Omooba77:


 https://punchng.com/25000mw-siemens-power-project-begins-q1-2022-fg/

NGpatriot:



I won't say she was asking any kid of genuine question with her condescending and deceptive remarks, the Chancellor is not the head or the representative of Siemens, so why ask her that ignorant question?

Was a Siemens PR person at Siemens HQ in Germany not available to answer her questions or to properly educate her?

The Chancellor even surgested that maybe local content issue is one of the stumbling blocks, so do you know the meaning of local content? The Nigerian government is making sure that Nigerians like you are adequately represented, employed and able to put food on the table.

Igbos are all the same everywhere, they don't miss any opportunity to purvey their hateful and anti Nigeria madness.

She needs to stick to her bigoted biafra essays or STFU.

NGpatriot:



I won't say she was asking any kid of genuine question with her condescending and deceptive remarks, the Chancellor is not the head or the representative of Siemens, so why ask her that ignorant question?

Was a Siemens PR person at Siemens HQ in Germany not available to answer her questions or to properly educate her?

The Chancellor even surgested that maybe local content issue is one of the stumbling blocks, so do you know the meaning of local content? The Nigerian government is making sure that Nigerians like you are adequately represented, employed and able to put food on the table.

Igbos are all the same everywhere, they don't miss any opportunity to purvey their hateful and anti Nigeria madness.

She needs to stick to her bigoted biafra essays or STFU.

DubaiLandLord1:
Do you have an idea when this project will kick off?

NGpatriot:



>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Forwards Question to the FG and Siemens>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

erniok:


She started by saying the German government endorsed it and the chancellor never debunked it. The chancellor is in the picture from her responses and it was not only local content that was part of the problem but also financing like she mentioned. I think chimamda meant well and there was nothing condescending in her attitude.

On the local content issue, if Siemens thinks that their technical team can handle it, best we can do to get them sign a transfer agreement with them supervising after some couple of years.

I think this project got stalled when Abba Kyari died. He knew that there'll be bottlenecks that would delay it and that's why he, not even the minister of power undertook this project.

NGpatriot:



The fact that the German government endorsed the deal doesn't mean she's involved in implementation or the nuts and bolts, and her guessing here and there answers showed that she didn't know much.

Abba Kyari dead or alive can not change or alter the progression or non progression of the project because these are fundamental bottlenecks such projects go through all over the world, eventually, they get resolved.

NGpatriot:



The fact that the German government endorsed the deal doesn't mean she's involved in implementation or the nuts and bolts, and her guessing here and there answers showed that she didn't know much.

Abba Kyari dead or alive can not change or alter the progression or non progression of the project because these are fundamental bottlenecks such projects go through all over the world, eventually, they get resolved.

seanswitch:
Okay

"The power project will have three phases: to take Nigeria’s operational capacity of the grid from less than 5,000MW to 7000MW by 2021; further increase the capacity to 11,000MW by 2023; and achieve total operational generation and national grid capacity to 25,000MW by 2025.

In July 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari approved the payment of €15.21 million and N1.708 billion as counterpart funding for the PPI.

Speaking on the new development, Suleiman said the pre-engineering phase of the project would be completed in 10 months."

“We are not adding any generation capacity but we want to make sure that we fix the dilapidated transmission and distribution networks.

“We are doing the pre-engineering for the distribution network of this country. We have already got a letter of credit from the Federal Government to start it.

“The design is done in our head office. For the transmission scope, we were given initially 11 sites; they have added 22 sites.

“Execution is when you go to sites. But in the next three months, we want to start putting the proposal for phase one together, not when we finish the pre-engineering.

“So, if phase one goes into reality before the end of the current administration, it means we would have been able to move from 4,500MW to 7,000MW.”

COMPAQ:


This is just typical shallow Nigerian news without details.

Can anyone tell me exactly how Siemens plans to get us from our current paltry 4000MW to 7000MW? Is it by providing gas to existing under utilized gas plants? If so, where is the gas magically going to come from? Or do they plan to deploy grid scale solar and wind?

And then how are we to get from 7000MW to 11,000MW and then on the 25,000MW. Even if money were not an impediment, that sort of jump would still be very challenging to pull off, given the so many things that can go wrong with executing a project like this in Nigeria beyond the financial aspects.

As far as I'm concerned this is all just shallow talk, as there is no concrete plan!!

erniok:

I won't respond to your first paragraph because obviously, you are already biased.

The chancellor has limited knowledge of the project I agree.

