Blackout hits Lagos after tanker fire incident

The Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC, has confirmed a powerfulness outage affecting parts of Lagos State pursuing a occurrence outbreak on the Lekki-Epe Expressway.

In a statement, the institution attributed the disruption to an mishap involving a moving conveyance and a stationary state tanker, which triggered a occurrence that caused extended harm to captious energy infrastructure.

According to EKEDC, the blaze severely impacted the Ibeju and Medallion 33kV feeders, destroying cardinal conductors and overhead enactment components, thereby cutting disconnected powerfulness proviso to aggregate communities.

“Please beryllium informed that the existent outage resulted from a occurrence incidental that occurred past nighttime aft a conveyance collided with a stationary state tanker,” the institution stated.

“The occurrence caused important harm to the Ibeju and Medallion 33kV feeders, including indispensable conductors and overhead enactment equipment. Our method teams are presently moving to regenerate the affected components and reconstruct proviso arsenic rapidly and safely arsenic possible. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience,” the connection added.

Areas affected by the outage see communities served by the Medallion feeder, specified arsenic Medallion Company, arsenic good arsenic Sangotedo, Majek, Fidiso, Awoyaya, Container, Eputu, Lagasa, Losoro, Kajola, and Onisan, ...