Nigeria’s national electricity grid has begun gradual restoration following a system collapse that plunged much of the country into darkness.
The development was confirmed by the Eko Electricity Distribution Company (Eko DisCo), which announced that power supply had started returning to its feeders.
“We are pleased to inform you that power restoration from the grid has resumed,” the company said in a post on X.
“Our feeders are being progressively restored as grid supply normalises.”
Earlier on Friday, the grid suffered a near-total collapse, causing electricity generation to fall sharply to about 20 megawatts nationwide. The incident resulted in a widespread blackout across the country.
Electricity load allocation to the 11 distribution companies (DisCos) dropped drastically, with total allocation standing at just 20MW as of Friday afternoon. According to data released by the Nigerian National Grid on its verified X account at 1:20 p.m., only the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company received power during the outage.
The figures showed that Ibadan DisCo was allocated 20MW, while Abuja, Benin, Eko, Enugu, Ikeja, Jos, Kaduna, Kano, Port Harcourt and Yola DisCos all recorded zero allocation.
The latest collapse comes less than three weeks after the power system entered emergency mode on December 29, 2025, when another grid failure left most distribution companies without electricity supply. During that incident, power generation plunged from 2,052.37MW to 139.92MW within one hour, between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
The sharp decline led to uneven load allocation nationwide. At the time, the Nigerian Independent System Operator reported that only three DisCos—Ibadan, Abuja and Benin—were able to take power from the grid, with total allocation at just 120MW.
Repeated grid failures have continued to raise concerns about the stability of Nigeria’s electricity infrastructure. In September 2025, the national grid collapsed again, causing a nationwide blackout. A similar incident occurred in March 2025, just days after the Federal Government announced what it described as a historic increase in power generation to 6,000MW.
That milestone proved short-lived, as a grid disturbance shortly after caused generation to drop below 1,000MW from about 4,000MW recorded earlier.
