It is clear that without electricity there can be no industrial development and all those grand visions of becoming one of the world's leading economies by 2020 cannot be relaised.

Nigeria is already a super power in corruption! FULL STOP.

tim107: It is clear that without electricity there can be no industrial development and all those grand visions of becoming one of the world's leading economies by 2020 cannot be relaised.

agreed

No!

miiraaj: Nigeria is already a super power in corruption! FULL STOP.

Seconded.Infact,thirded and fourthed.

For where? Who dash monkey banana?

Na wa for this quuestion o. Can a boy become a man without growing up?

without electricity, nigeria will become a SOUPER power because the enterpreneur and investors will be in more soups of generating electricity themselves.

No

I fink we just need to embark on a Nuclear technology program.

Nah

If u ask me, na who i go ask?

we go buy gen to cova up. Govt no send una, i beta pass my neibor wil make us world power

Rhetorical question, u sef talk ur church mind.

no way.it is an all important priority relegated to the background while they keep pursuing shadows

Why not?cos there are a lot of countries that are doing very well without constant electricty supply
Such as uk,usa,sa,france
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[size=18pt]Regular supply of electricity does not translate into modernity as even many countries with regular power supply are still backward and underdeveloped in Africa.
I have been to a place with regular electric power supply in Nigeria, but the place is like Ajegunle in Lagos.
The community has an ultra modern library, but the people hardly go there.
They have enough jobs, but they are still intellectually retarded and depending more on their salaries instead of being creative and productive.
Even if you give morons regular electricity, that cannot transform them in super humans until they have the brains on how to use that regular power supply for development of modern technology and intellectual society.
Creativity in Arts and Sciences is the only way to develop into super power and not when the greatest ambition of majority of Nigerians is to earn a seven digit salary that does not make anyone a great achiever.
Super powers are made by the creativity and productivity of authors, innovators and inventors and not by salary earners.
Nigeria must invest in startups in the creative and manufacturing industries.

What makes a super power?
No regular power supply, but the leadership of the intelligentsia in the corridors of power and the promotion of meritocracy in democracy and not the leadership of political contractors and opportunists rigging elections to usurp power and plunder the nation like the present situation in Nigeria.
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Ijogz K: I fink we just need to embark on a Nuclear technology program.

I'm afraid I disagree with you. How do we get rid of the nuclear waste? And why not go for cleaner forms of energy? We could harness the sun up north by building large solar farms. The nation equally boasts of large natural gas deposits. We could equally use that to power current and future power plants, and adopt new technologies that cut down or eliminate harmful wastes from these plants.

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I am afraid not! Did other world super powers become who they are today by living in darkness?

This epileptic power supply issue is one of the main reasons so many diaspora Nigerians are reluctant to come home and open businesses. Already, the weather is really hot in Nigeria and when there is no electricity to turn on the air conditioner or fan to cool off,life in Nigeria becomes quite unbearable.

we are super power already. a country where politics is the most lucrative business and every politician is a don. a country where oil money is more than the citizens yet no light, no security and no infrastructure. a country where the more money u steal the lesser punishment u get. a country where one family eats N1B on food and the first lady wants N4B house. a country whose first lady died for 7 days and come back to life to prove enemies wrong. we are a world power.

Very silly question indeed. Its like asking if a human being can grow without eating food. And this silly thing made front page? What is there to discuss on this thread? Smh!

Orikinla: [size=18pt]Regular supply of electricity does not translate into modernity as even many countries with regular power supply are still backward and underdeveloped in Africa.
I have been to a place with regular electric power supply in Nigeria, but the place is like Ajegunle in Lagos.
The community has an ultra modern library, but the people hardly go there.
They have enough jobs, but they are still intellectually retarded and depending more on their salaries instead of being creative and productive.
Even if you give morons regular electricity, that cannot transform them in super humans until they have the brains on how to use that regular power supply for development of modern technology and intellectual society.
Creativity in Arts and Sciences is the only way to develop into super power and not when the greatest ambition of majority of Nigerians is to earn a seven digit salary that does not make anyone a great achiever.
Super powers are made by the creativity and productivity of authors, innovators and inventors and not by salary earners.
Nigeria must invest in startups in the creative and manufacturing industries.

