BREAKING: Total electricity blackout hits Rivers, two other Nigerian states

Rivers, Bayelsa and Imo states have been thrown into total blackout as the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, announced a forced outage on its Alaoji 132-kilovolt transmission line.
A statement by TCN spokesperson, Ndidi Mbah, said the forced outage occurred around 3:39 am on Tuesday.
TCN attributed the outage to an earth fault and distance protection failure at the Alaoji transmission line.
As a result, Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHEDC, has been unable to off-take electricity for distribution to its customers in Owerri, Yenagoa and Ahoada in Imo, Bayelsa and Rivers states, respectively.
“The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) wishes to inform the public...