{"id":25324,"date":"2024-04-03T14:04:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T14:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/human-lives-will-be-electrocuted-shehu-sani-reacts-to-hike-in-electricity-tariff\/"},"modified":"2024-04-03T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T14:04:07","slug":"human-lives-will-be-electrocuted-shehu-sani-reacts-to-hike-in-electricity-tariff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/human-lives-will-be-electrocuted-shehu-sani-reacts-to-hike-in-electricity-tariff\/","title":{"rendered":"Human lives will be electrocuted \u2013 Shehu Sani reacts to hike in electricity tariff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A former lawmaker, Shehu Sani has aired his opinion on the recent announcements made by the Federal Government on the increase of electricity tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, on Wednesday gave the go-ahead to raise the electricity rates for customers in the Band A category.<\/p>\n<p>During a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, the Vice Chairman of NERC, Musliu Oseni, announced that there will be a rise in electricity tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>This adjustment will result in customers paying N225 per kilowatt-hour, up from the current rate of N66.<\/p>\n<p>Sani, a former lawmaker, who represented Kaduna central district in the 8th assembly, said the increase would further reduce the living standard of Nigerians and kill businesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreasing electricity tariffs by 300% will finally electrocute human lives and businesses in the country,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Human lives will be electrocuted \u2013 Shehu Sani reacts to hike in electricity tariff<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former lawmaker, Shehu Sani has aired his opinion on the recent announcements made by the Federal Government on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7967,15,2296],"tags":[3875,180,343,2298,7968],"class_list":["post-25324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electricity-tariff","category-news","category-shehu-sani","tag-electricity","tag-news","tag-sani","tag-shehu","tag-tariff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}