The Federal Government is holding discussions with a consortium comprising Nigerian and Chinese companies, with a view to selling the Olorunsogo and Omotosho power stations under a buyout deal.

Sources close to the deal told our correspondent on Wednesday that the government settled for this option because it was becoming difficult for workers of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria to successfully run the plants.

“The plants have been shut down several times because the operating manuals of the stations are written in Chinese and the PHCN workers have been encountering difficulties in running the plants. So, the government thinks it will be better to sell them to the Chinese contractors, who installed the machines,” the top government source said.



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Hahahahahaha . . . are you serious?

Nigeria! what kind of stupendious act is this

Irrelevant excuse. Can't it be translated to english, yoruba, hausa, igbo, ibibio, itshikiri, etc

Irrelevant excuse. Can't it be translated to english, yoruba, hausa, igbo, ibibio, itshikiri, etc

very funny but who signed the MOU in the first instance ?

Dis people dnt ve shame anymore. Last time the ban on importation of tooth picks & co was lifted & thier reason 4dng so was that the items still find there way in2 nigeria & nearby countries gets d revenue generated instead of Nigeria, stupid excuses here and there. Clueless bunch of unfit retards

I could remember being at a meeting with the Former Minister of Power Liyel Imoke (Now Gov of Cross river) in 2005 where he raised the same question and he was promised that the situation will be rectified by the Chinese OEM before the completion of the plant.
It seems like a strategy and deception by the Chinese to run the power plant by signing an LTSA (Long Term Service Agreement) with FG on completion.
Imoke also complained that he was being asked to approve the deployment of extra 300 Chinese expartriates and he wondered what they are coming to do in a single power plant when we have Nigerian Engineers.
Those who signed that contract should be questioned for incuring losses to the country.
Its unfortunate that the parts in the turbines do not have serial numbers making it difficult to replace.

The Chinese contractor claimed initially that the equipment was totally from General Electrics (Belfort and Schnectady USA) but the ended up supplying turbines made in Nanjing China with GE logo and when asked GE USA claimed that GE Nanjing is their subsidary and they are allowed to use Chinese manuals based on area of operation.

The reality of the situation is that GE USA and GE Nanjing entered into a partnership where GE USA supplies some key parts, while the other major components are manufactured by GE Nanjing in China.Its realy a complicated situation in Olorunshogo that arose due to poor initial contract evaluation process and insincerity of the Chinese Govt who insisted that the project must be awarded to a Chinese company based on the counterpart funding agreement with the FGN (Chinese Govt provided 30% of the funding). It also shows that foreign aid or counterpart funding to Africa is a falacy. No free lunch in London,

this is very sad indeed

now how much will the FG sell the power stations?

how much was the cost of the power station

how much have the lost to there stupidi.ty

how can they recover the money back by may be by getting a translator

or by doing the same to another country yahoo yahoo

Guyman02:

I could remember being at a meeting with the Former Minister of Power Liyel Imoke (Now Gov of Cross river) in 2005 where he raised the same question and he was promised that the situation will be rectified by the Chinese OEM before the completion of the plant.
It seems like a strategy and deception by the Chinese to run the power plant by signing an LTSA (Long Term Service Agreement) with FG on completion.
Imoke also complained that he was being asked to approve the deployment of extra 300 Chinese expartriates and he wondered what they are coming to do in a single power plant when we have Nigerian Engineers.
Those who signed that contract should be questioned for incuring losses to the country.
Its unfortunate that the parts in the turbines do not have serial numbers making it difficult to replace.

The Chinese contractor claimed initially that the equipment was totally from General Electrics (Belfort and Schnectady USA) but the ended up supplying turbines made in Nanjing China with GE logo and when asked GE USA claimed that GE Nanjing is their subsidary and they are allowed to use Chinese manuals based on area of operation.

The reality of the situation is that GE USA and GE Nanjing entered into a partnership where GE USA supplies some key parts, while the other major components are manufactured by GE Nanjing in China.Its realy a complicated situation in Olorunshogo that arose due to poor initial contract evaluation process and insincerity of the Chinese Govt who insisted that the project must be awarded to a Chinese company based on the counterpart funding agreement with the FGN (Chinese Govt provided 30% of the funding). It also shows that foreign aid or counterpart funding to Africa is a falacy. No free lunch in London,

sorry you mean, the minister was complaining? who was he complaining to?

so the promise was never fulfilled and he went ahead to pay them right?

Guyman02:

I could remember being at a meeting with the Former Minister of Power Liyel Imoke (Now Gov of Cross river) in 2005 where he raised the same question and he was promised that the situation will be rectified by the Chinese OEM before the completion of the plant.
It seems like a strategy and deception by the Chinese to run the power plant by signing an LTSA (Long Term Service Agreement) with FG on completion.
Imoke also complained that he was being asked to approve the deployment of extra 300 Chinese expartriates and he wondered what they are coming to do in a single power plant when we have Nigerian Engineers.
Those who signed that contract should be questioned for incuring losses to the country.
Its unfortunate that the parts in the turbines do not have serial numbers making it difficult to replace.

The Chinese contractor claimed initially that the equipment was totally from General Electrics (Belfort and Schnectady USA) but the ended up supplying turbines made in Nanjing China with GE logo and when asked GE USA claimed that GE Nanjing is their subsidary and they are allowed to use Chinese manuals based on area of operation.

The reality of the situation is that GE USA and GE Nanjing entered into a partnership where GE USA supplies some key parts, while the other major components are manufactured by GE Nanjing in China.Its realy a complicated situation in Olorunshogo that arose due to poor initial contract evaluation process and insincerity of the Chinese Govt who insisted that the project must be awarded to a Chinese company based on the counterpart funding agreement with the FGN (Chinese Govt provided 30% of the funding). It also shows that foreign aid or counterpart funding to Africa is a falacy. No free lunch in London,

My guy, do not attempt to rationalize off the incompetence of a Minister.

Even common using google by an administrative clerk would have the entire manual translated to English in less than a week! Or what happens to us getting one of the Nigerians in the Chinese Embassies that speaks and write Chinese to translate the manuals.

This only shows that this government is inept and would cook up any stories to justify a foolish act.

And when you buy a HP laptop, the fact that the parts inside are made in China does that mean the laptop is fake or is sub-standard because HP is registered as a US company? Quit the high horse and accept that the Minister was grossly incompetent.

I don't believe this article. No human or government can be so senseless.

And we sadly have such a twisted education policy that is unable to incorporate Chinese into our national curriculum.

Why do we even have an embassy in China if translation is such a bother?!

F. G!!!, pls put this plan on hold, i am heading to china just to learn their language, i'll be right back to serve as the minister of translation, power and steel,