{"id":62302,"date":"2025-03-07T17:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62302"},"modified":"2025-03-07T17:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:49:14","slug":"national-grid-collapses-again-ikeja-electric-blames-system-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/07\/national-grid-collapses-again-ikeja-electric-blames-system-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"National Grid Collapses Again, Ikeja Electric Blames \u2018System Outage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s national power grid reportedly collapsed again on Friday, causing widespread blackouts across several parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on its official X (formerly Twitter) handle, the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) confirmed the outage, attributing it to a system failure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease be informed that we experienced a system outage today, 07\/03\/2025, at 14:00 hours, affecting supply within our network. Restoration is ongoing in collaboration with our critical stakeholders,\u201d IKEDC stated.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts are reportedly underway to restore power, but the recurring national grid failures continue to raise concerns about the stability of Nigeria\u2019s electricity supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Nigeria\u2019s national power grid reportedly collapsed again on Friday, causing widespread blackouts across several parts of the country. In a statement on its official X (formerly Twitter) handle, the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) confirmed the outage, attributing it to a system failure. \u201cPlease be informed that we experienced a system outage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62302","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\/62302","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62304,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62302\/revisions\/62304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}