OBAFEMI HAMZAT LAMENTS HIGH ELECTRICITY TARIFF, SAYS HIS BILL ROSE BY 974% IN A MONTH. (PHOTO).

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 Obafemi Hamzat laments high electricity tariff, says his bill rose by 974% in a month Obafemi Hamzat, deputy governor of Lagos state, says his electricity bill inexplicably skyrocketed from N2.7 million in March to N29 million in April. Hamzat said the electricity distribution company (DisCo) also frustrated his efforts to utilise the prepaid meter he procured. Punch reports that the deputy governor spoke on Monday during a roundtable discussion between the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) and the Lagos state government in Victoria Island. Both parties were billed to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the electrification of rural communities in Lagos. Hamzat, who represented Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, at the event, decried what he called ā€œcrazy billsā€ from DisCos. ā€œPeople that are trying to survive, and the common denominator for them is power. They don’t have power. There are billing challenges. In fact I’m a very good example,ā€ he said. ā€œLast month, in my...

ANOTHER AMERICAN THAT WORKS WITH NBC NEWS,CONTRACTS EBOLA VIRUS AND NOW FLOWN TO THE U.S FOR TREATMENT.

A worker in a hazardous material suit is sprayed down by a co-worker after coming out of an apartment unit where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas, October 5, 2014.  REUTERS-Jim Young               According to the  United State's officials,the fifth American Ashoka Mukpo,to contract Ebola virus in West Africa arrived in the United State for treatment on monday as the first patient diagnosed with the deadly virus on U.S soil,fought for his life at a Dallas hospital.A private plane was seen carrying Ashoka Mukpo,a freelance cameraman for NBC News who contracted Ebola in Liberia,landed in Omaha and was taken to the Nebraska medical center.The plane was met by an ambulance manned by workers in yellow protective suits.More photos below.                                                                                                                 An ambulance transports Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance cameraman who contracted Ebola in Liberia, to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, October 6, 2014. REUTERS-Sait Serkan GurbuzThe Lied Medical Transplant Center (L) is shown in Omaha, Nebraska, October 6, 2014.  The building is where Ashoka Mukpo,  a freelance cameraman who contracted Ebola in Liberia, will stay on the seventh floor at the Nebraska Medical Center. REUTERS-Sait Serkan GurbuzA worker in a hazardous material suit steps out of an apartment unit where a man diagnosed with the Ebola virus was staying in Dallas, Texas, October 5, 2014.  REUTERS-Jim YoungA general view of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas, Texas October 1, 2014.   REUTERS-Mike Stone

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