The national electricity grid recorded another collapse on Friday, throwing most parts of the country into darkness for nine hours.

Ndidi Mbah, spokesperson of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), told TheCable that the system collapse, which is the 10th this year, happened around 2:01 p.m., but that the grid was restored around 9:01 p.m.

The incident was said to have led to power generation dropping to zero megawatts(MW). According to Mbah, the cause is being investigated.

The grid suffered four total collapses in January, and one each in February and April.

TheCable had reported how the grid collapsed twice within 24 hours in May which resulted in a reduction of electricity allocation to distribution companies (DisCos) across the country.

On June 30, a fire outbreak at a power substation in Benin, Edo state, led to the total collapse of the national grid, making it the ninth total collapse in the year.

The TCN had blamed the system collapse on the massive load rejection by the DisCos.

But the DisCos blamed the frequent collapses on poor protection equipment used for power transmission.

The Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED), the umbrella body of the DisCos, said the grid has recorded over 100 partial and total transmission system collapses since the privatisation of the sector in 2013.

See more; http://gistmore.com/9-hours-of-darkness-as-national-grid-collapses-for-the-10th-time-in-2019

No wonder I didn't have electricity at that time.

Only 9 hours? When it gets to 19 hours, it's then that Nigerians will know what to do.

Well ... Lord of the Zombies is back from treatment.
Let him continue deceiving them

Not surprised

ok

God why? How can 170million people be so unfortunate?

No wonder Ibedc Refused to give us our usual 18hrs of Electricity on Friday and Saturday.

We have only been managing 8hrs

shame on Jonathan and PDP

If you know you don't know the difference between when it collapsed and when it's functioning... gather here let's have coffee and gist about Buhari pant.

Didn't even notice, there has been no light for a very long time. Except they are using some areas as case study

Who notices these?

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itsme01:
shame on Jonathan and PDP

In Buhari's second term? Are you alright?

Tell me something new.

Ok

Ohhh.

I see.

Na una way, I'm not surprised, OP ARE YOU SURPRISED?

This isnt news please. What should be termed newsworthy is the presence of constant power for at least 9 hours a day.

The nation itself has collapsed because of greed, talk more of national grid.

So embarrassing..

Meanwhile, check out our signature to be the next CEO

So how does 2-9 = 9hours o?

Do we still have power minister?

I rarely hear or read of any ministry doing little

SMH!

Just imagine. In 2019, a Whole country as big and popular as Nigeria experiencing National Power grid collapse and power dropping to 0 Megawatts. A whole 10 times in a single year? When are we really going to get things right in this Country? Are these ones even planning or working towards providing 24 hours electricity at all? What a Country... May God punish all the Useless leaders we have in this country and also give we the citizens sense and wisdom to act and make our anger known to them instead of swallowing every pill they shove down our throats...

Next level of Pooh pooh..my fear is,if we are experiencing this in raining season..(when most people don't use AC,fans, fridge etc). What will happen during dry season?...when we need light the most? We are finished in d country. APC Don kill us

Didn't notice it. What difference does it make though?

Useless government

Failures. Always failing and will continue failing.

Hmmm... Laugh.... 99% of us didnt noticed it.

You knw why?
Becus its a normal thing in this country.

Nigeria can NEVER work.

If there is steady light oil moguls go dey out of business na

Make una reason am ooo

Just sell off the country

Nigeria economy is in total collapse , all thanks to Buhari .

I had power though