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Nigeria hit by widespread blackout in 'total system collapse'
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66810202
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Grid power supplies are often erratic in Nigeria, located in the west of Africa, despite its role as a major oil and gas producer.
Thursday’s was the most serious outage for a year - the West African country’s grid collapsed at least four times in 2022, which the authorities blamed on technical problems.
A number of electricity distribution companies told customers on X, the social media platform formally known as Twitter, that the most recent blackouts were a result of a “total system collapse”.
Most homes and businesses have resorted to generators, inverters and other sources of electricity so as not to be dependent on the national grid.
On Thursday, at around 10:30 local time (09:30 GMT), power levels had risen from zero to 273MW, which was still well below the daily average of 4,100MW, data from the Transmission Company of Nigeria showed.
President Bola Tinubu, who has been in office for just over 100 days, has promised to improve supply by allowing state governments to build their own power plants.
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