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Nigeria’s national power grid has collapsed once again, plunging several parts of the country into darkness and disrupting electricity supply to millions of homes and businesses.
Checks by our correspondent show that power generation fell sharply from over 4,500 megawatts to as low as 24 megawatts by 1:30 p.m. on the day of the incident.
All 23 power generation plants connected to the national grid reportedly lost output during the collapse, leading to zero power allocation to each of the 11 electricity distribution companies (DisCos) nationwide.
As of the time of filing this report, the exact cause of the system failure had not been officially confirmed. Officials of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) were yet to issue a detailed statement explaining the circumstances surrounding the collapse.
This incident marks the first grid collapse of 2026, coming just weeks after a similar nationwide outage recorded on December 29, 2025, which also left large sections of the country without electricity.
According to PUNCH Online, repeated grid collapses in recent years have been linked to a combination of technical faults, poor maintenance of transmission infrastructure, and instability in generation capacity.
Industry stakeholders have consistently urged the Federal Government and power sector operators to adopt stronger contingency plans and invest in critical infrastructure upgrades to curb the recurring failures.
As Nigerians await an official explanation, the latest collapse has once again raised serious concerns about the resilience of the country’s electricity infrastructure and its capacity to meet the growing demand for stable and reliable power supply.
