Nigeria has been plunged into darkness as the national power grid collapsed at 3 pm on Saturday, July 6, 2024.
This is the third grid collapse in 2024, a year that has seen a fair share of power outages ¹.
The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) has confirmed the development in a statement. According to the statement, all interface stations at the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) are out of supply, leaving the company unable to provide services to customers in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo States ².
The EEDC statement read in part: “The Enugu Electricity Distribution Company wishes to inform its esteemed customers of a general system collapse which occurred at 15:09 hours today, 6