Engineers from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) have initiated work to restore bulk power supply across northern Nigeria, addressing recent outages affecting the region.
Sunday Dare, Special Adviser on Public Communication and Orientation to President Bola Tinubu, confirmed the ongoing repairs, signaling the government’s commitment to resolving power supply issues and stabilizing electricity distribution in the North.
This development underscores the administration's focus on infrastructure improvements for energy reliability in affected states.
On October 22, TCN reported a power outage in the north-east, north-west and parts of north-central after the 330 kV Ugwaji–Apir double circuit transmission lines 1 and 2 tripped around 4:53 am “due to a fault”.
Apart from Niger and Kwara, 17 states in the North are without electricity supply in the last two weeks.
The worst affected are Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, Gombe and Katsina, which have not had supply in the last two weeks.
Others are Sokoto, Zamfara, Bauchi, Yobe, Borno, Adamawa, Taraba, Niger, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kogi and Benue.