Nigeria has been hit by yet another national grid collapse this morning, plunging most of the country into darkness for the second time this month.

The system operator posted a stark “GRID COLLAPSE!” message shortly before 11:00 AM, confirming a total system failure.

Within minutes, generation and allocation across all eleven distribution companies dropped to zero megawatts.

Major urban centres including Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano, Enugu, Benin City, Ibadan, Kaduna and Jos reported complete loss of supply, affecting homes, businesses, hospitals, airports, fuel stations and mobile networks.

By 11:44 AM the grid operator released the first partial restoration figures showing only 90 MW back online nationwide.

Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company received 50 MW and Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company received 40 MW while every other DisCo, including Abuja, Benin, Eko, Enugu, Jos, Kaduna, Kano, Port Harcourt and Yola, remained at zero.

Restoration efforts continue but no firm timeline for full recovery has been provided.

Social media is flooded with frustration as Nigerians describe the recurring failures as unacceptable in 2026. Many point to the same familiar culprits that have caused dozens of collapses over the past decade: inadequate gas supply to power plants, frequent transmission line trips, aging infrastructure, vandalism and chronic under-investment in transmission capacity.

This latest incident follows the first collapse of the year reported around January 23–24 and comes despite repeated government and industry promises to stabilise the grid.

The pattern has renewed calls for urgent, transparent reforms including accelerated investment in new generation, dedicated gas pipelines for power plants, modernised transmission lines and stronger system protection measures.

No official statement on the precise trigger has been released yet. Authorities say work to bring the grid back to full capacity is ongoing.