Nationwide blackout as National Grid collapses again
Nigeria is witnessing a nationwide darkness, which is affecting many Nigerian cities as the national electricity grid collapsed.
Indications at the National Control Centre, Osogbo, in Osun State, are that the grid failure occurred at 1.49 pm. today.
However, no information has been provided on the cause of the system failure or when power is expected to be fully restored.
The distribution companies have informed their customers about the developments.
Specifically, Aba Power Ltd has notified consumers in its ring-fenced area covering nine local government areas in Abia State, apologising for the blackout and pledging to resume power supply once the “problem is sorted out”.
A statement by Patrick Umeh, the Aba Power Managing Director who used to be a commissioner with the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), stated that, “The NCC engineers are sparing no effort to restore electricity throughout the country as soon as possible”.
Also, some parts of Lagos State have also been thrown into hours of darkness.
According to a message by Ikeja Electric Distribution Company, the utility firm apologised for the long period of outage.
“Dear Prestige Customer, kindly be informed that the present outage is due toa fault in the system collapse. Supply will be restored as soon as possible. Kindly bear with us,” the utility firm stated.
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