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Power sector advocacy group PowerUp Nigeria has called on the Federal Government to urgently overhaul the national grid, warning that persistent blackouts are crippling the economy and pushing manufacturers out of the electricity market.

The group’s Executive Director, Adetayo Adegbemle, said in a statement that Nigeria’s electricity crisis goes beyond inadequate supply and is rooted in the repeated collapse of the national grid, which he said has failed at least 222 times between 2010 and 2022, with a dozen more collapses recorded in 2024 and 2025 alone.

“Let’s dispense with the euphemisms. Nigeria does not have a ‘power supply challenge.’ It has a national grid that has failed at least 222 times between 2010 and 2022, with a dozen more collapses recorded across 2024 and 2025 alone,” he said.

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Adegbemle warned that the consequences were already severe, with more than 60 per cent of manufacturing firms abandoning the national grid in favour of captive generation. He put the annual cost of that exit at N45tn in spending on diesel, petrol, and captive gas generation, money he said could have funded critical transmission upgrades.

“That exodus is not a footnote; it is the market’s verdict on grid reliability, delivered in the only currency that matters: capital allocation,” he said, adding that the trend had created a solvency problem for the entire electricity value chain.

While acknowledging the Electricity Act 2023 and the newly announced Grid Asset Management Company, Adegbemle argued that structural commercial failures, including non-bankable power purchase agreements, chronic gas supply shortfalls, and a broken liquidity chain, remained unresolved.

He called on the government to design incentives that would draw industrial users back to the grid, prioritise transmission investment ahead of renewable energy targets, and guarantee the operational independence of the Nigerian Independent System Operator.

Citing lessons from South Africa and Egypt, he argued that grid reliability was ultimately a governance output. “Nigeria’s constraint has never primarily been capital or technical know-how but the absence of a sustained, transparently reported turnaround plan that survives changes in political leadership,” he said.

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