Nigerians were on Saturday, January 11, 2025, thrown into a nationwide blackout following the collapse of the national power grid.
This is the first time that the national grid has collapsed in 2025, following a series of system collapses in 2024.
The grid collapsed about 2 p.m. on Saturday.
Report said that power generation dropped from 2111.01 megawatts as of 2 p.m. to 390.20 MW by 3 p.m.
“National grid suffers major collapse… First in 2025,” Energy podcast confirmed the blackout via a post on Saturday.
“Restoration has begun… Currently generating 302MW as of 02:40 pm,” it said in another post.
Recall that the national grid collapsed for well over twelve times in 2024.
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