The national power grid has suffered another system collapse, worsening the blackout being experienced by households and businesses in parts of Nigeria.
The collapse, which occurred early in the afternoon on Wednesday, was confirmed by two of the electricity distribution companies in the country.
Eko Electricity Distribution Company, in a text message to its customers, said, “Dear customer, the present outage is due to a system collapse on the National Grid. TCN assures us that supply will be restored shortly.” The Head of Kano Electricity Distribution Company, Nura Shawai, said in a statement, “This is to kindly inform the general public of another system collapse based on information available to us. This occurred today 28/7/2021 at 12:20 pm, as the national grid was disrupted, resulting in national blackout.
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