Demburrows: I don't think so. The system just went through privatisation u can't expect them to do magic so soon. Right now the sector is undergoing some restructuring of which you and I known there is a lot of decays, with that u can't expect them to give you 24/7 electricity while work is going on, Nigerians should give them some time. The only challenges they facing are those sabotaging their efforts which are perceived to be from some oppositions.

jmaine: It has been a sad and a complex tale of a very good proposal bedeviled by poor implementation, economic sabotage by direct factors i.e gas pipeline sabotage and indirect factors i.e politics cropping into the implementation phase e,g Yar Adua stalling the progress of the power plants projects until his demise.

voltron:

Are these "Restructuring" moves alien in nature? how come NERC is unable to detail a road-map that we can adjudge as sustainable.. all these things about promising so and so megawatts by the end of the year is based on something naa.. the only infrastructure we see so far is "Bill Collection" .. no new distribution framework, no new generation infrastructure .. no visible effort on stabilizing the failing ones or utilizing our enormous Natural Gas Supplies for anything.. you cannot continue to lie and hide information for too long

Ridiculous Projections

It is disgusting that rather than finding lasting solution to the long running problems bedeviling the Nigerian Electricity sector, those charged with the responsibility of supervising the sector have chosen to be setting unrealistic targets.

The situation is getting messier as hardly any month passes without officials making conflicting projections of electricity targets. The worst culprits are the Minister of State for Power, Hajia Zainab Kuchi, and the PTFP Chair, Dagogo-Jack.

Addressing the Senate Committee on Power on May 23, the junior minister had projected that power generation would increase to 6,000MW in July (this month) and rise further to 10,000MW by December this year. But exactly one month after the junior minister made her projections before the committee of the upper legislative chamber, power generation has in fact dropped to below 3,000mw.

Briefing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) on its scorecard last week, Kuchi, again announced that the 10,000MW target, which she mentioned a month earlier, would be attained by the end of December 2014 and not the 2013 she announced in May.

[b]The minister, who was led by her boss, Nebo, added that with the increase in power generation, Nigerians would experience 17 to 18 hours of daily power supply in the country.

She said: “With all the other NIPPs coming up and to be commissioned by December 2013, we look forward to 10,000 megawatts come December 2014”.

She continued: “This is what we are working towards. If we succeed in making it more than that we will be very happy. But we are focused on actually delivering 10,000 MW by 2014. And this by our calculations and data we have on ground we will give at least between 17 and 18 hours of power supply to Nigerians. The 24 hours power supply will happen but we are working steadily towards that.”

Kuchi’s projection came less than two weeks after Vice President Namadi Sambo forecasted that power generation would rise to 20,000MW before the end of 2014.

Also, Dagogo-Jack had last November, two months after he assumed office as PTFP Chair, announced that electricity generation, which stood at 4,000MW, would rise to 10,253MW this year, to hit an all-time high of 16,000mw by 2015. He made the disclosure at the West African Power Industry Convention (WAPIC), which held in Lagos.

The power task force chairman had also disclosed that government had spent about $3.8 billion on the rehabilitation of some power plants, while “$175 million had been expended on gas infrastructure upgrade.

At another forum, a month after, Dagogo-Jack had announced that electricity generation had hit a new peak of 4,349.7MW and pledged that the authorities in the power sector were working hard to surpass it. He added that the authorities hoped to generate 6,873MW of electricity by the end of 2013.

“This is very exciting and cheering news. To be clear, we are not surprised as we are fully focused as a team to prove to Nigerians that this government is serious about power and in spite of all the challenges on the way, power will grow from level to level as we progress. I assure you that the best is yet to come”, Dagogo-Jack said authoritatively.

Similarly, Nebo recently announced to electricity-starved Nigerians that by the end of 2013, the country’s power generation would rise to between 7,000MW and 10,000MW.

The power minister also disclosed that Chinese investors were planning to build power plants in Nigeria to the tune of 20,000MW, but that the government was still studying the model.

