{"id":27139,"date":"2024-04-15T09:02:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T09:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=27139"},"modified":"2024-04-15T09:02:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T09:02:19","slug":"nigeria-power-grid-suffers-fifth-collapse-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/15\/nigeria-power-grid-suffers-fifth-collapse-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Power Grid Suffers Fifth Collapse of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria experienced another collapse of its power grid in the early hours of Monday, April 15, 2024, plunging the nation into darkness. According to data from the Nigerian System Operator\u2019s portal (niggrid.org), the grid recorded zero Megawatts (MW) at 2:00 am, with only 52.3MW generated by 7:10 am the same day.<\/p>\n<p>The blackout had widespread consequences, with electricity distribution companies (DisCos) struggling to manage the sudden and prolonged outage. Many parts of the country endured over five hours of darkness, as the grid has yet to fully recover.<\/p>\n<p>This collapse marks the fifth grid disturbance in 2024, adding to the challenges faced by Nigeria\u2019s power sector. Despite the severity of the blackout, neither the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) nor the DisCos have issued an official statement regarding the cause and resolution of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>As the TCN remains silent, the public and industry stakeholders are left uninformed about the source and resolution of the latest grid failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria experienced another collapse of its power grid in the early hours of Monday, April 15, 2024, plunging the nation into darkness. According to data from the Nigerian System Operator\u2019s portal (niggrid.org), the grid recorded zero Megawatts (MW) at 2:00 am, with only 52.3MW generated by 7:10 am the same day. The blackout had widespread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":25989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-27139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27144,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27139\/revisions\/27144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}