Nigeria

Blackout looms as national power grid collapses

The national power grid has suffered another system collapse.

This was confirmed by three electricity distribution companies in a post on their Twitter pages.

Abuja Electric (AEDC) confirmed to newsmen that the national grid has collapsed, the reason for the outage in Abuja.

He said, “ Good day, please be informed that we are currently experiencing a grid system outage which has affected supply to our franchise area.

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“Normal supply will be restored as soon as we receive more allocation from the national grid. We regret the inconvenience caused.”

Similarly, a post by Kaduna Electric on Twitter read: “We regret to inform you that the power outage currently being experienced across our franchise ‘Kaduna, Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states is as a result of the collapse of the national grid.”

Also, Eko Electricity Distribution Company Plc, in a message to its customers on Wednesday appealed to customers to be patient with them.

The tweet read: “Dear customer, there is a partial system collapse on the national grid. Our TCN partners are working to restore supply immediately. Please bear with us.”

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