By Queen Kunde
Residents and businesses in five parts of Abuja are without electricity following a fault at the Kubwa 132/33kV Transmission Substation.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said its maintenance team is working to repair the fault and restore power to affected areas.
According to TCN, the 33kV NIPP feeder tripped at about 9:39 a.m. on Sunday, September 20, after an earth fault was detected.
The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) subsequently inspected the feeder and certified it fit for restoration.
However, when engineers attempted to restore power at about 6:34 p.m., the feeder tripped again, this time on overcurrent and earth fault.
The second fault damaged the blue-phase interrupter head of the feeder circuit breaker, preventing AEDC from taking bulk electricity from the substation for distribution to customers.
The affected areas include FO1, Dantata Estate, Byazhin, Byazhin Across and Gbazango.
TCN said repairs to the damaged breaker are ongoing and power supply will be restored as soon as the work is completed.
The company apologised to residents and businesses affected by the outage, assuring them that its maintenance crew is working to resolve the problem.