{"id":470096,"date":"2011-07-28T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/28\/phcn-disconnects-nta-katsina-over-non-payment-of-bill\/"},"modified":"2011-07-28T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T17:07:10","slug":"phcn-disconnects-nta-katsina-over-non-payment-of-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/28\/phcn-disconnects-nta-katsina-over-non-payment-of-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"PHCN Disconnects NTA Katsina Over Non-Payment of Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"19.9378157792\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytrust.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/dailytrust180.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Trust (Abuja)\" title=\"Visit Daily Trust (Abuja)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>28 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has disconnected power supply to the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) in Katsina over the non-payment of an outstanding bill of N200,000.<\/p>\n<p>Following the disconnection, the office of the News Agency Nigeria (NAN), which gets its power supply from the NTA transformer, has also been affected in the last one month.<\/p>\n<p>The PHCN Business Manager in Katsina, Alhaji Sale Abdu, told NAN in Katsina on Thursday that the company disconnected the television station following its inability to offset the outstanding debt.<\/p>\n<p>Effort to contact the NTA General Manager in Katsina, Alhaji Musa Magaji, failed as he was said to have travelled out of the state for an official engagement while the acting Generla Manager, Alhaji Garba Bako, declined comment. (NAN).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>View article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107281288.html\" title=\"PHCN Disconnects NTA Katsina Over Non-Payment of Bill\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PHCN Disconnects NTA Katsina Over Non-Payment of Bill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 28 July 2011 The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has disconnected power supply to the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) in Katsina over the non-payment of an outstanding bill of N200,000. Following the disconnection, the office of the News Agency Nigeria (NAN), which gets its power supply from the NTA transformer, has also been affected in the last one month. The PHCN Business Manager in Katsina, Alhaji Sale Abdu, told NAN in Katsina on Thursday that the company disconnected the television station following its inability to offset the outstanding debt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PHCN Disconnects NTA Katsina Over Non-Payment of Bill - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/28\/phcn-disconnects-nta-katsina-over-non-payment-of-bill\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"PHCN Disconnects NTA Katsina Over Non-Payment of Bill - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"28 July 2011 The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has disconnected power supply to the Nigeria Television Authority (NTA) in Katsina over the non-payment of an outstanding bill of N200,000. 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