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December 14, 2019
Nigeria’s power grid collapsed aftera disruption the previous day following the industrial strike by workers acrossthe country.
Different electricity distributioncompanies said the grid collapsed despite the fact that workers had suspendedtheir strike action.
Earlier, members of the NationalUnion of Electricity Employees, NUEE suspended their one-day strike after theaction disrupted the nation’s network for hours.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria,TCN started the restoration of the grid after the workers suspended theirstrike, only for the network to collapse again Friday afternoon.
Power generation figures obtainedfrom the TCN, showed that the instability of the grid in the past two days ledto a situation where no electricity was stated as generated for December 10,11, 12 and 13.
Eko Electricity Distribution Companyin a notice on its Twitter handle, expressed hope that the grid would beenergised fully after the suspension of the strike, but this was punctured byanother collapse on Friday.