Blackout: National grid suffers 2nd collapse in 2022

For the second time this year, the national grid suffered a collapse on Monday resulting in blackout across the country.

The states affected included Lagos, Enugu, Kaduna, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo.

In a text message to its customers, the Eko Electricity Distribution Company in Lagos informed that the system collapse occurred on the national grid at 10:40 am.

‘Dear esteemed customer, a system collapse occurred on the national grid at 10:40 am today, leading to outages across our network’, the text message read.

‘We are working on the situation with our TCN partners and will keep you updated. We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this may have caused’.

Kaduna Electricity also confirmed a similar situation on Monday, but assured its customers that power would soon be restored.

‘We regret to inform you that the power outage being experienced in our franchise states is due to System Collapse of the National Grid which occurred at about 10:40 am’, the firm said.

‘Power supply shall be restored as soon as the National Grid is powered back. Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience’.

In its notice to customers, the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) explained that the system collapse affected supply in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States.

The notice, signed by EEDC Head, Corporate Communications, Emeka Ezeh read, ‘The Enugu Electricity Distribution Plc (EEDC) wishes to inform her esteemed customers in the South East of a general system collapse which occurred this morning, Monday, 14th March 2022 at 10:40 am.

‘This is the reason for the loss of supply currently being experienced across the network.

‘Consequently, all our outgoing feeders are out and supply to our customers in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States are affected by this development’.