A press release from the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), distributed on social media, informed the customers of a general collapse of the system that occurred at 18:48 hours, local time, on Monday.

The text specifies that the southeast states without electricity in Nigeria are Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, and Imo.

This nation is the most populous and the second-largest oil producer in Africa.

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