{"id":847,"date":"2024-10-29T16:12:43","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T16:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=847"},"modified":"2024-10-29T16:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T16:12:43","slug":"power-outage-in-north-senate-assures-of-normalcy-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2024\/10\/29\/power-outage-in-north-senate-assures-of-normalcy-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Outage in North: Senate assures\u00a0 Of normalcy soon\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau I Jibrin has assured Northern elders of plans to restore peace and electricity supply in parts of the North.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Senator gave the hint\u00a0 while presiding over the plenary on Tuesday, October 29, 2024.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Let me seize the opportunity to inform the Senate that the leadership of the Senate is concerned about the lack of electricity supply in the northern part of this country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;This is because the transmission line, which supplies power to the North, has been vandalised.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">And it has become a problem for the TCN staff to get it restored because that area is being occupied by terrorists.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Security agencies are working to get to the spot and eradicate or remove the threat that has been there for a while.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speaking further Senator Barau said,&#8221;It&#8217;s an arrangement that will not be said to the public because that would compromise the arrangement or the preparation the security agencies are making to deal with the matter.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;So, the President has ordered and directed the security agencies to do all within their powers to ensure they deal with that threat.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The National Security Adviser is on top of the issue. We&#8217;ve been discussing this with him. I have been talking with the National Security Adviser. I have been talking with the TCN Managing Director.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;The place is being occupied by terrorists who are well-armed to the teeth. So, the security agencies are preparing to strike the area and get that threat out of that place.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;So, as we speak, all hands are on deck to deal with the situation. I feel it&#8217;s proper to inform this whole sitting of what is happening.We are in contact with them. We are in touch with them and discussing this with the TCN and\u00a0 NSA office.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau I Jibrin has assured Northern elders of plans to restore peace and electricity supply in parts of the North. \u00a0Senator gave the hint\u00a0 while presiding over the plenary on Tuesday, October 29, 2024. &#8220;Let me seize the opportunity to inform the Senate that the leadership of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[489,488,490,36],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-northern-region","tag-power-outage","tag-restoration","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}