{"id":154321,"date":"2025-03-07T21:55:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T20:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerias-national-grid-didnt-collapse-tcn"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T09:18:44","slug":"nigerias-national-grid-didnt-collapse-tcn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerias-national-grid-didnt-collapse-tcn","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s national grid didn\u2019t collapse \u2014 TCN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has clarified that the national grid did not experience a collapse on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s spokesperson, Ndidi Mbah, stated this in an interview.<br \/>\nShe said, \u201cIt\u2019s line tripping, not grid collapse,\u201d in a brief response to inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the line tripping, which happened at 2 pm, led to a reduction in electricity supply allocation on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Speculations about national collapse arose after electricity distribution companies reported a reduction in electricity allocation from TCN, resulting in outages across their networks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease be informed that we experienced a system outage today, 07\/03\/2025, at 14:00 hours, affecting supply within our network. Restoration of supply is ongoing in collaboration with our critical stakeholders,\u201d Ikeja Electric Distribution Company said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, Eko Electricity Distribution Company stated, \u201cThe current power situation is due to reduced power allocation from our TCN partners aimed at maintaining grid stability. The situation has resulted in unavoidable load shedding across our network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On 12 February, Nigeria also experienced outages that plunged parts of the country into darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, TCN has maintained that the country has not experienced a grid collapse in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Nigeria suffered at least 11 system collapses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has clarified that the national grid did not experience a collapse on Friday. The company\u2019s spokesperson, Ndidi Mbah, stated this in an interview. She said, \u201cIt\u2019s line tripping, not grid collapse,\u201d in a brief response to inquiry. According to her, the line tripping, which happened at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":154320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[1743,254,1043],"class_list":["post-154321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-national-grid","tag-nigeria","tag-tcn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria\u2019s national grid didn\u2019t collapse \u2014 TCN - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has clarified that the national grid did not experience a collapse on Friday. ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerias-national-grid-didnt-collapse-tcn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria\u2019s national grid didn\u2019t collapse \u2014 TCN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has clarified that the national grid did not experience a collapse on Friday. ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerias-national-grid-didnt-collapse-tcn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-07T20:55:48+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-19T09:18:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741372259.056816.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerias-national-grid-didnt-collapse-tcn#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerias-national-grid-didnt-collapse-tcn\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria\u2019s national grid didn\u2019t collapse \u2014 TCN\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-07T20:55:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-19T09:18:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerias-national-grid-didnt-collapse-tcn\"},\"wordCount\":215,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerias-national-grid-didnt-collapse-tcn#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/03\/sm_1741372259.056816.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"National Grid\",\"Nigeria\",\"TCN\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerias-national-grid-didnt-collapse-tcn#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerias-national-grid-didnt-collapse-tcn\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerias-national-grid-didnt-collapse-tcn\",\"name\":\"Nigeria\u2019s national grid didn\u2019t collapse \u2014 TCN - 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