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FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by bcomputer101: 3:14am On Jul 20, 2013
Nigeria and India reached agreement Friday to site a solar power facility in Bida.

It will be the first of a series of power plants planned to be sited
in Niger State to provide additional megawatts of power for the
national grid.

With the agreement signed at the power ministry headquarters in Abuja,
the Indian firm, Bharat Heavy Electricals will begin preliminary
studies ahead of siting independent solar-powered plants in selected
locations in Niger.

Power permanent secretary, Godknows Igali, who signed for the Nigerian
government, said the country's power sector would remain open to
investment in hopes of unbundling the sector's potential.

Sutanu Behuria, secretary of the government of India, who led the
Indian side, expressed his country’s interest in the provision of
funds in various forms for the development of Nigeria’s power sector.

He said Bharat had garnered experience from its operations in 12
African countries.
http://dailytrust.info/index.php/news/1205-fg-signs-solar-power-deal-with-india
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by 1bunne4lif(m): 10:24am On Jul 20, 2013
Ok. Oga at the top
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by Nobody: 10:27am On Jul 20, 2013
Right step in the right direction. If it materialises.

Oga following the Oga @ the toppest.
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by talk2me006(m): 10:27am On Jul 20, 2013
ok.
good
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by Nobody: 10:28am On Jul 20, 2013
This is better! It would provide much more stable megawatts when compared to the dams and gas!
Nigerians do not like promises, we need action and fulfillment of promises. Hope this materialises to reality!
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by iamswizz(m): 10:28am On Jul 20, 2013
We know how it would still end.


El Retardeen ( Jp)

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Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by Billionaires: 10:30am On Jul 20, 2013
FRESH AIR
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by Meringe(m): 10:30am On Jul 20, 2013
Still no light in my house!
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by Kajiang02(m): 10:34am On Jul 20, 2013
Good initiative.

Thumbs up GEJ
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by SLIDEwaxie(m): 10:34am On Jul 20, 2013
Another avenue to embezzle. We all knw how the china saga ended.

And very funny, even a secondary school students builds solar powers these days.

Can't we just use our heads?

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Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by Mexyz(m): 10:35am On Jul 20, 2013
Mr swizzy,don't u think calling your father retardeen is disrepectful? Its high time u nd ur likes on nl grow up nd leave ur toddler stage.....wiawia
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by SLIDEwaxie(m): 10:35am On Jul 20, 2013
Billionaires: FRESH AIR
shameless mofo u lots are!

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Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by Scarpon(m): 10:42am On Jul 20, 2013
whatever let they just be 24/7 in Nigeria
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by Capnd143(m): 10:46am On Jul 20, 2013
GEJ is trying in power issues, i hope his effort bear fruits for the country
btw, i like the sudden drift from western companies to Eastern ones, a good bilateral,military and economic relationship with india and china is critically necessary
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by proffmanue(m): 10:49am On Jul 20, 2013
It's a well come development. Time wil tell if it will suceed.
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by mtprofessor5(m): 10:59am On Jul 20, 2013
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Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by Segadem(m): 11:01am On Jul 20, 2013
SLIDE waxie: Another avenue to embezzle. We all knw how the china saga ended.

And very funny, even a secondary school students builds solar powers these days.

Can't we just use our heads?
India is rated the worst country in term of electricity.
So, how can you convince me that you will build a successful solar power in my country while yours is questionable?

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Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by Nobody: 11:02am On Jul 20, 2013
Availability of mobile phones have turned kids to rascals
iamswizz: We know how it would still end.


