For Adebayo Adelabu, the new minister of power, the system failure, which occured around 12: 30 am, was his baptism of fire
The Nigeria’s electricity transmission system known as national grid on Thursday suffered a total collapse, plunging the entire country into a blackout
Platforms Africa reports that the collapse, which occurwd around 12: 30 am, is the first after Adebayo Adelabu was sworn in as a minister of power.
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Two distribution companies, Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) and Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) confirmed the collapse in different statements to their customers.
EKESC wrote: “Dear Valued Customer,
“The outage you are currently experiencing on all our feeders is due to system collapse from TCN.While Iganmu feeder is out on fault.
“Our customers will be restored to power supply as soon as the system improves.Fault clearing will commence on Iganmu feeder today. Please bear with us us.
……Total system collapse at 12.30am today!”
Titled; NOTICE OF TOTAL SYSTEM COLLAPSE, a statement by EEDC reads: “The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company PLC (EEDC) wishes to inform her esteemed customers of a total system collapse which occurred at 12:40am today, 14th September,2023. This has resulted to the loss of supply currently being experienced across the network.
“Due to this development, all our interface TCN stations are out of supply, and we are unable to provide service to our customers in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo States.
“We are on standby awaiting detailed information of the collapse and restoration of supply from the National Control Centre (NCC), Osogbo. Thank you.
“Signed by Emeka Ezeh, Head, Corporate Communications, EEDC”
