{"id":40190,"date":"2024-07-23T14:29:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=40190"},"modified":"2024-07-23T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T14:29:29","slug":"breaking-reps-ask-nerc-discos-to-reverse-band-a-tariff-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/07\/23\/breaking-reps-ask-nerc-discos-to-reverse-band-a-tariff-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Reps Ask NERC, DISCOs to Reverse Band A Tariff Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has directed the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and the distribution companies (DISCOs) to reverse the recent tariff hike for Band A customers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This directive came on Tuesday following the adoption of a report presented by the House Committee on Power.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NERC had recently announced a tariff hike affecting Band A customers, raising the rate to N225 per kilowatt.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The House also resolved to investigate the tariff hike. Presenting the report, the Chairman of the Committee on Power, Victor Nwokolo, stated that Nigerians cannot afford the new tariff. The Committee recommended a return to the previous tariff rates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The recommendations were adopted by the Committee of the Whole and subsequently passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives has directed the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) and the distribution companies (DISCOs) to reverse the recent tariff hike for Band A customers. &nbsp; This directive came on Tuesday following the adoption of a report presented by the House Committee on Power. &nbsp; NERC had recently announced a tariff hike affecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":40191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40190","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\/40190","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=40190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40192,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40190\/revisions\/40192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}