On your second paragraph, we started hearing of the Siemens project when he was alive, he literally undertook it, the president's CoS and not the power minister, why was this anomaly. Why is it that the bottlenecks has not been strengthened since his demise and Nigerians have not been getting briefs like the railway project.
We all want the good of this nation as we have no other one.

COMPAQ:


This is just typical shallow Nigerian news without details.

Can anyone tell me exactly how Siemens plans to get us from our current paltry 4000MW to 7000MW? Is it by providing gas to existing under utilized gas plants? If so, where is the gas magically going to come from? Or do they plan to deploy grid scale solar and wind?

And then how are we to get from 7000MW to 11,000MW and then on the 25,000MW. Even if money were not an impediment, that sort of jump would still be very challenging to pull off, given the so many things that can go wrong with executing a project like this in Nigeria beyond the financial aspects.

As far as I'm concerned this is all just shallow talk, as there is no concrete plan!!

NGpatriot:



Saying the fact that the German government endorsed the deal doesn't mean she's involved in implementation or the nuts and bolts was biased? You mind explaining that?



I was biased, but you agreed with me? Are you confused?



I still don't get the fixation and obsession with the dead man, the man can not marginally come up with the money to fund the project or eradicate Nigeria's local content policy or even any of the challenges the Chancellor listed.

Btw, there was nothing anomaly per the man as the President's envoy piloting our engagement regarding this project unless you are ready to list what the so-called power minister could have done differently? Or you mean the power minister can come up with the money or eradicate our local content policy? Exactly what?

Stop looking for boogeymen and angles where there are none, this is a reflection of your own bias..

erniok:

Don't know how to separate and respond point by point like you did hope you wouldn't mind if my response is all lumped up.

My saying you are biases is your first post that she was condescending and I had to watch the video thrice and couldn't see that. You obviously attacked her because of her tribe which was petty.

You said earlier that Abba either dead or alive wouldn't have made a difference and I beg to disagree and I stated why earlier.

It's strange you think it's not an anomaly that the CoS was that one taking that responsibility and not the minister of power. Why then do we have such government portfolio? For fun sake? Why is Amechi pushing the one of rail and not the CoS?

Seniorwriter:
Election votes securing tactics! SMH

We need to vote in young visionary leaders come 2023 not these charlatans parading themselves in our political space.


Lolz...exactly my thoughts.

Pinned.
@Seniorwriter

NGpatriot:



You are right and it was not petty, it was based on her tribal sentiments, tribal posture, writings and anti Nigeria sentiments.

Her question was posed to the wrong person and at the wrong event, it was full of silly and pathetic insinuations and repetition of we were told this and that, we were told this and that.
The rest of your post is the same misguided and irrelevant talk.

You can not even explain to us as asked to state categorically what the power minister would have done differently, was it to come up with the funds or erase our local content policy because of the project.

You are not making any sense, sorry to say.

NGpatriot:



The ipob woman don turn to energy expart?

Abi her tribal and biafra stories no dey sell anymore..?

Amalekki:
Thunder faya Obasanjo and Atiku

COMPAQ:


This is just typical shallow Nigerian news without details.

Can anyone tell me exactly how Siemens plans to get us from our current paltry 4000MW to 7000MW? Is it by providing gas to existing under utilized gas plants? If so, where is the gas magically going to come from? Or do they plan to deploy grid scale solar and wind?

And then how are we to get from 7000MW to 11,000MW and then on the 25,000MW. Even if money were not an impediment, that sort of jump would still be very challenging to pull off, given the so many things that can go wrong with executing a project like this in Nigeria beyond the financial aspects.

As far as I'm concerned this is all just shallow talk, as there is no concrete plan!!

franciskaine:
a country dat has nothing to offer talking of 50% local content. Why not let the Germans do their work and dis will automatically transcend into meaningful devt dat will grow the so-called local content. Whr they are to emphasize local content they wud not. Looking for way to initiate corruption into the whole deal.

NGpatriot:



Investments are supposed to create jobs, so of what relevance is a $25 billion investments and largely construction jobs without jobs for Nigerians?

Local content means giving Nigerians the opportunity to secure jobs and provide services, not to loot money that can not be looted since the money is not ours to loot, it's their money, and it's tied to the project, they budget, spend and audit their own money, we have nothing to do with it.

Must you ignorant people always fight against your own interests and benefits?

This is why some of you unpatriotic, low self-esteem and self-destructive people are not worth fighting for?