National power grid has on Monday experienced its second collapse in 2022 resulting in blackout across the country.
The states affected include Lagos, Enugu, Kaduna, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States, among others.
Confirming the development in a text message to its customers, The Eko Electricity Distribution Company, said that the system collapse occurred on the national grid at 10:40 am.
Eko Electricity said in a statement;
Dear esteemed customer, we regret to inform you of a total system collapse on the national grid at 10:40 am today, leading to outages across our network. We are closely monitoring the situation with our TCN partners to determine the cause and a timeline for resolution.
Kaduna Electricity also issued a statement apologising to customers about the national grip collapse that started at about 10:40 a.m.
The statement partly reads;
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. Power supply shall be restored as soon as the National Grid is powered back. Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience.
Also, Enugu Electricity Distribution PLC in its notice to customers said that the system collapse affected supply in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States.
The notice signed by EEDC Head, Corporate Communications, Emeka Ezeh, reads;
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.
Back in January, the national power grid broke down. The national electricity grid has failed electricity consumers more than 128 times since the nation’s power sector was privatised in 2013.
The collapse comes as Nigerians are gripped by acute fuel and electricity shortages caused by the recent importation of adulterated petroleum products.
