THE ministry of power, works and housing is making efforts on to end the power outage in Ikoyi, Victoria Island and Lekki in Lagos, Nigeria. The power outage was caused by the recent flooding in the areas.

Hakeem Bello, special adviser to Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing,  in a text message, told Realnews that the distribution feeders for Ikoyi and Victoria Island were affected by rain.

“Restoration work is ongoing with need to ensure safety. The Control Room serving Ajah and Lekki is flooded and water is currently being pumped out with a view to restore service,” he said.

Realnews reported this morning that management of Eko Electricity Distribution Company, EKEDC,  announced that there would be power outage in Ikoyi, Victoria Island and its environs as the company’s injection substations and equipment were submerged in the flood.

Godwin Idemudia, general manager, Corporate Communications at EKEDC, said in Lagos on Sunday that the company was having challenges in almost all its injection substations as a result of the flood from heavy rains on Saturday.-

July 10, 2017 @ 1:30 GMT /