Nigeria suffered a nationwide power outage this Thursday after the country’s electrical grid collapsed due to technical failures, the West African nation’s electricity distribution companies reported.
The blackout affected all 36 states of Nigeria and the capital, Abuja. The grid has collapsed several times and it is still not known exactly when power will be restored.
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), which supplies electricity to southeastern Nigeria, issued a statement announcing a “total system” collapse.
Due to this development… we are unable to provide services to our customers,” company spokesperson Emeka Ezeh said.
These power outages are common in Nigeria, which struggles with a crumbling energy infrastructure, with frequent power outages.
Power supply will be restored as soon as the national grid is restored,” the Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, which supplies power to parts of northern Nigeria, also said in a statement issued on Thursday.
Nigeria, rich in oil but poor in energy, has an average daily production capacity of 4,000 megawatts of electricity – some of which it cannot distribute – to a population of more than 210 million people, far from the 30,000 megawatts per day claimed The authorities. the country needs it.
Inadequate power supply leaves millions of residents dependent on gasoline generators for electricity. However, gasoline prices have more than doubled this year after the government ended decades-long subsidies, and many families and businesses have struggled to find an alternative source of energy supply.
Source: Observadora
