•IBEDC and UCH Members of staff and patients at the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan, Oyo State, are in a jubilant mood after the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) reconnected the facility. The premier hospital was disconnected three weeks ago owing to the non-payment of electricity bill, plunging UCH into darkness, re...
•UI The University of Ibadan (UI) has been plunged into total darkness following the non-teaching staff unions’ strike. The strike was embarked upon yesterday by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) as directed by their national bodies, ...
•Tinubu The Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawlle, has directed the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) to go after all the propagators calling for truncation of the constitutional government in the country, describing them as criminals and enemies of democracy who should be brought to justice. According to the minister, “some mischief m...
•Transmission line The low electricity supply witnessed in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has worsened with the vandalism of the Tower 70 along 330kV Gwagwalada -Katampe. Nigeria’s city of power has been witnessing frequent power cuts due to low supply to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), reports Daily Trust. The situatio...
•An old transformer Eleven communities of Ali-Ara in Wara, Osin, and Egbejila wards of Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara state have been plunged into darkness. It was learnt that the outage which happened six months ago was caused by the dysfunctional state of the 20 years old transformer supplying electricity to the affected [&hellip...
Nigeria has plunged into darkness once again as the nation’s electricity grid collapsed. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) managed grid went down at approximately 11:51 AM today, reducing the system’s capacity from 2,407 megawatts to a mere 31MW by noon and reaching zero by 1 PM, reports The Guardian. Despite the federal government pri...
Six years after the $105 million-worth of special intervention to electrify public varsities and some tertiary hospitals nationwide, several beneficiaries listed in the phase one of the initiative are yet to get the power supply. Besides the trio of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo (AE-FUNAI), Ebonyi State, Usmanu Danfodiyo Un...
•Electricity grid Nigeria’s electricity grid has once again thrown the country into darkness as the government operated system went down this afternoon. The system collapsed at about 1pm cutting down electricity from 4,032.80 megawatts at about 12pm to 43 megawatts 1pm and a meagre 303 megawatts at about 5:00 pm, reports The Guardian. Most Dis...