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Four board members of Texas’ power grid operator announced their resignation Tuesday after millions of state residents were left without power during days of unprecedentedly frigid temperatures. The board chair of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Sally Talberg, vice chairman Peter Cramton, finance and audit committee chair Terry Bulger and human resources and
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Protests erupted in northern Brazil’s Amapa state over a two-week power outage that has unleashed chaos in the region, officials and residents said Wednesday. Protesters blocked roads overnight with piles of burning tires and rubbish in the state capital, Macapa, and the city of Santana, police said in a statement. The latest unrest in the
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An explosion at a natural gas pipeline near Damascus on Monday led to massive power cuts across Syria, the government said, blaming the blast on terrorists. The state-run SANA News Agency reported that a blast hit the gas pipeline around midnight (2100 GMT) in the area between al-Dumayr and Adra districts, near Damascus. Minister of
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By Ochuko Akuopha – Oleh Indigenes of Aviara, Isoko South Local Government Area, Delta State, have lamented eight years of power outage in their community, calling on Governor Ifeanyi Okowa to rescue the area from perpetual darkness. The people, in a letter signed by the President General of Aviara Federal Union, Mr Counselor Umulor and
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By Chinenyeh Ozor Tragedy struck at the university town of Nsukka, as a factory worker in an industrial site in Nsukka Local Government Area, Enugu State, was electrocuted while attempting to join electric cables to restore power during an outage. The deceased, identified as Ugwu Chidera, 27, who hailed from Edem Ani community of Nsukka
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Many communities in Kwara South Senatorial District have been thrown into prolonged power outage for five days running. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this followed a faulty 132kv transmitter line. A NAN correspondent in Omu-Aran who monitored the development on Saturday, reports that the issue had generated tension in the area and
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The Southern Nigeria People Mandate (SNPM), a Non-Governmental Organisation, has hailed President Muhammadu Buhari on his plans to probe 16 billion dollar failed power project.
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Residents of Awoyaya in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, have again called on the management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC, to rescue them from unending break down and repairs of faulty transformer.
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LAGOS—The seat of power in Lagos State, Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja, has been battling over the weeks with power supply, crippling activities at Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs.
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LAGOS—THE Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and the staff housing quarters around the airport was, yesterday, thrown into darkness that lasted for an hour.
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