COMPAQ: Pretty bad here in PH o! At least my part of Ph (Rumuibekwe). Incidentally, it used to be quite good before (average of 15-18 hours aday), but for the last 2-3 months we average just about 5-8 hours.

Rumuodara is even worse. I thought Ameachi told PH residents that by the end of this year, we will all send all our generating sets to the village becos there will be no power failure or did i get my info wrong?

0lumide: Sincere_9gerian, tell people where your area is!! Stop lying!!

You can't name your area yet you are here spreading lies and more lies!!


See your grave below bro!! It's silently waiting on you!! Say your area!!

0lumide: Sincere_9gerian, tell people where your area is!! Stop lying!!

You can't name your area yet you are here spreading lies and more lies!!


See your grave below bro!! It's silently waiting on you!! Say your area!!

pokur: @OP I think u should abstain a bit from that thing u are taking.Seems its making u experience life in an alternate universe.
Where is that ur area that is experiencing power supply for 50 consecutive hours,when other areas have not had light in 2,3 days?.The best we had was 5 intermittent hours of light on Boxing day.
There's been no light here since last evening,e'en as I type this.

Omo_Tier1: Oh dear, see what Nigeria have been reduced to! Some seeing light for 16hrs a day are singing things are getting better I remember visiting a friend in New Castle few weeks ago, in the morning the light went off during to a house fire. There was no electricity for four hours.

Before we knew it,council went around ALL the streets that was affected by the power cut, dropping leaflets through the doors, notifying residents when power will be restored! True to their words, by 3pm same day, they restored power. What shocked me the most was that council went around the homes of the elderly and children to supply them food, and they asked any nursing mother that needs food supply to contact them with a dedicated number line provided!

Sadly enough, when I spoke to my mother in Nigeria on boxing day, she told me they are running on the heavy duty generator in the house! It is clear from the majority of replies so far the OP's assertions are utter falsehood! They maybe generating 4,000MW, but not until the distribution network is sorted out and that includes every sub stations, and those step up or step down transformers in neighborhood, most Nigerians will continue to live in darkness. That is where the main effort should be concentrated but there is nothing currently being done in that regard which clearly suggest the so called power reforms are a ruse! I hope I am proved wrong

Sincere 9gerian: Where I reside, as I write this text, we've had 48hrs constant public power supply, no blink. Before this time we been having 18 to 20hrs daily average power supply.
Only recently, the power ministry officials and the transmission company of Nig confirmed the country attained a new power generation peak of about 4,500MW.
This is not eldorado but are definitely positive signs that the reforms in the power sector are yielding fruit.
We expect that 2013 will definitely be better as the new private owners of the PHCN successor companies take over.

Idokojimmy: Everything block for fridge. The holiday was spent on seasonal films. I hope this continues.

ogb5: In my area the power went out once for 2 hours. That was six months ago. I called the power guys and it was a tripped circuit in my house that was the problem.

Before you start wondering where the hell is that, note its not in Nigeria.

Look on the list in the link below, it shows where Nigeria stand with respect to electricity consumption per capital.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC

Nigeria uses 136kwh per capital while common Zimbabwe uses 1022kwh per capital. compare Nigeria to little Netherlands with a population of 16million, they used 7010 kwa per person in 2010.

On electricity usage, Nigeria ranks with such countries as Myanmar (131 kwh/capital) and Sudan (141kwh/capital). Those are people we are competing with.

Globally the countries we are better than, as listed by the world bank, are:

Haiti (24 KWH)
myanmar (131 KWH)
Dem Rep. of Congo (95 KWH)
Ethiopia (54 KWH)
Eritrea (52 KWH)
Haiti (24 KWH)
Nepal (93 KWH)
tanzania (78KWH)

So before anyone collect chicken change from their stupid politician friends and come to NL to say Electricity is improving they should compared the amount of electricity available to Nigerians and that available to citizens of other nations.

a minimum of 10 fold increase in electricity generation will need to be provided before we see any real and lasting improvement.

taharqa:


Its always astonishing (and annoying n a funny way) when I see peeps making ASSERTIONS in public with every sense of authority when they are so WRONG! It astonishes me EVERY TIME.

Not less than 17 NIPP Transmission and Distribution lines and substations have been completed in LAGOS alone THIS YEAR as at November out of 57 such ongoing projects, and this is not even counting the normal PHCN projects. Similar things are taken place throughout the nation as NIPP is constructing HUNDREDS of Transmission and Distribution lines and substations (some already completed) in virtually every part of the nation- hell even the Military was ordered by the President to install some substation step- up transformers in certain part of the nation recently. All or most of these projects (including the PHCN ones) not finished are expected to be completed in 2013.

