ayox2003:
You're intelligent. Best comment so far.
Frawzey

edicolove: Now its getting clearer who the 40 man laptop really is. I said it the other day that El Rufai setup an Internet squad and quickly went on the Internet to announce that GEJ had set one up. Why would anyone want to discredit what so many are saying from all over Nigeria. Why are they attacking with such venom and fierceness? Is it because they really love Nigeria? GEJ is far from getting there and we can only pray he gets there for the benefit of us all. But the way some try to bring down the whole system is becoming really irritating. Only a paid propaganga squad act this way.

Kobojunkie:

What does POWER IS IMPROVING? mean? I can dig into the Nairaland archives, from as far back as 2010 to pull up threads such as this one for you. Of course people will FEEL that power is improving when they have more hours of electricity per day, however when you consider the facts, even an eejit will pause to rethink the statement that power is improving.

How can you see improvement when in fact you are being told by your Goverment that in reality there has been a decrease in power output during the same period you claim there has been an improvement? We are talking a fall or more than 1000MW in production in the last 6 months, and you are here telling me that it is an improvement, over what?

I know this is nothing but an opinion but when your opinion goes against the facts, do you cling still to it or do you look for more solid rationale, like religion for why you should cling to it?

Kobojunkie:

How can there be improvement when the Government has specifically informed you that there have been no improvements made in the area? Are you in the business of contradictions or something?

Frank-C:
Some critics seem just to be comfortable with things going worse, not better. They express deep hurt at any news of improving society and the energy that they will launch to tell you that it is not real or it is not sustainable is so strong that you start feeling that this whole criticism thing is not about getting us all a better society.

Here are folks telling somebody not to use the improvements he has observed in his environment to judge the government efforts but they are comfortable using the perceived lack of the same thing IN THEIR PROXIMITY to judge the administration. No! this is not about getting us a better society, it is about validating some inner conviction that things can never be better!!! But the bad news is that it does not affect reality at all!!!

GboyegaD: Deceits upon deceits. Today you hear light has improved and the next week you hear it has really deteriorated. Who is the fool in this case? Ech time NEPA wants to bring the bills for meters which were never read, they give you light for 3-5days and the next thing I hear is great improvement. Anyways, if that is what we call improvement, success to NEPA and those who now have light.

deshclones:


pick up your phone and call home to confirm..not yapping like a de-ment-ed dog....you base your facts on what you read online...we are talking from experience ala practical you are yarning from theoretical ala newspaper point of view..who is wise here??

Rossikk:

You're a fu.ckking LIAR. Show us the LINK where you claim govt said this. Stup.id ashewo. So now you take alleged govt declarations seriously because it is negative? When the same govt declares power has improved do you accept it? Fuccking ID.IOT.

agabaI23: There were two power problems
1. Inadequate generation
2. Grossly inadequate transmission.

[size=14pt]How can electricity in the country have improved when

a) Transmission problems have yet to be tackled

b) Generation has fallen back down over the last couple of months. It is estimated to be about 2700MW on average per day, today.How can that be an improvement from more than 3900MW we were told of about December of last year[/size]


na juju

If you want to tell us that power supply has improved in your tiny are of your state, go right ahead and do that BUT when you want to speak of Power at the National level, at least visit the facts rather than sound like another of the many empty brains out there who feel that as long as they have electricity in their home, all is well in NIGERIA.

Frank-C:
Some critics seem just to be comfortable with things going worse, not better. They express deep hurt at any news of improving society and the energy that they will launch to tell you that it is not real or it is not sustainable is so strong that you start feeling that this whole criticism thing is not about getting us all a better society.

Frank-C:
Some critics seem just to be comfortable with things going worse, not better. They express deep hurt at any news of improving society and the energy that they will launch to tell you that it is not real or it is not sustainable is so strong that you start feeling that this whole criticism thing is not about getting us all a better society.

Here are folks telling somebody not to use the improvements he has observed in his environment to judge the government efforts but they are comfortable using the perceived lack of the same thing IN THEIR PROXIMITY to judge the administration. No! this is not about getting us a better society, it is about validating some inner conviction that things can never be better!!! But the bad news is that it does not affect reality at all!!!

Best post so far . . . .

GboyegaD: Deceits upon deceits. Today you hear light has improved and the next week you hear it has really deteriorated. Who is the fool in this case? Ech time NEPA wants to bring the bills for meters which were never read, they give you light for 3-5days and the next thing I hear is great improvement. Anyways, if that is what we call improvement, success to NEPA and those who now have light.

chucky234: For a president who
receives N1bn annually as food
allowance he certainly has no
excuse to why he cannot achieve
anything meaningful in 24 months.

I am waiting for the deluded
GEJ agents to prove the below wrong
and tell me why the most
expensive govt in the world should
be applauded by mere maintenace
projects which 50% was initiated
by past administrations and mere generation of less than 1000MW of electricity in 24 months.


