Nigeria, April 7 -- Aba Power, Nigeria's newest electricity distribution company (DisCo), has blacklisted one of its major wire and cable suppliers for failure to provide it with wires at the weekend to resume immediate electricity supply to a community in Abia State which had been without power for three weeks following the destruction of six high tension (HT) poles in the area by a windstorm.

The utility has also apologized to the Umuomainta Autonomous Community in Nbawsi-Nsulu, Ngwa North Local Government Area of Abia State for not giving it light because of the failure by the contractor to supply wires to reconnect the community to regular electricity supply.

In an email to newsmen and stakeholders in Aba today, Edise Ekong, Aba P...