Nigerians in darkness as national grid suffers another collapse, partial restoration achieved at 4pm

Collapse national greed is said to have been restored this afternoon after concerted efforts. The company had in a note to customers said “Kindly be informed that there was system disruption on February12th at 11.34 hours which has resulted to loss of power across our network. We are currently working with our partners as we hope for speedy restoration of the grid. We will keep you updated as soon as power is restored.”
However, in another note EKDC wrote “ we are glad to inform you that the National grid has been restored and restoration of power to our feeders are progressing gradually.” Nigerians in Lagos and some other parts of the country again plunged into darkness after the collapse of the national grid for the second time in 2025.
Confirming in a statement that the system breakdown happened on Wednesday,  distribution companies assured that efforts were underway to restore power to the affected areas. Some of the distribution companies outside Lagos wrote in a note to their customers “please be informed that we experienced a system outage today by 12th February, 2025 at 11:34hrs affecting all our feeders. Restoration of supply is ongoing in collaboration with our critical stakeholders”.
Abuja Electricity Distribution Plc, also said we regret “to inform you that a system disturbance occurred on the national grid at 11:34am today, causing power outage across our franchise areas. While gradual restoration of power supply has commenced, please be assured that we are working closely with relevant stakeholders to fully restore electricity as soon as the grid is stabilised,” it added. The last system failure happened on January 11, after a total of 12 collapses in 2024 and over 100 times in 10 years. The Transmission Company of Nigeria has yet to comment on the latest collapse and the TCN spokesperson, Ndidi Mbah, has not replied to an inquiry by Peoples Gazette on the development.