Gombe State has been thrown into total blackout since Monday as a result of an outage caused by a windstorm.
Consequently, the residents now sleep under darkness and extreme heat.
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It was learned that the development has also affected communication, as residents complained of their phones being shut down due to their inability to charge them at commercial charging points.
However, the management of Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC), which supplies electricity to the state, explained that the current outage being experienced in Gombe was a result of the destruction of the 330 kilovolt transmission line, otherwise called the tower, of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
In a statement issued by the company’s head of corporate communications, Friday Adakole Elijah, yesterday, a windstorm destroyed the 330 kilovolts tower around Shingen Abba area, Tirwun village in Bauchi (which connects Gombe to the national grid).
“The unfortunate incident has affected the entire Gombe State, including the Ashaka Cement Plant. TCN is already working assiduously towards reconstructing the collapsed tower in order to restore normal supply to the good people of Gombe State.
“Customers are therefore requested to kindly bear with the company as the management is endeavouring to solve the problem,” he said.