Blackout: National Power Grid Fails
Some Nigerian cities are currently experiencing darkness due to a sudden collapse of the nation’s power collapse.
The Leadership confirmed that Sources at the National Control Centre at Osogbo in Osun State pointed out that the national grid collapsed at 1.49 pm.
However, the sources provided no information on the cause of the system failure or when power is expected to be restored.
Meanwhile, Aba Power Ltd has notified consumers in its ring-fenced area covering nine Local Government Areas in Abia State of its services of the development.
While apologising for the blackout, the utility firm, Nigeria’s 12th distribution company, promised the restoration of power once the “problem is sorted out”.
The Aba Power Managing Director, Patrick Umeh, in a statement
said, “The NCC engineers are sparing no effort to restore electricity throughout the country as soon as possible”.
According to reports, parts of Lagos State have been thrown into hours of darkness but The Pendulum Media cannot independently verify the spread of the incident.
Reassuring power users, the DisCo, said, ‘Dear Prestige Customer, Kindly be informed that the present outage is due to a fault in the system collapse. Supply will be restored as soon as possible. Kindly bear with us”.
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