POWER OUTAGE: NATIONAL UNION OF ELECTRICITY EMPLOYEES SUSPENDS STRIKE

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The National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) has suspended its strike embarked upon on Wednesday to draw federal government’s attention to the plight of its members.

Following a meeting with officials of the federal government, the union accepted to discontinue the one-day old strike.

According the National President of NUEE, Comrade Joe Ajaero, who confirmed the outcome of the meeting to THISDAY, the workers’ grievances were conclusively addressed.

He said that all the concerns of the union and its members were addressed at the talks which lasted till the wee hours of today.

“We have concluded deliberations and all issues were addressed but we are awaiting implementation. Meanwhile, our strike action is suspended,” Ajaero said.

Following the expiration of the 21 days ultimatum issued by NUEE to the Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, to implement their demands, and the failure of the minister to dialogue with the union before the ultimatum which lapsed midnight Tuesday, a nationwide blackout was imminent as electricity workers began indefinite strike Wednesday morning.

The strike led to the shutting down of most of the offices of Distribution Companies (Discos) across the country.


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Power Outage: Ikeja Electric, Egunjobi set to restore power in Agege

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Following the breakdown of one of high tension pole in Ijaye road, very close to Council Secretariat, that has put many homes in darkness for days.

The Electricity company, Ikeja Electric and the Executive chairman of Agege LG , Alhaji Ganiyu Egunjobi have set to restorethe  power to residents that got affected by this incident.

AgegePulse gathered that the damaged pole has been replaced with the support of the council boss and will be installed today.

While sympathising with affected residents and business owners in Agege  Egunjobi through his Chief of Staff, Mr. Oriade Saheed Ademola said that, the power would be restore in coming days.

Power Outage in Oko -Oba, Fagba, Agege, Ikeja Electric States Reasons

• Following the power outage in parts of Agege and its environs, Ikeja Electric has appealed to its customers and promised to restore power as soon as it can.

Read their message on their Social media handle:

"Dear Customer,
The prolonged outage you're experiencing is due to loss of supply on Oko-oba 11kV Feeder as a result of a fault on Agege T1 Power Transformer. Affected areas are parts of New Oko-Oba, Fagba, Agege and environ.

TCN is working to clear the fault and once this is done, we can restore supply. Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience.".

BREAKING: TCN BEGINS MAINTENANCE WORK ON ALIMOSHO POWER STATION

...Some Parts of Agege, Alimosho To Witness 7hours Blackout

Going by the credible information reaching Agegepulse now, some parts of Agege and Alimosho Local Government Areas will be without power supply for about 7 hours Tomorow, Friday, 31st August, 2018.

This is because the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN has concluded plans to carryout maintenance  work on 'T3 100MVA transformer' at Alimosho TCN Station.

Agegepulse learnt that the development is to enable TCN crew install fire preventive equipment on the transformer. The maintenance works will be between the hours of 10a.m and 5p.m.

According to TCN, the following areas will be affected within the said period of time. They are: Tower Aluminium Company, Oko Oba, Iju Road, Oke Odo, Ekoro, Ajasa, Olota, Unity, Olorun Adababa, NYSC Ipaja Areas and Environs.