{"id":58044,"date":"2024-12-15T17:45:05","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T17:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58044"},"modified":"2024-12-15T17:45:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T17:45:05","slug":"grid-failures-a-national-embarrassment-says-apc-chieftain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/15\/grid-failures-a-national-embarrassment-says-apc-chieftain\/","title":{"rendered":"Grid Failures a National Embarrassment, Says APC Chieftain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Emmanuel Ogbodo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, an APC chieftain in Osun State, has described Nigeria\u2019s frequent grid collapses as a &#8220;national embarrassment&#8221; and called for an urgent investigation.<br \/>\nIn a statement issued in Osogbo on Sunday, Oyintiloye decried the grid&#8217;s 12 failures this year, citing the severe economic impact on businesses.<br \/>\nHe urged President Bola Tinubu to prioritize resolving the issue, warning that possible sabotage should be thoroughly probed.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s alarming that a resource-rich nation continues to face persistent grid failures, damaging the economy and our global reputation,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nOyintiloye also called on Power Minister Adebayo Adelabu to appoint competent professionals to manage the sector and ensure accountability.<br \/>\nHe emphasized that anyone undermining efforts to stabilize power supply must face consequences.<br \/>\n\u201cThis embarrassment must stop. The power sector needs systemic reforms to restore stability and support economic growth,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Ogbodo Olatunbosun Oyintiloye, an APC chieftain in Osun State, has described Nigeria\u2019s frequent grid collapses as a &#8220;national embarrassment&#8221; and called for an urgent investigation. In a statement issued in Osogbo on Sunday, Oyintiloye decried the grid&#8217;s 12 failures this year, citing the severe economic impact on businesses. He urged President Bola Tinubu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":58045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58046,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58044\/revisions\/58046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}