Social media personality Raye has taken her frustration with the power situation in Lagos straight to Instagram. According to her post, the apartment she lives in has gone without electricity "for over two weeks," and the outage is now eating into her earnings.
What makes her case harder, by her account, is that there is no plan B. Raye said the estate where she lives does not permit residents to put up solar panels or run generators, so when public supply fails, everyone in the estate is simply stuck in darkness.
What Raye wrote
In the post, she pointed the finger at the authorities. "The Nigerian government will make us see Electricity as a luxury. This is 2026, yet Nigerians are still lamenting over the lack of Electricity," she wrote.
Her central message was short and sharp: "Electricity is not a privilege!! It’s a citizen’s right!"
Raye also spelled out what the blackout means for her pocket. "I’m losing money not working; every hour I don’t turn into work it’s my money going. No light, no work," she wrote.
There was a little humour mixed in with the complaint. She joked about the punishing heat, saying she looked "like a Shrek due to heatwave." On a more serious note, she said she regretted returning to Lagos after a trip abroad, adding that experiences like this explain why many Nigerians choose to japa.
She also took aim at the electricity tariff band system. According to her, residents were first moved into categories that came with bigger bills, and now they are not getting supply at all.
No DisCo named, no official response yet
Raye did not state which electricity distribution company covers her area, so her outage cannot be linked to any specific DisCo. Creebhills, which reported her post, said it had not seen any reply from the Federal Government or from a power company.
Part of a bigger blackout story
Her complaint is landing at a time when many Nigerians are telling similar stories. Pulse Nigeria reported that supply in Lagos has been poor since the second week of October, roughly three weeks as of October 29, a drop tied to a steep decline in output from the national grid.
Daily Trust reported on November 5 that people in Lagos, Abuja, Kano and other states are describing blackouts stretching for days or even weeks, all while a heatwave grips the country. The same report said residents of Lagos Island staged a protest to demand that power be restored.
Ikeja Electric has apologised to its customers, but one report says the company has not given a date for restoration. Back in August, Eko DisCo said the share of power it receives from the grid had dropped from 486 megawatts to 347 megawatts.
