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Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by humnsikan: 11:26pm On Jul 10, 2014 |
Someone exclaimed, "I'm I still living in Nigeria?! Never have I, in terms power outage and restoration, had it this good." Since last week, Akwa Ibom has been enjoying a consistent 20 to 22hr power supply per day. It is indeed record breaking, and I want to know if it's the same in your area. We are hoping that before the year runs out, the rate of power outage would have decreased to, say, < 3hrs/week. So go on, let's know how it goes there. 5 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by CharlesPhc: 11:41pm On Jul 10, 2014 |
Got better for about two straight weeks in Port Harcourt but now its very very bad. No power for one week now in Woji axis Phc. The period it got better, the diesel vendor threatened we would soon come knocking again and true to their words, we are back knocking even harder this time...!!! What is most annoying is that Gov. Amaechi's commissioner for Power is busy arguing Argentina vs Germany final match in a popular joint in Phc and blaming the FG after siphoning huge budgetary allocation to his Ministry. 27 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by delkuf(m): 11:43pm On Jul 10, 2014 |
That is different in my area oooo. They bring and take evry 2 to 3 min. 3 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by shikshark: 1:03am On Jul 11, 2014 |
if we enjoy 1hour of electricity in a day we normally celebrate it in my area, ebenezery. Ibadan 17 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Smartsyn(m): 6:35am On Jul 11, 2014 |
Hmmmm, am in Kogi State right now, and PHCN is literally molesting us with enough power supply.. I have even lost count. #Freshair. 3 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Marvyx(m): 6:35am On Jul 11, 2014 |
Asaba is d worst of all. I don't really get. Nigeria has all the resources at her disposal to achieve power stability but what is stopping? 4 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Nnamdig2(m): 6:35am On Jul 11, 2014 |
Very very Pathetic in kosofe, lagos. The only thing dey do best 'is to cut ligth wires' 9 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by HuJJC(m): 6:36am On Jul 11, 2014 |
Will get better.. |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by LMAyedun(m): 6:36am On Jul 11, 2014 |
In my area, once in a week... Very poor. 2 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by hydeka: 6:36am On Jul 11, 2014 |
About 12hrs per day. No single day without power and we know the timetable. 4 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Blackchampion(m): 6:36am On Jul 11, 2014 |
Fuuucccck it! here its 10-30mins uninterruptible low voltage power supply. Maybe na T. A. Orji cause am 3 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by ojimbo(m): 6:37am On Jul 11, 2014 |
nnewi. Since last year, the last time i saw light was in octomber 2013 9 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Nobody: 6:37am On Jul 11, 2014 |
Its worse than it used to be, now electricity is a luxury 3 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by ERCROSS(m): 6:37am On Jul 11, 2014 |
I cudnt really see the difference between the light in my area and A TORCH LIGHT.. attimes, dem go dey bring am on and off like Christmas light.. PHCN, Holding the Nigerian Power since 1759.. 4 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Nobody: 6:37am On Jul 11, 2014 |
In asaba now its 2hours on 2- days off. Its been terrible. Never experienced this kinda power wahala in my entire life, and its been since april this year. Heard the 132kv breaker is bad at obosi, but can't they fix it?**********************************************BY KENNEDY BIENOSE: NOTHING underscores the ineptitude and inefficiency of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria(PHCN) than the recent disclosure of the Minister for Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, to the effect that he spends, on the average, N240,000 monthly to fuel his generator. The Minister was stating the obvious when he said that such a development was an eloquent testimony of the gross inefficiency of the PHCN and, therefore, the urgent need for its overhaul and privatization. Similarly, the Chief Medical Director of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Prof. Akin Oshibogun, told the Senate Committee on Health which was on a fact-finding mission to the Idi-Araba, Lagos-based hospital that 5,000 litres of diesel (costing, in net, about N800,000) was what the institution expends daily to fuel the 10 generator sets that it acquired as alternative sources to PHCN. Despite the serial metamorphoses that the power company – from Electricity Corporation of Nigeria (ECN) to its current nomenclature of Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) – the company apparently has not shed the toga of inefficiency. In fact, many believe that it has been going downhill with every transmutation and change of name. It is not for nothing that the organization has earned several sobriquents, each derogatory in interpretation, from Nigerians. When it was National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), Nigerians prefer to interprete the acronym NEPA as “Never Expect Power Always”. And even the new name: Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) has been translated to mean: “Power Hoarding Company of Nigeria”. But is the power regulating company aware of its perceived inefficiency? It is doubtful. The outrageous bills and, worst still, the method employed at arriving at such bills only point to the fact that PHCN is either living in self-delusion