{"id":155519,"date":"2025-03-18T12:23:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/rivers-explosion-geometric-power-announces-electricity-outage-in-abia"},"modified":"2025-04-03T17:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:03:22","slug":"rivers-explosion-geometric-power-announces-electricity-outage-in-abia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/rivers-explosion-geometric-power-announces-electricity-outage-in-abia","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Explosion: Geometric Power announces electricity outage in Abia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Geometric Power Aba Limited, an electricity company in Nigeria, has announced electricity disruption within its franchise area in Abia State.<\/p>\n<p>The company disclosed this in a statement on Monday, noting that the drop in power supply is due to an explosion at the Trans Niger Pipeline, its primary gas supplier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have just been informed by our primary power supplier, Geometric Power Aba Limited (GPAL), of an incident on the Trans Niger Pipeline, through which its gas supplier transports gas to its customers, including GPAL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident happened in the early hours of today and has affected GPAL\u2019s generation capacity and our power supply to our customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in close contact with GPAL and other stakeholders and are actively monitoring the situation. We are advised that efforts are ongoing to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the interim, we will continue to supply power through grid import from Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect that this incident will be resolved soon enough to ensure that the interruption of power supply does not significantly impact our customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will continue to provide you with updates on the progress made in resolving the incident,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>An explosion rocked the Trans Niger Pipeline in the Bodo Community, Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State, on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Rivers State Police Command said two persons have been arrested in connection with the explosion, while an investigation is still ongoing to determine the root cause of the incident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Geometric Power Aba Limited, an electricity company in Nigeria, has announced electricity disruption within its franchise area in Abia State. The company disclosed this in a statement on Monday, noting that the drop in power supply is due to an explosion at the Trans Niger Pipeline, its primary gas supplier. \u201cWe have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":155518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[1208,16385,254],"class_list":["post-155519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-abia","tag-geometric-power","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rivers Explosion: Geometric Power announces electricity outage in Abia - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Geometric Power Aba Limited, an electricity company in Nigeria, has announced electricity disruption within its franchis ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/rivers-explosion-geometric-power-announces-electricity-outage-in-abia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rivers Explosion: Geometric Power announces electricity outage in Abia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Geometric Power Aba Limited, an electricity company in Nigeria, has announced electricity disruption within its franchis ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/rivers-explosion-geometric-power-announces-electricity-outage-in-abia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-18T11:23:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-03T16:03:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742288475.351585.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1424\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"802\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/rivers-explosion-geometric-power-announces-electricity-outage-in-abia#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/rivers-explosion-geometric-power-announces-electricity-outage-in-abia\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Rivers Explosion: Geometric Power announces electricity outage in Abia\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-18T11:23:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-03T16:03:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/rivers-explosion-geometric-power-announces-electricity-outage-in-abia\"},\"wordCount\":273,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/rivers-explosion-geometric-power-announces-electricity-outage-in-abia#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1742288475.351585.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Abia\",\"Geometric Power\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/rivers-explosion-geometric-power-announces-electricity-outage-in-abia#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/rivers-explosion-geometric-power-announces-electricity-outage-in-abia\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/rivers-explosion-geometric-power-announces-electricity-outage-in-abia\",\"name\":\"Rivers Explosion: Geometric Power announces electricity outage in Abia - 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