Adebayo Adelabu, minister of power, says the country would have been in darkness if the federal government did not increase electricity tariff.
Adebayo Adelabu, minister of power, says the country will be thrown into darkness if the federal government does not implement the new hike in electricity tariff.
The commission said customers under the classification, who receive 20 hours of electricity supply daily, will now pay N225 per kilowatt , starting from April 3 — up from N66. “With what we have now in the next three months, the entire country will be in darkness if we don’t increase tariff. “We made it a conditional tariff, we made it a service reflective tariff, that the only condition that can make a discriminate company charge the new tariff of N225 per kilowatt hour is they must ensure they supply a minimum of 20 hours to that consumer every day,” he said.
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