{"id":59895,"date":"2025-01-24T17:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T17:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59895"},"modified":"2025-01-24T17:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T17:33:14","slug":"tcn-completes-tower-relocation-restores-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/24\/tcn-completes-tower-relocation-restores-power\/","title":{"rendered":"TCN Completes Tower Relocation, Restores Power\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has announced the successful relocation of eight 132kV and 33kV transmission towers along the Kukwaba\/Apo 132kV line, restoring full bulk power to the 132\/33kV Apo Transmission Substation in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by Ndidi Mbah, TCN\u2019s General Manager of Public Affairs, on Friday, the company confirmed the completion of the project, which had been necessitated by the Federal Capital Development Authority\u2019s (FCDA), road dualization project in the Apo area.<\/p>\n<p>The relocation work, which began on January 6, 2025, included dismantling and reconstructing the towers and restringing power cables.<\/p>\n<p>TCN had earlier announced a planned outage between January 6 and January 20 to enable the smooth execution of the project.<\/p>\n<p>With the restoration of power to the Apo Substation, the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), can now resume normal electricity distribution to affected customers, ending weeks of load rationing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to announce the restoration of full bulk power to the Apo Substation following the successful relocation of the towers along the Southern Expressway route.<\/p>\n<p>TCN thanks all affected electricity consumers for their patience during this period,\u201d Mbah stated.<\/p>\n<p>This development brings relief to residents of the Federal Capital Territory who had experienced power disruptions during the two-week relocation project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has announced the successful relocation of eight 132kV and 33kV transmission towers along the Kukwaba\/Apo 132kV line, restoring full bulk power to the 132\/33kV Apo Transmission Substation in Abuja. In a statement issued by Ndidi Mbah, TCN\u2019s General Manager of Public Affairs, on Friday, the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-59895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59895","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=59895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59897,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59895\/revisions\/59897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}