Nigerians in darkness as national grid suffers second collapse in 2025
Nigerians in some parts of the country have yet again been plunged into darkness after the collapse of the national grid collapsed for the second time in 2025.
Confirming in a statement that the system breakdown happened on Wednesday, distribution companies assured that efforts were underway to restore power to the affected areas.
“Please be informed that we experienced a system outage today by 12th February, 2025 at 11:34hrs affecting all our feeders. Restoration of supply is ongoing in collaboration with our critical stakeholders,” the management of Ikeja Electric stated.
Abuja Electricity Distribution Plc, also said it regrets “to inform you that a system disturbance occurred on the national grid at 11:34am today, causing power outage across our franchise areas.
“While gradual restoration of power supply has commenced, please be assured that we are working closely with relevant stakeholders to fully restore electricity as soon as the grid is stabilised,” it added.
The last system failure happened on January 11, after a total of 12 collapses in 2024 and over 100 times in 10 years.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria has yet to comment on the latest collapse and the TCN spokesperson, Ndidi Mbah, has not replied to an inquiry by Peoples Gazette on the development.
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