Barely one week after Nigeria was thrown into darkness, the national electricity grid has collapsed again.
Power generation has reportedly dropped from a peak of 3,594.60 megawatts (MW) at about 1am on Tuesday morning to a meagre 42.7MW.
According to Guardian, only Delta Power plant was active on the grid with 41.00MW as at 12noon while Afam had 1.7MW.
This comes barely five days after the grid collapsed twice within a space of more than 12 hours leaving the nation in total darkness.
Recalled that electricity supply was restored in Nigeria hours after a nationwide blackout on that Thursday due to the collapse of the national grid operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) from Osogbo in Osun State.
Days before this incident, the Nigerian Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu claimed that the explosion at Kainji/Jebba 330kV was the cause of the collapse of the national grid during the early hours of last Thursday.
The minister had disclosed this in a series of tweets on X platform while assuring that all hands are on deck to ensure speedy restoration of the power.
