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...

2023: COURT DECLARES JONATHAN ELIGIBLE TO CONTEST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.(PHOTO).


2023: Court Declares Jonathan Eligible To Contest Presidential Election

A Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa has ruled that former President Goodluck Jonathan is eligible and qualified to contest the 2023 presidential elections.

The presiding judge, Justice Isa Dashen gave the judgement on Friday.

He ruled that Jonathan’s right to contest for the office of president again cannot be stopped by any retroactive law.

Some presidential aspirants contesting on the platform of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) have kicked against the decision of the Aso Rock cabal to adopt former President Goodluck Jonathan as the presidential consensus candidate of the party, SaharaReporters has gathered.

The cabal, comprising some members of President Muhammadu Buhari’s extended family and friends, are the powers behind the throne.


 

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