The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday dismissed an application by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) seeking to stay proceedings in the suit on electricity tariff hike. Justice Mohammed Idris refused the motion for being unmeritorious. He awarded a punitive cost of N10,000 against NERC. Activist-lawyer Toluwani Adebiyi, who obtained an order restraining NERC […]
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SENATE yesterday told the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) to stop the 45 per cent tariff increase being implemented by electricity distribution companies. This followed a deadlock in discussions between the Senate leadership on the one hand and the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola and his counterpart in the Labour and Employment ministry, […]
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There are indications that the planned increment in electricity tariff by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) due to take off on February 3, 2016 may be shelved as stakeholders particularly the Nigeria Electricity Consumers Advocacy Network (NECAN) yesterday kicked against it. This development was the outcome of a meeting convened by the ad hoc […]
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