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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>There was a mild drama on Monday when power supply was interrupted as the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, was speaking at the National Assembly.<\/p>\n

Adelabu was fielding questions from senators at the investigative hearing on \u201cthe need to halt the increase in the price of electricity\u201d organized by the Senate Committee on Power.<\/p>\n

However, power was shortly restored.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the power outage, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Power, Eyinnaya Abaribe, said what the minister said about the stable electricity in the country was implicative.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see what just happened. This is what we all experience. We the Senators experience it too and I am sure even the President does experience it at the Villa, just that he cannot speak out like we are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST recalls that the Federal Government, through the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, had on April 3, approved an increase of 340% in electricity tariff for customers under the Band A classification.<\/p>\n

According to the NERC\u2019s Vice Chairman, Musliu Oseni, Band A, customers will begin to pay N225 kilowatt per hour from the current N66.<\/p>\n

According to NERC, B and A customers are those who enjoy 20 hours of electricity supply daily.<\/p>\n

The Senate had summoned the Minister to speak on the recent tariff and justify the increase.<\/p>\n

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