Northeast power crisis worsens as Jalingo, Yola go dark ahead of planned TCN outage

Daily Post· 1h ago· 1 min read

Residents of Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, and Yola, the Adamawa State capital, are once again grappling with a prolonged electricity blackout following a fault at a Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, facility, a development that has intensified concerns over the reliability of power supply across the northeast.

The latest outage has left homes, businesses and public institutions without electricity for the past three days, with Jalingo metropolis among the worst affected.

The blackout has disrupted commercial activities, forced many businesses to rely on costly alternative sources of power and compounded the hardships faced by residents already struggling with rising living costs.

The incident comes at a particularly difficult time for electricity consumers in the region, as TCN had only recently announced a planned maintenance exercise that was expected to result in a…

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