What makes a super power?
No regular power supply, but the leadership of the intelligentsia in the corridors of power and the promotion of meritocracy in democracy and not the leadership of political contractors and opportunists rigging elections to usurp power and plunder the nation like the present situation in Nigeria.
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smh. People still do not know how to answer questions. You were not asked if constant electricity would automatically make Nigeria a super power. You were asked if Nigeria CAN become a super power WITHOUT constant electricity. They are two different things.

It's like someone asking you: "Could Usain Bolt have won his olympic medals without legs?" and for an answer, you go on and on about the rest of us that have legs but are not fast runners. Is that what you were asked?

Orikinla: Regular supply of electricity does not translate into modernity .
Creativity in Arts and Sciences is the only way to develop into super power and not when the greatest ambition of majority of Nigerians is to earn a seven digit salary that does not make anyone a great achiever.
Super powers are made by the creativity and productivity of authors, innovators and inventors and not by salary earners.
Nigeria must invest in startups in the creative and manufacturing industries.

What makes a super power?
No regular power supply, but the leadership of the intelligentsia in the corridors of power and the promotion of meritocracy in democracy and not the leadership of political contractors and opportunists rigging elections to usurp power and plunder the nation like the present situation in Nigeria.

Nice

Oahray: Na wa for this quuestion o. Can a boy become a man without growing up?

you haven't seen Akin and Pawpaw, real rich man, one of them even married without even growing you

Orikinla: Regular supply of electricity does not translate into modernity.
Creativity in Arts and Sciences is the only way to develop into super power and not when the greatest ambition of majority of Nigerians is to earn a seven digit salary that does not make anyone a great achiever.
Super powers are made by the creativity and productivity of authors, innovators and inventors and not by salary earners.
Nigeria must invest in startups in the creative and manufacturing industries.

You are loaded!! People like you will be the architects of the new Nigeria. We have convergent thoughts on the above subject matter and I would like to consult for you if you are into business.

Oahray: smh. People still do not know how to answer questions. You were not asked if constant electricity would automatically make Nigeria a super power. You were asked if Nigeria CAN become a super power WITHOUT constant electricity.

It's like someone asking you: "Could Usain Bolt have won his olympic medals without legs?" and for an answer, you go on and on about the rest of us that have legs but are not fast runners. Is that what you were asked?

[size=18pt]This is more than the primary school answer you want and as know primary school IQ has not helped majority of Nigerians to even think more than monkeys.
That is why majority of Nigerian graduates are jobless, because of lack of ratiocination.

Nigeria cannot become a super power without electricity. But the lack of regular electricity is not why Nigeria is underdeveloped. The low IQ of majority of Nigerians who are intellectually re-tarded is the major obstacle.

Monkeys will still be monkeys even with all the electricity in the world. And majority of Nigerians reason like monkeys and behave like monkeys, even here on Nairaland. They know how to consume bananas, but they don't know how to grow banana plants.[/size]

ocelot2006:

I'm afraid I disagree with you. How do we get rid of the nuclear waste? And why not go for cleaner forms of energy? We could harness the sun up north by building large solar farms. The nation equally boasts of large natural gas deposits. We could equally use that to power current and future power plants, and adopt new technologies that cut down or eliminate harmful wastes from these plants.

May heaven bless you Ocelot seeing we like grandstanding a lot here in 9ja
Pikin wey still dey crawl wan start dey fly
We seem not to see what natural disasters can do to a nuclear plant e.g. Japan &the Tsunami of 2 years back
We leave what we have abundantly and is safer i.e.sunshine and go seek what we have no homegrown capacity for

born2fuck: you haven't seen Akin and Pawpaw, real rich man, one of them even married without even growing you

Truth is, only a layman would think they did not grow up. Growth entails much more than a physical increase in height. There's mental and psychological growth too.

If them pull their cloth, you go shock.