Tag: Power blackout

Blackout, fuel price fears as PENGASSAN strike shuts down oil, gas sector

Aminu Imam
PENGASSAN strike

…Court stops PENGASSAN Nigeria’s energy sector was thrown into turmoil yesterday, as the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) shut-down key oil and gas institutions in protest against the mass sacking of 800 workers at the Ɗangote Petroleum Refinery. The strike forced the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) and the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) under lock and key in Abuja, with workers chanting solidarity songs and barricading entrances. PENGASSAN ordered members in international oil…

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Nationwide blackout looms, as electricity workers down tools

Aminu Imam
Nationwide blackout

Electricity consumers relying on the national grid may face a prolonged blackout within hours, as the National Union of Electricity Employees, (NUEE), on Wednesday began a nationwide strike over unresolved labour disputes with the Transmission Company of Nigeria, (TCN). The union, in a circular signed by its Acting General Secretary, Dominic Igwebike, directed its members across the country to withdraw their services indefinitely until management addresses long-standing welfare and operational concerns. According to NUEE, the strike became inevitable after the expiration of an ultimatum issued to TCN, accusing the company…

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Power outage killing patients: Kano Teaching Hospital begs KEDCO to restore electricity

Aminu Imam
AKTH KEDCO

The management of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) has urged the Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) to immediately restore electricity supply to the facility. The management of the hospital made the advocacy in an issued statement, signed by the AKTH’s Head of Information Unit, Hauwa Inuwa Dutse.  The appeal is coming shortly after some patients on life support reportedly died due to long hours of power outages.  The hospital expressed deep concern over the tragic loss of lives, describing it as avoidable had power been sustained. It lamented that the…

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Nationwide blackout, as national grid crashes again

Aminu Imam
National grid crashes

Nigeria was plunged into another nationwide blackout yesterday, after the national electricity grid collapsed, cutting power supply across the country. According to data from the grid, power generation nosedived from 2,917.83 megawatts to a mere 1.5 megawatts between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m., effectively shutting down supply to nearly all Electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos). Only Ibadan DisCo reportedly retained minimal allocation. The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), in a statement issued at 11:23 a.m. via its X handle, confirmed the outage, attributing it to the sudden grid failure. “Please be…

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Power outage hits Aso Villa, Maitama, Wuse, Jabi, others

Aminu Imam
Power outage hits FCT

…’Vandals stole underground cables’ -TCN A power outage has disrupted parts of the Presidential Villa, Maitama, Wuse, Jabi, Lifecamp, Asokoro, Utako, and Mabushi, following a vandalized 132kV transmission line and underground cable supplying bulk power to the Central Area transmission substation in Katampe, with thieves making-off with 40 meters of 1x500mm XLPE conductor. According to the Transmission Company of Nigeria, (TCN)’s General Manager of Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, revealed this in a statement yesterday, the incident impacted eight distribution feeders supplying the Central Area, leading to the disruption of over…

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“Restore power in Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, others” Northern senators tell FG

Aminu Imam
Northern Senators demand

The Northern Senators Forum has asked the federal government to swiftly restore electricity supply in Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Jigawa and other States in the North. The senators specifically asked the federal government to expedite repairs of the Shiroro-Kaduna transmission lines in order to restore reliable power supply. Recall that some parts of the North are in total blackout following a fault in the 330kV DC Transmission Line. In an issued communiqu, signed by Chairman of the Northern Senators Forum, Senator AbdulAziz ?aradua, the senators asked the Federal Government to expedite…

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