Nebo also hinted that his ministry was collaborating with the NNPC to ensure a good plan to utilise the gas flaring that was causing problems to the environment for power generation.

Setting unrealistic targets has been the practice in the power sector in recent years. The government had, in 2007 and 2009, failed to deliver on its target to generate 10,000mw, 6,000mw and 10,000 respectively. Also, timelines for completion of various power projects, some of which had been under construction for almost a decade, had never been met.

Chairman of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Dr. Sam Amadi, had also corroborated the ‘targeted 7,000MW’ by December this year. He also added that the government was determined to ensure that by 2014, the country would be able to provide 14,000MW of electricity.[/b]

jmaine: It has been a sad and a complex tale of a very good proposal bedeviled by poor implementation, economic sabotage by direct factors i.e gas pipeline sabotage and indirect factors i.e politics cropping into the implementation phase e,g Yar Adua stalling the progress of the power plants projects until his demise.

aresa:

Are you saying these are the reasons why we have nothing to show for $16 billion and failed efforts?

aresa:

Are you saying these are the reason we have nothing to show N5.6bn pipeline protection contracts given to militants and terrorists?

aresa:

Are you saying politics within the ruling party is the reason why we have nothing to show for $16 billion and N5.6bn pipeline contracts awarded to militants and terrorists?

aresa:
You always have so much to say and so much vigor and energy when going after other people especially the likes of Fashola and your perceived opposition, but when it comes to your beloved PDP and FG, you all of a sudden become timid, minimal and lackluster with excused and tares utterances.

aresa:

I don't see any other reason why you do this but politics, incompetence, deception and affinity love of status quo..

jmaine:


You don't have citizens going out deliberately to destroy gas pipelines laid handsomely with huge tax payers money simply because a pipeline protection contract that has expired was given to a repentant militant.

I detest hypocrisy and i won't fail to ram in on those who try to mask their hypocritical tendency all in the name of having a say. So if Fash-Ole decides to tow that line, then he is not spared.

Not suprising this is coming from a dude who sees absolutely no fault in the same APC and Fasho-Ole, but won't cease to bore us with lengthy and verbose posts when the PDP is involved.

C0llynzO2: Thanks to a Yoruba man called Obasanjo.
Yorubas, in conjuction with their northern slave masters are behind everything that isn't working in Nigeria.

masseratti: yes thanks to the yoruba man called Obasanjo who was voted in by northerners,Igbos.

aresa:
Deliberately or not, they were given the contracts to protect the pipelines regardless who's responsible for the acts so so that was lame. When you spend money to fix a problem, you should expect results, not same same and excuses for incompetence and doing nothing.

aresa:

What responsible government put's it's bread and butter and economic survival in the hands of militants and terrorists responsible for the problem in the first place instead of technology and professionals?

Nigeria is the only major and global oil producing Nation running a corrupt, crude and rudimentary system where something so major and very economic rests in the hands of terrorists and militants.

Who does that? And you wonder why the system is still broken and Nigerians still suffer the effects in terms of poor electricity supply.

aresa:

You detest hypocrisy, but you go on and on with excuses and justification about why we have poor electricity supply all the way to pipeline vandalization and sabotage, but you refused to offer any sane or rational consideration when it comes to other entities, in your view they are just thieves and all the colorful and derogatory labels.

aresa:

Don't you not think water mains vandalization in Lagos is a valid excuse too?

aresa:

Do you not think the power your FG failed to supply affects water generation and distribution?

aresa:


You don't think poor planing and overpopulation are critical factors and challenges worsening their water situation in Lagos too?

aresa:

Do you see me making such excuses or justification even though we both know these are valid excuses?

aresa:

No I did not, I even went out of my way to agree with you so who is the hypocrite here? Do you not see your obvious hypocrisy and defense for the indefensible?

Who are you talking about? Are you confusing me with whatever dud you are talking about?

Didn't I agree with everything you and what you said about Fashola?

aresa:
Unlike you, I don't do hypocrisy or come up with excuses to defend the indefensible all in the name of politics...

