Nigerians were on Saturday, January 11, 2025, thrown into nationwide blackout following the collapse of the national power grid.
This is the first time that the national grid has collapsed in 2025, following a series of system collapses in 2024.
The grid collapsed about 2 pm on Saturday.
Report said that power generation dropped from 2111.01 megawatts as of 2 pm to 390.20 megawatts by 3 p.m.
“National grid suffers major collapse… First in 2025,” Energy podcast confirmed the blackout via a post on Saturday.
“Restoration has begun… Currently generating 302MW as of 02:40 pm,” it said in another post.
The national grid collapsed for well over 12 times in 2024.
