No Immediate Plans To Raise Electricity Tariff, Federal Govt Insists

The federal government has reiterated that it has no immediate plans to increase electricity tariffs, assuring Nigerians that its priority is to improve service delivery, expand access to reliable electricity, and accelerate the rollout of universal metering nationwide.
The minister of Power, Joseph Olasunkanmi Tegbe, stated this while speaking with some newsmen after commissioning a 3MW captive solar hybrid power project at the University of Abuja, now known as Yakubu Gowon University, describing service improvement and universal metering as key priorities of the Ministry.
“There are no immediate plans to increase electricity tariffs. Our goal is to build a commercially viable power ...