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Former Governor Bello to face trial for money laundering charges of over N80 billion
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National grid collapses again, throws Nigerians into blackout
Nigeria has suffered its sixth power grid failure of 2024, with power production on the system collapsing from 2,583.77MW at 2 a.m. on Monday to 64.7MW at approximately 3 a.m.
For its estimated 200 million inhabitants, Nigeria produces 4,000MW of power on average.
However, this is scarcely sustainable, as the grid keeps experiencing constant failures because of a variety of issues, including a shortage of gas, vandalism of the transmission system, and a liquidity problem.
At the time of Monday morning's system collapse, just one energy generating firm, Ibom Power, was operational, according to data from the Independent System Operator, a division of the Transmission firm of Nigeria.
Power generation on the grid crashed further to 44.5MW around 4am, before rising to 132.29MW an hour later.The...
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