•Electrocuted cable thief A yet-to-be-identified man has been electrocuted while vandalising electricity equipment belonging to FirstPower Electricity Distribution Company Limited at Ogechukwu Street, Awka, the Anambra State capital. The suspected cable thief was reportedly operating at a transformer substation in the area and had finished cut...
•A transformer One person is feared dead in a transformer explosion that rocked Nnewi, Anambra State today. The unidentified victim was said to have been cleaning some weed around the transformer stationed close to his residence along Onitsha-Nnewi-Owerri Old Road, when the sad incident occurred, reports Daily Independent. Sources said a femal...
•Transformer A yet-be-identified suspected transformer vandal was electrocuted in Ihe Primary School at Obukpa, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Monday night. He was attempting to steal armoured cables belonging to the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, reports Vanguard. The remains of the victim revealed severe burns al...
•Governor Inuwa Yahaya The Gombe State Government has suspended the village head of Garin Majidadi in Akko Local Government Area, Mohammed Majidadi, over alleged theft. It also suspended the Councillor representing Kumo East Ward, Abdullahi M. Panda, reports Channels TV. Announcing this in a statement yesterday, the Secretary to the State Gove...
•Transformer A 19-year-old suspected transformer vandal, identified as Nwode Sunday “m”, of Ngwo Camp 2, Coal Camp, Enugu, has been electrocuted in Enugu. The deceased reportedly died while vandalizing electrical cables in an Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) transformer at Coal Camp area of Enugu, in the early morning hours of tod...
A staff member of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has been arrested alongside five others for allegedly vandalising and stealing a transformer in Abuja. SP Josephine Adeh, spokesperson for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command, announced this in a statement, yesterday. She identified the other suspects as Kabiru Muha...
•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...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says the sudden explosion of a capacitor voltage transformer stirred a fire outbreak yesterday on the Maryland- Ikorodu 132/33kV transmission line 2. In a statement yesterday by its spokesperson, Ms Ndidi Mbah, the TCN said this incident necessitated the emergency opening of the substation at about 7:5...

