Lagos community laments over three-month blackout, faulty transformer

Residents and business householders in Raji Oba, Awoyemi, Folarin, Ajala, Olonade, and Akinshola streets within the Alimosho Native Council predicament of Lagos Relate maintain expressed frustration over a power strength outage prompted by a incorrect transformer.

The blackout, which started within the second week of March 2025, has crippled firms and severely disrupted daily lifestyles within the affected communities. The residents maintain known as on Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) to urgently address the mutter by repairing the incorrect transformer.

Responding to inquiries, IKEDC’s Head of Company Communications, Kingsley Okotie, mentioned, “I will test what's inflicting the lengthen.”
One resident, Micheal Adeagbo, highlighted the dire penalties of the blackout, asserting it has worsened commercial actions and affected access to water within the predicament.

“We're pleading as a neighborhood, as one, for Ikeja Electrical and the correct authorities to listen to to our cries to set our communities. Olonade-Akinsola and different streets maintain continuously been a factual neighborhood, and we need it to dwell like this.”

One other resident, is named Mama Chioma, mentioned, “We maintain been struggling in darkness. We maintain been in total blackout for over three months, crippling firms. We're pleading with IKEDC to urgently address this.”

In a letter dated March 16 and addressed to IKEDC, the Olonade-Akinsola neighborhood affiliation titled its plea: “Pressing quiz for Band A intervention on prolonged strength outage in our neighborhood.” The letter detailed efforts to file the self-discipline to IKEDC’s buyer provider and native set of business, nonetheless the mutter remains unresolved.

The letter partly be taught: “The flexibility failure has severely impacted our daily actions, firms, healthcare products and companies, and overall successfully-being in these six streets. We're but to receive a clear response regarding an estimated time for restoration. The continuous blackout has prompted fundamental discomfort, financial losses, and safety considerations inner our neighborhood. In gentle of the above, we respectfully quiz urgent intervention and directive to the correct department to expedite the choice of this self-discipline.”

The neighborhood steadily referred to as on the Federal Competition and User Protection Payment (FCCPC) and the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Payment (NERC) to intervene fleet.