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NLC Strike: National grid restoration begins
<p>The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has announced that the National grid restoration has begun, which means electricity supply will be restored across the country.</p>
<p>THE DAILY PAGE recalls that a day-long nationwide blackout occurred, with TCN confirming in a statement on Monday that the scheduled strike by organized labor was the source of the outage. The <a href="https://thedailypage.ng/total-blackout-as-labour-shuts-down-national-grid/">national grid was shut down</a> to force the federal government to implement a new minimum wage.</p>
<p>This is coming just hours after the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) signed an agreement with the federal government to halt their indefinite strike.</p>
<p>TCN reports that the restoration of the national grid commenced with the Shiroro Hydropower Substation, which restored power to the Katampe substation.</p>
<p>The statement reads, “At about 3.23 am, however, TCN commenced grid recovery, using the Shiroro Substation to attempt to feed the transmission lines supplying bulk electricity to the Katampe Transmission Substation.</p>
<p>The situation is such that the labor Union is still obstructing grid recovery nationwide.</p>
<p>“We will continue to make efforts to recover and stabilize the grid to enable the restoration of normal bulk transmission of electricity to distribution load centers nationwide.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, at the time of filing the report, the power supply is yet to be restored by Electricity Distribution Companies.</p>