The management of Aba Power Electricity Limited, which provides electric power to nine of the 17 Local Government Areas in Abia State, has apologised to electricity consumers in its coverage area for the blackouts experienced on Tuesday. In a statement by its Managing Director, Mr. Patrick Umeh, the power utility attributed the outages to the nationwide strike by the Nigeria Labour …

Nigeria has again been thrown into darkness after the national grid system, operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) from Osogbo in Osun State, collapsed. The grid reportedly plummeted to a meagre 273 megawatts of electricity in the early hour of Thursday coming from two out of the over 27 electricity generation. This comes barely a week after TCN rolled …

For at least the fourth time this year, the national grid has collapsed again. This latest electricity showdown had at 12:23 pm on Wednesday as the supply crashed to around 40 megawatts. According to The Nation, out of the 11 distribution companies across the country, only the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company recorded 40Mw, while others had zero. The power outage has been …