Madar (Abuja) - Nigeria's Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe, apologised on Monday, November 9, 2026, for recent electricity outages, particularly in Lagos and other affected states, and promised improved supply, Nigerian daily Premium Times reported.
Speaking on TVC, the minister said the disruption was "not a national grid collapse but a reduction in power supply", caused by planned maintenance at the Egbin power plant, which cost nearly 800 megawatts, and by vandalism of a 330-kilovolt transmission line supplying the Lagos electricity complex.
This forced load shedding across Lagos and Ogun states and parts of Kwara State, while the Lagos complex was receiving about 1,000 megawatts as of Monday morning, the paper said.
Tegbe added that the Oshogbo-Ikeja West line, out of service for more than 18 months, is expected to deliver an additional 400 megawatts by the end of November, and that a task force including the ministry, the transmission company and security agencies is mapping vandalism hotspots, with plans to use helicopters and drones.
The minister said the government had paid down 1.23 trillion naira of sector debt in recent months and that Nigerians should feel the impact of its interventions within three to five years. "Nigerians deserve to have electricity," he said.
