Nigeria, April 16 -- Residents of the Katsina metropolis and parts of Batagarawa Local Government Area are lamenting persistent power outages in their areas.

PREMIUM TIMES reports that while several areas in the two local councils have gone four days without electricity supply, other areas are witnessing erratic power supply.

Residents lament that with the heat in the state, electricity supply should increase, not decrease.

The Kano Electricity Distribution Company (KEDCO) said the outage was caused by a fault in a substation in the state.

"The last time we saw light in this area was on Saturday. Today is Thursday, so it has been four whole days," Rukayya Shehu, a married woman resident of NYSC camp layout in Barhim, told PREMIUM TIME...