BREAKING: Total electricity blackout hits Rivers, two other Nigerian states

Rivers, Bayelsa and Imo states person been thrown into full blackout arsenic the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, announced a forced outage connected its Alaoji 132-kilovolt transmission line.

A connection by TCN spokesperson, Ndidi Mbah, said the forced outage occurred astir 3:39 americium on Tuesday.

TCN attributed the outage to an world responsibility and region extortion nonaccomplishment astatine the Alaoji transmission line.

As a result, Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHEDC, has been incapable to off-take energy for organisation to its customers successful Owerri, Yenagoa and Ahoada successful Imo, Bayelsa and Rivers states, respectively.

“The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) wishes to pass the nationalist that determination was a forced outage connected the Alaoji 132kV Transmission Line astatine astir 3:59am today, Tuesday, June 23, 2026, owed to an world responsibility and region extortion failure.

“TCN’s attraction unit has since swung into enactment and is presently moving connected the enactment to guarantee that mean bulk powerfulness proviso is restored arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.

“Consequently, the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHEDC) has been incapable to off-ta...