You are full of intentional hypocrisy and deception all in the name of politics..

jmaine:

Bollocks, no amount of policing will stop a pack of people dedicated to sabotage a pipeline spanning hundreds of Kilometers. Moreso the recent surge of vandalism coincides with the contract expiration you are hammering on.

And i asked who are these terrorists you keep mentioning.

What you call excuses are unassailable facts. hypocrisy is when you seek to pontificate on what you are equally guilty of.

Only functioning infrastructure can be vandalized. Total lack of it can never beget such excuse. Try again dude

If such was the case, majority of Lagos will be seeing glimpses of such and not the total lack of such we have. So try again later.

Valid reason and excuse. If Fash-Ole and the general AD/AC/ACN and now APC can't surmount such challenges in his little niche (Lagos). [b]Why is he then exuding such false confidence of tackling a much bigger problem in the complex ecosystem level Nigeria

Only one was valid while the rest were mere attempt at nothing.

I saw through your pointless and patronizing sarcasm and i didn't buy them.

You simply proved or said nothing to dispel the fact that a Fashola was hypocritically silly to be gloating over a situation he hasn't surmounted in his own small capacity as a governor.

aresa:

Asking and giving non professionals, militants and terrorists billions of dollars to protect your vital economic interest is not policing, it's irresponsible and if I might add, foolishness and recklessness..

And you can not intelligently say if can't be stopped since you are yet to allow qualified professional and technology do the job.

aresa:

The people your FG billions in pipeline protection contract to.

aresa:


Lack of power supply affects water delivery

aresa:

Water pipe vandalization affects water delivery

Illegal water tapping and diversion affects water delivery

So, why is pipeline vandalization a valid excuse for lack of power supply and not a valid reason why there are water challenges in Lagos?

aresa:

So, why is pipeline vandalization a valid excuse for lack of power supply and not a valid reason why there are water challenges in Lagos?

aresa:

See your laughable hypocrisy?

aresa:

Very idiotic and unintelligent assertion unless you are saying every single water pipe in Lagos generates zero drop of water.

aresa:

Again, very idiotic and unintelligent assertion unless you are saying every single water pipe in Lagos generates zero drop of water.

Fact remains that lack of power your FG failed to supply affects water delivery.

aresa:

Fashola's false confidence really can not be the reason for FG incompetency and $16 billion down the drain can not be the reason why we don't have stable electricity so it doesn't matter how you dribble yourself or distract yourself

aresa:

What others are not valid? And even admitting that any is valid betrays your disjointed assertions.

aresa:

I don't do hypocrisy and I'm not like you, I don't make needless excuses even though there are a lot to point out as highlighted by me.

On the other hand, hypocrisy is saying pipeline vandalization affects power supply while at the same time refusing to admit that the same vandalization challenges and lack of power affects water supply in Lagos.

aresa:

I started this thread just to highlight your hypocrisy and it's all here for the world to see...

jmaine:

Yes, just like the qualified professionals in the American army with immense tech advancement who couldn't locate the Chibok girls after much media blitz and brouhaha.

Nonsense.

jmaine:


Nonsense, if the case was power, most residents would have been complaining about erratic water supply and "NOT THE COMPLETE LACK OF IT"

jmaine:

Apart for the population density factor you mentioned, the rest of your point is still as useless as they were. You should be glad you came out with a point regardless of your showings here.

aresa:


1. We are talking about pipeline protection and giving money to militants and terrorists, not kidnapping and rescuing kidnapped school girls.

2. American army are not pipeline professionals and they don't protect pipelines and if I might add, your government did not give them money or empty them to protect your pipelines.

You argue like a 2 year old. You really are very very unintelligent, you are very very ignorant, pedestrian and thoughtless.

aresa:

Are you saying every water tap in Lagos is completely dry? Yes or No?


