Nigerians are groaning again in darkness after the national electricity grid suffered a major failure on Wednesday, seizing power supply to homes amidst scorching weather conditions.

The collapse has seen Nigeria’s electricity output dwindle to a meagre 230 megawatts or less for a population exceeding 180 million, PREMIUM TIMES learnt. This was against 4,032 megawatts national average that was generated a day before on May 7.

At least two power generation engineers who spoke with PREMIUM TIMES under anonymity said the faults were still being traced as of Thursday afternoon, and power situation might not return to normal for another 72 hours.

The National Control Centre acknowledged the crisis to electricity distributors on Wednesday evening, promising to get the system back on within a few hours. The centre did not say what triggered the collapse — or how deep it was.

While some distribution precincts received a few megawatts of power from the national grid that were barely enough to light a few bulbs, other parts of the country were plunged into total darkness.

The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, which distributes energy to homes in Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger and the federal capital, received only 20 megawatts from the national grid for several hours on Wednesday. It was late in the evening that the supply peaked at 70 megawatts. The four contiguous states have at least 13 million people between them.


At about 5:51 a.m. Thursday, the supply dropped again from its 70 megawatts highs, according to power distribution officials. The officials spoke under anonymity to avoid being sanctioned by federal regulators.

The Yola Electricity Distribution Company, which feeds most of Nigeria’s northeastern flank, received zero allocation, according to a disclaimer on its Twitter handle Thursday morning.

A spokesperson for the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) did not return PREMIUM TIMES’ telephone calls seeking comments about the failures Thursday afternoon.

Even though Nigeria generates a fraction of the energy it needs to power the country, consistent power failures have continued to assail the little progress it occasionally records in the sector.


In June 2018, the country was thrown into darkness after the national grid suffered acute gas shortages to fire turbines. The TCN responded swiftly to the crisis, but it took more than 72 hours to resolve the failure
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/329193-nigeria-plunged-into-darkness-as-national-grid-collapses-again.html

If you voted against Goodluck Jonathan, stretch your two hands backwards and slap yourself heavily, and do it again.

You deserve the slaps because you were blinded by tribal sentiments to vote in an incompetent set of people.

Fashola has been hiding in his freezer, because there's no power for him to be frozen inside. This is the same man who boasted that any serious government can make power stable in six months.

Fashola, come out of your hot freezer, it's 4 years already

230 MW for 200 million people.. Buhari weldone

Abuja, Nassarawa, Kogi and Niger dey share 20MW lol... I no kuku notice am... D grid most of us are on has been in coma so we don't know wen e wake up collapse again

one f00lish minister will say 'we now generate 7000 megawatts of electricity'

If lie travels for 100years ahead, less than a day , truth will overtake it, so says a Yoruba proverb . Tell us what this government has done to improve, power generation, apart from apportioning blames. Why not decentralizing this sector.

All Retrogressive Congress.

Zai bubu,
stupid Nigerians enjoy ur next lavel


4+4

Where is Mr ROCKET SCIENCE

SarkinYarki:
230 MW for 200 million people.. Buhari weldone

If you believe that figure you'll believe anything.

OP, correct your rubbish pls.

where is minister of rocket science with his turned up kingsize nostrils？

No be lie, I leave close to a transmission platform and we usually have light 24hrs daily but for the first time in months light is gone.

Fasholie oya where is d power? Where is d 7000MW?

Which power station has this evil govt built apart from the one they inherited from GEJ?

All lies have an expiry date.

Shame on Buhari and Fasholie

Rossikk:


If you believe that figure you'll believe anything.

OP, correct your rubbish pls.

ofcourse it's correct !!!!the grid collapsed completely

If you're here blaming Fashola then doctor have to examine your brain .

Scammers PLC is what APC stand for

Rossikk:


If you believe that figure you'll believe anything.

OP, correct your rubbish pls.

leave all these people alone, they're already programmed to attract bad news.... its like a case of vampire and blood.

230mw my foot, light dey my area since yesterday.

BuhariAdvocate:
If you're here blaming Fashola then doctor have to examine your brain .

Exactly...


We all should channel our blame on Buhari

He appointed failures all round himself .. The chief failure

SLAP44:
If you voted against Goodluck Jonathan, stretch your two hands backwards and slap yourself heavily, and do it again.

You deserve the slaps because you were blinded by tribal sentiments to vote in an incompetent set of people.

Fashola has been hiding in his freezer, because there's no power for him to be frozen inside. This is the same man who boasted that any serious government can make power stable in six months.

Fashola, come out of your hot freezer, it's 4 years already

You these idiots don turn gej to a Saint because of buhari failure. Is there are different fron Satan and devil. Mumu. No be Jonathan sold out nepa to these useless people abi you no get sense nii. I no blame u, nah Buhari wey dey Bleep up I blame.

BuhariAdvocate:
If you're here blaming Fashola then doctor have to examine your brain .

why should we blame Fashola when Buhari the incompetence in chief is there

And I'm here in my area thinking it is the rainfall of last two nights ago was responsible for our black out. . . .since the wires needs to dry . . .not knowing is this collapse.


Fashola see your life

175:
And I'm here in my area thinking it is the rainfall of last two nights ago was responsible for our black out. . . .since the wires needs to dry . . .not knowing is this collapse.


Fashola see your life

Where's your area?

I think it's the same thing in the whole of Jos. I was also thinking it was the rain.

czarina:
Where's your area?

I think it's the same thing in the whole of Jos. I was also thinking it was the rain.

Maitama Abuja

no light in our area of Port Harcourt.

Much ado about rocket science

175:


Maitama Abuja

Alright, most states in the North Central were likely affected.

otokx:
no light in our area of Port Harcourt.

After all these years Still no light in Aluu?

Chubhie:

After all these years Still no light in Aluu?

Lol, funny enough Aluu had light today for some hours.

Where is that stupid over-hyped wonder man minister of darkness called Fashola? Lets hear who himself & the government will blame this time around.