EARNING CHAT:
In the United States, while the
minimum wage is $1,257 (N191,
667), a US lawmaker earns $
15,080 (N2.3m) per month. In the
United Kingdom, a lawmaker earns
$8,686(N1.3m) monthly while the
gross national minimum wage is $
1,883 (N283, 333) per month.
Also, Nigerian lawmakers earn
higher than their counterparts in Sweden. With a monthly pay of $7,707 (N1.2m), a lawmaker in
Sweden will need to work for over
12 years to equal what a Nigerian senator earn per annum.
The president of the United States
takes home an anual salary of $400,000 (N64.156,0m), including a
$50,000 expense allowance making
the president the highest paid
public servant in the US. The $400,000 includes everything and $350,000 out of it is taxable.
Selected States (salary per annum)
The prime minister of the United
Kingdom......USD 226,627.00
French
president.....................USD318,072.00
South African
president...................USD296,112.00
German
chancellor.......................USD296,112.00
The Prime Minister of
Belgium...................USD174,804.00
President of the Republic of
Korea.................USD 136,669.00
President of
Russia......................USD122,652.00
Prime Minister
Portugal......................USD129,730.00
Prime Minister
Namibia....................USD115,155.00
President of
Angola......................USD60,000.00
President
Argentina.................USD55,139.00
Prime Minister
Ukraine........................USD61,254.00
President
Zimbabwe....................USD18,000.00
President of People's republic of
China...........USD 10,633.00
President
Liberia.........................US90,000.00
Prime Minister
Spain .......................USD102,960.00
Prime Minister
Namibia......................USD115,155.00
President
Namibia.....................US164,506.00
President of
Colombia ......................USD120,685.00
Prime Minister of the
Netherlands.................USD190,740.00
Prime Minister
Ireland..................USD264,000.00
Prime Minister
Denmark...................USD264,533.00
President
Mexico..................USD328,839.00
USD328,839.00 .....................USD427,886.00
President Austria..................USD422,231.00
President of the European
Council................USD 508,916.00


NIGERIAN SENATORS
Basic Salary (BS) = N2,484,245.50
Hardship Allowanc: 50% of Basic
Salary = N1,242,122.75
Constituency allowance: 200% of
BS = N4,968,509.00
Furniture Allowance: 300% of BS =
N7,452,736.50
Newspaper allowance: 50% =
N1,242,122.70
Wardrobe allowance: 25% =
N621,061.37
Recess Allowance: 10% =
N248,424.55
Accommodation: 200% =
N4,968,509.00
Utilities: 30% = N828,081.83
Domestic Staff: 35% =
N863,184.12
Entertainment: 30% =
N828,081.83
Personal Assistance: 25% =
N621,061.37
Vehicle Maintenance Allowance:
75% = N1,863,184.12
Leave Allowance : 10%
=N248,424.55
One off payments (Severance
gratuity): 300% = N7,452,736.50
Motor Vehicle Allowance: 400% of
BS = N9,936,982.00
Total per month = N29, 479,749.00
A senator's anual salary = over
N182 million multiply by 109 senators (don't forget the House of rep,
ministers, ambassadors, ...) In addition to the regular and legitimate salaries and allowances of over N17 million ($113,333) and N14.99 million ($99,933) which senators and reps were collecting yearly and the irregular allowance of estacodes, duty tours etc, they were also collecting over N192m ($1.28m) and N140m ($0.93m) respectively in illicit quarterly allocation which is not provided for by RMAFC.
Effectively, a Nigerian senator was
taking home at least $1.40m ($
1.28m quarterly allocations + $0.113m regular salaries and allowances) as against the $0.174m an American senator takes home hence a Nigeria senator earns at least 8 times as much as an American senator and more than 3 times the American president.
Whereas a Senator in the U.S earns
N21, 146,000, the same as a
member of the House of Representatives; a UK Member of Parliament earn  £64,766 (N14, 896,180) In other words, a Federal Legislator in Nigeria is paid more than double what a Member of British Parliament earns per annum. Senate President David Mark alone takes N250 million quarterly or N83.33 million per month.
Senate Deputy President Ike
Ekweremadu gets N150 million per
quarter or N50 million a month.
Mark and Ekweremadu earns in 4
months, six times what the UK
Prime Minister earns in a year.
David Cameron goes home with Â
£190,000 per anum (N43,700,000) In a newspaper news article entitled ‘An Assembly for looting’ written by Musikilu Mojeed with Elor Nkereuwem, the authors rightly claimed that each of the 360 members of the House of
Representatives were getting N35
million in cash money in quarterly
allocation while each of the 109
Senators pockets N48 million each.
These allocations have however
been slashed by 20% to N27 million ($180,000) and N38 million ($253,333) respectively due to the 20% reduction requested by the late president.

gossips:

Hmm!
A very selfish view point!
Who really is your neighbour here? The man who shares same block or neighbourhood with you? That certainly is a restricted way of looking at it, don't you think?

Anyway, my view about this whole power-improvement matter is that you don't judge with what happens in your tiny area which doesn't make up to 1/1,000,000 of areas in Naija.
I just liken to the kind of prayer I hear some Nigerian Christians say. that, even if fuel were to go for a 1000naira per litre, it won't matter to them as long as they can afford it. That I consider to be selfishness at its peak and shouldn't be displayed or even condoned by anyone.

edicolove:

Gbam! Suddenly government statement has become reliable and truth that Kobojunkie can rely on and die for! Hypocrisy has got to be the worst thing in the world!

onthefence: Trust me, I am not sure anybody dislikes GEJ policies more than me but on this electricity issue, it has TREMENDOUSLY improved in my area in Benin. I have had power for upwards of 48 hours non stop. GEJ is getting right on this one.

proudly9ja: lool...Nigerians never learn. This is the same thing we discuss same period every year.

Its normal to have 'improved' power supply at around this time of the year. Come back towards the end of the year/early next year and let's discuss this topic again.

Kobojunkie:

OMG . . I didn't even know this.??

agabaI23: Read the entire post again. I posted before completion.