Nigeria Suffers Another Power Outage As National Grid Collapses

 

By Ayo Kehinde

 

 

The national grid system, operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), again, collapsed on Wednesday, marking the twelfth grid disturbance in 2024.

A tweet via the official handle of Nigeria’s National Grid confirmed that the grid collapsed at about 2:09 pm on Wednesday.

“The major grid setback has occurred and the restoration is to commence”, it said.

“We hope to restore normal power supply to our esteemed customers as soon as the grid supply is restored to normalcy”, Dr Friday Elijah, Head of Corporate Communications at Jos Disco, said in an address to customers.