The one-day nationwide strike by the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) may have been suspended, but parts of the country still remain without electricity.
\nThe action by the workers was called off on Thursday after a tripartite meeting among the leaders of the union, BPE and the Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo.
\nThere was confusion on Thursday if the strike led to the system collapse nationwide that tripped off electricity supply.
\nRecall that the union of electricity workers gave a 21-day ultimatum to the federal government to meet its demands, but because it was ignored by government, its members downed tools. The House of Representatives had indicated interest on Wednesday to have an investigation on why the bluff of such a vital union should be called to the detriment of the country.
\nIt is the 12th time this year that the National Electricity Transmission System, will suffer total collapse.
\nUsually, when a system collapse occurs it takes awhile to get the fragile system back up as it has to take a gradual process to avoid damage or another collapse.
\n33 days ago, according to watchers, a total power grid shutdown forced distribution companies across the country into power load shedding.
\nThe National Electricity Transmission System is being managed by government-owned Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).
\nMedia reports say the transmission system has continued to suffer system collapse over the years amid lack of spinning reserve that is meant to forestall such occurrences.
\nOne of the nation\u2019s distribution companies, Eko Electricity Distribution Plc., confirmed the collapse, informing residents of estates on its network that the prolonged power outage, which they suffered yesterday, was caused by the collapse.
\nStating that efforts were being made by EKEDC engineers to rectify this and restore power to the estates, the utility company informed residents that the prolonged power outage being experienced was as a result of system collapse from the national grid.
\nThis is not the first time that the company has issued apology to residents over collapse.
\nOn November 9, EKEDC stated that the grid collapsed at 11:15p.m. on Friday and 3:15 a.m. on Saturday. It was experienced across all transmission stations at 23:15hrs on the day.
\n\u201cSupply was received at 03:15hrs. Sadly, at 04:38hrs, the system collapsed again. TCN and our team are working to restore supply. Kindly bear with us,\u201d the Disco said on its Twitter handle.
\nAnother Disco, Jos Electricity Distribution Plc., announced to its customers that \u201cthere is power outage in all our franchise states due to system collapse nationwide.
\n\u201cWe will provide an update shortly. Thank you for bearing with us,\u201d it said.
\nJust three months ago, the power grid suffered a major collapse, the ninth in 2019.
\nThe nation\u2019s power grid, it would be recalled, also recorded its eighth total collapse in July, plunging consumers across the country into blackout for some hours.
\nThe government-owned TCN, which manages the grid, blamed electricity distribution companies for the system failure.
\nThe grid had suffered four total collapses in January and one each in February, April and May, according to the system operator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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