The national grid collapsed on Thursday resulting in blackout in some parts of the country.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) confirmed this via a post on its Twitter page
“There was system disturbance which occurred at about 12.34 p.m affecting some parts of the country.
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“As at 1:10 p.m, supply was restored to Abuja and most parts of the affected areas. TCN is still working to completely restore and stabilise the nation’s grid,” the tweet said.
Ikeja Electric (IE) which also confirmed the grid collapse in a statement on its Twitter account, said another collapse of the grid occurred at 2.36 p.m after the previous incident.
Its tweet read: “Dear customers, the outage you are experiencing is due to a system collapse of the grid which occurred this afternoon at 12:36 p.m. All parts of IE’s network are affected.
“Another system collapse was recorded at 2.15 p.m today. Restoration efforts are ongoing. Kindly bear with us.”
