{"id":219690,"date":"2026-04-14T19:48:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=219690"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:48:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:48:36","slug":"ajaero-blasts-power-sector-reform-says-nigerians-are-paying-for-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=219690","title":{"rendered":"Ajaero Blasts Power Sector Reform, Says Nigerians Are \u201cPaying for Darkness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 Joe Ajaero, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has criticised Nigeria\u2019s electricity privatisation, saying it has failed to improve supply and instead deepened energy poverty for workers, households and businesses. Speaking at the annual women and youth conference of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) in Abuja&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanexaminer.com\/ajaero-blasts-power-sector-reform-says-nigerians-are-paying-for-darkness\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 Joe Ajaero, President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), has criticised Nigeria\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219690-ajaero-blasts-power-sector-reform-says-nigerians-are-paying-for-darkness.jpeg",301,168,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219690-ajaero-blasts-power-sector-reform-says-nigerians-are-paying-for-darkness-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219690-ajaero-blasts-power-sector-reform-says-nigerians-are-paying-for-darkness.jpeg",300,167,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219690-ajaero-blasts-power-sector-reform-says-nigerians-are-paying-for-darkness.jpeg",301,168,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219690-ajaero-blasts-power-sector-reform-says-nigerians-are-paying-for-darkness.jpeg",301,168,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219690-ajaero-blasts-power-sector-reform-says-nigerians-are-paying-for-darkness.jpeg",301,168,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219690-ajaero-blasts-power-sector-reform-says-nigerians-are-paying-for-darkness.jpeg",301,168,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219690-ajaero-blasts-power-sector-reform-says-nigerians-are-paying-for-darkness.jpeg",301,168,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219690-ajaero-blasts-power-sector-reform-says-nigerians-are-paying-for-darkness.jpeg",301,168,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219690-ajaero-blasts-power-sector-reform-says-nigerians-are-paying-for-darkness.jpeg",301,168,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}