Tag: Plunges Nigeria Into Total Blackout

Fourth Time In Three Months; National Grid Collapses Again

ADEOLA YUSUF

The national electricity transmission network, otherwise known as the grid has collapsed again, throwing the entire country into a Blackout. Platforms Africa reports that the national electricity grid managed centrally from Osogbo, Osun State, collapsed around 4:30 pm on Thursday, plunging millions of homes and businesses into darkness. This marks the fourth collapse of the grid in the first three months of the year. Reports from distribution companies (DisCos) across the country’s 36 states indicate widespread blackouts as their feeders became inactive due to the grid failure. With the grid’s…

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National Grid Collapses, Plunges Nigeria Into Total Blackout

ADEOLA YUSUF

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. READ ALSO: The Big CoverUp: Full Story of How N8 Trillion ‘Disappeared’ From CBN Vaults Nigeria-Bound Goods To Be…

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