{"id":62211,"date":"2025-03-06T05:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T05:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62211"},"modified":"2025-03-06T05:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T05:08:15","slug":"nigeria-hits-historic-power-surge-as-tcn-sets-new-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/06\/nigeria-hits-historic-power-surge-as-tcn-sets-new-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Hits Historic Power Surge as TCN Sets New Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>BY IFEOLUWA ODUNAYO<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a groundbreaking development, Nigeria\u2019s power sector has hit an all-time high, generating a record 5,801.84 megawatts (MW) and transmitting 128,370.75 megawatt-hours (MWh) nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) announced the milestone on March 4, 2025, at 21:15 hrs, surpassing previous records and signaling progress in the country\u2019s electricity sector despite lingering challenges.<\/p>\n<p>This latest feat eclipses the March 2 peak of 5,713.60MW and the February 14 record of 5,543.20MW, reinforcing the federal government\u2019s commitment to enhancing power generation, transmission, and distribution.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Wednesday on X, TCN assured Nigerians of continued efforts to sustain and improve electricity supply across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IFEOLUWA ODUNAYO In a groundbreaking development, Nigeria\u2019s power sector has hit an all-time high, generating a record 5,801.84 megawatts (MW) and transmitting 128,370.75 megawatt-hours (MWh) nationwide. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) announced the milestone on March 4, 2025, at 21:15 hrs, surpassing previous records and signaling progress in the country\u2019s electricity sector despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62211","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=62211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62213,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62211\/revisions\/62213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}