Leke Baiyewu, AbujaThe Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr Ndudi Elumelu, has condemned the plan by electricity distribution companies to increase electricity tariff. The NERC had on Saturday directed the 11 electricity distribution companies in the country to increase their tariffs beginning from April. Commercial customers in the C3 category under this Disco, who currently pay N24.63/kWh, will start paying N38.41/kWh, representing a hike of N13.78. On August 28, 2019, The PUNCH exclusively reported that electricity tariffs grew threefold in four years. The report stated that between 2015 and 2019, the average electricity tariff climbed from N12 kWh to about N32kWh.

Source: Punch January 09, 2020 23:03 UTC