{"id":161793,"date":"2022-03-14T15:21:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T14:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=161793"},"modified":"2022-03-14T15:21:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T14:21:50","slug":"blackout-in-lagos-seven-other-states-as-national-grid-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/03\/14\/blackout-in-lagos-seven-other-states-as-national-grid-collapses\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackout in Lagos, seven other states as national grid collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national grid, on Monday, experienced its second collapse in 2022 resulting in blackout across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The states affected include Lagos, Enugu, Kaduna, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the development in a text message to its customers, The Eko Electricity Distribution Company, said that the system collapse occurred on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/05\/19\/kaduna-strike-workers-threaten-to-switch-off-national-grid-says-ngige\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national grid<\/a> at 10:40 am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDear esteemed customer, a system collapse occurred on the national grid at 10:40 am today, leading to outages across our network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working on the situation with our TCN partners and will keep you updated. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.\u201d the text message read.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Kaduna Electricity, on Monday, while confirming the system collapsed, assured its customers that power would soon be restored.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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,\u201d the firm said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPower supply shall be restored as soon as the National Grid is powered back. Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience,\u201d the text message read.<\/p>\n<p>In its notice to customers, the Enugu Electricity Distribution PLC said that the system collapse affected supply in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States.<\/p>\n<p>The notice signed by EEDC Head, Corporate Communications, Emeka Ezeh, read, \u201cThe Enugu Electricity Distribution PLC (EEDC) wishes to inform her esteemed customers in the South East of a general system collapse which occurred this morning, Monday, 14th March 2022 at 10:40 am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the reason for the loss of supply currently being experienced across the network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConsequently, all our outgoing feeders are out and supply to our customers in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States are affected by this development.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national grid, on Monday, experienced its second collapse in 2022 resulting in blackout across the country. The states affected include Lagos, Enugu, Kaduna, Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States, among others. Confirming the development in a text message to its customers, The Eko Electricity Distribution Company, said that the system collapse occurred on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24401,431,32475,3060],"class_list":["post-161793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-blackout","tag-lagos","tag-national-grid-collapses","tag-power"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.8 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blackout in Lagos, seven other states as national grid collapses<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/03\/14\/blackout-in-lagos-seven-other-states-as-national-grid-collapses\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blackout in Lagos, seven other states as national grid collapses\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The national grid, on Monday, experienced its second collapse in 2022 resulting in blackout across the country. 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