Fashola! Deal first with Nigeria’s many 419 metres!!

On February 01, 2016, new electricity tariffs approved by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) came into force. In a quick response, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) issued an ultimatum for a reversal of the new tariffs or else they would shut down the nation. One week later, precisely Monday, February 08, 2016, the three bodies made good their threat by shutting down Abuja and virtually every state of the federation over the new tariffs. To argue that the bodies should have shown better understanding by appreciating the current efforts by the Buhari administration to place the nation on sounding footing; makes some sense but it is an exceedingly simplistic argument because based on where we are coming from, a trend of once beaten, twice shy has since been created.