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

Residents of Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, and Yola, the Adamawa State capital, are erstwhile again grappling with a prolonged energy blackout pursuing a responsibility astatine a Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, facility, a improvement that has intensified concerns implicit the reliability of powerfulness proviso crossed the northeast.

The latest outage has near homes, businesses and nationalist institutions without energy for the past 3 days, with Jalingo metropolis among the worst affected.

The blackout has disrupted commercialized activities, forced galore businesses to trust connected costly alternate sources of powerfulness and compounded the hardships faced by residents already struggling with rising surviving costs.

The incidental comes astatine a peculiarly hard clip for energy consumers successful the region, arsenic TCN had lone precocious announced a planned attraction workout that was expected to effect successful a impermanent powerfulness interruption crossed respective northeastern states.

According to the company, energy consumers successful Bauchi, Gombe, Damaturu, Maiduguri, Yola, Jalingo and surrounding communities are scheduled to acquisition a planned outage from 9:00 a.m. connected Saturday, July 25, until 5:00 p.m. connected Sunday, July 26, 2026, to alteration attraction enactment connected captious transmission infrastructure.

However, the unexpecte...