By ABAH ADAH, Abuja
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has clarified that at 11:34 hours today, the Omotosho-Ikeja West 330kV transmission line tripped at the Omotosho end, adding that by the the Benin-Egbin 330kV line was on a scheduled outage for mechanical line tracing.
According to a statement issued late Wednesday, signed by the company’s head of Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, the tripping resulted in a cascaded outage affecting the Lagos, Abuja, and Osogbo axis, even as all other parts of the grid remained unaffected, contrary to reports of a grid collapse in the media.
“The line has been successfully restored, and normal power supply has been fully restored to the affected areas, TCN said, assuring Nigerians of its commitment to efficient delivery of bulk power across the country through continued implementation of measures to enhance the stability of the national grid.
Some distribution companies (DisCos) earlier notified their customers of an abrupt cessation in bulk power supply from the grid, but could not tell what actually went wrong within the network, and so it was reported.