In the early hours on Monday September 26, the electricity distribution company had informed their customers of the disruption of power, citing the collapse of the national grid for the eighth time this year. Ikeja Electric said the National grid collapsed at 10:50 am on Monday, noting that;
“this affected the transmission stations within our network and resulted in the loss of power supply to our customers.”
According to the Transmission Company of Nigeria(TCN), power has been restored following the collapse of the National Grid few hours ago.
The TCN said the incident occurred as a result of a drop in system frequency, which created system instability.
In a statement made by the TCN, “The restoration of the affected part of the grid commenced immediately at 11:55 am with Osogbo/Ihovbor back to the grid followed by Jebba/Osogbo, Kainji/Jebba, Benin/Onisha, Shiroro/Katampe, and Alaoji/Ikot-Ekpene. Others are Lokoja/Gwagwalada, Odukpani/Ikot-Ekpene, Benin/Omotosho, Oke-Aro/Ikeja west, Egbin/Oke-Aro and Kaduna/Kano.
TCN’s General Manager, Public Affairs,Ndidi Mbah said in a statement:
” The National Control Centre (NCC) said a full scale investigation is being conducted to establish and ascertain the cause of the partial disturbance as this unwholesome event has resulted in aggregated generation loss.”
However, Eko Electricity Distribution Company also said; “ We are working with our TCN partners to restore power supply as soon as possible.We also apologize for the inconvenience.”
