By: Bamijoko Favour 

After 104 days, Alexander Brown and Falase halls of residence still linger in darkness. As a result of this, student demonstrations have continued, unabatedly.

After days of protests by students and promises from the school authorities, and government alike, power supply was finally restored to the University College Hospital on Tuesday, 12th February 2025.

However, both Alexander Brown Hall and Falase Halls and its environs were left in a lurch as both halls were denied power supply.

As a result, students have returned to the streets expressing their displeasure and growing frustration. According one of the students, “currently the state of things is that for over a hundred days, UCH has not had light at all. Students have been coming out to protest, this is our third protest. We came out for the second one specifically because we heard that the Minister of Power was coming to UCH so we needed to make our grievances heard. He said within the next 48 hours there will be light and [while] there was light, they had cut ABH and Falase hall from the supply. It has been the students that have been coming out to protest, the doctors have not been coming out, those from the school of nursing have not been coming out. We had been coming out to protest because we cannot continue to have this condition in a government hospital. Yet the people that came out to protest, to make sure that their voices were heard, putting everything online and offline for publicity do not still have light. There was no news to debunk the earlier rumors and so it seems like it was a premeditated turn of event, like there was a meeting somewhere to cut off ABH and Falase hall from the power supply.”

Speaking to IndyPress, the House Secretary, Elemide, noted that the students’ frustration is a very valid one. He pointed out that after the first rounds of protests, the student body were promised that “power will be restored within 24-48 hours. Now, power has been restored to the University College Hospital, without the restoration of power to ABH and Falase Halls which makes us feel played and disrespected. And we are out again until power is restored to Alexander Brown Hall, and Falase Hall.”

“This protest will not end until our demands are met,” he submitted.