4 Northern States In Darkness Over Faulty Transmission Lines.
The states are among the franchise areas for the distribution company.
The Jos Electricity Distribution Company has noted that four northern states of Bauchi, Benue, Gombe and Plateau, have been thrown into darkness.
The states are among the franchise areas for the distribution company.
The development was attributed to a fault on the 330kV double circuit transmission lines of Ugwuji-Makurdi-Jos.
Confirming the development, the Head of Corporate Communications, JEDC, Friday Elijah, noted that “the tripping of the lines occurred in the afternoon on Friday, resulting in the loss of power supply on all the 33KV feeders.”
He further noted that the Transmission Company of Nigeria engineers were working to rectify the fault.
“We hope to restore normal power supply to our esteemed customers as soon as the fault is rectified and power supply is restored back to normalcy,” Elijah noted.
Nigeria electricity grid has been experiencing different shutdown and challenges over-time, with grid collapses and blackout in states of the country recorded due to this development.
Some of the issues have been blamed on vandalism and aged infrastructure.
