Nigeria, Aug. 8 -- While officers of the Nigerian Army battle insecurity in different parts of the country, the families they left behind in the barracks suffer poor power supply, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt.

At the Ikeja cantonment in Lagos, a soldier described the situation as "suffering in surplus."

The cantonment gets three hours of power supply every day, even though the neighbourhood, Onigbongbo, and environs enjoy relative steady power supply, PREMIUM TIMES gathered.

"The problem started since 2016. In fact, it was two hours supply we used to get before a new commander came and they changed it to three hours," Ngozi Udom, a soldier's wife told PREMIUM TIMES.

The cantonment is supplied electricity by the Ikeja Electricity Distribut...