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Them don talk why them dey switch off power wen rain falls.
It's left for the government to do the needful and upgrade our electrical systems to match with advanced countries.
Especially that part that said that most of our power cables still hang on overhead poles in our streets.
This is a government responsibility, they have to take action. Under studying how advance countries distribute their electricity and replicating it here is not a bad thing na.
Corruption nor go cripple this country.

tunwumi:
D. Please spell words correctly when you post, and try to use perfect grammar and punctuation

Kopy dat?,!

Nonsense. Is it like that in Germany and other developed world. Rain fall more in Europe and there won't be power cut during rainfall. Mk dem tell another lies again. This one na lamba that even a secondary student can justify. Iranu

Maj196:
I don't want to know please

Lol
IT'S ANNOYING BRO
I get!!!

That's where we are!
Do you know that amount of Electric Energy lost due to exposed cables?
Nigeria chose to remain perpetually a Third World Country.

Do your best to live overseas briefly so no one tells you this kind of bullshit and you believe it's the right thing or the only way.

Zorn:
You didnt even ask if its a standard practice rather you just accept what ever lame explanation a media person without any engineering knowlodge is feeding you. Why is there always light in other countries even if its rains or raining? And there is light sometimes in Nigeria when its raining

It's not a lame explanation. It's where we are. Even as a kid, I knew why power goes when it's raining or about to rain. Of course, we should upgrade. But this is where we are now.

Dogalmighty17:
Rubbish. These are issues that competent engineers in advanced economies have long handled. We can't keep making excuses for failure

Imagine u have a dog (gsd) and u want make E give u Lion vibes.
Even if u name ur dog 'lion', Bro na still dog.
Remember na big name dey kill dog.

Make una see rubbish excuse way make nepa they take light when rain fall, what nonsense. So, watin they fall for other countries? No be the same rain ? Even during typhoon or tornado, light go still dey for all this foreign countries. What a weak system

Rain no dey fall for Ghana

descarado:
Its because they have no underground wiring so what do they expect. Even in 2026, they are still using archaic wiring system

Leave them,they know what they are doing.
The most corrupt ministry after politicians and nnpc.

I once suggested a long time ago, online, that we should bury our wires for power supply purposes.

The responses I got suggested that 1) it would be too expensive 2) it would make isolating a fault on the line much more difficult.

Also, as for our archaic power system, that's easy. We don;'t pay a cost reflective tarrif for power, so the power companies cannot afford the massive upgrades they need to do to fix things. Government could do it, but it would involve borrowing at least 20 trillion yearly for the next ten years. And then the loans have to be paid.

Ministry of power may be corrupt, but since the discos and gencos were created, about the only thing they have direct control over is the transmisson system, and maybe rural electrification. And then oversight of the discos and gencos, and that's it. They don't directly run how the power is supplied. Since 2013 self.

hush15:
Tell them o. Even UK that is always wet and cold, them no talk this nonsense

Lol
Remember,
Na big name dey kill dog o

Finished country, using billions to buy fuel and maintenance for Aso Rock's generators but can't use it to modernize our electricity.

Julibet:
These are things Electricity regulatory commission or company should be inspecting before every house is built if things were working.

Yeah
Exactly
'Standard practice'
But poor organization.

This explanation has no engineering sence at all . When they will need to recruit an engineer ,they recruit business admin . Na the result be dis

In summary, we still have a long way to go 😭

hush15:
Tell them o. Even UK that is always wet and cold, them no talk this nonsense

UK buries its power lines, at least in the cities, and outside the cities, they don't do so..so power cuts may happen if the weather is adverse.(Note...adverse weather means a massive ultra massive storms).

UK also has everyone pay a cost reflective tarrif, which means their sector can afford to pay for a very strong power supply system that can whitstand storms and the likes. Also in the UK, if you can;t pay, they cut you off. Simple. That;s something Nigeria doesn't have because government policy and 'we are poor'.

Same people would request for Nepa's head on a plate should they give light when it's raining and it harms people.
Same people bro.

BATIST and AGBADORIAN explanation 💯

3seriez:
In summary, we still have a long way to go 😭

Gbam
Gbamsolutely.

Corruption, leadership failures are the reasons power trios off whenever it rains.
I spent 3 years in Ghana and never experienced power outage whenever it rained.

pocohantas:
I used to be pissed off about it, but now I understand safety first. There are also cases where poles would fall down and electrocute people. It is better to turn it off for a few hours. Everybody go dey alright.

This should not be an excuse, if not that we have very irresponsible people and management.
Is it only in Nigeria it rains?

Zonefree:
What kind of shameless explanation is this?

For 2026 ...



It really is shameful...

This is a 1970s problem battling old technology countries have moved on from this archaic way of transmission....we are just useless at everything other African countries are doing so much better with regards electricity!!

We are just incompetent lets say the truth we need a different mindset everything we do is so mediocre !! look at our political leaders just corrupt and moribund we can't continue like this ...everything is just dilapidated and old

People like u must talk

SmartPolician:
How come other countries don't switch theirs off? A terribly bad workman will always blame his tools. These folks in the power industry should quit disgracing themselves

pocohantas:
I don't need to ask. It is what is obtainable in Nigeria. Go to other countries and experience their engineering or take over IKEDC and overhaul it with your superior knowledge.

What is obtainable as rain fall is not obtainable anywhere else na.

GenFunction:
Read again
And get understanding

You're the one that should learn to read. Sometimes outages lasts for days up to weeks after the rainfall even when no damage was done.

Nigeria has some of the best weather on earth.
One, our weather is relatively moderate, rain is not excessive, dry season is not prolonged.
Two, our weather is reasonably predictable. We know almost to a month when the rains start and end, when the harmattan comes and goes.

We don't have the heat of Arabia, or the rains of south America or the blizzards of north Europe or the tornadoes of middle America.

Weather should be the last thing power companies complain about. The dry season lasts a minimum of four months in the wettest part of this country yet they do NOTHING to address these issues before hand.

Such a lazy, indolent set of people that will never do preventive maintenance, even if their lives depended on it.

So NEPA man go dey observe whether rain go heavy abi wind go blow so that he off light.

Back in the days, when I was young I had always thought that it was actually the rain that caused the power outage. Not until I saw one advert wey one NEPA demonstrated how dey switch off the grid where the NEPA guy said, "if una do anyhow, we go switch am off "

Ishilove:
We still have a long way to go in this country.

long is an understatement

WhiteIverson:
You're the one that should learn to read. Sometimes outages lasts for days up to weeks after the rainfall even when no damage was done.

Learning never ends.
I prefer to read again than to argue

JuanDeDios:
It's not a lame explanation. It's where we are. Even as a kid, I knew why power goes when it's raining or about to rain. Of course, we should upgrade. But this is where we are now.

Its lame explanation and excuse for failure as its not the standard practice every other places,