Incidents recorded in Nigeria across battery storage, solar, wind, grid infrastructure and data centres.
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A severe thunderstorm in Nasarawa State, Nigeria, destroyed three towers on the 132kV Karu-Keffi-Akwanga single circuit transmission line on Wednesday 7 October 2026. The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said the line tripped on overcurrent relay...
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) temporarily shut down one of its data centres in Lagos, Nigeria, after an early-morning fire on Monday 10 August 2026. The university's communication unit said the shutdown allowed safety assessments, technical inspections and...
A prolonged power outage affected Maiduguri and other parts of Borno State in Nigeria, according to Daily Post Nigeria, reporting on 10 October 2026. The Borno State Government attributed the outage to two faults: a fault on the national grid transmission...
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The Oyo State Fire Services Agency reported that a fire broke out at a private three-bedroom flat in the Aaje Ologo area of Ogbomoso. Personnel from the Ogbomoso Zonal Command responded to a call received at about 4:59 p.m. and extinguished the fire before it...
A fire in the early hours of Saturday destroyed a section of the Hamidu Ahmed Medical Library at the Teaching Hospital Complex of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto. Adjoining offices and the library's solar power installations were completely destroyed. The...
The Nigerian Independent System Operator (NISO) reported that a voltage disturbance originating at the Gombe transmission substation caused a partial collapse of the national grid on a Tuesday in January 2026, the second such disturbance recorded that year....
According to a statement attributed to MEDL, an explosion occurred at the Gariki Injection Substation in Enugu, Nigeria, resulting in a loss of power supply to the surrounding area. The statement, referenced only by headline in the source material, did not...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria said a fire at Egbin Power Plc at about 6:30 a.m. on a Tuesday affected its 150MVA 330/132/33kV Inter-Bus Transformer II at the Egbin Transmission Substation. The fire started in a service transformer owned by Egbin Power...
Residents of Oyadiran estate in the Sabo area of Yaba told Vanguard News that a community transformer fails when it rains, cutting power for days at a time. They also reported sparks and noise from the transformer during rainfall. They said the distribution...
On 9 October 2024, MainOne suffered a one-hour power outage at MDXi II data centre in Lekki, Nigeria, owned by Equinix, TechCabal reported. The outage took several Nigerian banks offline. The report said millions of customers could not access banking...
On 19 October 2024 at 08:15, the bus section of a current transformer exploded at the 330 kV Jebba Transmission Substation. The Transmission Company of Nigeria said protection opened the busbars, preventing fire and further damage to adjacent equipment, and...
At about 2:47 p.m. on 5 August 2024 a heavy system surge caused arcing on the Benin-Egbin 330kV line isolator fingers at the Egbin Transmission Substation switchyard. The resulting line tripping affected outgoing lines from the substation and led to loss of...
A fire was reported at the Dan-Agundi Transmission Station in Kano on a Sunday, in a report published on 10 March 2024. The station is described as a key power supply point for Kano City. Smoke engulfed the site and several parts of the surrounding area were...
A fire broke out at the Transmission Company of Nigeria 330 kV transmission substation in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State, on the night of 14 September 2023. The blaze was reported to have engulfed the facility and to have gutted critical power supply...
In the early hours of 3 May 2023, a fire broke out in Lagos, Nigeria, at a Zenith Bank site. The Lagos State Fire Rescue Service said the fire was at one of the bank's branches on Ajose Adeogun and started in a ground floor room housing inverter panels and...
Residents of Kabong community, in Gada Biyu District, Jos North Local Council, Plateau State, Nigeria, said a nearby power transformer caught fire and exploded at about 2:00am after supply was restored following an outage the previous evening. They said the...
A fire broke out at the Transmission Company of Nigeria power substation at Maryland Junction, Maryland, Lagos, at about 20:06 on a Saturday, as reported on 17 December 2023. The Ilupeju crew of the Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service attended and put the...
A fire incident was reported at the 330kV Alagbon substation. Power was later restored, according to a statement attributed to TCN in a June 2023 headline. The available summary does not report the cause, the extent of damage, whether anyone was injured, or...
A fire at the New Idumagbo Injection Substation, operated by Eko Electricity Distribution Company in the Idumagbo area of Lagos Island, involved a 15MVA power transformer. The company said the fire started at about 3:00 p.m. and affected electricity supply to...
On Friday 15 April 2022, at about 15:15, a fire broke out at the Ayede transmission substation in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria, operated by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). The fire affected one 150MVA 330/132kV power transformer. According to a TCN...
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