The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), on Tuesday, refuted reports on looming blackout in the country as a result of purported shutdown of the national grid by striking workers.The company said the report is false.
TCN management in a statement on Tuesday, dissociated the organisation from the report attributed to its Head of Public Affairs that “there would be a national blackout on account of the ongoing nationwide labour strike”, noting that the report was false and totally misleading.
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Electricity distribution unit
TCN management further declared that the report was “mischievous and baseless,” and that “TCN, through the Public Affairs Head, did not make such statement.”
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The statement declared: “The Transmission Company of Nigeria, hereby, states that the publication by Daily Post alleging that the Head of Public Affairs of TCN said that there will be a national blackout is false and totally misleading.
“The nation’s grid is “intact and supplying bulk electricity to distribution load centers nationwide.”
The statement continued: “As at when issuing this statement, the TCN National Control Centre, Osogbo, which controls bulk power transmission nationwide, is actively operational.
“We would appreciate that reports are made with a sense of responsibility not just to cause panic.”
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