Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, announced that electricity would be fully restored to the region within the next 14 days.
This implies that the region comprising 17 states will remain in blackout till Tuesday, November 12, 2024.
Adelabu, while responding to questions from senators at the National Assembly, also said partial restoration will be completed within the next three days.
Adelabu added, “We are working with security agencies to access the gridwould currently occupied by vandals.
“I assure you that within the next 14 days, the repairs will be completed, and power will be fully restored to the North.”
This declaration, however, contrasts comments made by the relevant agency in charge of the repair.
Earlier in the day, the Transmission Company of Nigeria, stated that the ongoing repairs to the damaged transmission line that led to a blackout in northern Nigeria will be completed in the next five days (November 3, 2024).
It noted, however, that alternative measures have been implemented to transmit 400 megawatts to certain areas within the next 24 hours.
On Monday, governors of the 19 northern states called for the diversification of energy following persistent blackouts in 17 states of the region recently.
Apart from Niger and Kwara, 17 states in the North are without electricity supply in the last two weeks.
The worst affected are Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, Gombe and Katsina, which have not had a supply in the last two weeks.
Others are Sokoto, Zamfara, Bauchi, Yobe, Borno, Adamawa, Taraba, Niger, Plateau, Nasarawa, Kogi and Benue.
The disruption of electricity supply to the northern part of the country was due to the vandalisation of the Shiroro-Kaduna transmission line, the major line that supplied electricity to the north.
