Planned power outage to plunge northeastern cities into two days of darkness 

Residents and businesses crossed large parts of Northeast Nigeria are expected to acquisition a impermanent disruption successful energy proviso adjacent play pursuing a planned attraction workout by the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN.

The outage, which volition impact energy consumers successful Bauchi, Gombe, Damaturu, Maiduguri, Yola, Jalingo and surrounding communities, is scheduled to statesman astatine 9:00 a.m. connected Saturday, July 25, and extremity astatine 5:00 p.m. connected Sunday, July 26, 2026.

According to TCN, the interruption is indispensable to facilitate the installation of Optic Fibre and Ground Wire (OPGW) connected the 330kV Jos–Bauchi–Gombe Single Circuit Transmission Line astatine the Bauchi 330/132/33kV Transmission Substation.

In a connection issued connected Saturday, the General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, said the attraction enactment would temporarily forestall the Yola Electricity Distribution Company, YEDC, and the Jos Electricity Distribution Company ,JEDC, from receiving bulk powerfulness for onward organisation to customers successful the affected states.

The institution explained that the OPGW installation forms portion of efforts to fortify the country’s transmission infrastructure by improving communication, strategy monitoring and wide grid reliability.

Although the planned outage volition effect successful astir 3...