The latest collapse occurred on Tuesday, marking the 10th such incident since January 2024.

By Deborah Hassan

365Daily – Barely 48 hours after it was restored, the national grid has again suffered a collapse.

The latest collapse occurred on Tuesday, marking the 10th such incident since January 2024.

In a tweet posted on its account on X, @NationalGridNg, at 12:22 pm on Thursday, October 7, 2024, the National Grid wrote, BREAKING: Another Grid Setback Experienced.”

As of 11 am on Thursday, the 22 power plants were only able to generate 2,323 megawatts of electricity, with generation dropping to 0.00MW.

The peak generation for the day was 3,743MW as of 10 am.

Confirming the incident, the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company reported at 11:29 am, “Dear Esteemed Customer, please be informed that we experienced a system outage today, 7 November 2024, at 11:29 hrs, affecting supply within our network.

“Restoration of supply is ongoing in collaboration with our critical stakeholders. Kindly bear with us,” IKEDC said.