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‘The newspaper, which earlier reported the collapse to be the 13th grid failure in 13 months gives no reason for deleting the story’

Nigeria’s top newspaper, The PUNCH, has pulled the report it earlier published on its website about a purported national power grid collapse.

Platforms Africa reports that the accalaimed most widely read newspaper earlier reported that the grid recorded its first major collapse for the first time in 2025 barely ten days into the new year.

The collapse, according to the newspaper, has resulted in a nationwide blackout to the despair of Nigerians.

Some Nigerians, however, queried the report saying they have supply in their areas.

Meanwhile, Platforms Africa noticed that the report was later deleted from the newspaper’s website, owing to statistical/factual errors in the story.

The report before it was pulled read; “This incident marks the 13th occurrence in the past 13 months.

According to PUNCH, power generation dropped from 2111.01 megawatts as of 2 pm to 390.20 MW by 3 pm.
A post by The Energy podcast confirmed the blackout stating, “National grid suffers major collapse… First in 2025.”

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

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Though the report has been pulled, no explanation or further comment was given on the real reason for deleting the story.

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