{"id":35717,"date":"2024-06-05T08:04:26","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T08:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/strike-electricity-supply-restored-in-nigeria-days-after-national-grid-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T08:04:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T08:04:26","slug":"strike-electricity-supply-restored-in-nigeria-days-after-national-grid-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/strike-electricity-supply-restored-in-nigeria-days-after-national-grid-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike: Electricity supply restored in Nigeria days after national grid shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Electricity supply has been restored to parts of Nigeria two days after striking Nigerian workers shut down the National grid.<\/p>\n<p>Emeka Ezeh, Head of Corporate Communications at Enugu Electricity Distribution Company disclosed to DAILY POST on Wednesday that the disco started receiving loads from the National grid around 6 pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the power supply had been restored to its franchise, he said: \u201cYes, we are restored. We started receiving loads at 18.06 hours yesterday (Tuesday)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Transmission Company announced earlier the gradual restoration of power supply after organized labor on Tuesday suspended its strike action.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST learnt that Abuja Electricity Distribution Company has restored supply to its customers in Abuja, Nasarawa, and Kogi.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in Gwarimpa, Dawaki, FO1 in Kubwa, Utako confirmed to DAILY POST on Wednesday that power supply was restored Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPower supply was flashed around 6 pm on Tuesday. At midnight, the power supply was restored fully\u201d, Benjamin Okoli, a resident of Kubwa said.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes after the organized labor suspended its indefinite strike on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, TCN said the striking workers had shut down the National grid resulting in an electricity outage while the strike lasted.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Strike: Electricity supply restored in Nigeria days after national grid shutdown<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity supply has been restored to parts of Nigeria two days after striking Nigerian workers shut down the National grid.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16803,15,2402],"tags":[235,2027,3875,3934,462,180,18,16253,3937,10,3879],"class_list":["post-35717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grid","category-news","category-strike","tag-after","tag-days","tag-electricity","tag-grid","tag-national","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-restored","tag-shutdown","tag-strike","tag-supply"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}