US EditionNigeria: National Grid Records First Collapse in 2026
Power generation dropped from nearly 4,000 MW to as low as 20 MW, causing total outages across 11 distribution areas, highlighting ongoing infrastructure challenges.
- On Friday, Nigeria's national electricity grid collapsed for the first time in 2026, NISO reported generation dropped from 3,996.93 megawatts around 12 pm to 20 megawatts.
- Repeated breakdowns have continued despite upgrades, with failures persisting after maintenance and restoration efforts and a partial collapse on December 29, 2025, NISO reported.
- Figures from the Nigerian Independent System Operator show power generation fell to zero megawatts and electricity supply to all 11 distribution companies, including Benin and Eko, dropped completely by about 1 p.m.
- The sharp drop to zero megawatts from 3,996.93 megawatts around 12 pm, despite NDPHC restoring 450 megawatts at Geregu, precipitated the nationwide outage.
- On November 9, 2025 NISO ran a synchronisation test with the West African Power Pool Information and Coordination Centre to integrate Nigeria's grid with the wider West African network, enhancing regional power stability.
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Nigeria's national power grid collapsed this Friday morning and left much of the country without supplies.
National Grid Records First Collapse In 2026
Nigeria’s electricity grid has recorded its first collapse of 2026 with generation recording 20 megawatts as at 1 pm on Friday 23. Checks on the platform of the Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) shows that only OMOKU gas power plant was the only generating plant and the drop was from the 3,996.93 megawatts on the grid around 12 pm. Fubara Remains APC Leader in Rivers, Bwala Tells Wike Awujale: Protest in Ijebu-Ode Over Alleged Imposit…
Nigeria Suffers 1st Grid Collapse In 2026, 2nd Major Blackout In Weeks
#image_title The national power grid suffered another nationwide outage on Friday, the first of 2026, Sputnik Africa reports. It could be recalled that a nearly identical incident had already plunged the country into darkness in late December 2025. A report which quoted the Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) revealed that the system-wide disturbance caused a total outage of Nigeria’s national grid at about 12:40 pm on Friday. It maintai…
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