El Retardeen ( Jp)
Young man, when would you grow up?
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by tejpot(m): 11:02am On Jul 20, 2013
Whether success tagged or failure rated, its the world's next move, sustainable energy, a cleaner environment devoid of constant dependence on fossil fuel. The first time the government is truly refreshing the air. FRESH AIR INDEED.
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by Nobody: 11:04am On Jul 20, 2013
Choi... No be the same country colonise them again? Nigeria, when India exports technology, you are busy exporting religion not even christianity.... Nawa ooo!
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by imsuboi(m): 11:04am On Jul 20, 2013
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Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by Nobody: 11:07am On Jul 20, 2013
The biggest country in Africa that the United
Kingdom colonised is Nigeria. The biggest
country that the United Kingdom colonised in
Asia is India (which then comprised the pres
ent Pakistan and Bangladesh). When the UK came into Nigeria and India, like
all other countries they colonised, they brought
along their technology, religion (Christianity),
and culture: names, dressing, food, and
language, among others. Try as hard as the
British did, India rejected the British religion, names, dressing, food, and even language, but
they did not reject the British technology.
Today, 80.5 per cent of Indians are Hindus;
13.4 per cent Muslims; 2.3 per cent Christians;
1.9 per cent Sikhs; 0.8 per cent Buddhists,
among others. Hindi is the official language of the government of India, but English is used
extensively in business and administration and
has the status of a “subsidiary official
language.” Interestingly, it is rare to find an
Indian with an English name or dressed in suit. On the other hand, Nigeria embraced, to a large
extent, the British religion, British culture –
names, dressing, foods, and language – but,
ironically, rejected the British technology. The
difference between the Nigerian and the Indian
experiences is that while India is proud of its heritage, Nigeria takes little pride in its own
heritage, a situation that has affected the
nationalism of Nigerians and our development
as a nation. Before the advent of Christianity, the Arabs had
brought Islam into Nigeria through the North.
Islam also wiped away much of the culture of
Northern Nigeria. Today, the North has only
Sharia courts but no Customary courts. So from
the North to the South of Nigeria, the Western World and the Eastern World have shaped our
lives to be like theirs and we have lost much or
all of our identity. Long after the Whites and Arabs left Nigeria,
Nigeria has waxed strong in religion to the
extent that Nigerians now set up branches of
their home-grown churches in Europe, the
Americas, Asia and other African countries. Just
like the Whites brought the gospel to us, Nigerians now take the gospel back to the
Whites. In Islam, we are also very vibrant to
the extent that if there is a blasphemous
comment against Islam in Denmark or the US,
even if there is no violent reaction in Saudi
Arabia, the Islamic headquarters of the world, there will be loss of lives and destruction of
property in Nigeria. If the United Arab Emirates,
a country with 75 per cent Muslims, is erecting
the tallest building in the world and encouraging
the world to come and invest in its territory by
providing a friendly environment, Boko Haram ensures that the economy of the North (and by
extension that of Nigeria) is crippled with bombs
and bullets unless every Nigerian converts to
Boko Haram’s brand of Islam. We are indeed a
very religious people. Meanwhile, as we are building the biggest
churches and mosques, the Indians, South
Africans, Chinese, Europeans and Americans
have taken over our key markets: telecoms,
satellite TV, multinationals, banking, oil and gas,
automobile, aviation, and hospitality industries among others. Ironically, despite our exploits in religion, we are
a people with little godliness, a people without
scruples. It is rare to do business with a
Nigerian pastor, deacon, knight, elder, brother,
sister, imam, mullah, mallam, alhaji or alhaja
without the person laying landmines of bribes and deception on your path. We call it PR,
facilitation fee, processing fee, transport money,
financial engineering, deal, or whatever. But if it
does not change hands, no show. And when it
is amassed, we say it is “God’s blessings.” Some
people assume that sleaze is a problem of public functionaries, but the private sector seems to
be worse than the public sector these days. One would have assumed that the more
churches and mosques that spring up in every
nook and cranny of Nigeria, the higher the
morals in our society. But it is not so. The
situation is that the more religious we get, the
baser we become. Our land never knew the type of bloodshed experienced from religious
extremists, political desperadoes, ritual killers,
armed robbers, kidnappers, internet scammers,
university cultists, and lynch mobs. Life has
become so cheap and brutish that everyday
seems to be a bonanza. We import petrol even when we have crude oil
in abundance. We also import rice and beans
that our land can produce in abundance. We
even import toothpicks that primary school
children can produce with little or no effort. Yet,
we drive the best of cars and live in the best of edifices, visit the best places in the world for
holidays and use the most expensive electronic
and telecoms gadgets. It is now a sign of
poverty for a Nigerian to ride a saloon car. Four-
wheel drive vehicles are the in thing. Even
government officials, who were known to use only Peugeot products as official cars as a sign
of modesty, have upgraded to Toyota Prado as
official vehicle without any iota of shame, in a
country where about 70 per cent live below
poverty line. Private jets have become as
common as cars. A nation that imports toothpicks and pins flaunts wealth and wallows
in ostentation at a time its children are trooping
to Ghana, South Africa and the UK for
university education and its sick people are
running to India for treatment. India produces automobile and exports it to the
world. India’s medical care is second to none,
with even Americans and Europeans travelling
to the country for medical treatment. India has
joined the nuclear powers nations. India has
launched a successful mission to the moon. Yet bicycles and tricycles are common sights in
India. But in Nigeria, only the wretched of the
earth ride bicycles. I have intentionally chosen to compare Nigeria
with India rather than China, South Korea,
Brazil, Malaysia, or Singapore, because of the
similarities between India and Nigeria. But
these countries were not as promising as
Nigeria at the time of our independence. Some would say that our undoing is our size:
the 2012 United Nations estimate puts Nigeria’s
population at 166,000 million, while India has a
population of 1.2 billion. Some would blame it
on the multiplicity of ethnic groups: we have
250 ethnic groups, India has more than 2,000. Some would hang it on the diversity in religion:
we have two major religions — Christianity and
Islam; but India has many. Some would say it
is because we are young as an independent
nation: we have 52 years of independence;
India has 65 years. Apartheid ended in South Africa only in 1994. I am a Christian, and nothing can change me
from Christianity. But I think that our country
is daily sinking into religiosity to the detriment
of godliness. Our land is sick and needs healing.
“If my people who are called by my name will
humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I
will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin
and heal their land” is still a saying that is
germane to our current situation. We need
more godliness than religion; more work and
less of hope; and more action and less of words. Let everyone tidy up his or her corner first and
demand fervently that our leaders tidy their
areas of governance. Our nation is degenerating
at a fast pace and we need to save it now or it
may be too late. via PUNCH ====================== http://www.punchng.com/opinion/nigeria-
exports-religion-india-exports-cars/

