{"id":178375,"date":"2025-09-10T18:54:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/national-grid-restoration-begins-after-collapse-in-nigeria"},"modified":"2025-09-10T20:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T19:12:22","slug":"national-grid-restoration-begins-after-collapse-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/national-grid-restoration-begins-after-collapse-in-nigeria","title":{"rendered":"National grid restoration begins after collapse in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Restoration of the country\u2019s national grid has began after its collapse around 11:30 am on Wednesday, 10th September 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, Port Harcourt Disco, in a separate notice, confirmed Wednesday\u2019s grid collapse, which led to an outage across its franchise.<\/p>\n<p>In an update, the Nigeria National Grid wrote on X, Wednesday that the grid restoration has begun.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, it stated that the grid has restored 495 total megawatts to Abuja (150 MW), Benin (40 MW), Eko (80 MW), Enugu (40 MW), Ibadan (50 MW), Ikeja (80 MW), Kano (35 MW) and Kaduna (25 MW) discos, while others such as Port Harcourt, Jos and Yola remained at zero MW as of filing the report.<\/p>\n<p>Power supply was restored to Dawaki, Zone 7 Dutse, around 3:00pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to reach the spokesperson of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, Ndidi Mbah, on the details of this latest grid collapse have not yielded results, as calls were not picked up nor returned as of filing the report.<\/p>\n<p>In January and March, 2025 there were grid incidents; however, TCN said it was not a collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2010 and 2022, Nigeria\u2019s grid collapsed 222 times. In 2024, we had 10 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. Restoration of the country\u2019s national grid has began after its collapse around 11:30 am on Wednesday, 10th September 2025. Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, Port Harcourt Disco, in a separate notice, confirmed Wednesday\u2019s grid collapse, which led to an outage across its franchise. 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