The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) on Saturday said there has been no system collapse in 2025. The TCN in a statement posted on its official X handle on Saturday made this known in reaction to reports that the national grid had collapsed twice in 2025. On 12 February, electricity distribution companies announced that a…
Nigerians were thrown into yet another round of power chaos as the nation’s electricity grid suffered a “grid disturbance” just before noon today, causing widespread outages across several parts of the country. The Nigeria National Grid, in a brief statement on X (formerly Twitter), confirmed the collapse but provided little detail on the extent of…
The national electricity grid will remain prone to collapse due to the government’s inability to repair a crucial transmission line in northern Nigeria owing to persistent insecurity. This is according to the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, who spoke during the 2025 budget defense session with the Senate Joint Committee on Power. Adelabu highlighted the…
Following social media backlash, Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election has made a u-turn over his controversial comment on the alleged collapse of the national grid. After a power outage in some parts of Lagos on Saturday, January 11, 2025, which many erroneously attributed to national grid…
The Transmission Company of Nigeria has stated that the power fluctuations experienced in some parts of the country on Saturday were caused by line trippings. According to a statement released by the TCN spokesperson, Ndidi Mbah, the national grid did not experience a collapse on Saturday. She confirmed that the Ihovbor line tripped at 1:41…
Nigeria’s national power grid has recorded its first major collapse for the first time in 2025 barely ten days into the new year. The collapse has resulted in a nationwide blackout to the despair of Nigerians. This incident marks the 13th occurrence in the past 13 months. Checks by our correspondent showed that power generation…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that Nigeria has been plunged into darkness once again following another collapse of the national grid on Wednesday. Recall that the grid experienced multiple collapses in October, with the Federal Government promising a permanent solution to the ongoing issue. This recent collapsed make it the 12th time in 2024. A check on…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the national grid has collapsed again, making it second time in three days. Announcing the latest development, National Grid on their X said “BREAKING: Another Grid Setback Experienced”. According to Ikeja Disco, the outage occurred today, Thursday November 7, at exactly 11:29hrs. The latest power outage will throw millions of households…
GISTSMATE MEDIA reports that the National grid has suffered yet another collapse, plunging the country into another round of darkness. The grid suffered multiple collapse in the month of October, with the Federal Government promising a permanent solution to the embarrassment. As of 2:35pm, hourly generation readings showed that none of the the Power Generation…
The national electricity grid collapsed on Saturday, leading to a nationwide blackout. Data obtained from the Nigerian system operator’s portal showed that the grid recorded zero megawatts (MW) as of 9.10am today. The system failure at the national grid is the third time within a week. However, the national grid has collapsed eight times in…