The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said that it has successfully restored the national power grid following its collapse at 4:28 pm on Thursday, the second electricity blackout this year. The incident scuttled the distribution of electricity by the electricity distribution companies (DisCos), to all parts of the nation. In a statement on Friday, TCN said the grid attained full recovery …

Nigeria’s national grid collapsed once more on Tuesday when power generation crashed from a peak of 3,594.60 megawatts at midnight to an alarming low of 42.7MW by midday. Subsequently, at Noon, only the Delta Power plant was operational on the grid, contributing 41MW, while Afam generated 1.7MW. The grid failure was particularly impactful on the commercial hub of Lagos, where …