yuncka: Dis our Minister for Power nose no b here o. Dat nose should b able to generate over 10,000megawatts of electricity.

Gadammit

chamboy: Can u imagine, a helping hand from Ghana; Ghana of (Ghana must Go)

There's nothing shameful about Ghana helping Nigeria out in the area of electricity. It's a temporary measure. Besides Economic cooperation between African countries is far better than developed countries.
For starters, Nigeria will needs over $50 billion to invest in the power sector to generate more than enough electricity, and you and I know that there's no way Nigeria can afford that kind of huge amount.

deeobserver209:
There's nothing shameful about Ghana helping Nigeria out in the area of electricity. It's a temporary measure. Besides Economic cooperation between African countries is far better than developed countries.
For starters, Nigeria will needs over $50 billion to invest in the power sector to generate more than enough electricity, and you and I know that there's no way Nigeria can afford that kind of huge amount.

Do you know how Russia threatens to shut down the gas supply into Europe thats whats going to happen every now and then..

over $300bn wasted on nothing... over the last 30 years

It can never happen

@OP, this is a shame. I pity Ghana because of the kind of corruption Nigerian Government would bring into their system. They won't have 24/7 power supply pretty soon :-)

If the OMO-IBOS will allow. From Alaba Market to Onitsha. Oh Lord, let thy kingdom come

ayindejimmy:
http://www.punchng.com/news/ghana-plans-to-export-electricity-to-nigeria/

What an errant troll of rubbish journalism !!!! ghana whose electricity is rationed by 6pm and villages and suburbs are left in the dark.



ghana whose electricty is powered by gas from Nigeria and whose power generation has been epileptic since 2011 WANTS TO BORROW MONEY FROM CHINA AND ABU DHABI TO distribute electricty to Nigeria.

I thought it's only individuals that needs deliverance. Now I know countries(ghana) do(es)

IloveGH:
And the bolded comment coming from a Yoruba guy whose people even dark pass South Sudanese.... shymexx there is God oo

Lmao.

Chale, I'll give you pass cos Adjoa and her big batty just text me.

Orina: [s]This idiot president talks too much when ghana is in darkness you talking about other countries[/s], common cholera has killed nearly 3000 people this year alone in ghana (not ebola o) save your country first, bigot!

Orina:
true, most people who haven't been in ghana
before will believe their talk talk president, ghana
has a capacity of 2856MW planning to make it
5000MW by 2017 when nigeria already produce
4000MW. They have been struggling to produce
their own gas for years, even if the gas come on
stream they still need to buy Nigerian gas they
don't even have money to build power plants the
$3bn chinese loan didn't work out just common
$3bn o,
Nigeria in China, Seeks $3bn for Agric, Rail, Airport Projects. Source: http:// www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigeria-in-china-seeks-3bn-for-agric-rail-airport-projects/109828/
cholera already killed 3000 in ghana (not
ebola o cus some of you will think i am talking
about ebola) Nigerians that haven't been to
ghana before will always think that place is
heaven lol when the only city there is accra (just
like the size of benin city) their president talks
too much he should help his dead country before
helping others, Lagos alone needs about
15,000MW and ghana does not produce half of
that right now[/s]
NIGERIA: Cholera outbreak kills 97 in north
Source:http:// m.irinnews.org/report/80531/nigeria-cholera-outbreak-kills-97-in-north
Cholera kills more than
1,500 people in Nigeria Source: http:// www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/26/cholera-nigeria-floods-outbreak-disease

channels TV:
Nigeria overtakes Somalia to be the only country in Africa with Polio

The World Health Organisation has identified
Nigeria as the country with the highest figure of
poliomyelitis cases in the world.
The World Health Organisation Country
Representative in Nigeria, Dr. David Okello,
disclosed this in Lagos on Saturday, at the
installation ceremony of the new District
Governor of Rotary International District 9110,
Dr. Kamoru Omotosho, for 2012-2013.
Okello, who noted that Nigeria was ranked
alongside two other countries, Pakistan and
Afghanistan, which are still grappling with the
problem.
According to him, “Indeed Nigeria is now the
largest contributor of global polio burden -nearly
60 per cent. Nigeria is also the only country in
the world to have all three types of polio virus —
Type 1, Type 3, and circulating vaccine-derived
Type 2 viruses."
He explained that the transmission of the
disease in Nigeria poses a real threat to the
global polio eradication effort.
Giving further statistics, he stated that of the 49
cases reported in the country currently, “two-
thirds are from four particular sanctuaries — the
northern states of Borno, Kano, Sokoto and
Zamfara.”
He, however, commended the concerted efforts
of Rotarians worldwide at eradicating the
disease as well as committing their expertise
and resources to improving the welfare of
communities.
http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/07/08/
nigeria-is-the-worst-hit-polio-nation-who/

ibrews: Thanks Satan(Ghana)

