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The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said that it has lost one of its 330KV transmission lines from Sapele to Ughelli in Delta State and 12 towers along the route, to a fire incident caused by a petrol tanker which caught fire between Towers 88 and 89 at about 9:42am on Sunday. The company said the damage will require about N1billion to fix. A statement signed by the general manager (Public Affairs), TCN, Mrs Seun Olagunju,  said that the loaded petrol tanker which fell and caught fire at Ogborode Junction, near Warri in Delta State destroyed the 330KV Sapele- Ughelli transmission line and brought down TCN’s Towers 82 to 93 along its route. It added that with the collapse of the 12 towers, TCN has temporarily lost power evacuation from that line as all power generated by Delta and Sapele Power Stations would now only be evacuated through the second 500MW capacity 330KV transmission line from Ughelli to Benin. The transmission limitation notwithstanding, th...

A 300 level female student of the Benson Idahosa University said to be a ‘Virgin’ in Benin-City, Edo state has lost her life after being defiled to death by unidentified persons. Deborah on her graduation day The incident was said to have occurred between 12 midnight and 1 a.m after she left  hospital and decided to see one of her friends at Upper Adesuwa. That’s when 22-year-old Deborah was defiled and was said to have had her throat slit by her attackers after the terrible act. Vanguard reports: The  Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr Funso Adebanjo, said the command was investigating the matter. An elder sister of the deceased, Jean, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard, lamented that her sister was killed after she was defiled. According to the elder sister, Jean, the hospital people were angry with Deborah and, at about 11pm that Friday, she left the Sickle Cell Hospital at Golf Course Road for Upper Adesuwa. “How she walked to Upper Adesuwa that night I just don’t ...