Lagos And Seven Other States In Darkness As National Grid Collapses

<h4>Lagos And Seven Other States<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that the national grid&comma; on Monday&comma; experienced its second collapse in 2022 resulting in blackout across the country&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The states affected include Lagos&comma; Enugu&comma; Kaduna&comma; Abia&comma; Anambra&comma; Ebonyi&comma; Enugu&comma; and Imo States&comma; among others&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Confirming the development in a text message to its customers&comma; The Eko Electricity Distribution Company&comma; said that the system collapse occurred on the national grid at 10&colon;40 am&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Dear esteemed customer&comma; a system collapse occurred on the national grid at 10&colon;40 am today&comma; leading to outages across our network&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are working on the situation with our <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">TCN<&sol;a> partners and will keep you updated&period; We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused&period;” the text message read&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Also&comma; Kaduna Electricity&comma; on Monday&comma; while confirming the system collapsed&comma; assured its customers that power would soon be restored&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We regret to inform you that the power outage being experienced in our franchise states is due to System Collapse of the National Grid which occurred at about 10&colon;40 am&comma;” the firm said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;apologies for any inconvenience&comma;” the text message read&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In its notice to customers&comma; the Enugu Electricity Distribution PLC said that the system collapse affected supply in Abia&comma; Anambra&comma; Ebonyi&comma; Enugu&comma; and Imo States&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The notice signed by EEDC Head&comma; Corporate Communications&comma; Emeka Ezeh&comma; read&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Enugu Electricity Distribution PLC &lpar;EEDC&rpar; wishes to inform her esteemed customers in the South East of a general system collapse which occurred this morning&comma; Monday&comma; 14th March 2022 at 10&colon;40 am&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is the reason for the loss of supply currently being experienced across the network&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Consequently&comma; all our outgoing feeders are out and supply to our customers in Abia&comma; Anambra&comma; Ebonyi&comma; Enugu&comma; and Imo States are affected by this development&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Source&colon; Punch Newspaper<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;