{"id":839024,"date":"2025-04-04T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/just-in-nigerians-in-darkness-as-national-grid-suffers-partial-collapse\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T16:12:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T21:12:41","slug":"just-in-nigerians-in-darkness-as-national-grid-suffers-partial-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/04\/just-in-nigerians-in-darkness-as-national-grid-suffers-partial-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Just In: Nigerians In Darkness As National Grid Suffers Partial Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<h2>Nigeria experienced widespread blackouts again on Friday following a partial collapse of the national electricity grid, plunging several cities into darkness.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Naija News<\/strong> reports that the outage was attributed to a partial system failure from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), which has continued to struggle with maintenance issues.<\/p>\n<p>Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) reported a system outage around 2:00 p.m. on Friday, informing customers of the disruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Please be informed that we experienced a system outage today 07\/03\/2025, at 14:00 hours, affecting supply within our network. Restoration of supply is ongoing in collaboration with our critical stakeholders<\/em>,\u201d the company announced.<\/p>\n<p>Eko Electricity Distribution Company also confirmed the situation, stating, \u201c<em>The current power situation is as a result of reduced power allocation from our TCN partners aimed at maintaining grid stability. The situation has resulted in unavoidable load shedding across our network.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite the disruption, the distribution companies assured customers that efforts were underway to restore electricity in collaboration with key stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>However, TCN spokesperson Ndidi Mbah dismissed reports of a system collapse, insisting that power was available where she was.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>We have light here now. What\u2019s wrong with these people now<\/em>?\u201d she remarked.<\/p>\n<p>When informed of a notice issued by one of the DisCos, she responded, \u201c<em>Three hours ago? Please send it to me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s power sector has been grappling with persistent challenges, and despite multiple government-led reforms, progress has remained slow.<\/p>\n<p>This latest blackout marks the third nationwide outage in 2025, following a previous collapse on February 12.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naijanews.com\/2025\/03\/07\/just-in-nigerians-in-darkness-as-national-grid-suffer-partial-collapse\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria experienced widespread blackouts again on Friday following a partial collapse of the national electricity grid, plunging several cities into darkness. Naija News reports that the outage was attributed to a partial system failure from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), which has continued to struggle with maintenance issues. Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) reported<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":839025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22681,39961],"tags":[16517,89657],"class_list":{"0":"post-839024","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-darkness","8":"category-nigerians","9":"tag-darkness","10":"tag-nigerians"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}