Aduragbemi Omiyale
By Aduragbemi Omiyale
Many Nigerians have again been thrown in darkness as the national grid has collapsed.
The major distribution companies (DisCos) operating in the country confirmed this development to their customers on Monday.
One of them, Ikeja Electric Plc, sent a message to customers in its coverage area that the national grid collapse happened a few minutes before 11 am today.
“This is to inform you that the outage you are currently experiencing is due to the system collapse of the national grid, which occurred earlier today at 10:50hrs.
“This has affected the Transmission Stations within our network and resulted in the loss of power supply to our customers.
“Kindly bear with us as we await the restoration of the grid. Thank you for your understanding,” the notice from Ikeja Electric stated.
Another operator, Eko Electricity Distribution Company, in a message, informed its customers that, “We regret to inform you of a system collapse on the national grid at precisely 10:52 am.
“Presently, all our injection substations are out of supply.
“We are working with our TCN partners to restore supply as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience.”
On its part, Kaduna Electric said, “We regret to inform you that the power outage being experienced in our franchise states is due to system collapse of the national grid.
The collapse occurred at about 11.07 am, hence, the loss of supply on all our outgoing feeders.
“The power supply shall be restored as soon as the national grip is powered back. Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience.”
