The total electricity
blackout in Bayelsa State has entered day eight with no sign of power to
be restored in the next two weeks.
Residents now resort to their private generating
sets as alternative source of power as the situation is affecting
economic activities especially in Yenagoa .
Majority of residents in the growing city buy a
litre of fuel at one hundred and ten naira at the filling stations ,while the
Mega stations of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,NNPC still
sells the product at ninety seven naira per litre.
The cause of the blackout was as a result of a large tree
that fell on the 132KV Ahoada -Yenagoa line and collapsed tower after a
heavy rainfall in the area.
Meanwhile a team of Power Holding Company of
Nigeria PHCN engineers have commenced assessment on the extent of damage.
However no date has been given on when power will
be restored back in the state.
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