This is a typical Nigerian cretinous person!

/
No biggie!

They are only planning.

Talk is cheap!

No be through PHCN e go pass? The guy toggling the switch is still alive.

\

What! Export power to us, generated from the gas we exported to them

BBC:Blackouts and rising energy costs hit Ghanaian business[size=14pt][/size]

13 June 2014 Last updated at 12:00 BST
Ghana is experiencing an energy crisis.
Daily blackouts and the rising cost of electricity have had a damaging effect on business and on the economy as a whole.
Suzanne Vanhooymissen reports from the oil city of Takoradi, in western Ghana.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27831040

kjhova: If Ghana carve a niche for themselves in electricity generation to the point of exporting same to Nigeria or any other country, there is no reason for anyone to be ashamed. This is how international trade relations work.

Any nation who insists on providing everything for itself can only go down. The largest oil refining centre in the EU is Holland, & bigger oil producing nations like UK also buy a large percentage of domestic requirement from Holland!

Nigeria requires about 150,000MW (i.e. 150GW) of electricity generation for our supply to match S/Africa's. From our current 4GW (2.7% of optimal requirement), we shouldn't be too ashamed to source for energy from any available source pending when our licensed companies are able to bridge the gap.

Ghana herself require up to 20GW of electricity production to meet BRICS standards & only currently have capacity of 3GW (15%) max.

Decisions to import or export or co-produce energy items are strictly economic rather than on the basis of infantile nationalism of the Idi Amin Dada mindset.

Well said.

yuncka: Dis our Minister for Power nose no b here o. Dat nose should b able to generate over 10,000megawatts of electricity.

yuncka: Dis our Minister for Power nose no b here o. Dat nose should b able to generate over 10,000megawatts of electricity.

...falls off chair laffing

Nobleval: badt guy

sauceny: What sort of insult is this,i guess this a joke...

Man this is no joke!!! Shameless Nigeria!!!

that can't be possible, do you know the distance from Accra to Badagry, again the amount of money you spend shipping Electricity from Ghana to Nigeria is good enough to get the nation's electricity running

[size=15pt]Investigating Ghana's energy crisis --BBC[/size]
Ghana's energy crisis began last August - and continues today, with estimates that it could cost the country's economy millions of dollars.

As the winner of the BBC's NewsMaker competition - I am more usually a teaching assistant at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology - I wanted to investigate the cause and effect of the energy problem.

It has been attributed mainly to the dwindling water levels in the Volta Lake at Ghana's only hydroelectric plant, Akosombo Hydro.

However, the obsolete and poorly-maintained equipment, used for generations, and the distribution of electrical power in the country, could also be blamed. The country continues to suffer from frequent power cuts.

Recent research by Data Bank, one of Ghana's leading financial providers, suggests the country could lose up to $1.4 billion by the end of the year if the situation does not improve soon.

And Ghana's National Labour Department statistics show that about 33 companies filed for insolvency between September 2006 and March 2007 and over 2,300 workers have lost their jobs.

Bitter complaints

While the power crisis cannot be directly accountable for these figures, no-one would argue that it is not a contributing factor.

Families are also feeling the impact - going through financial crisis due to the laying off of workers. Some told me they are being torn apart, the education of their children being affected as they struggle to pay school fees.

new mother Tonye Amedume and baby Seshie
Families say the energy crisis is making their lives uncomfortable
The people I spoke to in the capital Accra are fed up with the situation, and the youth in particular are losing confidence in the government's ability to solve the problem.

They say nobody knows who and what to believe anymore.

On the streets, they complain bitterly. I was told quite simply that life was uncomfortable with the unreliable power supply.

