Nigeria’s electricity grid on Monday collapsed yet again, throwing several cities into darkness.
The grid collapsed around 2:42 a.m. on Monday, with generation dropping to 64.70 megawatts.
The Jos Electricity Distribution Company (Jos DisCo), in a statement signed by its Head of Corporate Communications, Mr Friday Elijah, said the loss of power supply from the national grid occurred in the early hours of Monday.
“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 in the early hours at about 0242 hours today, Monday, 15 April 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 to normalcy. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we strive to serve you better,” he said.
The latest collapse occurred less than a month after the national grid system collapsed in March.
The power sector has experienced many challenges related to electricity policy enforcement, regulatory uncertainty, gas supply, transmission system constraints, and significant power sector planning shortfalls.
In November 2013, the federal government privatised all generation and 11 distribution companies, with the FG retaining the ownership of the transmission company.
This was aimed at improving efficiency in the sector. However, since privatisation, the grid has continued to collapse more than 140 times.
