Nigeria’s National Electricity grid collapsed twice yesterday Thursday 16th, January 2020 which plunged the country into darkness, the system which had collapsed 12:37pm went down again at 2:15pm.
According to a tweet by Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), the present outage is affecting all TCN system on the grid.
“Dear Customer, present outage affecting all is a TCN System Disturbance on the grid. Power to be restored as soon as available. Dear Customer, the outage which occurred at 1237hrs is due to a TCN system collapse affecting Lekki, Ibeju & environs. The team is working to restore power. Please, bear with us,” it stated.
Also, Ikeja Electric (IE) confirmed the development in a tweet
“Dear customer, another system collapse was recorded at 14:15hrs today. Restoration efforts are on going. Kindly bear with us.