You are now sounding very very reetarded.

jmaine:
Another empty shot devoid of basic deductive skills. A minor percentage of the populace is enjoying water supply courtesy the "Functional pipeline infrastructrure", while the overwhelming majority don't simply because the infrastructure to do so is starkly moribund on non existent.

jmaine:

Listen to me dunce, all i did in simple terms is to nullify your endless rants that deploying presumed professionals with tech advancement always leads to result.

aresa:


You mean water mains vandalization and illegal water tapping doesn't affect water supply?


Are you really dumb or just playing dumb?

jmaine:
Again, only a functional infrastructure will attract your lame excuses. Most areas do not even see a drop of water and here you are rambling to no where about water pipeline vandals.

jmaine:
A minor percentage of the populace is enjoying water supply courtesy the "Functional pipeline infrastructure", while the overwhelming majority don't simply because the infrastructure to do so is starkly moribund or non existent.

aresa:

You nullified me asking why professionals are not hired to protect the pipelines with American Army not locating missing school girls? Is this even the job of the American Army? Are they responsible for your life and safety in Nigeria.

And didn't your military announced to the world that they've located the girls?

I know you are dumb and ignorant so please stop trying too hard to prove it.

jmaine:

You are such a fool , please see below for further proof of your stark idiocy . . . .



I hope the ediots reads the above slowly and understands the content therein.

jmaine:

If such was the case, majority of Lagos will be seeing glimpses of such and not the total lack of such we have. So try again later.

jmaine:
Another empty shot devoid of basic deductive skills. A minor percentage of the populace is enjoying water supply courtesy the "Functional pipeline infrastructrure", while the overwhelming majority don't simply because the infrastructure to do so is starkly moribund on non existent.

jmaine:

Another useless repetition. You were the fool who brought professionalism and tech into play here and all i did was to show you how the professionalism and tech of the American Army paid off here with the Chibok saga.

Your brains are in my palm and am enjoying the way am tossing it all around.

aresa:

How do you in one breath sat total lack of it and in another breath say minor percentage enjoy water supply?

Do you not know the difference between minor and total lack of it?

aresa:
[s]From the above quotes with the different lies and assertions that you can not keep up with because you are too dumb and reetarded to keep up with your usual rubbish, are you not the iidot and even morron?
Again, I know you are dumb and reetarded, but you don't have to keep trying too hard to prove it[/s].

aresa:

[s]So, professionals in the pipeline protection business = American Army and chibok school girls?

Is the American Army a pipeline protection organization?

Only dumb and reetarded people like you make dumb, illogical and insane analogies..

[/s]

jmaine:

I knew you were always dull, and you did a great disservice to engage me personally, let us proceed.

In a sample population of 100%, with a populace of barely 40% having access to some hours of water supply while the overwhelming majority of roughly 60% has none.

In clear terms. 60% of the populace has total lack of it while the 40% minority enjoy some form of supply.

jmaine:

If such was the case, majority of Lagos will be seeing glimpses of such and not the total lack of such we have. So try again later.

jmaine:
Another empty shot devoid of basic deductive skills. A minor percentage of the populace is enjoying water supply courtesy the "Functional pipeline infrastructrure", while the overwhelming majority don't simply because the infrastructure to do so is starkly moribund on non existent.

aresa:

[s]Definition of total in English


1. Comprising the whole number or amount

2. Complete. absolute

oxforddictionaries


So please tell us how total or absolute = %40


When you lie and spew rubbish, please keep up with your lies and rubbish so you don't clown yourself and fall all over your own lies and rubbish.[/s]

jmaine:
I knew you were always dull, and you did a great disservice to engage me personally, let us proceed.

In a sample population of 100%, with a populace of barely 40% having access to some hours of water supply while the overwhelming majority of roughly 60% has none.

In clear terms. 60% of the populace has total lack of it while the 40% minority enjoy some form of supply.

How can one be so publicly daft and confident at the same time.

Your showings here are pathetic and heart wrenching. Lolz . . . .

Give it up dude, you got served. You analytical skills is way below what i expected of an adversary who called me out . . . .