As Nigeria basked in the euphoria of the festive season, millions of homes and businesses were plunged not into light but into darkness, a familiar reminder of the country’s chronic power failures. Despite an installed grid capacity of over 13,000 megawatts (MW), actual power generation fell to about 3,000 MW, leaving households, hospitals, entertainment venues, and small businesses grappling with outages deep into Christmas. By Monday, December 29th, the grid collapsed, crashing to near 0 MW at 2:45 pm. It is needless to say that the latest in
As Nigeria basked in the euphoria of the festive season, millions of homes and businesses were plunged not into light but into darkness, a familiar reminder of the country’s chronic power failures. Despite an installed grid capacity of over 13,000 megawatts (MW), actual power generation fell to about 3,000 MW, leaving households, hospitals, entertainment venues, and small businesses grappling with outages deep into Christmas. By Monday, December 29th, the grid collapsed, crashing to near 0 MW at 2:45 pm. It is needless to say that the latest in
