Members of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) have threatened to embark on a nationwide strike if the Federal Government does not rescind the recently approved electricity tariff hike.
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had on April 3 approved the electricity tariff for customers enjoying 20 hours of power supply daily which was raised from N66 per kilowatts-hour to N225 per kilowatt-hour.
The sudden increase has been protested in many quarters but the federal government has remained adamant with the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu insisting that there is no going back on the new tariff as subsidy on electricity has been removed.
