Further hike in electricity tariff 'll be resisted — NLC
•Threatens to shut operations of telecoms if 35 % tariff hike agreed with FG’s breached THE Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday asked the federal government to jettison any planned hike in electricity tariff under any guise, threatening to lead mass resistance against such move. It also threatened to shut down operations of telecommunications companies should they fail to implement the 35 per cent hike in tariff agreed with government, against the 50 per cent earlier approved through the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC. NLC in communiqué at the end of its National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in Yola, Adamawa State, weekend, said members of NEC unequivocally rejected the ongoing reclassification of electricity consumers by the NERC, which seeks to forcibly migrate consumers from lower bands to Band A, under the guise of service improvement, which it described as unjustified extortion of the masses. The communiqué signed by the President and General Secretary, Joe Ajaero a...