Residents of some parts of Lagos will not enjoy electricity supply by Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC, for five days. Godwin Idemudia, EKEDC spokesman, said in a statement that the outage would affect Ikoyi, Victoria Island and parts of Lagos Island from Wednesday to Sunday.
He explained that the outage was to enable maintenance crew from the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, address technical and maintenance issues at Alagbon transmission station. “We want to inform our esteem customers that from Wednesday, May 24 to Sunday, May 28, there will be an outage within Ikoyi, Victoria Island and parts of Lagos Island. This is to enable TCN maintenance crew to resolve some technical issues within Alagbon transmission stations,’’ said the statement.
Idemudia said the company regretted any inconveniences caused by the five-day outage,
and promised that supply would be restored to the affected areas as soon as the maintenance was successfully done.