Most parts of Lagos State earlier thrown into darkness are beginning to receive power supply.
Information earlier was that there was a grid collapse in the early hours of Sunday, throwing several cities including the nation’s capital Abuja, into darkness.
According to the report, Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, (AEDC) announced Sunday that the collapse occurred at around 11 a.m.
“The management of Abuja Electricity Distribution Plc (AEDC) wishes to inform its valued customers that the power outage being experienced is a result of a system failure from the national grid at 11:21 hours today, 4th February 2024 which has led to a nationwide power outage,” the company said.
“Be rest assured that we are working with the relevant stakeholders to restore power as soon as the grid is stabilized. We appeal for your patience,” it added.
The latest collapse occurred less than two months after the national grid system collapsed in December and Nigerians were thrown into darkness.
Although spokesman of Ikeja Electric, Kingsley Okotie, could not be reached before this report, his counterpart at Eko Electricity Distribution Company(EKEDC), Babatunde Lasaki, told our Correspondent that the head of distribution of the DisCo, confirmed there was power trip knocking out power from its network.
Lasaki said he would not confirm if there was a grid collapse but a situation probably occurred which knocked off supply at about 12am.
Lasaki, however, said normalcy is gradually returning in the network from 2 pm and there are assurances the entire network would be energized before end of today.
He could not confirm any grid collapse as he said it is only the Transmission Company of Nigeria(TCN), that can say so.
Nigeria’s power sector has experienced broad challenges such as electricity policy enforcement, regulatory uncertainty, gas supply, transmission system constraints, and major power sector planning shortfalls.
Last Friday, the federal government attributed the main cause of poor power supply in the country to the low supply of gas to generating companies (GenCos).
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, who disclosed this in a statement, said, “Power supply during the yuletide improved, but unfortunately, we’ve experienced setbacks in the new year. After investigations, it’s clear that the main cause of poor power supply is the low supply of gas to GenCos.”
The, TCN, in January, said, there was a gradual decrease in available generation into the grid due to gas constraints.
The company said, this impacted the quantum of bulk power available on the transmission grid for onward transmission to the distribution load centres nationwide.
