National electricity collapses again, Lagos and other cities experience blackouts.

National electricity collapses again, Lagos and other cities experience blackouts. The challenge with electricity in Nigeria has gotten worse. The unstable supply of the short-timed power was totally seized on Monday morning.

This seizure was followed by a Twitter post on Monday after Eko Electricity Distribution Company confirmed the occurrence stating that the Transmission Company of Nigeria is closely monitoring the situation.

“Dear esteemed customer, we regret to inform you of a total system collapse on the national grid at 10:40 am today, leading to outages across our network. We are closely monitoring the situation with our TCN partners to determine the cause and a timeline for resolution,” Eko Electricity Distribution Company tweeted.

 

Also, Emeka Ezeh of the Enugu Electricity Distribution PLC(EEDC) released a statement which was signed by its Head, Corporate Communications, saying that he “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.”

In the statement, he explained that “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 the Imo States are affected by this development.

“We are on standby and awaiting a signal from the National Control Centre (NCC) for restoration of supply,” it added.

Lagos, Enugu, Kaduna, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo states, among others, are among those affected, according to reports.

 

 

The news comes as Nigerians continue to struggle with erratic power supply and a recent increase in fuel prices.

It is worthy to note that this countrywide grid breakdown in Nigeria comes after it was reported last week that the Eko Electricity Distribution Company had announced last week that there would be deliberate power outages across Lagos State from March 7th to 13th, 2022.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Power, to Abubakar Aliyu, stated recently that the Federal Government is working on more firm Gas supply contracts for the power sector, backed by improved liquidity, and that the Zungeru Hydro Plant and others would be completed in order to alleviate Nigeria's existing power supply crisis.