{"id":61677,"date":"2025-02-21T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61677"},"modified":"2025-02-21T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T21:19:08","slug":"power-restored-to-katampe-central-after-six-week-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/21\/power-restored-to-katampe-central-after-six-week-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Restored to Katampe-Central After Six-Week Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has fully restored power to the Katampe-Central Area in Abuja after a six-week outage caused by vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, Ndidi Mbah, TCN\u2019s General Manager of Public Affairs, confirmed the completion of repairs on the damaged 132\/33kV lines 1 &amp; 2.<\/p>\n<p>The disruption, which began on January 17, was traced to the vandalism of an underground 1\u00d7400mm XLPE copper conductor.<\/p>\n<p>During the outage, alternative feeders were used to minimize the blackout\u2019s impact.<\/p>\n<p>Mbah assured that the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), can now resume normal power supply and called for public cooperation to curb infrastructure vandalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has fully restored power to the Katampe-Central Area in Abuja after a six-week outage caused by vandalism. In a statement on Friday, Ndidi Mbah, TCN\u2019s General Manager of Public Affairs, confirmed the completion of repairs on the damaged 132\/33kV lines 1 &amp; 2. The disruption, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61677","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=61677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61679,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61677\/revisions\/61679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}