Why 11 Osun Communities Are In Darkness — IBEDC

THE Ibadan Electricity Distribuon Company (IBEDC) has explained why 11 communi es in the State of Osun were experiencing power outage.

IBEDC said the affected communi es were without electricity supply due to technical faults, one of which was caused by vehicular accident.

21,834 Osun Indigenes Benefit From Adeleke’s Free Health Programme

Yusuf Oketola

NO fewer than 21,834 residents of the State of Osun have benefited from the free medical services organised by the state government to mark the 100 days in office of Governor Ademola Adeleke.

Residents of the state had between February and April showed up at various designated centres across the state to benefit from the free medical services tagged “Imole Free Medical and Surgical Treatment’.

Adeleke had constuted a 10-member commi ee of health workers, chaired by the Chief Medical Director of Osun State University Teaching Hospital, Prof. Peter Olaitan.

Addressing a press conference in Osogbo on Tuesday to mark the end of the free medical outreach, Olaitan said the commi ee gathered no fewer than 200 health workers from both the secondary and ter ary health ins tu ons to work on the project.

Olaitan disclosed that the medical team engaged in intensive medical care throughout the period of the exercise, sta ng that ailments of various kinds were treated while different surgeries were done on pa ents.

While the flag-off was held in Iwo on February 15, 2023, Olaitan disclosed that the team visited all the nine federal cons tuencies of the state providing medical care, general and eye surgical procedures for the people.

He said: “a total of 21,834 ci zens of the state benefited from the program, while 10,543 benefited from medical, 9,133 benefited in the free eye care and 1,453 people benefited from general surgical care.

“Of the pa ents with eye care, 705 of them had eye surgery, while 2,415 were given free eyeglasses.”

The company in a no ce of power outage issued on Monday, said: “Dear esteemed customer, kindly note that due to a technical fault on the Ile-Ife TCN Sekona 33KV feeder, customers in the following communi es: Eleweeran, Ayepe, Moro, Edunabon, Ipetumodu, Yakoyo, Asipa, Akinlalu, Sekona, Odeomu and environs are experiencing power outage.

“Our technical team is working with TCN to ensure power supply is restored.”

Also, the distribuon company disclosed that its customers in Efon Alaye were also without power supply.

“Due to a vehicular accident which affected the Efon/Osu 33KV feeder, customers in Efon Alaye and environs are experiencing power outage. Our technical team is working to ensure power supply is restored.

“We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience,” IBEDC stated.