Nationwide blackout as electricity grid collapses again

Nigeria has been left in darkness as the national electricity grid controlled from Osogbo, Osun State collapsed at about 4:30pm on Thursday.

Most distribution companies across the country disclosed that their feeders were out leaving their franchises area across the 36 states in darkness.

While the grid output was 2984 megawatts as at 4pm, the 21 plants on the grid had zero output as of 5pm.

Just last month, the grid collapsed leaving the entire country in darkness even at a time when the industry is asking customers to pay more.

In the last 10 years that the grid was privatized with an intention to overhaul the despondent state of the sector, the grid had collapsed for over 141 occasions.

As of 6:00 pm when this report was filed, Azura was the only plant on the grid with a capacity of 54 megawatts.

Other plants like Egbin, Afam, Geregu, Ibom Power, Jebba, Kainji, Odukpani, Olorunsogo and others all had zero output.