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National Grid Collapses Twice in Two Days, Nigerians Express Frustration

The Nigerian National Grid has announced yet another collapse, marking the second occurrence in just two days. 

The collapse of the Grid was made known by the Nigeria National Grid via its official page on the X platform. 

Following the Grid collapse, the Jos Electricity Distribution PLC, released an apology statement through the Head of Corporate Communications, Friday Elijah, stating that the grid has collapsed and assuring Nigerians that the power will be restored to normal soon 

“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 morning at about 1128 hours of today, Thursday, 7th November 2024, hence the loss of power supply on all our feeders,” the statement read. 

In a similar vein, Ikeja Electric PLC apologised to its customers regarding the grid that collapsed. It said, “Please be informed that we experienced a system outage today 07 November, 2024 at 11:29Hrs affecting supply within our network.” Adding that “Restoration of supply is ongoing in collaboration with our critical stakeholders.” 

It should be noted that the grid collapsed on Tuesday and shortly after power was restored, the grid reportedly collapsed again on Thursday.

Moreover, the recent Grid collapse has garnered eyebrows from netizens showing discontent towards the constant collapse of the electricity grid. 

One netizen with the user name @Aumarsafana2917 tweeted “Enough of all these stories now, we’re tired. We’ve heard them enough.” 

Another X user, @ikbank tweeted “ This has become so absurd. Are we now living in a nation where things no longer work? For crying out loud, how many things are we going to continuously experience this collapse (outage). Why can’t things work effectively with minimal stress. So tiring!” 

Yetunde Olugbenga

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