{"id":74149,"date":"2025-08-25T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74149"},"modified":"2025-08-25T13:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:04:29","slug":"fg-rural-nigerians-pay-more-for-power-than-urban-band-a-consumers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/25\/fg-rural-nigerians-pay-more-for-power-than-urban-band-a-consumers\/","title":{"rendered":"FG: Rural Nigerians Pay More for Power Than Urban Band A Consumers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has revealed a striking disparity in Nigeria\u2019s electricity sector, with some rural communities paying higher tariffs than urban Band A consumers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Abba Aliyu, tariffs in certain rural areas reach as high as \u20a6280 per kilowatt-hour, compared to \u20a6225\/kWh charged to Band A customers.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyu attributed the higher rates to the cost of infrastructure deployed by the agency, particularly solar mini-grids.<\/p>\n<p>While rural residents often enjoy a more reliable supply, he noted that their tariffs are determined by the level of investment in each community.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure comes amid controversy over recent tariff increases by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), which raised Band A rates from \u20a666 to \u20a6225\/kWh.<\/p>\n<p>Critics argue that Band A customers are still not guaranteed the promised 20 hours of daily electricity, while many rural consumers, despite having more stable power, face an even heavier financial burden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo &nbsp; The Federal Government has revealed a striking disparity in Nigeria\u2019s electricity sector, with some rural communities paying higher tariffs than urban Band A consumers. According to the Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA), Abba Aliyu, tariffs in certain rural areas reach as high as \u20a6280 per kilowatt-hour, compared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74149","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\/74149","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74151,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74149\/revisions\/74151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}