{"id":167920,"date":"2025-07-01T20:54:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T19:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/kedco-blames-reduced-allocation-for-power-shortage"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:57:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:57:45","slug":"kedco-blames-reduced-allocation-for-power-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kedco-blames-reduced-allocation-for-power-shortage","title":{"rendered":"KEDCO Blames Reduced Allocation for Power Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) has blamed reduced power allocation for the drop in power supply across its franchise area.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Kano, Jigawa and Katsina states have been experiencing days of power outage.<\/p>\n<p>Clarifying the reduced power supply, KEDCO\u2019s spokesman, Sani Bala Sani said, \u201cWe wish to sincerely apologise to our valued customers for the slight drop in power supply currently being experienced across our franchise area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cAs earlier communicated, the reason behind the power shortage is a temporary reduction in our allocation from 300+MW to an average of 167MW due to limitations on the transmission lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the statement on Wednesday, he clarified that, the allocation even dropped as low as 150MW.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that this is grossly inadequate to supply all customers.<\/p>\n<p>He added that this resulted in massive load shedding and rationing across their feeders.<\/p>\n<p>He said the TCN has promised to work tirelessly to restore power to the states soonest.<\/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. Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) has blamed reduced power allocation for the drop in power supply across its franchise area. Recently, Kano, Jigawa and Katsina states have been experiencing days of power outage. Clarifying the reduced power supply, KEDCO\u2019s spokesman, Sani Bala Sani said, \u201cWe wish to sincerely apologise to our valued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":167919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[708,372,17877,254],"class_list":["post-167920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-jigawa","tag-kano","tag-kano-electricity-distribution-company-kedco","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>KEDCO Blames Reduced Allocation for Power Shortage - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) has blamed reduced power allocation for the drop in power supply across it ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/kedco-blames-reduced-allocation-for-power-shortage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KEDCO Blames Reduced Allocation for Power Shortage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) has blamed reduced power allocation for the drop in power supply across it ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kedco-blames-reduced-allocation-for-power-shortage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-01T19:54:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-01T20:57:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751390941.500212.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"739\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"415\" \/>\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\/policy\/kedco-blames-reduced-allocation-for-power-shortage#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kedco-blames-reduced-allocation-for-power-shortage\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"KEDCO Blames Reduced Allocation for Power Shortage\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-01T19:54:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-01T20:57:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kedco-blames-reduced-allocation-for-power-shortage\"},\"wordCount\":177,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kedco-blames-reduced-allocation-for-power-shortage#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751390941.500212.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Jigawa\",\"Kano\",\"Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO)\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kedco-blames-reduced-allocation-for-power-shortage#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kedco-blames-reduced-allocation-for-power-shortage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/kedco-blames-reduced-allocation-for-power-shortage\",\"name\":\"KEDCO Blames Reduced Allocation for Power Shortage - 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