Photo caption: Power grid
The national power grid crashed again on Tuesday, the second time in four days.
The PUNCH reports that power generation dropped to just 39 megawatts at 11 a.m., down from 3,825 MW as of 10 a.m.
Our team monitoring the situation reported that power generation had peaked at 4,762 MW as of 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
Also, EkoDisCo, in a statement on Tuesday, informed its customers of a system collapse that resulted in power loss.
“Kindly be informed that there was a system collapse at 10:48 hrs, which has resulted to a loss of power supply across our network.
“We are currently working with our TCN partners as we hope for the speedy restoration of the grid. We will keep you updated as soon as power supply is restored.
“Kindly bear with us,” it said.
This is the second grid collapse in January 2026 and the third in less than one month. The national grid previously collapsed on December 29, 2025, and more recently on Friday, January 23, 2026.
As the grid collapsed on Tuesday, load allocation to the distribution companies was 0.00 MW, indicating that no Disco was supplying electricity at the time of the incident.
The Nigerian Independent System Operator has yet to explain the cause of the current grid collapse.
NISO confirmed that the outage occurred at about 12:40 p.m., following the simultaneous tripping of several 330kV transmission lines.
Responding to Friday’s grid collapse, NISO said in a statement that the combined incidents resulted in a total collapse of the interconnected national grid.
“The Nigerian Independent System Operator wishes to inform the public that at approximately 12:40 hours on Friday, 23 January 2026, the national grid experienced a system-wide disturbance, which resulted in a total outage across the interconnected network,” the statement read.
