• Friday, 22nd November, 2024

Nationwide Blackout as Power Grid Collapses Fourth Time in 2024

Breaking | 5 months ago

Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja

Nigeria’s electricity grid collapsed for the fourth time Saturday afternoon, throwing the nation into total blackout.

At 6.07 pm, power generation had dipped to just 57 megawatts, a significant fall from the almost 4,000mw recorded at about 8am, according to a THISDAY review of data from the Independent System Operator, an autonomous arm of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).

Details later…

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