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...

FATHER OF ZAMFARA SPEAKER DIES IN BANDITS' CUSTODY.{PHOTO}.

Father of Zamfara Speaker Alh Muazu Abubakar Magarya has been confirmed dead in the hands of his captors.


ā€œMalam Magarya said it was one of bandit kingpin popularly known as Kachalla that informed him a day to their rescue by the security that his brother was dead due to heart failure while in captivityā€ blueprint newspaper captured.


ā€œAlthough, we were separated when they kidnapped us, they took my brother to other camps, but it was Kachalla, one of the commanders of the Bandits who told me about the death of my brother as a result of heart attack few hours to our rescue,ā€


Hauwau Muazu Magarya who was a wife to the father of the Speaker told news men that, ā€œshe heard one of the bandits saying her husband has diedā€.

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