Nigeria’s power generation collapsed completely on Thursday at exactly 12.58pm to zero megawatt and this persisted for about three hours.


Data from the country’s System Operator showed that around 1pm on Thursday, no power generation company in Nigeria produced a single megawatt of electricity.

Industry operators told our correspondent that as a result of the complete collapse, no electricity distribution company received load allocation beginning from when the collapse was recorded up till around 3pm.

The SO stated that the 11 distribution companies got zero electricity load allocation during the period of the collapse, meaning that for about three hours on Thursday no part of Nigeria got power supply from the national grid.

Our correspondent, however, gathered that supply of electricity was restored around 3pm.

For instance, out of the 450MW that was due Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, the Disco only got about 50MW when the situation began to improve.

Before the collapse, AEDC got an allocation of 257.97MW and the nationwide generation level stood at 2,243.2MW.
Sources in the sector blamed the complete collapse in power generation on the extent of destruction of infrastructure and gas pipelines vandalism that had happened in the industry over the past years, as well as the poor upgrade of power installations across the country.

“The power crisis being experienced nationwide since Tuesday this week has worsened on Thursday with a total system collapse at exactly 12.58pm this afternoon. At that point, the nation went to ground zero, with all the Discos receiving zero MW allocation from the System Operator,” an operator in the sector told our correspondent in confidence.
Officials from the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing as well as private investors, had attributed the never-ending fall in electricity generation to vandalism of gas pipelines and destruction of vital infrastructure in the industry by miscreants.

“Aside pipelines vandalism, some miscreants have been involved in the destruction of vital power infrastructure and this has been affecting not just generation but transmission and distribution as well,” a senior official at the power ministry who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak on the matter, had said.
The official also stressed that the ongoing difficulty in the downstream oil industry was also impacting negatively on the power sector.

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The only power Buhari can generate is military power to unlawfully incarcerate his opponents, shoot and kill peaceful unarmed Biafrans and send his Fulani brothers to commit genocide across Nigeria.

buhari should resign honourably

Nigeria is in deep trouble. Things are becoming worse every day with BUHARI on the saddle. Where then is the change after all?

Fuel scarcity worsening, power outages getting worse, many companies and industries closing down as a result of scarcity of Forex, many essential commodities like sachet water, milk, beverages, pharmaceuticals, fuel, kerosene, printing paper, food items, etc have gone up by over 50%. Many people have lost their jobs.

Increase in tuition fees in Federal universities, Polytechnic and Colleges of Education, schools, increase in house rent, etc. We are in for very difficult times.

Now I know why we don't have light since morning. God am beginning to get scared of what tomorrow holds for my dear nation Nigeria.

This is a serious matter. Shameful. Not acceptable at all.

This is the way out. https://www.nairaland.com/3020226/solving-power-fuel-problems#44263429

Una chose a fake WAEC F9 Buhari to be una president.

Expect F9 result in economy and Power

We are gradually getting there..

All thanks to everyone who helped in taking Nigeria 30 years backward

unserious govt.

make thunder fire me if i join the protest against Buhari by zombies

Has Buhari's body language disappeared?

This is what you get when you make a lawyer your power Minister and a Power Engineer your Justice Minister

youu are lying because we have light here in eket around 2:10pm, they took it around after twelve and brought it at 2:10pm, so confirm your fact.

Buharist regime.

They Said Power generation was not rocket science

They said GEJ was a failure

They said we needed change to fix the nation

We foolishly agreed and voted change

Now that the scales is off our eyes we can see the true meaning of cluelessness

Unfortunately we are paying a huge price for it

But the most painful aspect is that the Nepa Bill certificate holder does not care how we feel he is off to the united states and will soon visit us again



I plege to Nigeria my country....

"Fixing power and giving Nigerians uninterrupted power not a rocket science"-Fashola


Now the mouth winning is over

Where is lalasticlala sef

Its good so that we can reset - using hard reset button. We have not achieved this feat before, we would let the machines rest for once.

At least we can begin to count....100MW to 10000MW by year end. Great action.

All these people shouting and screaming don't know that it takes time for turbines to power off and on. A boiler machine is a good example. They think is 220V switch, which powers off and on immediately.

Jonathan sef

xav1:
you are lying because we have light here in eket around 2:10pm, they took it around after twelve and brought it at 2:10pm, so confirm your fact.

Wisdom and foolishness are not the same! now read the whole article again and see if you can locate were you missed it

Keneking:
Where is lalasticlala sef

He too is shocked at the ugly development

Before you criticize someone, make sure that you have walked in that person's shoes.
APC was busy running their mouth and criticising GEJ during campaign and saying that power generation is not rocket science.
Now they can't even maintain the one that was handed over to them not to talk of adding more to it.

They were talking confidently as if they knew how to get the job done only to fail woefully when finally given the chance to prove themselves.

That shows cluelessness of the highest order.

Which way naija

Proverbs 24 v 21 -22
My son fear the Lord and the king. Do not associate your self with those shouting "change" for their calamity shall rise suddenly...

Change is not of God.

So who are you reporting this to?
Is it to the masses that cannot give others/instruction or to PMB in US who is less concern about the poor state of his Nation?

The Bible warned us about the 'words of our mouths'

Fashola's chest-beating statement before being appointed to prove his mettlle, continues to disgrace him.

He should pray the power ministry don't wipe away the little, if any, that remains of his political clout before his praise singers.

So true, cos he's broken records on negatives than any of his predecessors.

Lol... This is a record breaker

But then, did all the gas plants and all the hydro plants simultaneously just switch off at the same time?.... Or could it have been a momentary instrument failure causing the system operators/TCN to be unable to measure total power produced?... This is a real record breaker if true

This is nothing but sabotage!

Its always been 0MW here.

Gross

And some people will be happy with this kind of news. I wonder what kinda bástards will rejoice at the news of dearth of development in their own country.. SMH!

0MW for 3hours?? Someone just broke another record

Thats bullshit now how can power drop to 0mw we have hydroelectric power unless river niger drys up this story's hogwash

Ok