•Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu The federal government has apologised to Nigerians over power outages but is promising improvements across the country in the coming days. Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, made the promise yesterday during a press conference on his achievements in the last three years. “I want to apologise to Ni...
•Power outage A power outage has hit some parts of Lagos following a gas tanker explosion that occurred on the Lekki-Epe Expressway yesterday. The affected areas are Medallion Company, Sangotedo, Majek, Awoyaya, Eputu, Lakowe, Lasoro, Fidiso to Kolajo, and Elemoro Police Station, reports Channels TV. The Eko Electricity Distribution Company co...
•Injured Iranian sailors rescued from their frigate IRIS Dena after a US submarine torpedoed it off Sri Lanka’s coast amid the Middle East war, receive treatment at the Karapitiya hospital in Galle, today Iran’s internet is still “around 1 percent of ordinary levels”, monitor Netblocks said today, leaving most Iranians struggling to access in...
•Blackout As widespread blackout and load shedding on the national grid persist, Nigerians across major cities are counting losses, with many small businesses shutting down and households forced to abandon bulk food purchases due to their inability to power refrigerators. It was gathered that the electricity supply crisis intensified in early ...
Electricity consumers in some parts of the country are expected to experience disruption in power supply due to a scheduled gas infrastructure maintenance. A statement by the Chief Corporate Communications Officer(CCCO) of Nigerian National Petroleum Company( NNPC) Ltd, Mr.Andy Odey, explained that, Seplat Energy Plc, a Joint Venture partner o...
The National grid today recorded its second collapse in 2026. As of the time of filing this report, data showed zero megawatts of power supply to the 11 electricity distribution companies. The grid had recorded its first collapse in the year last Friday, barely weeks after a similar incident on December 29, 2025, which had […]
•Electricity blackout Residents of four Katsina communities have protested what they described as six months of complete darkness, saying the outage has crippled daily life. Hundreds gathered in Barhim yesterday, demanding urgent action to restore power to Abuja Quarters, Barhim Layout, Sha’iskawa and Tigirmis Quarters in Katsina State, report...
•Blackout The nation’s electricity supply may face a major crisis as the National Union of Electricity Employees, NUEE, has threatened a nationwide shutdown, following alleged attack on staff of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, by armed police officers at Egbu 132/33kV Transmission Substation in Imo State. The union, in reaction to wh...
•Blackout The national grid suffered another collapse today. This was confirmed in a public notice dated September 10, 2025, by the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company in a post on its X handle today. According to AEDC, the power outage currently experienced was due to a loss of supply from the national grid. The post reads, […]
•Blackout Power generation companies have said that their long-time patriotism to the nation can no longer keep the power plants running, especially in the face of a fresh N1.2tn debt incurred in the first half of 2025, which increased the total debt to Gencos at N5.2 trillion. This was as the Minister of Power, Adebayo […]
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