Flood: TCN restores electricity supply to Lagos
Electricity Supply Restored in Parts of Lagos Following Severe Flooding
LAGOS, Nigeria — Electricity has been restored to several areas in Lagos State that experienced power outages due to severe flooding, which disrupted operations at a key transmission facility.
Ndidi Mbah, spokesperson for the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), confirmed the news in a statement on Wednesday. Mbah reported that TCN successfully brought back online its 60-megavolt-ampere (MVA) transformer, known as TR1, at the Oworonshoki Transmission Substation. The transformer had been shut down due to heavy flooding in the area.
With the restoration of TR1, the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) can now resume electricity distribution to customers previously affected.
“The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) hereby informs the public that the TR1 60MVA transformer at the Oworonshoki Transmission Substation, which was out of service due to heavy flooding at the station, has been successfully restored by TCN’s maintenance crew at exactly 07:53 hrs on June 30, 2026,” the statement noted.
This development follows a series of outages that occurred just a day prior when flooding caused the transformer at the Oworonshoki site to fail, impacting power supply across multiple regions in Lagos State.
TCN had previously declared a force majeure on the affected facilities, citing continuous rainfall that inundated the substation and disrupted electricity services across the network.