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  • FG says power supply should rebound within 48 hours after gas pipeline disruptions

    FG says power supply should rebound within 48 hours after gas pipeline disruptions

    Photo Credit: The Punch
    2025-12-24 07:44:00

    According to PUNCH, the Federal Government says the latest dip in electricity supply is temporary and should improve within 24–48 hours as repairs progress on disrupted gas infrastructure.

    The report links the supply drop to an explosion on the Escravos–Lagos Gas Pipeline and additional vandalism affecting gas delivery to thermal plants, reducing generation across the grid.

    Officials say the system operator is monitoring repairs by NGPTC (an NNPC subsidiary), and that restoration timelines have been communicated across the value chain.

    In the system operator update referenced, NISO said restoration works are “nearing completion and… full operations are expected to resume within 24 to 48 hours.” The minister’s team also said: “The situation is expected to be resolved within the next 24 to 48 hours.”

    Echotitbits take: Even if supply returns, the bigger issue is resilience. Watch for stronger pipeline protection, redundancy in gas supply routes, and faster balancing capacity on the grid so single incidents don’t crash supply.

    Source: The Punch— December 23, 2025 (https://punchng.com/power-outage-temporary-supply-to-return-in-48-hours-adelabu/)
    The Punch 2025-12-23

  • [Video] Ebutte Meta Attack: Lagos Police Arrests Six Hoodlums

    [Video] Ebutte Meta Attack: Lagos Police Arrests Six Hoodlums

    Six persons suspected to be hoodlums that attacked innocent Lagosians and damaged some vehicles along Ondo Street, Ebutte-Meta area of Lagos in the Southwest of Nigeria on Tuesday have been arrested by men of the Lagos Police Command.

    Spokesperson for the Lagos State Police Command, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Wednesday, states that at about 9.30pm on Tuesday, the hoodlums trooped out in numbers and started fomenting troubles in the area, but the police, while responding to distress calls from innocent people, chased and arrested some of them.

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    Police gave the identities of the suspected hoodlums as Qudus Oke, 22; Abdullahi Ajose, 25; Kayi Ajayi, 33; Micheal Ben, 27; Godwin Joseph, 25 and Oluwasegun Akinlade, 29.

    According to the statement by Adejobi, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has vowed to get Lagos rid of hoodlums, hooliganism, gangsterism, cultism and other social vices.

    He emphasised that all hands were on deck in the command to resist any act capable of jeopardising security networking of the state and causing pains and agonies to Lagosians during the ember months and beyond.

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