THE POWER SUPPLY CONUNDRUM

Instead of building trusts and working to light up the bewildering darkness in the land, both the electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) and the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) are busy trading blame on their inefficiencies. Last week, the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) blamed the frequent collapse of the national grid in recent times on the TCN’s lack of standard power protection equipment at its transmission substations.