The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, said Nigeria has not experienced a national grid collapse in the past four months of 2025.
Adelabu disclosed this in his remarks while reeling out the performance of the power sector in the sixth Ministerial Press Briefing held in Abuja on Thursday.
He said with the improvement in generation capacity and other power reforms, the government has been able to record a relatively stable electricity supply in Nigeria.
“In the last four months, Nigeria has not experienced grid disturbances. Unlike in the past when the grid collapse upon reaching 5000 megawatts, but the grid reached the highest energy of 5,801.63mw as the latest feat and did not experience collapse”, he said.
He added that following the April 4 2024 tariff hike for Base A electricity customers, Nigeria's power sector and N700 billion reduction in tariff shortfall was achieved.
Earlier, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris said the President Bola Tinubu's administration considers