Power blackout has hit fve Northern Nigerian states, including part of the Niger Republic due to annual maintenance by Transmission Company of Nigeria on its Mando–Kumbotso 330kV Transmission Line scheduled for Sunday, 31st May 2026.
TCN spokesperson, Ndidi Mbah disclosed this in a statement on Saturday that Kano Electricity Distribution Company will be unable to supply electricity to Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Bauchi, Yobe, and parts of the Niger Republic.
TCN said the maintenance is expected to last between 9am and 4pm, it did not explicitly state when power would be restored to the affected areas.
The statement reads in part: “The outage is necessary to enable TCN’s maintenance crew to amend a damaged Red Phase Conductor on Tower T187 along the line route.
“Consequently, Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) will be unable to off-take electricity to its customers across Kano, Katsina, and Jigawa States, as well as parts of Bauchi and Yobe States; customers in Gazaoua (Niger Republic) would also be affected by the outage”.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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