{"id":179564,"date":"2024-08-30T10:44:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T08:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-govt-okays-50-electricity-subsidy-for-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T10:44:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T08:44:14","slug":"nigeria-govt-okays-50-electricity-subsidy-for-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-govt-okays-50-electricity-subsidy-for-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Govt Okays 50% Electricity Subsidy for Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Federal Government has approved a 50 per cent subsidy for the electricity consumed in public hospitals across the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">This followed a promise by the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, that the federal government would subsidise electricity in hospitals and universities, even if they were on Band-A feeders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The approval came as Eko Electricity Distribution Company, Eko DisCo, yesterday disconnected power supply to the University of Lagos, Akoka, over unpaid electricity bills, despite&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408300078.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has approved a 50 per cent subsidy for the electricity consumed in public hospitals across the nation. This followed a promise by the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, that the federal government would subsidise electricity in hospitals and universities, even if they were on Band-A feeders. The approval came as Eko Electricity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":179565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4895,4357,4993,257,4687,393,17174,254,16790],"class_list":["post-179564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-electricity","tag-govt","tag-hospitals","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-okays","tag-south-africa-today","tag-subsidy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}