Nigerians witnessed four national grid collapses on Monday, December 29, 2025, throwing the African nation into darkness
The grid collapse led to the loss of billions of Naira for businesses, firms, companies, and Nigerians who rely on the national grid as their primary source of electricity supply.
The grip collapsed at 2:02 pm on Monday, according to the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, which occasioned outage across its area of concentration in Abuja, Nasarawa, and Kogi states.
In an update on X on Monday by Nigeria National Grid, electricity allocation to electricity distribution rose from 50 megawatts in the afternoon of Monday when the grid collapsed to 2,958 MW as of 10:17 pm.
Accordingly, with the National grid restoration takeoff on Monday night, Abuja DisCo received 453 MW, Ikeja DisCo 447 MW, Eko DisCo 380 MW, Ibadan DisCo 354 MW, Benin DisCo 241 MW, Enugu DisCo 230 MW, Port Harcourt DisCo 210 MW, Kano DisCo 199 MW, Kaduna DisCo 191 MW, Jos DisCo 167 MW, and Yola DisCo 86 MW.
But electricity supply is yet to be restored to the majority of Nigerians as of Monday night, as major Discos confirmed blackouts.
Our correspondent reports that while the country experienced four national grid collapses in 2025, which were on February 12, March 7, Wednesday, September 10, and December 29, it collapsed more than 12 times the previous year.
Speaking on the issue, the Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise, Dr. Muda Yusuf, lamented that at this day and time the country is still battling with grid collapses.
“We thought that we had gone past this. Because this year has been relatively stable.
“But now we have this collapse. It’s not a good way to end the year. But we can only hope that it’s something that we fix very quickly,” he stated.
