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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
As the organised labour commenced a nationwide indefinite strike on Tuesday, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said there is no truth in a media report about a looming national blackout.
A statement signed by the TCN management, which was shared on its X account on Tuesday, emphasised that the claim made by an online news outlet alleging that the Head of Public Affairs of TCN predicted a national blackout was inaccurate and misleading.
The statement clarified that no such declaration was made by the Public Affairs Head, stressing that the country’s power grid remained intact.
“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 statement is mischievous and baseless as TCN, through the Public Affairs Head, did not make such statement.
“We hereby note that the nation’s grid is intact and supplying bulk electricity to distribution load centers nationwide.
“As at when issuing this statement, the TCN National Control Centre Osogbo which controls bulk power transmission nationwide, is actively operational,” the statement read.