{"id":58751,"date":"2024-11-13T18:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/again-vandals-destroy-nigerias-power-transformer-radiator-at-obajana-tcn\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T18:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T18:00:19","slug":"again-vandals-destroy-nigerias-power-transformer-radiator-at-obajana-tcn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/again-vandals-destroy-nigerias-power-transformer-radiator-at-obajana-tcn\/","title":{"rendered":"Again, vandals destroy Nigeria\u2019s power transformer radiator at Obajana \u2013 TCN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Transmission Company of Nigeria has announced that armed vandals invaded and damaged a 330\/132\/33 kilovolt, 150 megaamperes power transformer radiator at the ongoing Obajana Transmission Substation.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson of TCN, Ndidi Mbah, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the incident occurred on the night of November 12, 2024, at approximately 11:55 PM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to reports from security personnel at the site, the assailants opened fire indiscriminately, causing the guards to flee. During the attack, a 150MVA 330\/132\/33kV power transformer, already positioned on its plinth, was struck, resulting in a burst radiator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn response to the incident, TCN is evaluating the level of damage in collaboration with the contractor managing the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis incident is part of a broader pattern of vandalism targeting transmission infrastructure across the country. The new Obajana Transmission Substation, which is designed to be a 1X150MVA 330\/132\/33kV capacity substation, will significantly enhance power supply to Kogi State and surrounding areas upon completion,\u201d the company stated.<\/p>\n<p>In the past months, TCN has reported several vandalization incidents at its facilities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Barely three days ago, TCN initiated the blackout in Lokoja Kogi State due to the vandalization of Lokoja-Gwagwalada 330 kilovolt transmission line 1.<\/p>\n<p>The company had also blamed incessant national grid collapses in Nigeria on the vandalization of its facilities.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that in the past months, the National Grid had collapsed at least twelve times.<\/p>\n<p>Again, vandals destroy Nigeria\u2019s power transformer radiator at Obajana \u2013 TCN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Transmission Company of Nigeria has announced that armed vandals invaded and damaged a 330\/132\/33 kilovolt, 150 megaamperes power transformer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25973],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-obajana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58751","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=58751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}