{"id":186372,"date":"2024-12-12T00:24:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T22:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-suffers-power-outage-as-grid-collapses\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T00:24:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T22:24:57","slug":"nigeria-suffers-power-outage-as-grid-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-suffers-power-outage-as-grid-collapses\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Suffers Power Outage As Grid Collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Electricity distribution companies announced a system outage around 1:32 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Nigerians have yet again been thrown into darkness due to a &#8216;system outage&#8217; from the national grid Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">A grid collapse, which is the breakdown of transmission lines due to over or under-frequency, is said to be responsible for this outage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Electricity distribution companies announced a system outage around 1:32 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The latest development is coming a month after the national&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412110653.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity distribution companies announced a system outage around 1:32 p.m. on Wednesday. Nigerians have yet again been thrown into darkness due to a &#8216;system outage&#8217; from the national grid Wednesday afternoon. A grid collapse, which is the breakdown of transmission lines due to over or under-frequency, is said to be responsible for this outage. Electricity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":186373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,11333,14458,257,4687,393,21058,7047,254,9083],"class_list":["post-186372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-collapses","tag-grid","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-outage","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suffers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}