The nation’s electricity grid collapsed on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, at 11:34 am, leaving parts of the country in darkness. The collapse was announced by the National Grid on its official X handle, @NationalGridNg.

“There was a ‘GRID DISTURBANCE’ before noon today. Parts of the country experienced outage. Further information shortly,” the post read. Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company also confirmed the system outage on X, stating that “we experienced a system outage today 12th February, 2025 at 11:34hrs affecting all our feeders.”

The company added that “restoration of supply is ongoing in collaboration with our critical stakeholders.” Abuja Electricity Distribution Company also reported the incident on X, saying “a system disturbance occurred on the national grid at 11:34 am today causing a power outage across our franchise areas.”

The company assured its customers that “while gradual restoration of power supply has commenced, please be assured that we are working closely with relevant stakeholders to fully restore electricity as soon as the grid is stabilised.” This is the first collapse of the grid in 2025, after experiencing line tripping in January. Last year, the grid collapsed a total of 12 times.