{"id":25821,"date":"2024-04-04T08:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T08:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=25821"},"modified":"2024-04-04T08:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T08:02:30","slug":"300-electricity-tariff-hike-will-electrocute-lives-and-businesses-shehu-sani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/04\/300-electricity-tariff-hike-will-electrocute-lives-and-businesses-shehu-sani\/","title":{"rendered":"300% Electricity Tariff Hike Will &#8216;Electrocute&#8217; Lives and Businesses &#8211; Shehu Sani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former lawmaker Shehu Sani has expressed his concerns regarding the recent announcement by the Federal Government regarding the hike in electricity tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has approved an increase in electricity rates for customers in the Band A category. Vice Chairman of NERC, Musliu Oseni, made this announcement during a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new adjustment, customers will now be required to pay N225 per kilowatt-hour, a significant increase from the current rate of N66.<\/p>\n<p>Sani, who represented Kaduna central district in the 8th assembly, believes that such a drastic increase will have detrimental effects on the lives of Nigerians and businesses alike. He stated, &#8220;Increasing electricity tariffs by 300% will finally electrocute human lives and businesses in the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former lawmaker Shehu Sani has expressed his concerns regarding the recent announcement by the Federal Government regarding the hike in electricity tariffs. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has approved an increase in electricity rates for customers in the Band A category. Vice Chairman of NERC, Musliu Oseni, made this announcement during a press briefing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":22994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25829,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25821\/revisions\/25829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}