National power grid collapses as fire breaks out in Benin

It has been revealed that the blackout experienced across the country is as a result of a fire outbreak on the Benin 330KV transmission line reactor.

Enugu Electricity Distribution Plc, in a statement by it’s head of communications, Emeka Ezeh, explained that the present loss of supply in the entire South East “is as a result of a system collapse which occurred at 09:21 am of today, 30th June, 2019.”

“This is as a result of fire outbreak on Benin 330KV transmission line reactor.

“As a result of this unfortunate development, there is zero supply to all customers in our franchise areas as all our injection substations are affected.”

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“We are standing by for restoration of supply by the TCN as they are already on the matter.”

Kaduna Electricity Distribution Plc also confirmed the system failure from the national grid.

An official statement read: “Dear esteemed customers, we are currently experiencing a system collapse from the national grid hence the power outage in our franchise states.

“Normal supply to our customers will resume as soon as the national grid is back up and stable.”

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