Nigerians are angry.
Reason: For the sixth time in 2024, the power grid has collapsed, throwing the most-populous black country into darkness.
Around 2am on Monday, electricity generation on the system collapsed from 2,583.77MW to 64.7MW.
The biggest country in Africa generates an average of 4,000MW of electricity for an estimated 200 million citizens.
But, due to some factors including gas supply constraints, transmission infrastructure vandalism and liquidity crisis, the grid continues to record incessant collapse.
Data from the Independent System Operator, an arm of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, showed that only one electricity generation company, Ibom Power, was active at the time of the grid collapse on Monday morning.
Power generation on the grid crashed further to 44.5MW around 4am, before rising to 132.29MW an hour later.
The grid collapse was confirmed by Jos Electricity Distribution Company.
The Head, Corporate Affairs, JEDC, Dr Friday Elijah, in a notice to customers, said: “The current outage being experienced within our franchise states is a result of loss of power supply from the national grid.
“The loss of power supply from the national grid occurred in the early hours at about 0242hours of today, Monday, April 15, 2024, hence the loss of power supply on all our feeders.”
Elijah, however, expressed hope that the grid would be restored for normal power supply to electricity consumers.
