{"id":12411,"date":"2024-10-15T12:48:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.news.naijatraffic.ng\/?p=12411"},"modified":"2024-10-15T12:48:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:48:42","slug":"power-blackout-in-nigeria-as-national-grid-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/power-blackout-in-nigeria-as-national-grid-collapses\/","title":{"rendered":"Power blackout in Nigeria as national grid collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national power grid have collapsed the second time in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) posted on X that the collapse is as a result of power result across its network.<\/p>\n<p>The post reads, \u201cDear Valued Customer, Kindly be informed there was a system collapse at 09:17hrs which has resulted to a loss of power supply across our network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>EKEDC assures the people that they will ensure the issue is resolved with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>They posted,\u201cWe are currently working with our partners as we hope for speedy restoration of the grid. We will keep you updated as soon as power supply is restored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the second collapse since Monday, October 14, that caused a widespread of power outage in the nation as a result of the national power grid failure.<\/p>\n<p>The first collapse was around 7pm on Monday with electricity restored in few areas on Tuesday at 5:15am.<\/p>\n<p>Reports had it that the electricity transmission on the national grid dropped from 3,566 megawatts to 0.00 megawatt .<\/p>\n<p>It was because of the collapse that no electricity was distributed to the eleven electricity companies across the country which resulted to the power blackout across Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national power grid have collapsed the second time in 24 hours. Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) posted on X that the collapse is as a result of power result across its network. The post reads, \u201cDear Valued Customer, Kindly be informed there was a system collapse at 09:17hrs which has resulted to a loss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[179,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-12411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"tag-eko-electricity-distribution-company-ekedc","9":"tag-national-power-grid"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naijatraffic.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}