The Ministry of Power has given an update on the collapse of the national grid, which led to a nationwide outage.
On Friday, Daily Trust had reported how the grid collapsed for the third time in a month.
In an earlier statement on Saturday, the ministry of power said investigation was ongoing to know the cause of the incident.
Giving an update late Saturday, the ministry said the actual cause of the collapse had been established, assuring Nigerians that repair was ingoing.
“Further to our earlier press release, we wish to apprise the general public that the immediate cause of national blackout (system collapse) was an act of vandalism on a transmission tower on the Odukpani Ikot Ekpene 330kV double circuit transmission line thus resulting in a sudden loss of about 400MW of generation. This consequently led to a cascade of plant shut down across the country.”
“We wish to notify the public that power on the grid is being restored sequentially by the System Operator as other on-grid power plants are being dispatched to cover the lost generation capacity from the Calabar power plant owned by the Niger Power Holding Company Ltd.”