or it has an exaggerated view of its own efficiency. Expectedly, consumers are pained that they are made to pay for services they do not enjoy, no thanks to the irrational bills that they are served on a monthly basis. Sometimes, these bills are even served at the beginning (first or second week) of the month which raises a pertinent question: How does PHCN determine the bills for services that it is yet to render to consumers? Enter the estimated billing system. Rather than depend on meter readings to determine consumers, monthly bill, PHCN has apparently devised what is known as estimated billing where officials sit in the comfort of the offices and determine bills for consumers. The only ‘good’ thing this warped method of ascertaining bills does is that it enable officials determine bills even when the month is just beginning. From the perspective of consumers, estimated billing is unjustifiably fraudulent as it is usually out of sync with reality; it neither reflects the services rendered nor corroborate the actual meter reading. Somehow, officials of PHCN seem to be more at home with this system of billing and prepared to perpetuate it as it brings more money to the coffers of the organization at the detriment of consumers. It is not surprising that a recent report accused PHCN of ripping Nigerians off to a tune of N3.41 trillion. According to the report, PHCN rakes in about N1.04 trillion annually from households in Nigeria; N2.074 trillion from Micro Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs); N2.86 billion from the 22 federal airports across the country and N3.4 billion from banks and other large scale enterprises. PHCN’s N3.41 trillion annual earnings from electricity bills is said to be 111 per cent higher than the N1.62 trillion budgeted for capital expenditure in 2013. Curiously, the prepaid meter which was introduced as an elixir to the outrageous and lopsided billing system of the PHCN are hardly available for consumers. Many attribute this to the deliberate attempt by PHCH officials to hoard the products. The recent discovery of about 2,000 units of the meters, laying fallow in a PHCN depot in Ikorodu, Lagos State by the Minister of State for Power, who was on an unscheduled visit to the district, goes a long way to corroborate the allegation. Respondents who spoke with our correspondents in this edition of Sunday Digest all decried the activities of PHCN, particularly the poor services and estimated billings, and called for a speedy conclusion of the on-going process to privatise the company and reform the power sector. Mr Nduka Okolo said he seldom depend on PHCN for power supply since “it has proved its unreliability beyond any reasonable doubt”. He opined that “PHCN will never give you light when you need it. So, I have resorted to using generator most of the time.” And does he pay electricity bills since he seldom depend on public supply for power? “That is the annoying aspect. Even though I hardly use NEPA, they (officials) are usually very prompt in serving me bills which, more often than not, are on the high side”, the banker responded. For Mr Kingsley Adodo who lives in Direct Labour Road in Asaba, never in the history of PHCN has its services been poor than what is going on now. “As I speak with you, my area has been in darkness for weeks. And rather than think of restoring power supply to the area, all the officials do is to serve you crazy bills which only them and God know how they (bills) are determined”, he said. A clergyman, Pastor Lord Agidi, who lives on Biosa Amantu, Off DLA Road, Asaba could not fathom why he has to pay more when he is disconnected than when he enjoys power supply. “My average bill per month is about N2,000. But on the few occasions I have been disconnected, my bill skyrocketed to about N7,000 per month. What is the rationale in that? Are you saying I should pay more when I did not enjoy your services at all?”, he asked rhetorically. Mrs Nkem Maduemezie, a landlady in Bonsaac area of Asaba frowned at the inconsistency of PHCN in power supply and billing. “Sometimes dey go give you light, small time, you no go see light. And l na so dey go give you N2,000 bill this month, next month e go jump to N5,000 even though dey no give you light pass before”, she observed in pidgin English. For Mr Patrick Igbigbije, the annoying thing is that whereas PHCN officials are quick to come and disconnect you when you default, they are very reluctant to come and reconnect you even after paying reconnection fee and attend to other complaints. “Each time the transformer in my area goes bad, except we mobilize ourselves to fix it, it will remain like that for aeon. And same is applicable to other complaints; they will never respond to them. But just default in paying your bill, you will see them swarming around you like bees”, he noted. Reacting to the complaints, the Public Relation Officer of PHCN, Asaba District, Mrs Esther Okolie, said epileptic power supply and perceived poor services of the organization was not an exclusive preserve of Asaba and environs as it is “a national problem”. She, however, noted that “the capital city has peculiar challenges”. According to her, Asaba and environs have depended on Obosi Power Station for power supply for the past 27 years due to absence of a step-down power station within the area. Unfortunately, the total power flow from Obosi is a meager 22 megawats as against the 105 megawatts required to serve Asaba and its environs. Mrs Okolie was, however, optimistic that unstable power would soon be a thing of the past as “there is hope in sight”. She assured that the 132KVA step-down power project located on Asaba/Ughelli Expressway (by Ibusa), calculated at checking the power shortfall in the state capital and environs, would be completed before the end of the year. “And when that is done, this issue would be a thing of the past”, she assured, urging Deltans to be patient. Given the PRO’s assurance, couple with the recent release of N3.7 billion by the Federal Government to address power challenges and other sundry reforms going on in the power sector, Nigerians cannot but hope that someday power, like telecommunications, would become stable and efficient in the country. *******************SOURCE: thepointernewsonline.com/?p=21531 2 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by ebullientV(m): 6:38am On Jul 11, 2014 |
