THE management of Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company, IE, has pleaded with its customers over power outage, blaming it on faulty 100MVA transformer atEjigbo Transmission Station as well as other multiple faults along the network in that area.In a statement made available to Vanguard, the management of IE stated that, “it regrets the prolonged outage witnessed by our customers in and around Ejigbo, Oke Afa, Ikotun Egbe, Egan, Igando, Arepo, Warewa and Channels Television axis.“The outages are due to a faulty 100MVA transformer atEjigbo Transmission Station as well as other multiple faults along the network in that area.”According to the company, the transmission Company has commenced repairs on the faulty transformer, “however in the interim customers will be temporarilyback fed through alternative sources to mitigate the current blackout pending the completion of the repair.“In a similar development, therecent damage of the 33KV Electric Towers along Abeokuta Expressway, by a truck has resulted in power outage in Millennium Estate, LSDPC Estate Ojokoro, Agbado, Aboru, Jankara and parts of Abeokuta environs.“Technical teams have commenced effecting repairs, however, due to the extensive damage, restoration of power to affected areas may take another five days.”Meanwhile,the company yesterday marked the celebration of Globa handwashing day with Junior Secondary School children.
Ibadan— TWELVE persons, including a mother and her twin children, were feared killed in an accident that occurred, yesterday, at Oja-Oba Market area of the Ibadan South East Local Government Area of Oyo State. Some of the vehicles and tricycles crushed by the truck (inset) in Ibadan, yesterday. PHOTOS: Dare Fasube. Police put the casualty figure at four, but some eyewitnesses claimed the number of lives lost could not be less than 12. While the accident left several people injured, several commercial cars and property were crushed by an articulated vehicle. According to a source, the driver of the truck, which had just off loaded cement, lost control of his vehicle and crushed about 12 persons on the spot. While the remains of those killed were taken to the morgue at Adeoyo State Hospital, the injured were rushed to the University College Hospital, Ibadan. It was gathered that the truck, with number plates AGL883XQ, skidded off its lane to the other side of the road, crushed man...
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