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TCNNIGERIA @TCN_NIGERIA

Transmission Lines Cut Impacts Bulk Power Supply to Lagos State

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) announces that transmission lines snap occurred between Towers 420 to 422 on the Omotoso-Ikeja West 330kV transmission line on Saturday, March 9, 2025.

The lines cut has resulted in a reduction of approximately 350MW of bulk electricity supply to Lagos area affecting both Eko and Ikeja Electricity Distribution Companies. This temporary drop in bulk power supply has caused significant load shedding within the Eko and Ikeja franchise areas.

TCN has mobilized its engineers to the site and conveyed necessary materials to repair the snapped sections of the 330kV Omotoso-Ikeja West transmission line. Repair work is expected to be completed within three days, after which the full bulk power supply will be restored through the transmission line route.

TCN apologises for any inconvenience caused to the government, Eko and Ikeja Electricity Distribution Companies, and electricity consumers in Lagos State.

Ndidi Mbah
GM, Public Affairs
11/3/25

https://x.com/TCN_NIGERIA/status/1899544484020466077?t=F-c0Goj_y0dk46Hl3gaJiQ&s=19

Eko Electricity Distribution Company @EKEDP

POWER UPDATE - REDUCED POWER ALLOCATION

https://x.com/EKEDP/status/1899040713121091712?t=8g7dOGzZUKqxVW_KU7PrVg&s=19

Ikeja Electric @IkejaElectric

Public Notice: Update On Power Supply Disruption Due to Transmission Line Fault.

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https://x.com/IkejaElectric/status/1899521198217625939?t=0FIzgf4r779cTThRws8Z2Q&s=19

It's all right

kiyosaki1:
It's all right

It is not all right.. They should be fast about it and let people enjoy their businesses..

Una dey suffer for this lagos oo

Three days is too far

People get mind oo to even cut the power cable.

No wander we have not been getting light in our area

AMI3:
People get mind oo to even cut the power cable.

No wander we have not been getting light in our area

Same here. Since last week our light has been epileptic.

They use to blame Generator importers for sabotaging NEPA facilities now that majority are going Solar will they also blame Solar equipment sellers for sabotage?

Everyday

How convenient that coincidentally it happened around the period when some force men went to brutalize Ikeja electric staff!!

I don't know the difference, since band A doesn't let me enjoy light (exorbitant billing). Thanks to solar, I have given Nepa the middle finger.

Bulk power Kini? Light wey we dey be only 5/6hours a day.

You guys are not okay.

Since last week, cumulatively we've not had up to 2hrs light.

The weather is hot like hell and no light to pump water.

Even here in Awka.

Thank God for Solar tho

For your Solar installations, Solar batteries, CCTV installations, your Laptop power bank....chat me up

Always giving excuses for inefficiency what a sweet Country

ZombieDredd:
Una dey suffer for this lagos oo

It must be fake news since Lagos has 24/7 stable electricity more than two years after Buhari signed the 5th amendment to the 1999 Constitution that grants states authority to generate and regulate power.

pendy79:
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Sunday evening boasted that he could provide uninterrupted power supply to Lagos residents between six and eight months.

Fashola spoke at the commissioning of 8.5 megawatts Lekki Independent Power Project (IPP), the fifth of such power projects in the last five years in the state.

The governor said the addition of the Lekki IPP was a testament to the fact that stable power does not require rocket science to achieve in the country.

While challenging power distribution companies in the state, Fashola said, “Let the Eko DISCOs sign a contract with me, giving part of their concessioning to the state government, in about six to eight months, there will be power in all homes in Lagos State,” Fashola said.
He added, “So, let no one say that he has no money to deliver power for the entire country. This is the limit to which the law allows us to do, but we have done this to make a statement that power can be generated. So, when they come with lies that power is impossible, you can tell them that we have power here; we make it possible”.

The project, courtesy of the state government, in partnership with Heritage Bank, is to serve Lagos State Water Corporations in Lekki Phase 1, Oniru, Victoria Island and Ikoyi, as well as over 25km of public lightening in the Lekki axis.

Commissioning the project, Fashola said he felt fulfilled with the conduct of youths that delivered the project, despite the difficulties in getting to the finishing point.

He said it also showed that the money to improve the Nigerian economy is here, “since we don’t need the World Bank to come and do this for us.”

Also, General Manager, Lagos State Electricity Board, Damilola Ogunbiyi, said the state had shown that reliable and sustainable power projects are possible through the youths. Ogunbiyi said though it had been a successful story, the state was just scratching the surface in its “aggressive development plan” in the area of power.

Promoter of the project, Faruk Agoro noted that the new IPP was an innovative idea of world-class natural gas-fired power generating facility, sold to the government by youths and it was bought into, to support government institutions, especially in the area of water supply and security.

The Lekki IPP is 8.5 megawatts, with the capacity for 30 megawatts.

This brings the Lagos IPPS to a total of 47 megawatts of electricity in total, powering several public institutions around the state.

The generated megawatts is however still a far cry from the over 10, 000 megawatts power deficit in the state.

On his part, the State Commissioner in the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Taofeek Tijani, said the new addition was about continuity in public infrastructure programme of the state government

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/03/can-provide-stable-power-eight-months-fashola-boasts/

kiyosaki1:
It's all right

its past 3 days already still not restored ... its not alright

Hmm

Mexyz:
You guys are not okay.

