Reporters learnt that although this incident happened at the peak of undergraduate exams and has remained unfixed, the management was yet to address the matter as of now.
A student of the institution told our reporter that until Sunday, the school had been in darkness because the management did not intervene to mitigate the extent of the electricity problem.
She said that when she learnt that the university had been disconnected from its power source, she thought the management would find a solution to the problem, but it was not until Sunday when they started turning a generator on from 7 pm to 10 pm every evening.
The student also said that there had been unverified reports circulating within the university’s premises that the management had accumulated an electricity bill running up to N100 million.
“We thought it was a minor technical issue, but three days later, we heard that the school was owing, and we haven’t had electricity since then,” the student told this reporter. 
“On Sunday, the school started turning on a generator for students. Five days. Students in the postgraduate hostel have been asked not to use their irons, refrigerators, and other appliances. We heard that when the light is restored, they’d ration it and prevent students from using a lot of electrical appliances.”
In a WhatsApp message shared with many UNN students titled ‘Light Crisis in University of Nigeria, Nsukka: A Call to Action’, some unknown groups are urging the management to take immediate action to resolve this crisis and restore power supply to the campus.
“For two weeks now, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, has been plunged by a severe light outage, leaving students in a state of distress. The absence of a power supply has significantly impacted academic activities, hindering research, learning, and overall academic progress. Rumours suggest that the university’s management owes N500 million, leading to this power outage,” the message reads in part.
When our reporter contacted a university representative for comments on Friday, the source explained that the management had not refused to pay its electricity distributor but could not afford the bill, as it was too high for them to pay, wondering how they accumuated to such huge sum.