Just as I asked you on a different thread: how was it that when Yar'adua generated a high of 3800MW some years ago, the Entire System collapsed in just 2 DAYS to below 2000MW and fluctuated in that range for a long time WHILST the same system was able to wheel 4000MW-4300MW from July-late Sept this year before partially 'collapsing' to as low as 3200MW-3500MW from that time till late Nov-present where it is again wheeling 4200MW-4500MW? what changed? Or you think it just happened??

I mean to argue that even if all these projects are completed, there would still be serious need for continuous investments and upgrades in the Transmission (especially) and Distribution Infrastructure cos the resulting system would still not be able to continuously wheeled more than 6000-7000MW successfully, is a different argument; but to say nothing has been done Or worst still, that nothing is been done is...... *smh*

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/11/ndphc-commissions-four-injection-sub-stations-in-lagos/

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=105345:nipp-delivers-new-power-projects-boosts-supply-to-lagos&catid=94:energy-report&Itemid=592

http://allafrica.com/stories/201211210650.html

http://www.nidelpower.com/main/index.php

Abrantie:

Hahaha... 48 hrs continuous power supply in Nigeria and it makes front page. How sad! Y'all sweatin' big time in the Giant of Africa... lol

Omo_Tier1:
Before we knew it,council went around ALL the streets that was affected by the power cut, dropping leaflets through the doors, notifying residents when power will be restored! True to their words, by 3pm same day, they restored power. What shocked me the most was that council went around the homes of the elderly and children to supply them food, and they asked any nursing mother that needs food supply to contact them with a dedicated number line provided!

anonimi:

Which level of government is the equivalent of Council (the one dropping leaflets) in Nigera:

a) Federal
b) State
c) Local government

Let everyone continue focusing on fisherman Jona and shouting clueless this, clueless that.
Very soon it will be clear that [size=14pt]Jona is only the least clueless leading a bunch of more clueless 160m fumblers aka Nigerian citizens.[/size]

Omo_Tier1:
Abrantie, continue to wallow in deceit. We Nigerians are confronting our challenges and ensuring that we get the best from our government you are here spewing rubbish about the country. Ghana we know does not enjoy the constant power lies you guy spew on different fora on the web.

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/12/12/ghanas-president-visits-jonathan/

Abrantie:

Did you read the article?

Our president visited your president on his way to Equatorial Guinea. While in Nigeria, he said "Hey GEJ, your gas pipeline is broken and we are not getting the gas we paid for. Better make sure it's fixed soon!".

So what's your point again? Is Nigeria not into oil and gas sales any more?

Omo_Tier1: Oh dear, see what Nigeria have been reduced to! Some seeing light for 16hrs a day are singing things are getting better I remember visiting a friend in New Castle few weeks ago, in the morning the light went off during to a house fire. There was no electricity for four hours.

Before we knew it,council went around ALL the streets that was affected by the power cut, dropping leaflets through the doors, notifying residents when power will be restored! True to their words, by 3pm same day, they restored power. What shocked me the most was that council went around the homes of the elderly and children to supply them food, and they asked any nursing mother that needs food supply to contact them with a dedicated number line provided!

Sadly enough, when I spoke to my mother in Nigeria on boxing day, she told me they are running on the heavy duty generator in the house! It is clear from the majority of replies so far the OP's assertions are utter falsehood! They maybe generating 4,000MW, but not until the distribution network is sorted out and that includes every sub stations, and those step up or step down transformers in neighborhood, most Nigerians will continue to live in darkness. That is where the main effort should be concentrated but there is nothing currently being done in that regard which clearly suggest the so called power reforms are a ruse! I hope I am proved wrong

Omo_Tier1:

Go tell GEJ to get the PHCN, TCN and all DISCOs to a standard that can guarantee Nigerians constant power supply and good customer services!

taharqa: Na rain. The rain is too much, so the dams are working at full capacity. Let the rain stop first, lol ....

ROSSIKE:

Stop foolishly comparing Nigeria to Britain. The latter is a developed country and the former, a developing country. BIG DIFFERENCE.

badlucky: I will score GEJ high on power. These days PHCN boys the behave themselves. If we can have achieved this in 2013, even before the completion of the privatization exercise, then the power situation can only get better. GEJ is on point here. We hope that he extends such efforts to other sectors