Since last week, cumulatively we've not had up to 2hrs light.

The weather is hot like hell and no light to pump water.

Is it not strange that more than two years after Buhari assented the constitution amendment to allow states generate power, Lagos has failed to resuscitate the Enron barge project, like they have done for the 1984 cancelled Jakande light rail. Stranger than fiction.

Judge hands out prison time in Enron barge scam

Ex-Enron, Merrill execs sentenced. A repentant Boyle gets nearly four years for his involvement in barge scandal

May 13, 2005

Former Enron executive Dan Boyle was sentenced to nearly four years in prison Thursday, while Robert Furst and William Fuhs, both former Merrill Lynch bankers, received more than three years — all for their roles in the Enron Nigerian barge scam.

Boyle, sentenced to three years and 10 months in prison and fined $320,000, was the only one who appeared repentant about pushing through a sham sale of energy-generating barges to the bank so Enron could pump its earnings and bolster its stock price.

"I'm the only one responsible for my actions and omissions and for the pain I caused each and every person I affected," the Clear Lake resident told the judge. "I'm truly sorry."

https://www.chron.com/business/enron/article/Judge-hands-out-prison-time-in-Enron-barge-scam-1942569.php

No wonder we've not been having light since last Friday. Wahala for band A customers. 💔💔

Bwanasaraw:
They use to blame Generator importers for sabotaging NEPA facilities now that majority are going Solar will they also blame Solar equipment sellers for sabotage?

is it not possible to blame the solar and generator importer, or cant they work together

Nazgul:
Same here. Since last week our light has been epileptic.

I imagine that Aba people don't have such issues since they have Geothermal dedicated service.

frankiekinase:
...all you need to know

On Monday, 26 February 2024, a power plant was commissioned in Aba which will provide 24 hours electricity in 9 out of 17 local government areas in Abia State.

The power plant, CONVERSEER learned was build by Geometric Power Plant in Osisioma Industrial Layout, Aba, the commercial hub of the state.

With the epileptic power supply Nigeria faces, the area will become the first in history to have 24/7 power supply.

The capacity of the Geometric Power Plant is 181 megawatts (181MW).

The power plant was built by former Minister for Power, Professor Barth Nnaji for $800 million.

According to the management, Aba will consume only 100 megawatts of power while the balance of 81 megawatts will be exported to the national grid.

Geometric Power is the largest single investment in the South East.

The power plant project was built 9 years ago, marking the beginning of the economic transformation of South East.

The delay was sequel to the initial face-off between Geometric Power Plant and Enugu Electricity Distribution Company, EEDC, which was recently resolved out of court.

The Turbine 3 power plant was turned on at 3.39pm on Sunday, 25 February 2024, by Geometric Power engineers and their KS Energy counterparts.

The integrated power project includes building of 27-kilometre natural gas pipeline from Owaza in Ukwa West Local Government Area to the Osisioma Industrial Layout in Aba.

According to Ben Caven, Managing Director of Geometric Power Ltd., "We have, in addition, installed 150,000 kilometres of cables and wires and installed four new power substations, as well as refurbished three others inherited from the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN)."

Barth Nnaji embarked on the integrated project after James Wolfensohn, a former World Bank President and then Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala visted Aba, on 17 March 2004, and discovered that the greatest challenge facing both large-scale and medium-scale industrialists in Aba, reputed to be the centre of indigenous manufacturing in Nigeria, was epileptic power supply.

Both Wolfensohn and Okonjo-Iweala appealed to Nnaji to assist with a power plant dedicated to Aba, following the 22MW Abuja Emergency Power Plant he led a team of Nigerian engineers to build in Abuja, from 2000 to 2001 that supplied uninterrupted power to critical places, like the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Company, the Central Bank headquarters, the Aso Rock and the entire Central Business District of Abuja.

Patrick Umeh, a former executive with the Los Angeles Water and Light in the United States, who later served as commissioner in-charge of Markets, Market Rates and Competition, at the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), described the tubular poles mounted by Geometric Power in Aba and the environs, as incomparable in Africa.

Source: https://converseer.com/4899/a-look-into-aba-24-7-electric-power-plant/

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I was just wondering what could have happened about 3 days it's on and off

AMI3:
People get mind oo to even cut the power cable.

No wander we have not been getting light in our area

People cut 330,000volts transmission line? You cannot even get 10m close to it before being electrocuted.

Read the report, the line snapped on its own. If there was power on the line when the line snapped, everything closer than 25m would be electrocuted. That's why they tell you to observe a 25m setback to a transmission line.

Bwanasaraw:
They use to blame Generator importers for sabotaging NEPA facilities now that majority are going Solar will they also blame Solar equipment sellers for sabotage?

very incompetent FG and this is the part of his lamba o,that if he cannot provide 247 electricity that the people should not re elect him,since the guy man cam to power his only achievement has been astronomical increase in electricity tariff, why power supply has been on steady decline, worse than buhar regime
Worst part is they seem clueless
We can't even count the number of times the national grid has collapsed

always one form of destruction to power lines. buhari did better with power, this current govt is acting exactly how nigerians predicted buhari would have.


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I hate to say this. The repair turn around time is poor and shameful. This is a digital age ..🤔