{"id":31214,"date":"2024-05-13T15:33:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T15:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=31214"},"modified":"2024-05-13T15:33:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T15:33:02","slug":"nlc-urges-fg-to-revert-electricity-tariff-before-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/13\/nlc-urges-fg-to-revert-electricity-tariff-before-negotiations\/","title":{"rendered":"NLC Urges FG to Revert Electricity Tariff Before Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) reiterated its demand on Monday for the Federal Government to revert to the previous electricity tariff for band A customers before engaging in negotiations with the union.<\/p>\n<p>The NLC President, Joe Ajaero, emphasized the necessity of returning to the &#8220;status quo&#8221; before initiating any discussions with the workers during a meeting at the Federal Ministry of Power.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Power Minister, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, was absent, the Permanent Secretary, Alhaji Mamudan Mamman, conveyed the minister&#8217;s intention to invite the workers for tariff negotiations following intervention by the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Ajaero stressed that negotiations should not proceed under pressure and insisted on returning to the previous tariff level before engagement.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that failure to revert to the old band A tariff within a week might prompt the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) to halt power supply nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) reiterated its demand on Monday for the Federal Government to revert to the previous electricity tariff for band A customers before engaging in negotiations with the union. The NLC President, Joe Ajaero, emphasized the necessity of returning to the &#8220;status quo&#8221; before initiating any discussions with the workers during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":31215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31214","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\/31214","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=31214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31220,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31214\/revisions\/31220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}