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Nationwide blackout as national grid collapses

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Nigeria’s national power grid suffered a system collapse on Wednesday morning, plunging many parts of the country into darkness.

Reports indicate that the grid lost power shortly after 11 a.m., leading to widespread outages. Sources within power generation companies confirmed a general disturbance in the grid, causing a major drop in electricity supply.

According to data reviewed by our correspondent, the grid’s power generation stood at 4,064 megawatts at 11 a.m. but dropped sharply to 1,203MW by noon before completely shutting down to 0.00MW at 1 p.m. Most power plants connected to the grid lost generation capacity during the incident.

This marks the first nationwide grid collapse of 2025, following a line tripping incident in January. In 2024, the grid collapsed 12 times, and over the past decade, it has failed more than 100 times.

Confirming the outage, the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) addressed customers via its official X (formerly Twitter) handle.

“Dear Valued Customer, we regret to inform you that a system disturbance occurred on the national grid at 11:34 a.m. today, causing a power outage across our franchise areas. While gradual restoration of power supply has commenced, please be assured that we are working closely with relevant stakeholders to fully restore electricity as soon as the grid is stabilized. Thank you for your understanding and patience as we work to serve you better,” the statement read.

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