Desperation and confusion can be felt among people and businesses in Ghana - which is really bad news for the country which is seen to be the beacon of Africa.

Ghana's Deputy Energy Minister KT Hammond told me he sympathised, and assured the public that the government had the situation firmly under control. He said it had put in ardent measures to solve the problem.

And Deputy Information Minister Oboshie Sai recently told Ghanaians that the energy crisis would be over by 30 September this year.

But this is not the first time a government official has put out a date by which the power crisis should cease. The government continues to do its best to allay fears and offers assurances that it is trying its hardest.

But many question whether its best enough to end the discomfort of the people of Ghana?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6692605.stm

Dunno if am right.
Are we not the one sharing them electricity. Why is dat there plans is to import electricity?.

[size=15pt]Current energy crisis is the most badly handled in Ghana's history- Minority[/size]

The Minority in Parliament says President John Dramani Mahama and his NDC government must be blamed for the current energy crisis being experienced by Ghanaians, describing it as the most badly handled in the country’s history.

According to the group, the crisis was not caused by low levels of water in the Akosombo Dam which has been the usual cause of energy crisis, but that it was caused by shortage of gas and financial difficulties of the VRA which makes it difficult to procure the right quantities of crude oil and diesel to bring all their Plants into operation.

The Minority asserted that these factors are within the government’s control and we should not allowed to bring the level of energy crisis ongoing now.

Addressing the Press on the Minority’s version of the State of Nation, the Minority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu noted that gas is cheaper than light crude but if ones source of gas applied is not secure what is important is to improve on the liquidity of VRA to produce the alternative light crude oil.

He said the NPP government use to support the VRA to procure light crude oil about 40 million dollars every month, but this support was withdrawn by the NDC government, adding that this in addition to about 400 million dollars of governments indebtedness to VRA has crippled the company and made it difficult to procure these fuels for power generation.

“The President has failed to solve this problem and is rather promising additional new generation capacity. The new generation capacity they are promising were started by the NPP government namely Takoradi-3 Thermal Plant and Bui- Hydro project which together will add about 532 MW of generation capacity” he said.

The Minority Leader, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu noted that before the NPP left government in 2008, three other generation projects were either completed or advanced – the Tema 1 Thermaol Plant (126 MW), Tema 2 Thermal Plant (50 MW) and Kpone Thermal Plant (230 MW) which was 20% completed.
Other private initiatives were supported by the NPP government –Asogli (200MW), Osonor (cent 126 MW) and TEN power (330 MW) Thermal Project.

He asserted that but for these initiatives the prices would have been worse, and challenge to the NDC to tell Ghanaians what new investments they have initiated since they came to power in 2009, adding that what is known to Ghanaians is the 2 Megawatts solar power plant in Navrongo

http://www.ghanamps.gov.gh/news-events/details.php?id=2867

A country with foresight, that the only thing Nigeria needs, it will boast our economy, nd increase employment.

lobatan !!! when will my country wake up to reality , Ghana that relies on US for power now thinking and planning to distribute power back to US

bushdoc9919: Nuclear energy, nuclear energy, nuclear energy, nuclear energy.......the future of energy

Nuclear energy in a third world country is a joke and monumental tragedy waiting to happen.

BankuTilapia2:

Son of a cheap prostitute n a stray dog, we already export electricity to some of our neighbouring countries. You nigerians r too dementedddd to reason. Its a curse to be a nigerian n a human tragedy. God was not in a good mood wen He was creating you savages.

This is actually very funny, charcoal black banku and tilapia. Loool. And I just had a plate of banku and tilapia but ended up throwing up due to food poisoning. Ain't that a biitch?

Anyway, I ain't mad at fufu riddim as long as I can take the anger out on Adjoa's batty, and smash it to smithereens like a smelly fufu Ghanaian midget will never do.

facts and figure about Ghana power. According to Volta river Authority which is ghana formost energy coy, http://www.vraghana.com/resources/facts.php

the total energy production in ghana is summarised below.

where as Nigeria's Mambilla 3050MW hydroelectric power plant currently under construction in Taraba state by china sinohydro http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fg-approves-1-72-bn-counterpart-funding-for-hydro-dams/149335/ alone has higher installed capacity for electricity generation than all the power plants in the whole of Ghana