Again, many parts of Nigeria were left in darkness yesterday, as the national grid abruptly lost over 2,000 megawatts, resulting in about the second supply disturbance for the year 2025.
This occurred same day the federal government condemned Thursday’s attack by the personnel of the Nigerian Air Force on the headquarters and facilities of the Ikeja Electric Distribution Company (IKEDC), a development that left several persons injured and equipment vandalised.
Also, yesterday, the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED), the umbrella body of Discos, asked the Nigerian Air Force, the military, and the presidency to fish out officers and men of the Sam Ethnan Air Force Base, Ikeja, that attacked staff and journalists at Ikeja Disco.
The Director General of Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA), Mr. Adewale-Smatt Oyerinde, urged the federal government to offset all outstanding electricity supply debts of military bases across the country.
The collapse of the grid which took place around 2pm yesterday, saw generation to the national grid fall from circa 3,366mw to 1,517mw.
In a statement made available on X, formerly Twitter, Ikeja Electric Distribution Company (IKEDC) alerted its customers to the situation, stressing that the relevant authorities were doing everything to restore supply.
“Please be informed that we experienced a system outage today 07/03/2025 @ 14:00hrs, affecting supply within our network. Restoration of supply is ongoing in collaboration with our critical stakeholders,” it stated.
On its part, Eko Disco blamed a reduction in supply from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), stressing that it led to unavoidable load shedding across its network.
“This is to kindly inform you that the current power situation is as a result of reduced power allocation from our TCN partners aimed at maintaining grid stability. The situation has resulted in unavoidable load shedding across our network.
“Rest assured that we are taking all necessary steps to address the situation as we work closely with TCN and other partners to resolve the issue speedily and ensure a more stable power supply soonest,” it said.
However, the Disco stated that at about 5.30pm the TCN had begun to gradually restore supply to its feeders.
(This Day)
