Nigeria has been thrown into darkness again following the collapse of the national grid.
This is the second collapse in 72 hours and the 12th within the last 11 months.
The current collapse was made known by the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) in a message to customers.
The DISCO said: “Please be informed that we experienced a system outage today, 07 November 2024, at 11:29 hiours, affecting supply within our network.”
IKEDC assured customers that efforts to restore power are underway in collaboration with key stakeholders, though no timeline was provided.
“Restoration of supply is ongoing. Kindly bear with us,” the company added.
— Ikeja Electric (@IkejaElectric) November 7, 2024
Meanwhile, the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has not issued an official statement on the reason the grid collapsed on Thursday.
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