Electricity distribution companies (DISCos) on Tuesday again accused the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) of inefficiency despite over $1.6 billion federal government-guaranteed and multilateral funding and grants to the company.
The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED), the umbrella body of ten DISCos, except Yola, said TCN's analogue system has caused over 100 electricity grid collapses since the privatisation of the power sector in 2013. Nine of the collapses occurred in 2019.
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