Blackout looms as TCN workers down tools over unpaid salaries

By Obas Esiedesa, Abuja

Electricity proviso crossed the state whitethorn look disruptions arsenic members of the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) successful the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) person embarked connected an indefinite onslaught implicit unresolved payment and operational issues.

In a announcement dated September 24, 2025, and signed by its Acting General Secretary, Dominic Igwebike, the national directed each TCN workers to retreat their services with contiguous effect, citing the expiration of an earlier ultimatum issued to the company’s management.

The national said the enactment became inevitable aft repeated appeals to code outstanding unit salaries, payment demands, and operational challenges were ignored. Issues raised see non-implementation of the nationalist minimum wage, casualisation of workers, non-provision of tools and protective instrumentality since 2021, non-payment of unit salaries since April 2025, deficiency of operational vehicles, and unresolved status benefits.

The announcement read: “We cannot proceed to fold our arms portion we ticker our rights being violated and the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) going down the drain. To this end, the national is compelled to retreat its services until absorption discharges its obligations to the workforce. This directive takes contiguous effect and full compliance is expected.”

The TCN manages the nationalist grid strategy including high-voltage transmission towers, substations, and different captious powerfulness proviso assets.

Checks connected powerfulness proviso arsenic of 5:00 p.m. Thursday, however, showed that the nationalist grid was inactive operating normally, with full load allocation to organisation companies astatine 4,411MW. On the procreation side, Engineer Power (601MW), Kainji Hydro (473MW), and Shiroro Hydro (398MW) were the apical 3 contributors.

Efforts to get TCN’s absorption were unsuccessful, arsenic the company’s General Manager, Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, did not respond to calls oregon messages.

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