40-minute outage disrupts plays at ongoing WTT Contender Lagos
Plays were disrupted by power outage at the ongoing 2024 WTT Contender Series which began at the Sir Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos on Wednesday.
Electricity was, however, restored 40 minutes later.
During preliminary rounds on the first day, electricity abruptly went out and yet to be restored as of press time, sending the whole hall into darkness in the middle of a tournament in which dozens of players across the world came to participate.
It is the latest episode of national embarrassment as the West African nation struggles to generate enough electricity to stabilise power across the country which has earned Nigeria the unflattering ‘generator republic’ nickname on the continent.
As of April 2024, the national grid collapsed more than 140 times since the power sector recorded privatisation.
During this period, the national grid collapsed more than a dozen times since Bola Tinubu assumed office in 2023 and thrice in 2024 as of April of this year.
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