Electricity returned to parts of Abuja on Saturday night after the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company said supply had been restored to affected feeders in the capital, including the State House, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Lugbe and Garki.
The utility said the restoration followed the successful return of the 100MVA Transformer TR3 at the Apo Transmission Substation, after major parts of Abuja were thrown into darkness earlier on Saturday because of a fault at the Transmission Company of Nigeria’s Apo substation. TCN had said its engineers were working to fix the problem, and AEDC said the outage had now been cleared in the affected areas.
AEDC said in its notice that it was pleased to inform customers that power supply had been restored to affected feeders after the transformer was brought back online. The announcement marked the end of a blackout that had spread across major parts of the city and disrupted some of the capital’s most sensitive and busiest locations.
The sequence was straightforward: the fault hit on Saturday, TCN said repair work was under way, and by Saturday night AEDC said electricity was back in the areas it supplies. For residents, businesses and government facilities in those parts of Abuja, the answer to whether the lights would return on the same day was yes.
