The national grid on Monday, experienced a system collapsed resulting in blackout in Lagos, Abuja, Enugu, and other cities across the country.
This collapse is the second Nigeria will be experience this year.
No fewer than four Distribution Companies (DISCOs) confirmed the development via social media, informing their customers of the situation in their respective domains.
They blamed the outage being experienced by consumers in various states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on a general system collapse that occurred at about 10:40am.
Confirming the development in a text message to its customers, The Eko Electricity Distribution Company, said that the system collapse occurred on the national grid at 10:40 am.
“Dear esteemed customer, a system collapse occurred on the national grid at 10:40 am today, leading to outages across our network.
“We are working on the situation with our TCN partners and will keep you updated. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.” the text message read.
Also, Kaduna Electricity, on Monday, while confirming the system collapsed, assured its customers that power would soon be restored.
“We regret to inform you that the power outage being experienced in our franchise states is due to System Collapse of the National Grid which occurred at about 10:40 am,” the firm said.
“Power supply shall be restored as soon as the National Grid is powered back. Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience.”