Electricity tariff hike: Nigerians react

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00:00In recent months, electricity tariff hikes in Nigeria has sparked widespread concern,

00:06especially with the growing gap between what consumers pay and the power they actually receive.

00:13From homes to small businesses, many now pay significantly more without seeing a proportional

00:19improvement in supply. Among them are band A customers. They pay over 200 naira per kilowatt

00:27hour for at least 20 hours of electricity daily. On paper, they are the priority. Yet, for many,

00:35that promise often falls short. Just as they are beginning to adjust to the premium cost,

00:42the government is proposing yet another tariff hike, saying it's needed to attract investors

00:48and fix the sector. Therefore, we are asking the question if this cost truly reflective of the

00:55services received. Are they promised 20 hours consistent, or just another policy on paper?

01:02As premium paying customers, do you feel sane, served, or shortchanged?

01:08What I know is that if you load 2,000 now, you can't reach tomorrow, you can't reach

01:1324 o'clock in the night, you don't finish. We are not getting the service for what will happen.

01:17For example, now, this morning, they have off the lights. Before then, there will be analysis.

01:23And if they bring our analysis, when it is 9 o'clock, they will go home again. It will be 12

01:29before they will bring up. We are even pleading. They can even reduce us. Even if they like to put

01:35us back to band Z, we really appreciate that. So the band A is too expensive for us. Like me now,

01:40I'm a food vendor. I buy food and store it in my freezer. But at times, I don't have money to recharge.

01:46So I don't know what I can do about that. It's like now, we don't normally on our lights in the

01:52afternoon. It is only in the night. Because of the tariff, it's too expensive. Why can't we be

01:58loading like 5,000 Naira per day? It's too much. At least, how much are we earning? How much are we

02:04paying back to the government? If they can just bring us back to the normal level, I think it will be

02:08better. We should have life for like 18-16 hours. Not every day.

02:17the

02:22other

02:24hundred-year-old

02:27me

02:31so

02:32There is no power and address.

02:37You can work your salary and get the money in your life.

02:41People don't have money money.

02:44I don't even know what them do.

02:47They are now feeling the money in their lives of years,

02:50and with that love, they don't have money in the world.

02:53What is your salary and our salary?

02:55We should not pay attention and we should not pay attention.

03:00When the man loved and loved, he didn't give a lot of money.

03:05He just told him that he had to grow up,

03:09he didn't allow a lot of money to get it.

03:15The man that was always the same thing to end,

03:19he didn't give a lot of money to each other on his own.

03:22So I had to get him,

03:25The rate in which the lights get exhausted, I don't even understand.

03:43You can buy a light of 5,000 euros.

03:45You won't even know how it runs off.

03:49And I'm sure that when we're still using the directs and nepa, which is not prepared,

03:53I feel like that one is more better.

03:55Because on that aspect of it, even if you pay 20,000 euros in a month, you can use your

04:00AC.

04:01You can use your fridge.

04:02You can use anything you like.

04:03It's more like the money you are paying is big, but at the same time, you have the advantage

04:08to use it in your own way.

04:09But now that we're using prepared, even if you buy a light of 10,000 euros, it can't last

04:14up to a week.

04:15I don't want to know what you're using in your house, so let's say the only thing you're

04:18own is just your bulb.

04:19But as long as you have electricity, like now, 1,000 euros is 4 units.

04:23What will you do is 4 units?

04:24If you own your 4 units in a day, if you own your AC, believe me, it will last up to

04:2920 minutes.

04:30It will go off.

04:31So, I don't know what they need to do about this.

04:34Seriously, it's not favoring us at all.

04:36If I wasn't using it, I would feel like as if I'm talking on behalf of people.

04:39But now I'm talking for myself.

04:41It doesn't favor us at all.

04:43You can't reverse back to the old days.

04:44We used to do the normal Nepal usage.

04:46They'll just be big for you.

04:47Sometimes they'll tell you that it's 9,000.

04:48It's 5,000.

04:49It's 3,000.

04:50It's still better.

04:51Because at the end of the day, if you choose to buy enough gadgets in your house, it's for

04:57your own good.

04:58Let it be that.

04:59What you are paying for.

04:59You are enjoying it.

05:00As we've heard, paying more doesn't always mean getting more.

05:20While Band A customers carry the highest electricity cost, many are still questioning the value

05:26of what they receive.

05:28As discussions and further tariff ice continue, the performance of the current framework will

05:33be critical in shaping public trust and determining the next phase of power sector reforms.

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