The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said power supply disruption experienced in parts of Benin City and environs was because a two meter snake tripped off transformer T23 at the Benin switchyard.
It said this put Nekpennekpen, Ikpoba dam and Akoko feeders out of power supply.
A statement by TCN Public Affairs Manager, Rufus Imafidon, said power supply has been restored to the affected areas. He apologised for the inconveniences.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said power supply disruption recently experienced in parts of Benin City and environs was because a two meter snake trapped in transformer T23 at the Benin switchyard.
It said the snake put Nekpennekpen, Ikpoba dam and Akoko feeders out of power supply.
A press statement signed by TCN Public Affairs Manager, Elder Rufus Imafidon said normal power supply have been restored to the affected areas and expressed regrets over inconveniences caused by the power interruption.
Elder Rufus said the inauguration of a 3x33KV feeders at Ajaokuta 132/33KV transmission sub-station has helped to improved power supply to all parts of Kogi State.
He said the facility was constructed and installed at a cost of N60m.
The statement added that only Lokoja and Anyigba feeders were on ground before the installation of the 3x33KV feeders.
One of the gala highlights at Durban International Film Festival (DIFF) is the world première of A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake, a documentary themed on the subject of reconciliations as it concerns African countries that have tasted the bitter pills of war and political unrests and other forms of genocide.
The organisers said the work, which is a documentary debut of celebrated television director Michael Lessac, would be screened on July 20, as one of the highlights of this year’s festival-with some of the country’s foremost peace mediators joining the director, special guests and members of the cast and crew for the show that will be followed by a question-and- answer session.
The film was originally titled Truth in Translation, but Lessac said: “We changed it to A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake because no matter how true that might be, when revenge is celebrated as heroism, it is a poor excuse for killing.”
The documentary’s intriguing title refers to a question that often appears in conflict situations when asked why perpetrators killed young babies.
According to Lessac, the answer, irrespective of culture, is always that “A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake.”
A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake follows a diverse group of South African actors as they tour global war-torn regions to share their country’s experience of reconciliation. As they ignite dialogue among people with raw memories of atrocity, the actors find they must confront, once again, their homeland’s complicated and violent past-and question their own capacity for healing and forgiveness.
Produced by Jacqueline Bertrand Lessac and Emma Tammi, the film is said to be featuring never-before-heard original music by jazz legend Hugh Masekela, with lyrics taken from Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) personal testimonies.
Lessac wanted the world to understand the subtleties of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; and in so doing, brings the story of the TRC to a wider audience while exploring the possibility of the TRC as a concept, which can successfully be exported to other post-conflict zones.
According to the filmmaker, “This film pays homage to a very special group of South African actors and interpreters who were warriors of the most special kind. They allowed themselves to travel through worlds that were often more painful than their own worst nightmares.”
DIFF 2014 holds in Durban, South Africa from 17 to 27 July, with over 250 screenings in nine venues across the city.
Few weeks after the residents of Awolowo Hall in the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) killed snakes around the hostel, another snake has been killed by students around the area. The serpent was killed at the front of Block 7.
CAMPUSLIFE gathered that the snake which was killed last Thursday had been lurking around the Block 7 lawn where students always spread their clothes for drying. A student, who went to pick his clothes, saw the snake and alerted his colleagues immediately.
This degenerated into chaos as students ran away from the scene. But a student, Gideon Ogunniran, waited and pursued the snake with plank. He killed the serpent after a about 10 minutes search. It was after this time that other students came around to catch a glance at the dead snake.
They, however, discovered a lizard being swallowed by the snake before it was killed by Gideon. The students later left the scene for other halls of residence to perform Aro (campus joke) with the dead snake. They laid the dead snake on the pathway to the female hostels to cause fear.
Speaking to CAMPUSLIFE on the incident, Surajudeen Mutairu, 400-Level English, advised his colleagues to be vigilant.
It should be recalled that similar incident happened same hall and Adekunle Fajuyi Hall where a snake was found in a room recently.