By peace udugba- The daily torch media
Nigeria’s national power grid collapsed again on Tuesday, marking the second system failure in four days and the third in less than one month.
Power generation dropped sharply from 3,825 megawatts (MW) at 10 a.m. to just 39MW by 11 a.m., after peaking at 4,762MW earlier in the day.
As a result of the collapse, electricity load allocation to distribution companies fell to 0.00MW, indicating that no Disco was supplying power nationwide at the time.
The Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) confirmed that the outage occurred at about 12:40 p.m. following the simultaneous tripping of several 330kV transmission lines. However, the agency has yet to explain the cause of Tuesday’s grid failure.
The national grid had previously collapsed on December 29, 2025, and again on Friday, January 23, 2026.
Responding to the earlier incident, NISO said the disturbances resulted in a total collapse of the interconnected national grid.
