By: AbdulRasheed Olokoto and Abdullah Oladejo

Some A-Block residents at the Great Independence Hall  of Residence,  University of Ibadan, have expressed dissatisfaction over what they claimed to be a ‘deliberate’ power interruption in their block, IndyPress reports.

According to some of the residents who spoke to IndyPress, the power was deliberately cut by the hall’s student leadership during a night party held at the newly renovated Indy Maracana field near the block in the late hours of Friday, October 3, 2025.

Reacting, a  student resident in the hall took to his WhatsApp status to voice his displeasure over the development.

He wrote,“Una go come again na. Una go come for agenda na. This is crazy how una party take concern light.I no understand. Make we no see your face abi wetin you off light come dey tell me make I go my room go do wetin Go sleep abi wetin. INDY UNA.”

In one of the hall’s group chats, another resident demanded the immediate restoration of the  interrupted power. He wrote,“Can we please have our electricity supply back? Whoever turned it off at first.”

Victor Oludele, a Katangite, told IndyPress that the outage happened roughly an hour and a half. “The light was turned off one hour thirty minutes ago. It was turned off because of the party. I had to go to B-Block to charge my gadgets,” Victor said.

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In an interview with IndyPress, the Administrator General of the Hall, Peculiar Adedeji, claimed that the power was not cut by the hall executives. However, he attributed the outage to a technical issue.

“Their light has an issue, so I have directed the House Secretary to see to it. I don’t know what happened to the solar at the corridors,” Peculiar said.

Contrary to Peculiar’s claim, the  Social and Buttery Commissioner of Indy Hall, Tifase Oluwatimilehin, in an interview with IndyPress, admitted to giving the directive to interrupt the lighting at the A-block’s corridors due to the ongoing party.

“I was the one that directed them to turn off the light because of the party,” Tifase said.

IndyPress observed that about thirty minutes after the night party event, power was restored to the affected block.