Again, National Grid collapses. The third time In 30 days

It has been reported that the National power Grid has collapsed for the third time less than a month. The cause of the national embarassment has not been disclosed but speculatio

It had collapsed on March 13, restored on the next day, but collapsed the next day. The latest incidence is the third within four weeks.

The Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) disclosed the latest development in a tweet, urging Nigerians to be patient. “We apologize for the inconvenience caused and appeal that you bear with us while we await restoration from the TCN, it stated.

“Hello, please be informed that there has just been a national grid collapse causing an outage in our franchise areas. We apologise for the inconvenience caused and appeal that you bear with us while we await restoration from the TCN. We regret all inconvenience caused,” AEDC tweeted.

Its Kaduna counterpart , through a statement signed by Abdulazeez Abdullahi, its head of Corporate Communication, said, it “regrets to inform you that the current outage being experienced in our franchise states is due to a collapse of the national grid. The collapse occurred at about 18:29 pm this evening.”

It added that normal power supply shall be restored as soon as the grid is restored.