Nigeria’s N1.3 billion worth Zungeru Hydro Electricity in Niger State has been reportedly hit by an explosion.
Vanguard reports that the explosion occurred at the earlier hours of Monday.
Siraj Abdullahi, the Managing Director of Penstock, a subsidiary of Mainstream Energy Solutions Limited, was quoted to have said, “we are fine in Zungeru; nothing happened and we are on the grid.”
However, a source from the area who confirmed the incident to Vanguard, said that several of the workers on duty sustained various degrees of injuries and are being attended to at different hospitals close by while those seriously affected are said to have been rushed to Minna, the state capital for more medical attention.
“We saw a foreigner,(Chinese) who is a worker who had severe injuries being ferried to Minna for further medical attention but we cannot say the exact number of staff injured but they are many,” the source was quoted to have said.
Besides the human injuries, the explosion was said to have affected some installations at the Dam. The implication of the explosion on power supply generally across the country is not yet known.