National grid collapses again, second time in three days

National grid collapses again, second time in three days

 

For the second time in three days, the nation has been thrown into darkness as the national electricity grid experienced another collapse on Thursday.

This was announced on the official X handle of the National Grid, with a caption ”Another Grid Setback Experienced.”

The grid first collapsed this week on Tuesday as reported by many media including newstrends.ng. plunging the nation into a total darkness for almost 24 hours before it was restored.

The latest incident was also confirmed by many electricity distribution companies.

A statement signed by the JosDisco’s Head of Corporate Communications, Dr. Friday Adakole, read, “The current outage being experienced within our franchise states is a result of a loss of power supply from the national grid. “The loss of power supply from the national grid occurred this morning at about 11:28 AM on Thursday, 7th November 2024, hence the loss of power supply on all our feeders.

“We hope to restore normal power supply to our esteemed customers as soon as the grid supply is restored to normalcy. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we strive to serve you better.”

The Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) also confirmed the latest collapse in a message to customers.

The DisCo said, “Please be informed that we experienced a system outage today, 07 November 2024, at 11:29 hours, affecting supply within our network.”

IKEDC said efforts to restore power were underway in collaboration with key stakeholders.