Barely ten days into the new year, Nigeria’s national power grid, on Saturday, suffered its first major collapse in 2025.

Saturday’s collapse has resulted in a nationwide blackout with many parts of the country left without electricity.

The latest incident marks the 13th occurrence in the past 13 months.

On Saturday, power generation reportedly dropped from 2111.01 megawatts as of 2 pm to 390.20 MW by 3 pm.

The Energy podcast, in a post, confirmed the blackout stating, “National grid suffers major collapse… First in 2025.”

Another post read, “Restoration has begun… Currently generating 302MW as of 02:40 pm.”