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The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) employees have resolved to suspend a strike that began on Wednesday, causing a nationwide blackout.
The union official disclosed this information after a meeting with the government.
According to the TCN, grid capacity dropped to zero by 5:00 pm (1600 GMT) from 4,100MW on Wednesday.
In a statement by the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE), general secretary Joe Ajaero to Reuters, the union would suspend the strike for two weeks after meeting TCN management and the minister of power.
“A committee chaired by the Minister of State for Power has been set up to work out modalities on resolving the issues. Power would be restored either this night or tomorrow in the morning,” Ajaero said.
NUEE had said in a notice to members that it was protesting against discriminatory promotion procedures at the state-owned transmission company and unfair labour practices in the power sector, among other grievances.
