National electricity collapses again, Lagos and other cities experience blackouts.
- Posted on March 15, 2022
- Technology
- By Osinachi Gift
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.
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