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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.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) 3 Likes |
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? 5 Likes |
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 AIRshameless mofo u lots are! 2 Likes |
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.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? 2 Likes |
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.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/ 27 Likes |
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. 1 Like |
Re: FG Signs Solar-Power Deal With India by ednut1(m): 11:24am On Jul 20, 2013 |
Keep dashin foreigners money, yeye fins 2 Likes |
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.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. 3 Likes |
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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