The country has been thrown into a fresh round of blackouts over the shutdown of the national grid by aggrieved members of the labour unions.

The national grid system dropped to zero megawatts as a result of the complete disruption of power supply to all eleven electricity distribution companies in the country.

A statement from Transmission Company of Nigeria’s General Manager, Public Affairs, NDIDI MBAH, said the nationwide blackout was due to staff of the company, under the umbrella of the National Union of Electricity Workers completely shutting down all power substations across the country at approximately 2:19 am today.

Besides the national grid, the power generation and distribution sub-sectors have equally been shut down.