{"id":61122,"date":"2025-02-12T15:58:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T15:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61122"},"modified":"2025-02-12T15:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T15:58:17","slug":"nationwide-blackout-as-national-grid-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/12\/nationwide-blackout-as-national-grid-collapses\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide Blackout as National Grid Collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria was plunged into darkness on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, following the first national grid collapse of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company confirmed the outage at 11:34 a.m., stating that restoration efforts were underway with key stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after a troubling 12 grid collapses in 2024, raising concerns over the country&#8217;s power stability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0 Nigeria was plunged into darkness on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, following the first national grid collapse of the year. The Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company confirmed the outage at 11:34 a.m., stating that restoration efforts were underway with key stakeholders. This comes after a troubling 12 grid collapses in 2024, raising concerns over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":61123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61122","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\/61122","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61124,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61122\/revisions\/61124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}