{"id":82086,"date":"2026-01-25T04:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82086"},"modified":"2026-01-25T04:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:36:31","slug":"obi-decries-nigerias-5000mw-power-output-amid-grid-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/25\/obi-decries-nigerias-5000mw-power-output-amid-grid-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Obi Decries Nigeria\u2019s 5,000MW Power Output Amid Grid Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has criticised the latest collapse of Nigeria\u2019s national power grid, describing it as a symptom of deep-rooted leadership failures in the power sector.<\/p>\n<p>The national grid collapsed on Friday, with generation plunging from over 4,500 megawatts to about 24MW by 1:30 p.m., throwing homes and businesses nationwide into darkness. All 23 power plants reportedly lost output, leaving the country\u2019s 11 distribution companies without electricity allocation.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on his X handle titled \u201c2026: The Collapse Continues,\u201d Obi noted that the incident followed a familiar pattern, recalling that the first grid collapse of 2025 also occurred in January and was followed by several others.<\/p>\n<p>He lamented Nigeria\u2019s poor electricity access, saying the country has ranked lowest globally for electricity access for three consecutive years, with nearly 100 million Nigerians still without power.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing Nigeria with other African countries, Obi described the situation as alarming, noting that South Africa and Egypt each generate over 40,000 megawatts, while Algeria produces more than 50,000 megawatts, compared to Nigeria\u2019s roughly 5,000 megawatts for a population exceeding 240 million.<\/p>\n<p>He described the figure as \u201cabsurd\u201d and blamed the persistent crisis on governance failures, urging Nigerians to prioritise competence and compassion in leadership choices ahead of the 2027 general elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has criticised the latest collapse of Nigeria\u2019s national power grid, describing it as a symptom of deep-rooted leadership failures in the power sector. The national grid collapsed on Friday, with generation plunging from over 4,500 megawatts to about 24MW by 1:30 p.m., throwing homes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82086","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\/82086","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=82086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82088,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82086\/revisions\/82088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}