Nigeria: Blackout Looms As Electricity Workers Plan Transmission Shutdown

22 April 2016

The nation may soon be thrown into a total blackout as electricity workers are planning to shut power transmission nationwide over breaches in labour issues and takeover of the defunct PHCN headquarters in Abuja.

A key staff member privy to the crisis at the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) told Daily Trust yesterday that government officials in a failed attempt to resolve issues chose to engage the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SEASAC) instead of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE).

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