Nigeria’s major cities suffer blackouts as power grid collapses yet again

High tension power lines pass through Makoko slum in Lagos (Sunday Alamba/AP)

Nigeria’s major cities, including Abuja, Lagos and Kano, suffered blackouts on Thursday as the country’s electricity grid collapsed in the tenth such outage to hit the power system this year.

A “partial disturbance of the system” caused the latest round of blackouts, the Transmission Company of Nigeria said in a statement, without elaborating.