Tag: Electricity Tariff

NLC announces nationwide protest over petrol, electricity price increase

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has insisted on going ahead with its earlier planned strike and protest, with effect from September 28, 2020, following the failure of the Federal Government to reverse the increases in electricity tariff and fuel price. Speaking in Abuja at a press briefing, NLC President, Ayuba Wabba said the protest action was inevitable since the federal government has refused to reverse the increase in electricity and fuel prices. According to Wabba, the “privatization of the electricity sub-sector, seven years down the line, has not yielded any…

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Endure pains of hike in cost of petrol, electricity – APC urges Nigerians

Ishaku Yohanna

The All Progressives Congress (APC), has urged Nigerians to endure the pains they are likely to experienced following the rise in petroleum pump price and the hike in electrical energy tariff. A statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena and made available to newsmen on Tuesday, pleaded with Nigerians to endure the pains as it claimed that they would enjoy the “gains” of deregulation in the long run. The APC further claimed that rehabilitation of the nation’s four refineries was in the pipeline and noted that full deregulation…

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Labour, FG lock horns over electricity tariff, fuel price hike

Ishaku Yohanna

… Subsidy must go, FG insists Organised Labour under the auspices of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) has again disagreed with the Federal Government over the recent increase in the prices of petroleum products and electricity tariff, stressing that both policies are a burden on Nigerian workers. President of the NLC, Ayubba Wabba, made this known to the Government during dialogue with government representatives on the state of the economy, even as he condemned the fixing of prices of electricity and petrol without consultations…

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Why we haven’t protested against increase in petrol price, electricity tariff – NLC

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has explained its reason for not organising protests against the increase in pump price of petrol and the new electricity tariff. The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) had announced an increase in the price of premium motor spirit, better known as petrol. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) also increased electricity tariff from N30.23 to N62.33 per kwh. Speaking with NAN in Lagos on Saturday, Ayuba Wabba, NLC president, said the organised labour will soon come out with a position on the price adjustment.…

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NANS begins mobilisation for showdown with FG over electricity, fuel hikes

Ishaku Yohanna

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, said on Sunday that it has begun mobilisation of members for a possible showdown with the federal government. The action, according to the students’ body, was aimed at forcing the government to rescind its decision on the increment. NANS said it had begun mobilisation of its members, saying a high-level consultation with relevant pro-people organisations and bodies for a major showdown with the government was ongoing. While insisting that government must reverse its decision on the many increments introduced recently on essential services,…

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Just a little more Nigeria’ll explode, organised labour warns

Ishaku Yohanna

With the recent increase in the pump price of fuel, the organised labour has warned that it takes something very little for explosion actually to occur, saying that Nigerians are, today, living on the edge, under the President Muhammadu Buhari government. Organised labour gave this warning even as the “Buhari government are taking Nigerians for a ride” as prices of goods and services have gone up, especially that of transportation, saying, “it is like adding salt to injury.” “Clearly speaking, we can say that many Nigerians are today living on…

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CNG to FG: Suspend electricity tariff hike, petrol price increase, or face nationwide protest

Ishaku Yohanna

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has asked the federal government to “immediately suspend” the recent increase in pump price of petrol and electricity tariff or face a nationwide protest. Addressing a news conference in Kaduna on Friday, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, spokesman of the group, said the coalition would mobilise its members for a mass protest if the federal government fails to revert to the old pump price of fuel. Suleiman said, “That the administration’s audacious impunity climaxed with hikes in fuel pump prices from an initial N87 to N151.50k per…

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PDP, NLC, CSOs reject fuel price increase, electricity tariff hike

Ishaku Yohanna

Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Civil Society Organisatios (CSOs) have kicked against the increase in the price of fuel to N151 per liter and electricity tariff to N66 per kwh. PDP said the move is “callous, cruel, and punishing” while demanding an immediate reversal of the prices to avert a national crisis, as the increase will result in an upsurge in costs of goods and services and worsen the biting hardship being faced by Nigerians, who are “already impoverished and…

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New electricity tariff: NLC moves to mobilise workers to resist increase

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has urged the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to take a decisive action on the plan by DISCOs to hike electricity tariff in the country. Ayuba Wabba, the NLC President, on Tuesday in Abuja made the call in a statement titled: “Increase in Electricity Tariff by Abuja DISCOs – a taunting of the will of the Nigerian people gone too far.” Wabba said the organised labour would mobilise Nigerian workers to resist the increase in electricity tariff by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), effective…

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Electricity tariff increase’ll not affect poor consumers – NERC

Ishaku Yohanna

The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) Monday said that the proposed tariff increase that has been suspended will not affect poor electricity customers when it takes effect. In his presentation to the Senate Committee on Power at the commission’s head office in Abuja, the NERC chairman, Prof. James Momoh told the lawmakers who were in their oversight function that a mechanism has been put in place to absorb the masses of the adverse impacts of the hike. Speaking with reporters after the event, he said “It is not going to…

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