Total Blackout Hits Nigeria As Power Grid Collapses

 

 

The nation has been plunged into total darkness as the power grid recorded a total collapse on Saturday morning, a Punch correspondent has learnt.

 

The system collapse led to the shutdown of all the nation’s power plants.

 

An industry source, who is a top executive of one of the nation’s electricity distribution companies, told a correspondent on condition of anonymity that the national grid first collapsed on Friday.

 

When contacted to find out the cause of the outage in parts of Lagos, he said, “It’s a general thing; it is a system collapse. It happened yesterday and this morning. All the power plants were shut down.”