{"id":204380,"date":"2025-08-10T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-power-tcn-spends-n88-billion-on-vandalised-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T07:52:09","slug":"nigeria-power-tcn-spends-n88-billion-on-vandalised-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-power-tcn-spends-n88-billion-on-vandalised-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Power &#8211; TCN Spends N88 Billion On Vandalised Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, said it has expended over N88 billion on repairs of vandalised infrastructure from 2021 to date nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Speaking at the public sensitisation on the ills of vandalism of TCN infrastructure at the Odogunyan 132 kV Transmission Substation in Ikorodu, TCN&#8217;s Principal Manager, Lines, Engr Seyi Onabajo, noted that taxes meant to be paid to the government to rebuild and upgrade the power system are now being used for repairs of the damages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">He stated, &#8220;This&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508080249.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, said it has expended over N88 billion on repairs of vandalised infrastructure from 2021 to date nationwide. Speaking at the public sensitisation on the ills of vandalism of TCN infrastructure at the Odogunyan 132 kV Transmission Substation in Ikorodu, TCN&#8217;s Principal Manager, Lines, Engr Seyi Onabajo, noted that taxes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,6495,9864,52071,257,4687,393,7047,254,9939,14602,19387],"class_list":["post-204380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billion","tag-infrastructure","tag-n88","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spends","tag-tcn","tag-vandalised"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}