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Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by premlove(m): 11:08am On Jul 20, 2013
As usual we are moving forward
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by yinchar(m): 11:09am On Jul 20, 2013
Nice development I have to say....but seriously I think the whole of Northern desert should be turn to solar farms....but who will tell the retardino...lol
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by AroOkigbo(m): 11:09am On Jul 20, 2013
Anything that will give Nigerians electric power is a welcome development.
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by Faponmile(m): 11:16am On Jul 20, 2013
This is another step in the wrong direction. Show me one city that is wholly powered by solar energy in the whole world. The technology is still in its infancy. This is another Indian scam in tandem with some greedy Nigerian heavyweights. Way to go is micro-mini geothermal/hydro power plants. And cheaper, too. Brazil is an example.

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Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by ednut1(m): 11:24am On Jul 20, 2013
Keep dashin foreigners money, yeye fins

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Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by Dollarjunkie: 11:25am On Jul 20, 2013
SLIDE waxie: Another avenue to embezzle. We all knw how the china saga ended.

And very funny, even a secondary school students builds solar powers these days.

Can't we just use our heads?
Actually, most of us are making good use of our brain. But I can see you're not making use of yours by saying the above. So you can actually give such a contract to secondary school students?
Oh!!! We give up!
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by Nobody: 11:29am On Jul 20, 2013
India wen GEJ dey sign contract with get light? Millions in India has never seen electricity with their eyes. India and Nigeria are same level in terms of power failure.

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Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by soloheater(m): 11:39am On Jul 20, 2013
Good move..but always end disappointing

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