The entire nation has been thrown again into total darkness with the collapse of the national grid in the early hours of Thursday morning.
The collapse comes barely a week after the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) celebrated alleged 400 days of uninterrupted grid stability.
Checks on the grid performance showed power generation dropped to a meagre 48.50 megawatts at 7.00am on Thursday from only two out of the over 27 electricity generation plants.
A number of Distribution Companies confirmed that the grid went down at 00:41am, disclosing that most of their feeders were out.
As of 7:00am on Thursday, two generating plants were on the grid – Afam VI had 1.60MW while Ibom Power had 46.90MW. All other companies on the grid had zero generation.
At about 1am midnight, the total power on the grid was 35MW, indicating that the country experienced a total collapse.
The grid went to 193MW at about 3am before climbing to 273MW. By 6.00am, the power on the grid had risen to 798.50MW, before plummeting to 48.50MW as at 7.00am.
