Electricity crises: Minister gives fresh update as power returns to five states

The Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, has announced the restoration of energy to respective areas affected by caller powerfulness disruptions successful Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Kwara and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

Tegbe disclosed this successful an update connected the powerfulness concern connected Monday via his handle, saying that efforts were ongoing to reconstruct afloat energy proviso to the remaining affected areas.

He said, “Power has since been restored to galore of the areas earlier affected by powerfulness disruptions, mostly successful Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Kwara and the FCT.”

The curate besides announced that the vandalised Benin-Egbin 330kV transmission enactment had been repaired and restored to service.

“The vandalised Benin-Egbin 330kV powerfulness enactment has besides been swiftly repaired and deployed to transmit power.”

Tegbe explained that the restoration of the transmission enactment helped summation powerfulness proviso to the Lagos Complex to implicit 1,000 megawatts, efficaciously returning it to the level recorded earlier the disruption.

He added that the ministry was moving with cardinal stakeholders successful the powerfulness sector, including Generation Companies, the System Operator, the Transmission Company and Distribution Companies, to guarantee sustained and improved energy supply.

“We are moving with the cardinal powerfulness assemblage stakeholders to guarantee sustained and improved availability of power,” helium said.

The curate reaffirmed the government’s committedness to providing reliable energy to Nigerians, stressing that “our precedence continu...