What happened

Nigeria's interconnected electricity grid collapsed, cutting supply across major cities including Abuja, Lagos and Kano. The Transmission Company of Nigeria initially described a system disturbance and began staged restoration; the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission later classified the event as a total collapse lasting from 11:29 on 7 November until full restoration at 10:59 the next day. This record represents the country's recurring national-grid failure pattern rather than attempting to map every short collapse. Contemporaneous Associated Press reporting called it the tenth collapse of 2024, while NERC's final annual report counted nine system-collapse incidents — four total and five partial — reflecting a later regulatory classification rather than a claim that both totals are identical.

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