The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company says present power outage in parts of the FCT is due to a technical fault on the 33kV feeder serving the affected areas from the Kukwaba transmission substation.
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The policy was designed to address the metering gap within AEDC’s franchise areas of the Federal Capital Territory, Kogi, Niger and Nasarawa States
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company has asked owners of buildings and shops under its high tension wires to vacate immediately for their own safety.
The Managing Director of AEDC, Engineer Ernest Mupwaya, disclosed this on Sunday at the official presentation of the hosting flag for the 2018 national power safety summit to the firm.
The outage of light in the city for about four days resorted to a peaceful protest by youths and had irked the lawmakers at plenary, resulting in the summon of the Regional Manager for direct questions and answers
Idris made this known while inaugurating the Anti-Electricity Vandalism Response Squad on Tuesday in Abuja.
Ahmed Shekarau, AEDC’s Head, Public Relations and Media, said in a statement on Tuesday that the accident occurred on July 29.
The residents voiced out their feelings during a Townhall meeting organised by the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission held in Lafia.
The AEDC, however, said the management deemed it necessary to set the records straight to correct the erroneous impression being created
Abimbola Ogunbiyi, the Director of Corporate Service of the AEDC, gave the warning in Lafia while answering questions from members of the state House of Assembly during plenary, presided over by the Speaker, Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe-Abdullahi
While hinging its action on debts owned by individual customers, Ahmed Shekarau, the AEDC’s spokesman, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja that the step was also taken for safety reasons
Oyebode Fadipe, the Head of its Corporate Affairs Department, disclosed this to newsmen shortly after a stakeholders’ meeting on Tuesday in Minna, Niger State
According to the Chairman of the Community, Michael Momoh, who expressed his frustration, some staff of AEDC, Ushafa office, especially one Emmanuel, who claimed to be an engineer, allegedly connived with some new residents in the area to connect them to the transformer against the agreement between the Community and AEDC to the effect that anyone who wishes to connect light from the transformer should first be cleared by the community
The Permanent Secretary of the State House, Jalal Arabi, made this known when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Federal Character and Inter-Governmental Affairs to defend the 2017 Budget
The Chairman of the Community Residents Association, Ismaila Mohammed, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja that the disconnection was carried out on January 31
In a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, the AEDC management further said that it was untrue that it supplied the state with low electricity in favour of other franchise areas
They vowed that if light goes off anymore between now and January 2017, the Abuja Electricity Development Company will also have to leave the state
Electricity Distribution Companies are being owed over N100billion by MDAs. This had contributed to the market shortfall being experienced in the sector
A statement from the management of AEDC in Abuja on Thursday said the installation of the meters was in line with its commitment to metering all the customers under its jurisdiction
A statement by the state Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Jonathan Vatsa, on Friday in Minna stated that the state has been experiencing outages for the past two weeks