The Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) has reduced the electricity tariff payable by its Band A customers to N206.80 per kilowatt-hour. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission...
The non-conclusion of negotiations for a new national minimum wage has drawn the ire of the Trade Union Congress Nigeria (TUC), urging the Federal Government to...
The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives recently distanced themselves from Hon. Ikenga Ugochinyere-led coalition’s call for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman over...
Adebayo Adelabu, minister of power has expressed optimism that electricity tariff will reduce if the foreign exchange (FX) rate drops below N1,000\$1. This follows the increase...
The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Benjamin Kalu has said that the House will intervene in the recent increase in electricity tariff by...
The Federal Government through the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has explained why Distribution Companies (DisCos) in the country were given approval to increase tariff of...
The Federal Government, on Monday, announced new price of natural gas for power generation companies sparking concerns of impending increase in electricity tariff. According to the...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has dismissed reports on the increase in electricity tariff. There were reports on Thursday that the commission had approved a...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has announced that electricity companies in Nigeria can adjust their tariff upwards. The new approval was scheduled to take effect...
A new report has revealed that the amount of money paid for electricity hit an eight-year high in 2021. The report which was Association of Nigerian...
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has blamed rising energy prices for the hike in inflation rate experienced within the...
Despite spiralling state of the economy which has shrunk the earning and purchasing power of most Nigerians, electricity might also become a premium product, considering the...
The Federal government of Nigeria has confirmed that electricity tariff subsidy has been removed. Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this at a virtual meeting of...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday described as insensitive the new hike in electricity tariff by the Federal Government. The party in a statement titled:...
Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has denied approving a 50 percent increase in electricity tariffs. NERC made the denial in a statement on its Twitter handle...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 302 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the National Assembly. They...
Governors of the 36 states of the federation will on Wednesday meet with the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on the current security situation in the...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed has appealed to organised labour to shelve its planned strike, because it would bring more hardship to ordinary...
The leadership of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) on Saturday met with the representative of the organized labour in a bid to avert a nationwide strike...
Intolerance due to inherent and acquired diversities among citizens is expected of a country like Nigerians. It is believed that football, to some extent, unites Nigerians...
The Police Command in Borno State has said it will not tolerate any form of protests. Spokesman of the command, Edet Okon, gave the warning in...
The Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP) has said that its Human Mobilisation Unit has started the mobilisation of organised groups to reach national consensus for...
The Buhari administration has ruptured the ceiling of liberties it enjoys. Like King Solomon in his last uneventful years, the government has compounded the yoke of...
The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has assuaged fears over the effect of the proposed tariff increase that has been suspended by the federal government of...
Power distribution companies (Discos) on Sunday revealed that the decision to increase electricity tariffs beginning from 1st July was not a unilateral one made by electricity...
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has decried alleged plans to increase electricity tariffs in the country. In a statement issued on Tuesday in Abuja, the NLC...
A new electricity tariff regime, which will effect increase in different electricity rate categories, begins tomorrow Wednesday 1st April 2020. The new regulation had been announced...
The House of Representatives Committee on Power, on Tuesday asked the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to halt plans to effect the new electricity tariffs earlier...
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) Monday denied hiking electricity tariffs, saying the review of the Multi-Year Tariff Order, (MYTO) does not translate to an immediate...
The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) said on Monday that Nigeria’s electricity tariff would remain in place till April 1. The Executive Director of ANED,...
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has rejected the over 200 percent increase in electricity tariff announced by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration. The party described...
Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) on Monday issued a stern warning to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) over electricity tariff. The president of the Congress, Comrade...
The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has called for an upward review of electricity tariff to ensure steady power supply in the country. The call was...
The President of Nigerian Society of Engineers, NSE, Adekunle Mokuolu, has called for an upward review of electricity tariff in the country. Mokuolu, who spoke memorial...
Barring any last minute change, residents of Arab, a community in Calabar municipality may stage a protest to the zonal office of the Port Harcourt Electricity...
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has insisted that the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos over increase in electricity tariff stands despite the...
By Felix Ayanruoh The Nigerian people wont’ have the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of the recent power sector reform if our courts don’t exercise restraint...
In spite of the fact that a Federal High Court in Lagos, refused an application by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, seeking to stay further...
By Bolaji Niniowo . . . . On Monday, February 15, 2018, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria reportedly directed the Federal Ministry...
Aware of the implication of the National Assembly’s resolution for the electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) to halt the new electricity tariff, the Association of Nigerian Electricity...
The Senate on Tuesday mandated the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to halt the 45 percent tariff increase being implemented by electricity distribution companies. This development...
Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High Court in Lagos has warned the federal government and electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs not to act in any way...
By Ali Smart The Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, may appear to be grandstanding judging by its insistence that the new electricity tariff which became operational...
In from Ali Smart . . . Toluwani Adebayo, a lawyer has faulted the new electricity tariff declared by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), saying...
It seems concerted opposition by electricity consumers in the country has not dissuaded regulatory agencies, or providers of electricity in the country, as they have insisted...
By Ali Smart The planned upward review of electricity tariff by the electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) nationwide may take effect in October. Investigation revealed that most...
Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) Dr. Sam Amadi, has stated that electricity distribution companies cannot unilaterally increase tariff on electricity supply without full...
