LAGOS – Nigeria has been plunged into darkness once again following another collapse of the country’s power grid on Wednesday.
The Nigeria’s national grid made this known on social media platform X on Wednesday afternoon, with power dstribution companies also announcing that a “system outage” occured at about 13:32 hrs – affecting supplies within their networks.
Today’s collapse is the 12th in 2024, the power grid suffered multiple collapses in October.
Nigeria’s electricity sector continues to grapple with the recurring challenges of an unstable national grid, frequently resulting in widespread blackouts.
In November 2013, the federal government privatized power generation and the 11 distribution companies while retaining ownership of the transmission company to boost efficiency in the sector.
However, grid failures have persisted, sparking calls for further reforms.
Despite being Africa’s most populous nation, Nigeria struggles to generate even 5,000 MW of electricity, leaving millions of citizens in prolonged darkness.
Some stakeholders now advocate for the privatization of the grid system and the introduction of state-level power transmission to alleviate pressure on the national grid and enhance stability.
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