Ilorin residents lament over a month blackout

Date: 2018-10-20

Thousands of residents in parts of llorin, the kwara capital, on Friday said they were going through a lot of hardship without electricity since over a month now.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the affected areas which are in the llorin West Local Government Area of the state include Baboko Alore. Adabata Pakata and Oloje among others.

Their Spokesman, Alhaji Ismail Alada, told NAN that the total blackout had crippled social and economic activities in these areas.

He pleaded with the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) to replace the damaged electricity power breakers in some areas in order to restore power so that business activities would continue.

Alada said that the situation was becoming unbearable for some residents as a result of power outage.

He alleged that some suspected hoodlums had taken advantage of the power outage to attack some residents and carted away their belongings.

One of the affected residents, a retired civil servant in the state, Malam Musa Yahaya, said that the power outage had encouraged crimes in all the affected areas.

He called on the state government to urgently intervene to save the communities from total darkness and collapse of economic activities.

Yahaya also implored the management of IBEDC, to as a matter of urgency, ensure that electricity was restored to the affected communities to enhance commercial activities.

Mr Asaju Kolawole, the Regional Communication Manager of lBEDC, told NAN said the company was aware of the problem.

He attributed the problem to major fault at transmission station in Sawmill area in llorin.

Kolawole, however, gave an assurance that repair work had reached advance stage and that the power would soon be restored to all the affected areas.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Diagnostic Centre     Joseph Alex Offorjama     Ahmed Dankaya     Baruba     Mike Omotosho     Harmony Holdings     Saeedat Aliyu     Gbajabiamila     Olatunji Bamgbola     Najim Yaasin     Mumeen Lah     Haliru Dantoro     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Dorcas Afeniforo     Kale Ayo     Kwara Polytechnic     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     V.O. Abioye     Alimi     Hassan Saliu     Summit University     Abatemi Usman     Noah Yusuf     Neo Mundo Ltd     Gaa Olobi     SARS     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Galland Marcias     Wasiu Onidugbe     MATTA Girls Foundation     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Shaaba Lafiagi     Hamid Bobboyi     Moshood Bakare     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Okanlawon Taiwo     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Emir Of Shonga     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Raji AbdulRasaq     ITP     Samuel Adedoyin     Agboola Babatunde     Oba Abu     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Isiaka Abdulrazak     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     Undergraduate Bursary     MMWG     Abdulazeez Arowona     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Al-Hikmah Radio     Ilorin International Airport     Muritala Awodun     Rasaq Jimoh     Sunset Workers     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     ENetSuD     Tricycle Owners Association Of Nigeria     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Atiku     Ilorin South Constituency     Ilesha-Baruba-Gwanara     Lateef Ademola Olatunji     NURTW     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     KFA     Bello Oyebanji     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Paul Odama     Aminat Omodara     EFCC     Aishat Sulu-Gambari     Joseph Bamigboye     Oluwatoyin Lukman    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Yekini Adio     Alapansapa     Col. Taiwo     Raimi Iyanda     State Bureau Of Internal Revenue     Moses Rahman Popoola     Wasiu Onidugbe     AGF Abdulrazaq     Samuel Adaramola     Saliu Ajia     Adeola Abraham     Erubu     Akeem Olatunji     Laduba     Aliyu Muhammed     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     College Of Education     Alagbado     HYPPADEC     Leke Ogungbe     Niyi Osundare     Ajakaye     Kunle Suleiman     Grillo     Admiralty Villa     Muyideen Ajani Bello     Turaki Of Ilorin     Atiku Abubakar     Young Progressives Party     Muslim Stakeholders Of Kwara State     Akanbi-Oke     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Mubarak Oladosu     Muazam Nayaya     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Bolaji Abdullahi     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Minister     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Abatemi-Usman     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Neo Mundo Ltd     Aiyedun     Buhari     Seed Technologies     Oke-Ode     Kulende     Mustapha Olanipekun     Demola Banu     Binta Abubakar Mora     Olaiya Lawal     Sola Saraki University     IDPU     Lithium Deposit     Gbugbu     Shehu Jimoh     Arinola Lawal     Yeketi     Aliyu Adebayo     FOMWAN     ITP     Isaac Gbenle     Aisha Gobir     Council Of The Wise     Ibrahim Labaika     JMK Construction Company Limited     National Information Technology Development Agency     07039448763     Zulkifli Ibraheem     Ope Saraki     Oba Abdulraheem     ENetSuD     Funmi Salau