National Grid Collapses Again, Plunges Nigeria Into Blackout

Indication has emerged that the Nigeria’s electricity transmission system also known as the national grid on Monday collapsed for the second time in 2022, thereby plunging the entire country into a blackout.

It was gathered that the collapse, which occurred at about 10:40 am on Monday, affected the states which includes  Lagos, Enugu, Kaduna, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States, among others.

The Eko Electricity Distribution Company, while confirming the development in a text message to its customers, said that the system collapse occurred on the national grid at 10:40 am.

The Eko text message read “Dear esteemed customer, a system collapse occurred on the national grid at 10:40 am today, leading to outages across our network.

“We are working on the situation with our TCN partners and will keep you updated. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.”

Kaduna Electricity also on Monday confirmed the system collapse, but assured its customers that power would soon be restored.

Kaduna Electricity  said “We regret to inform you that the power outage being experienced in our franchise states is due to System Collapse of the National Grid which occurred at about 10:40 am,”

The Enugu Electricity Distribution (EEDC) PLC in its notice to customers disclosed that the system collapse affected supply in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States.

EEDC Head, Corporate Communications, Emeka Ezeh,  in a notice  to customers stated that “The Enugu Electricity Distribution PLC (EEDC) wishes to inform her esteemed customers in the South East of a general system collapse which occurred this morning, Monday, 14th March 2022 at 10:40 am.

“This is the reason for the loss of supply currently being experienced across the network.

“Consequently, all our outgoing feeders are out and supply to our customers in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States are affected by this development.”