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Blackout as national grid collapses again

Promise Eze 10 September 2025 0

Nigeria have once again been plunged into darkness following another collapse of the national grid. An update via the official X handle of Nigeria’s National Grid revealed that the system failure occurred at about 11:54 a.m. on Wednesday, September 10, 2025. According to the post, only

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TCN confirms total power system collapse

Ihesiulo Grace 13 May 2021 0

Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has said the national grid experienced a total system collapse on Wednesday resulting in blackout in some parts of the country. The TCN made the confirmation in a statement by its General Manager, Public Affairs, Mrs Ndidi Mbah, obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. Mbah said: […]

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National grid collapse, cause of outage — Eko Disco

Ihesiulo Grace 10 July 2018 0

The Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC), has attributed the current power outage on its network to what it called system collapse of the National Grid. The General Manager, Corporate Communications of the company, Mr Godwin Idemudia, said on Monday that the outage which occurred about 2.27 p.m. on Sunday affected Ajah, Akangba and Agbara transmission […]

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TCN’s Fibre Optic Saga: Alheri, Phase 3 owe FG N27.18bn in 11 years

Ihesiulo Grace 15 January 2018 0

…Fashola writes Buhari, seeks EFCC, others probe of Phase 3, Alheri (Dangote subsidiary) …Raises conflicts of interest by Makoju, Diko with Dangote, Jegede, Ex- Minister Cornelius Adebayo’s son-in- law The Federal Government’s ongoing war against corruption and sleaze may be a Herculean task to accomplish, following a startling revelation that two indigenous

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FG to provide renewable energy for rural communities

Ihesiulo Grace 23 June 2017 0

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has revealed that the Federal Government would provide renewable source of power to at least one million households in rural communities not connected to the national grid. He made this revelation at the Nigerian Renewable Energy Roundatable organized by the Ministry of Science and Technology in conjunction with the Nigerian Economic […]

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Fire completely destroys TCN’s equipment

Ihesiulo Grace 22 January 2017 0

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has confirmed that fire incident at the Afam V power station. The fire its said completely destroyed TCNs protection and control equipment in its relay and control room. The incident which happened on Jan. 18, has constrained the evacuation of guaranteed 450MW generation by the station . The General […]