Nigeria's national power grid suffered a partial collapse on Tuesday, the state's electricity transmitter said. This is the ninth incident this year that has caused power outages across the country.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said the grid experienced a disruption at around 12:52 GMT, triggered by a series of line and generator trips destabilizing the system.
While some areas, including the capital Abuja, regained power about an hour after the collapse, outages continued elsewhere.
“TCN engineers are already hard at work to quickly restore electricity supply to states affected by the partial disruption,” said spokesperson Ndidi Mbah.
Power outages are common in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country with more than 200 million people, due to aging power infrastructure, vandalism and insufficient gas supplies to power plants. thermal energy, which represents more than 75% of production.
Although Nigeria has the infrastructure to produce about 13,000 megawatts of electricity, its faulty grid can only distribute a third of that, forcing businesses and households to run expensive generators.
