{"id":31211,"date":"2024-05-13T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=31211"},"modified":"2024-05-13T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T15:31:00","slug":"nlc-tuc-demand-reversal-of-power-sector-privatization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/13\/nlc-tuc-demand-reversal-of-power-sector-privatization\/","title":{"rendered":"NLC, TUC Demand Reversal of Power Sector Privatization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have jointly called for the immediate reversal of the privatization of the power sector, labeling it a failure.<\/p>\n<p>In a protest held in Abeokuta on Monday against the increase in electricity tariff and removal of power sector subsidies by the Federal Government, members of the NLC and TUC sealed off the office of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) in the Leme area of Abeokuta.<\/p>\n<p>Akeem Lasisi, the TUC chairman for Ogun State, criticized the Nigerian Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC) for raising energy rates without consulting organized labor or other relevant stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We reject this totally,&#8221; Lasisi stated. &#8220;Workers are mostly hit because amidst this increase, our salaries remain stagnant. DISCOs that could not install prepaid meters to all electricity consumers should not have the guts to increase electricity tariff. That is why we are saying that the privatization policy should be automatically reversed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hameed Benco, the state\u2019s NLC chairman, urged President Bola Tinubu to intervene and persuade NERC to reverse the increment in electricity tariff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) have jointly called for the immediate reversal of the privatization of the power sector, labeling it a failure. In a protest held in Abeokuta on Monday against the increase in electricity tariff and removal of power sector subsidies by the Federal Government, members of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":31212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31211","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\/31211","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=31211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31219,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31211\/revisions\/31219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}