with the theme: ‘Strategic responses of the energy sector to Covid-19 impacts on African economies‘, in Abuja. The government monthly subsidy for electricity is estimated at N30 billion. According to the Vice President, who was represented by the Special Assistant to the…

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Fresh electricity tariffs: Showdown imminent as consumers, Labour threaten action against DisCos

Aminu Imam

Outrage and angry reactions have continued to trail the unexpected upward review of electricity tariffs by about 100 percent by the 11 Electricity Distribution Companies, (DisCos) operating in the country. Recall that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), had assuaged the fears of Nigerians after the outcry that trailed an increase in the tariffs in September 2020 and January this year, that the DisCos would not increase tariffs of customers enjoying less than 12 hours of power supply daily. Also, on April 25, the Federal Government apologised to Nigerians over…

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