{"id":29627,"date":"2020-09-07T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T13:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=29627"},"modified":"2020-09-07T13:49:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T13:49:42","slug":"reno-omokri-reveals-what-led-to-increase-in-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/reno-omokri-reveals-what-led-to-increase-in-fuel","title":{"rendered":"Reno Omokri reveals what led to increase in fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has revealed what led to the hike in electricity and fuel price.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that power distribution companies implemented new electricity tariffs on September 1, while the federal government announced a new ex-depot price of petrol on September 2.<\/p>\n<p>However, Omokri in a tweet via his Twitter account on Sunday, claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari was initially afraid to raise the prices of fuel and electricity.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the President went ahead with the decision after he observed that the Big Brother Naija show had completely distracted Nigerian Youths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cl was stunned to see youths organise a fundraiser for a disqualified BBNaija housemate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was told that General MBuhari was afraid to raise the prices of fuel and electricity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat emboldened him was when he saw how BBN has completely distracted Nigeria\u2019s youth,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2\" data-layout=\"list\">\n<div class=\"jp-related-posts-i2__row\" data-post-count=\"3\"><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has revealed what led to the hike in electricity and fuel price. Recall that power distribution companies implemented new electricity tariffs on September 1, while the federal government announced a new ex-depot price of petrol on September 2. However, Omokri in a tweet via his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":4767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,568],"class_list":["post-29627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-omokri"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Reno Omokri reveals what led to increase in fuel - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has revealed what led to the hike in electricity\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/reno-omokri-reveals-what-led-to-increase-in-fuel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Reno Omokri reveals what led to increase in fuel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has revealed what led to the hike in electricity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/reno-omokri-reveals-what-led-to-increase-in-fuel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-09-07T13:49:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/omokiri-reno.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"388\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/reno-omokri-reveals-what-led-to-increase-in-fuel#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/reno-omokri-reveals-what-led-to-increase-in-fuel\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Reno Omokri reveals what led to increase in fuel\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-09-07T13:49:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/reno-omokri-reveals-what-led-to-increase-in-fuel\"},\"wordCount\":153,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/reno-omokri-reveals-what-led-to-increase-in-fuel#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/omokiri-reno.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"Omokri\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/reno-omokri-reveals-what-led-to-increase-in-fuel#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/reno-omokri-reveals-what-led-to-increase-in-fuel\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/reno-omokri-reveals-what-led-to-increase-in-fuel\",\"name\":\"Reno Omokri reveals what led to increase in fuel - 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