The national grid, being operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has collapsed again, resulting in blackout across the country.
The national grid encountered a major setback and collapsed on Wednesday as observed at about 2:05 pm in the FCT.
The grid collapsed for the 12th time in 2024.
As at the time of filing this report, TCN is yet to open up on the national grid collapse. However, it was gathered that restoration efforts are currently ongoing.
Meanwhile, the Jos electricity distribution company has confirmed the national grid collapse, disclosing that the loss of power supply occurred at about 13:33 hours of today.
Dr Friday Adakole Elijah, Jos DisCo’s Head of Corporate Communications confirmed the development and said normal power supply would be restored as soon as the grid supply is restored back to normalcy.
“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 this afternoon at about 1333 hours of today, Wednesday, 11th December 2024, hence the loss of power supply on all our feeders.
“We hope to restore normal power supply to our esteemed customers as soon as the grid supply is restored back to normalcy,” Dr Elijah disclosed in a notice to Jos Disco customers.