Blackout looms as national grid collapses

Nigerians are expected to be thrown into darkness as the national grid system operated by Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) from Osogbo in Osun State collapsed.

According to reports, the grid plummeted to a meagre 273 megawatts of electricity coming from two out of the over 27 electricity generation in the early hours of Thursday.

This comes barely a week after TCN, rolled out the drum to celebrate a questionable 400 days of grid stability.

The grid was reported to have went down at 00:41 AM.

As of 4:00 a.m. on Thursday, five generating plants were on the grid. Afam VI had 0.70MW, Dadinkowa was generating 0.00MW, Ibom Power had 32.90MW, Jebba had 240MW, and Olorunsogo was on the grid with zero generation.

At about 1AM midnight, the total power on the grid was 35MW, indicating that the country experienced a total collapse.