Electricity consumers lamented on Monday as hundreds of Businesses were grounded for more than 12 hours following the collapse of the national grid which led to a nationwide electric power outage that threw major Nigerian cities into darkness.
Several business activities were grounded especially those that could not afford the cost of diesel or petrol to service their generators.
According to sources at the National Control Centre at Oshogbo in Osun State the public, the national grid collapsed at 13.49 pm.
The sources provided no information on the cause of the system failure or when power is expected to be restored.
Aba Power Ltd alerted its consumers in its ring-fenced area covering nine local government areas in Abia State it services of the development almost immediately.
Apologising for the blackout, the utility firm, Nigeria’s 12th distribution company, pledged to resume power supply once the “problem is sorted out”.
In a statement signed by Patrick Umeh, the Aba Power Managing Director who used to be a commissioner with the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), the company said “The NCC engineers are sparing no effort to restore electricity throughout the country as soon as possible”.
Meanwhile, some parts of Lagos State have been thrown into hours of darkness.
Oriental News Nigeria cannot independently verify the spread of the incident a message delivered by
Ikeja Electric to customers apologised for the long period of outage. Businesses under Ikeja Disco came to a standstill and this resulted in consumers counting their loses
The Disco in it message to it customers said: ‘Dear Prestige Customer, Kindly be informed that the present outage is due toa fault in the system collapse. Supply will be restored as soon as possible. Kindly bear with us”.
