{"id":55090,"date":"2024-11-07T12:18:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T12:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=55090"},"modified":"2024-11-07T12:18:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T12:18:29","slug":"again-national-grid-collapses-second-time-in-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/07\/again-national-grid-collapses-second-time-in-three-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Again, National Grid Collapses  Second Time In Three Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Grid has collapsed for the second time in three days, leading to blackouts in several parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>A check on the Nigerian System Operator\u2019s portal (niggrid.org), showed that power generation dropped to zero megawatts at 11:30 a.m., affecting all 22 generation companies across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Several electricity distribution companies corroborated this on their social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) confirmed the latest collapse in a message to customers.<\/p>\n<p>The DISCO said: \u201cPlease be informed that we experienced a system outage today, 07 November 2024, at 11:29 hiours, affecting supply within our network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>IKEDC assured customers that efforts to restore power are underway in collaboration with key stakeholders, though no timeline was provided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRestoration of supply is ongoing. Kindly bear with us,\u201d the company added.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has not issued an official statement on the reason the grid collapsed on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Grid has collapsed for the second time in three days, leading to blackouts in several parts of the country. A check on the Nigerian System Operator\u2019s portal (niggrid.org), showed that power generation dropped to zero megawatts at 11:30 a.m., affecting all 22 generation companies across the country. Several electricity distribution companies corroborated this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":54232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55090","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=55090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55100,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55090\/revisions\/55100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}