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BREAKING: National blackout as power grid collapses again

The National Grid, which is the infrastructure that connects power generation stations to electrical loads throughout the country, has collapsed again, for the sixth time in 2024.

 

 

According to a report by Daily Trust, the grid collapsed around 2:42 am on Monday, with generation dropping to 64.70 megawatts.

 

 

Only one generation company, Ibom Power was active, according to data from the Independent System Operator (ISO), a branch of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, has shown.

 

According to the newspaper, latest data from the ISO as at 8:am, showed that the national grid is currently generating 266.50mw of electricity from Okpai, Geregu and Ibom power.

 

Confirming the collapse in a statement, Jos DisCo said: “The current outage being experienced within our franchise States is a result of loss of power supply from the national grid. The loss of power supply from the national grid occurred in the early hours at about 0242Hours of today, Monday, 15th April 2024, hence the loss of power supply on all our feeders.”

 

The company’s head of Corporate Affairs, Dr Friday Adakole Elijah, expressed hope that the national grid will be restored for normal power supply to its esteemed customers.