If i see a Governor/President who'd come out with a one point agenda, promising to stablilize power.. I'd be obliged to vote him in.. In Benin, staying @ d Ugbowo axis of town, is d worse nightmare I guess.. Becos along wt some other zones they've decided 2 ''share''... On a 2hrs on, 4 hours off basis. And they aren't even consistent with it.. 12 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Fatdon(m): 6:38am On Jul 11, 2014 |
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Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Iamoilprince(m): 6:38am On Jul 11, 2014 |
Its moderate.....Hit "LIKE" if ur light supply is moderate 4 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Blockus: 6:39am On Jul 11, 2014 |
Over 3 months and I have only slept with my generator running for like 3 times. The light in Oniru has been amazingly good to say the least. |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by tonididdy(m): 6:39am On Jul 11, 2014 |
dem dey try at night hours and early mornings but its nothing compared to the 22hrs a day we used to enjoy before oct1 2013...it has been worse tho but better now |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Sijo01(f): 6:40am On Jul 11, 2014 |
Pathetic |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Snoggy(m): 6:40am On Jul 11, 2014 |
It got better this week. 16-20hrs a day. I hope it improves. Kogi seems to be doing well in the area of electricity these days. |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Tallesty1(m): 6:41am On Jul 11, 2014 |
IfyAngela: Its worse than it used to be, now electricity is a luxuryMorning dear |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by tonididdy(m): 6:41am On Jul 11, 2014 |
Blockus: Over 3 months and I have only slept with my generator running for like 3 times.if I were u I wouldn't state my location unless u nor like wetin u dey enjoy nw 4 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Tallesty1(m): 6:41am On Jul 11, 2014 |
Snoggy: It got better this week. 16-20hrs a day.Where IN KOGI |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by princeonx: 6:42am On Jul 11, 2014 |
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Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by iiichidodo: 6:42am On Jul 11, 2014 |
The power situation here in Abuja is crazy......20-23 hours with five minute water-breaks especially during thunderstorms.The last time we met a situation like this was at Copenhagen..Crazy times we live in...crazy times. |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by oskaaay(m): 6:42am On Jul 11, 2014 |
CharlesPhc: Got better for about two straight weeks in Port Harcourt but now its very very bad. No power for one straight week now in Woji axis Phc. The period it got better, the diesel vendor threatened we would soon come knocking again and true to their words, we are back knocking even harder this time...!!! What is most annoying is that Gov. Amaechi's commissioner for Power is busy arguing Argentina vs Germany final match in a popular joint in Phc. Funnny oooooooo......wetin man love dey plenty for him talk says a proverb..... While you dey calm with the comment. Check out doctors/nurses jobs opportunity abroad at http://careerpingger.revlisimo.org/jobs-for-nigerian-doctors-and-nurses-in-saudi-and-qatar/ and inform friends...... |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Nobody: 6:43am On Jul 11, 2014 |
Keep Hoping And Smiling. When it comes to disappointment, PHCN are Professionals. 2 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Nobody: 6:43am On Jul 11, 2014 |
First and foremost, I would advise the OP to stop using the development strides in Akwa Ibom as a standard of measuring development in other states. Akwa Ibom seems to gradually leaving Nigerian behind in terms of infracstructural development.... While I was at Akwa Ibom, I resided along the Itu-Calabar highway axis... and power supply came from the Itu axis... Back then we had a 24-7 constant power supply... And last I visited.. The diffrence was'nt much. Here in Abj... The two places I stay I know of aint doing badly either... Where I reside around central area.. The power supply nearly exceeds 24 hours a day... (lol)... Very very very very very steady. While places like lugbe, some parts of maitama, gwagwalada, etc. are not on the complaining side. In summary, there seems to be a wide margin between those enjoying constant power and those who are not. It seems to be a two way thing... Its either you are enjoying steady power supply or not having the power at all. 3 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by skullz: 6:43am On Jul 11, 2014 |
1am - 4am sometimes, but how the fork am I suppose to do anything with it when I'm sleeping. 2 Likes |
Re: Situation Report: Power Supply In Your Area by Deiok(m): 6:44am On Jul 11, 2014 |
They are loadshelding ours here three hours three times a day, which make it 9hours light everyday. |
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