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The Nigerian government will pay as much as N1.6 trillion to subsidise electricity in the year 2024. The Chairperson of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, (NERC), Sanusi Garba, disclosed this while speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Wednesday. NERC also unveiled a new electricity tariff plan payable by electricity consumers in the country. The Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO) shows that the order takes effect from 1 January and shall cease to be effective on the issuance of a new tariff review…

The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) said the proposed plan by the federal government to restructure the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) portends great danger to the power sector. Joe Ajaero, the NLC President, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday. The Nigerian government had on Tuesday hinted at plans to restructure the TCN into two entities. Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, who disclosed this while speaking at the Federal Ministry of Power ministerial retreat held in Abuja said the…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has condemned steps suggested by state governors for reviving the country’s struggling economy. The 33 measures that include tax raise and mass dismissal of workers smack of “extreme selfishness and insensate cruelty”, the labour union said Friday. PREMIUM TIMES exclusively reported how the governors had advised President Muhammadu Buhari to consider implementing urgent steps to instill fiscal discipline and prevent the nation from economic collapse. The suggestions include…

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on Nigerians to hold the government accountable for its failure to resolve the lingering fuel crisis in the country rather than channel criticisms to the labour union. The president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba, on Wednesday, said the union has managed to keep the government from increasing fuel prices and removing subsidy, and that Nigerians should support the group rather than be “fixated on blame game”. Mr Wabba spoke at the weekly episode of…

On Wednesday, July 5 (today), when Africa’s leading investigative newspaper- PREMIUM TIMES, resumes its Twitter Spaces- a live audio conversation on the popular social media platform, Twitter, key stakeholders within the nation’s oil and gas sector and labour and rights activists will engage on addressing the unending fuel scarcity troubling Nigeria’s economy and the biting consequences. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory…