Nine Northern States in Nigeria have been plunged into darkness as the National grid collapsed again.
The President of Nigeria Consumer Protection Network, Kunle Olubiyo, said in a statement on Monday night that the electricity system collapse led to outages in Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa, Benue, Katsina, Taraba, Gombe, and parts of Borno and Nasarawa States.
The latest collapse, though partial, is the fourth time in less than two weeks.
On Saturday October 19, 2024, the national power grid suffered a major setback, leaving many Nigerians without power. This marks the eighth grid failure in 2024, with three occurring within the past week. On Tuesday, the grid failed twice within 24 hours.
Reacting to the incessant national grid collapse and its impact on Nigeria’s economy, Olubiyo asked President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to declare an emergency on the power sector.
“The present overwhelming widespread darkness being experienced in about 11 Northern States is nothing but a global embarrassment,” he said.
Meanwhile, neither the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) nor the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) have confirmed the latest grid collapse.
Earlier, the NERC and TCN blamed Saturday’s grid collapse on an explosion of a current transformer at the Jebba transmission station at 08:15 am hours.