– Winthrop Aldrich
Coming at a perilous period of a second wave of the debilitating COVID-19 pandemic and a second economic recession in five years, the recent increase in electricity tariff by 50 per cent by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC)says much about the inhuman and anti-people policies of the current administration!“Haba, have Nigerians not suffered enough?” a concerned citizen ventilated his anger, as soon the increase in the electricity tariff became a news item.
Of course, we have. If we are not battling against the increase in Value Added Tax (VAT), it is that of the incessant increase in the pump price of petrol in a so called oil-producing country. One does not need rocket science to understand the domino effects such aberrant increases have on the cost of living here in Nigeria. The prices of foodstuffs have skyrocketed. So it has affected that of transportation, healthcare delivery, house rents, communication, even as Nigerians battle again