{"id":58933,"date":"2025-01-04T15:50:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T15:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58933"},"modified":"2025-01-04T15:50:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T15:50:31","slug":"abuja-will-experience-two-weeks-of-power-outages-tcn-confirms-gives-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/04\/abuja-will-experience-two-weeks-of-power-outages-tcn-confirms-gives-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja Will Experience Two Weeks of Power Outages, TCN Confirms, gives reason\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has announced a planned power rationing across parts of Abuja from January 6 to January 20, 2025, due to the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA)&#8217;s ongoing road dualisation project along the Apo axis.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Saturday, TCN\u2019s General Manager, Public Affairs, Mrs. Ndidi Mbah, explained that the project necessitates the relocation of eight 132kV and 33kV transmission towers along the Kukwaba\/Apo 132kV line.<\/p>\n<p>This will result in daily power outages from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Affected areas include Kubwa, Karu, Maraba, Nyanya, Masaka, Keffi, Kukwaba, Apo Mechanic, Lugbe, Trademore Estate, Pyakasa, Sabon Lugbe, Chika, and Alaita.<\/p>\n<p>Mbah assured that power supply would be fully restored once the tower relocation and restringing of power cables are completed.<\/p>\n<p>She also apologized for the inconvenience, emphasizing that the exercise is essential for the successful completion of the road project.<\/p>\n<p>The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), had earlier warned customers of power interruptions in parts of its service areas between January 6 and January 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has announced a planned power rationing across parts of Abuja from January 6 to January 20, 2025, due to the Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA)&#8217;s ongoing road dualisation project along the Apo axis. In a statement issued on Saturday, TCN\u2019s General Manager, Public Affairs, Mrs. Ndidi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58933","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58934,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58933\/revisions\/58934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}