Nigeria’s president apologized a few weeks ago for the previous time the country had a power outage. For a few hours, many Nigerians were without energy provided by the government.

An advisor to the president claims that a “act of vandalism” on a transmission tower is to blame this time.

On Friday evening, distribution companies first reported issues with the national grid.

Customers have been told that work to restore electricity is underway.

According to local media, this is the seventh such collapse this year.

Electricity distributors such as Abuja Electricity Distribution, Kaduna Electric, and Eko Electricity Distribution used social media to apologies and explain what had transpired.

Nigeria’s national profile

Nigeria generates insufficient power to meet the needs of its 200 million people, with output typically hovering around 4,000 megawatts per day, according to the BBC’s Ishaq Khalid in Abuja.

According to the Reuters news agency, the country has a total installed capacity of 12,500 megawatts, but barely produces a fraction of that on a good day.

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria expressed remorse last month for the inconvenience caused to citizens across the country by simultaneous gasoline shortages and a nationwide power system failure.

He said at the time that the administration had worked “tirelessly” to resolve problems at thermal power plants, which had coincided with a “dip in hydroelectric generation due to seasonal pressures”.

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