House Of Reps Adjourns Plenary Over Power Failure

The House of Representatives was were forced to adjourn plenary on Tuesday due to an interruption of power supply.

Speaker of the House Femi Gbajabiamila, following the power outage, was left with no other option but to call for an adjournment.

The lawmakers were all seen scrambling to exit the chamber while using their phone lights to find their way through the darkness that engulfed the entire chamber.

Meanwhile, Nigeria’s fragile national electricity grid suffered its seventh collapse in 2022 yesterday, temporarily throwing the entire country into another total blackout.

Earlier, when the news of the grid collapse filtered in, the data showed that no power generation plant was active, while about 19 plants were generating a combined 3,302 megawatts, with Shiroro Hydro at 573MW around 10 am before the grid failure.

The last time the grid collapsed was in August and it was occasioned by the shutdown of the country’s power supply infrastructure by protesting members of the National Union Electricity Employees (NUEE).