Nigeria Suffers 10th Electricity Power Grid Collapse, Minister Blames Ageing Infrastructure

Nigeria’s National Electricity Power Grid Suffers Yet Another Collapse

This brings grid collapse to 10 in year 2024 alone with three happening in a space of one week. The first was towards the end of October.

Admitting the deplorable condition of the power infrastructure in the country, the minister of power Adebayo Adelabu said the grid collapse were inevitable.

He therefore advocated the need to have power grids in different regions or states to put an end to incessant grid collapses. Adelabu said this on Wednesday when he unveiled Hexing Livoltek, an electricity metre manufacturing company in the Lekki area of Lagos State.

He said decentralization of the Electricity Act to enable state and local governments to participate in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity was inevitable.

Meanwhile, the House of Representatives has vowed to investigate frequent grid collapse
by directing its committee on Power to commence investigations and report back to it.

In another development, scores of terrorists roaming the area where Shiroro-Kaduna transmission line is located have been killed by the troops of the Nigerian Air Force who were deployed to provide cover for electricity workers repairing the line.

It was learnt that the terrorists, who were planning to attack the sprawling pylones and possibly kill the electricity workers were neutralised on Friday last week when the fighter jets of the force rained airstrikes on them.

Giving an update Monday night, the spokesman of NAF, Olusola Akinboyewa disclosed that the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions carried out by the service confirmed the presence of terrorist fighters in the area.

Akinboyewa, an Air Commodore, explained that they were converging to disrupt the repair of the transmission line, adding that the terrorists were subsequently engaged and several of them were killed in the process.