The Federal Ministry of Power has blamed vandals for the immediate cause of Friday’s power outage in Nigeria.
A statement by the Ministry indicates that there was vandalism on the Odukpani Ikot Ekpene 330kv double circuit transmission line thus resulting in a sudden loss of about 400mw of power generation. This consequently led to a cascade of plant shutdown across the country.
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The Ministry added that power on the grid is being restored sequentially by the System Operator as other on-grid power plants are being dispatched to cover the lost generation capacity from the Calabar Power Plant owned by the Niger Power Holding Company Limited.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
