The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC, on Monday gave the Federal Government a deadline of May 31st to reverse the hike in electricity tariff.
The decision was taken by the unions at the end of a jointly held National Executive Council meeting.
On 13th of May, the Organized Labour, comprising the NLC, the TUC, and their affiliates picketed the offices of the NERC nationwide over the recent hike in electricity tariffs.
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The NERC announced the hike in the electricity tariff for Band A customers at a press briefing in Abuja on April 3, revealing that those affected would pay N225 per kilowatt-hour, up from the previous rate of N68/kWh.
The hike, which represented a 240 percent increase, marked the removal of subsidy from the tariff of customers in the Band A category, who constituted about 15 percent of the total 12.82 million power consumers across the country. It was later reviewed downward to N206.80 per kilowatt-hour from the N225/kWh.
