Nigeria may face worse power outages given rising attacks on transmission infrastructure, a development the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) blamed for grid collapse.
Nigeria may face worse power outages given rising attacks on transmission infrastructure, a development the Transmission Company of Nigeria blamed for grid collapse.Nigeria may face worse power outages given rising attacks on transmission infrastructure, a development the Transmission Company of Nigeria blamed for grid collapse.
The prevailing vandalism brings a snag to the over $7 billion loans taken by former President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to overhaul the transmission segment of the electricity sector. While fault tracing, TCN’s engineering crew discovered that towers 288,289,290, and 291 were vandalised and that some tower members were carted away.Currently, bulk power supply to Gombe, Yola, and Jalingo Substations has been disrupted, affecting bulk power supply to parts of Yola and Jos Electricity Distribution Companies’ franchise areas, Mba said.
Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, yesterday, urged researchers and institutes in the agricultural sector to align their research with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda on food security to have enough food to feed Nigerians. Report released yesterday by an international child rights group, Save the Children, indicated that about 15.6 million children in Nigeria faced hunger as the lean season starts in June.
Residents of Taraba, Gombe and Adamawa states are facing severe hardship as a result of widespread power outage, which has crippled businesses and exacerbated economic challenges in the region.
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