TCN announces electricity supply restoration in Lagos hours after blackout

The Transmission Company of Nigeria has announced the restoration of energy successful parts of Lagos and its environs hours aft the outage.

The spokesperson of TCN, Ndidi Mbah, disclosed this successful a connection connected Thursday, announcing that Benin-Egbin 330 kilovolt transmission has been restored.

According to TCN, an energy proviso disruption had occurred astir 8:19 americium connected 25th June 2026 successful Lagos.

TCN explained that the nationalist grid experienced voltage instability, which rapidly dispersed crossed the Lagos corridor, starring to the nonaccomplishment of immoderate generating stations, causing transmission enactment outages, and the consequent interruption of energy proviso to Lagos and its environs.

However, the interventions of the curate of power, Joseph Tegbe, and different agencies successful the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry resulted successful the speedy solution of the fault.

“We are pleased to study that 1 of the affected lines, the Benin–Egbin 330kV transmission line, which was opened during the incident, has already been restored and is presently transmitting bulk electricity. A combined squad of TCN engineers from the Be...