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Just In: National grid experiences first collapse in 2020, causes blackout

On Thursday the national grid, experienced its first collapse in 2020 which has resulted to a blackout across Nigeria .
According to News Agency of Nigeria, in 2019, the national grid had collapsed more than 10 times.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria confirmed the development in a statement on its Twitter handle which was obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
“There was a system disturbance which occurred about 12.34 p.m affecting some parts of the country.
“As of 1:10 p.m, supply was restored to Abuja and most parts of the affected areas. TCN is still working to completely restore and stabilise the nation’s grid,” it said.
Ikeja Electric, which also confirmed the grid collapse in a statement on its Twitteraccount, said another collapse of the grid occurred at 2.15 p.m after the previous incident.
“Dear customers, the outage you are experiencing is due to a system collapse of the grid which occurred this afternoon at 12:36 p.m. All parts of IE’s network are affected.
“Another system collapse was recorded at 2.15 p.m today. Restoration efforts are ongoing. Kindly bear with us,” the electricity distribution company said.
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