Along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, nearly a million residents of Arepo have reached the end of a long patience. Promised sixteen hours of daily electricity under a Band B consumer classification, they have received barely two — a gap between contract and reality that has paralyzed businesses, strained households, and now drawn the community toward the courts. Their ultimatum to Ikeja Electric is less a threat than a reckoning: a reminder that infrastructure promises are not merely administrative categories but obligations owed to human lives.
Arepo residents threaten legal action over four-month blackout by Ikeja Electric
Approximately 850,000 residents in Arepo community face severe electricity shortage affecting health, safety, business operations, and quality of life.