{"id":72675,"date":"2025-08-10T19:39:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72675"},"modified":"2025-08-10T19:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T19:39:33","slug":"power-outage-is-due-to-technical-faults-aedc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/10\/power-outage-is-due-to-technical-faults-aedc\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Outage Is Due to Technical Faults – AEDC\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Adenike Lawal\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has disclosed that several communities in the Federal Capital Territory and Kogi State will experience temporary power outages due to ongoing technical issues and planned maintenance activities.<\/p>\n

In separate announcements released via its official X handle on Saturday and Sunday, the utility company detailed the affected locations.<\/p>\n

In Abuja, the blackout will impact Zulu Community, Eco Bank, Guardian Newspaper premises, and surrounding areas. Other affected locations include ENL, Paradise Estate, FHA Guzape, Efab Classic Estate, Metro City Estate, Sticks & Stones, Yayala Estate, Trademore Estate, Choos Estate, Maxcare Plaza, Faith Plaza, and Sunflower Plaza.<\/p>\n

Additional neighbourhoods listed are Erifu Estate, DME Estate, Greenpath School, Earth Point Estate, Sunnyvale Estate, Brains & Hammer 1, 2, 3, and 4, Hunters Garden, Ecofitness, Bamaga Tukur Street, Eye Clinic, Best Way Hotel, Franca Afegbua Crescent, and Zone C. Areas such as the Defence College, Checkin Hotel, Abba Kyari Street, Adeyemi Adesoji Street, Start Right School, Zone E Extension, Idu, Karmo, Citec Mbora, Airport Road, Nile University, Base University, Karimajiji, Kuchingoro, and surrounding environments will also be affected.<\/p>\n

The company attributed these Abuja outages to a technical fault, stating:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe regret to inform you that the current power outage affecting your area is due to a technical fault.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Kogi State, AEDC explained that the disruption will affect Okene township, Osisi, Kabba Junction, FCE, Osar, Mark Farm, Kabba, Isanlu, Ososo, Magogo, Ikare, Ihima, and nearby communities. This is linked to a maintenance exercise by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on the Okpella\u2013Okene 132kV transmission line scheduled for Sunday.<\/p>\n

According to the company, the exercise is aimed at enhancing service reliability and improving electricity supply to residents. AEDC assured customers that efforts are being made to minimise the disruption, adding:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe sincerely regret any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your patience and understanding during this necessary activity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Adenike Lawal\u00a0 The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has disclosed that several communities in the Federal Capital Territory and Kogi State will experience temporary power outages due to ongoing technical issues and planned maintenance activities. In separate announcements released via its official X handle on Saturday and Sunday, the utility company detailed the affected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":72676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1720,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72675","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72677,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72675\/revisions\/72677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}