24 Hours Electricity In Rivers State?

Is there constant power in Rivers State now?
Any improvement since the commissioning of the independent power state at Omoku?
Is it still another lie in the catalog of lies?
Anyone lives in Rivers?

     

Most parts of Port Harcourt are in a state of permanent darkness - Mgbuoba is a classic example, not to talk of other places like Choba, Diobu, GRA phase I - IV.

The EFCC SHOULD PUT HIM IN Jail.

hear odili is the owner of afrik air line bt am not sure hw true it is,so all our leaders are thieves no exception.

Odili na big time barawo.Thank God he didnt win u know.

incidentally i just came into PH when the Omoku project was been commisisoned. There was a lot of frenzy, we had no light for 5 days, because according to them they are transiting from NEPA to Omoku. After the commisioning, Light was back, but i must confess that it has been ok in my part of PH (Woji), but a greater percentage of people in woji area without contant electricty, less than 10hours daily!!!
I hear the whole Omoku thing was a charade!!!
i have been in PH for 4 weeks now, and i must say i am not at all convinced with the development here!! where has the billions of naira gone!! that's what these militias and Niger-Delta resource control agitators shoudl be asking their leaders. The roads here are horrible, the only major way here is the Aba road!
housing  here is impposible, expensive and scare!! how come the governor hasn't been able to attract real estate deveopers to PH, i mean look at lagos!!
there are no decent estates in PH, and this is incredible considering the population of oil boys here!!
To me, Odili has failed and shoudl be invetsigated and jailed if found guilty.

Nigerians spoiling Nigeria with their mouth. why won't it spoil? Our leaders are not from other nations, they are from Nigeria too. We are basically all the same thing. If everybody changes in their individual tasks, you'll be suprised that things will change for good too,

does rock2 want us to say the colour of coal is a shade of white?

@Blue2
You've said it all.
No amount of lies will turn charcoal to white

yes,i guess all what the country needs now isprayers and i pray by the special grace of the Almighty,all is going to be well.

What is the distribution system in Rivers State - that should be the question. Is the electricity generated by the Omoku IPP distributed only in Rivers or uploaded to the national Grid? If the later is the case, then there would be no significant improvement in power supply in the state. The question should rather be: Are the turbines working at the moment? If yes, then the state govt should be commended for undertaking such project that even the federal govt hasn't been able to complete despite the billions of dollars spent in that regard.

I think the project being undertaken by Prof Nnaji's company is different in that they are not going to upload their generated power to the national grid, but have already signed purchase agreement with private companies at Aba and would lay their own distribution lines to supply both to the public (who are willing to pay their rates) and the companies. That to me is a better approach to solving our energy need. I thought I would get better and educated arguments on the way out of the power/darkness logjam.

I have always believed that we need to de-centralise our electricity generation and distribution system. Power generated from Afam and Omoku shouldn't be sent to Oshogbo first before being returned to PH and environs or distributed to other areas. The cost of transmission and wastages would be higher. But if we have micro-systems, addressing the power need of the locality where it is generated and during peak periods when the demand exceeds supply, then they could get from neighbouring generation centers.

I think calling Odili a thief is premature. Besides, private companies always execute projects at far less cost than the govt. Afterall, the federal govt awarded a $8.4 billion contract for 1,300 km railline to a chinese firm, whereas, earlier in 2006, the same Chinese company completed a 1,100 km Tibet rail line (in a very rugged mountainous region that was considered an engineering wonder) at the cost of $1.3 billion.

You would think these leaders would have some conscience. At least chop small and give us small. I mean how much will it cost them if they take out a little money and give to the community, just a little. Gali!!! those pp get me so pissed. Anyway, as they say "the evil that men do live after them". Their day of reckoning is coming and it shall surely tell.

I think that's the problem, according to the contractors they have done their part but NEPA has dilapidated facilities to distribute the electricity generated . I think the project is very good but damn too expensive.

I also agree that the local people should benefit first/most from projects in their community before other places

Is not only shell quarters that experiences 24/7 electricity, even de united, makers of indomie and wilbros nigeria - all multinationals based in choba experience 24/7 electricity.

  when i first went through this thread I felt like going beserk but having read through others views I feel better. , truth is that ph no get lightdespite d gas turbine hike except for places like omoku n formerly rukpokwu who had or still have multinationals catering for their electricity!