This Yoruba king’s palace is fully solar powered; now he wants to electrify his community

In 2024, Nigeria’s national grid collapsed 12 times, thrice in October alone. Across the country, the resulting blackouts plunged homes and businesses into prolonged blackouts, crippling critical health services among others. So far in 2025, the grid, which supplies power to nearly 200 million residents, has experienced two disturbances but no outright collapse. 

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