THE Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have appealed to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and Power Sector operators, to reverse the increase in electricity tariff within one week. President of the unions, Mr Joe…
THE Coalition for Affordable and Regular Electricity (CARE) has faulted the recently announced increase in electricity tariff by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). The coalition in a statement by its national coordinator, Comrade Chinedu Bosah, demanded its immediate reversal…
THE Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), alongside other policymakers and actors in the power sector space, must have thought it was a resistance-free, genius idea to raise electricity tariff for only a small segment of Nigerian electricity customers while maintaining…
THE Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government has called on Nigerians to expect an increase in electricity tariffs. The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, made this known while speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on Friday. He said the recent increase in…
THE Federal Government, yesterday, issued a marching order, asking the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, to withdraw licenses of non-performing electricity distribution companies, DISCOs. This is even as power generation dropped year-on-year, YoY, by 21 per cent to 3,475MW in…
THE federal government has announced 13 new licences to generate off-grid, embedded power and independent electricity distribution. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission disclosed this in a recent sectoral report. It stressed that new licences were issued in the third quarter…
