Ghana witnessed a nationwide blackout on Wednesday night.

Giving further explanations on the occurrence,  Chief Executive Officer of GRIDCO, William Amuna said: “there was a surge of power around 9:40pm last night; we lost many generators across the country.As a consequence, we lost supply to most parts of the country.”

“It was around 9.40 pm and we started the restoration programme till about 1 am when we were above 1,000 megawatts and there was a swing in the power system again and we lost some generation again and currently we are in the process of restoring,” he added.

Mr. Amuna however indicated that “almost 50% of the power across the country has been restored” adding that GRIDCo is still working to restore power to the nation.

The lights went off around 9 pm.

The last time a nationwide blackout hit Ghana was in January 2016 as a result of system failure.