BY EDMOND ODOK – Despite Abuja, the nation’s capital and its environs being without electricity for long hours following the nationwide indefinite strike by the Labour Movement that commenced on Tuesday, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has debunked media reports about looming countrywide blackout.
Describing as “inaccurate and misleading” an online news report predicting a national blackout and attributed to its Head of Public Affairs, the TCN claimed that no such official declaration has been issued.
A statement by the TCN management and shared on its X account, formally Twitter, on Tuesday, said the country’s power grid remained intact, consistently providing substantial electricity to distribution load centers across the nation.
The statement stated thus; “The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) hereby states that the publication by Daily Post alleging that the Head of Public Affairs of TCN said that there will be a national blackout is false and totally misleading.
“The statement is mischievous and baseless as TCN, through the Public Affairs Head, did not make such statement. We hereby note that the nation’s grid is intact and supplying bulk electricity to distribution load centers nationwide.”
“As at when issuing this statement, the TCN National Control Centre Osogbo which controls bulk power transmission nationwide, is actively operational”, the statement said.
Meanwhile, as of the time of filing this report by 18.36 hours Nigerian time, our correspondents report that Abuja, the FCT, Nasarawa and Niger States were still in total darkness as electricity has not yet been restored.
