The national electricity grid system again recorded another major breakdown, throwing several parts of the country into total darkness.
The system collapsed twice in less than two hours on January 16th, resulting in power outage in parts of the country.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, General Manager Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, while confirming the latest development, explained that the blackout is as a result of loss of supply on the national grid. She added that the National Control Centre, NCC commenced immediate restoration which has been completed nationwide, except for the Eastern axis which is still ongoing and would be completed shortly.
On his part, a power expert and partner at Bloomfield Law Practice, Ayodele Oni said loss of supply on the grid would only affect some parts of the country in the process of power evacuation from point A to B while system collapse would involve the entire loss of power across the country. He also noted that since the latest incident which TCN alluded to was nationwide loss of supply on the national grid, it could as well mean that it was a system collapse.
