philips70:

Maybe we had an e-fight. I stand no chance of being followed here on Nairaland because am almost of no political constituency. I say things as I see them not minding whose ox is gored. Nigeria can be great if the youths who own today and the near future shelve all forms of political chicanery and parochial cum ethnic interests. Nigeria needs genuine overhaul devoid of any regional, political and religious interests. I believe change agents are in Kaduna/Kano, Lagos/Oyo, Enugu/Abia, Rivers/Delta etc, in churches, mosques, juju houses and what other forms of religion around.

ujoinme:

My point is just as we have power generation challenges in Nigeria, SA also has its own power challenges even in the midst of their enormous generation capacity. you should present the whole side of the story and not pick only parts that fits your narrative.

MissMeiya:

I'm of the same mind. Well, time will tell. I do follow members I don't agree with on everything, as long as they are intelligent. *shrug*

philips70:

That's OK. The operational word there "intelligent" is relative. But it's all good, let's keep the mind always open.

freshness2020: is this one a joke or anoda story for the gods!
It have teyed oga!
Meanwhile ;

koyyes:
was about uploading this same pic. these people think we are fools. sadly, some of us are.

acenazt: Me no like Johny and him Vp Nnamdi but true talk light don boku for my area. Even when rain dey pour sef light dey. Nw e dey hard for dem to carry light for Kaduna city.

acenazt: Me no like Johny and him Vp Nnamdi but true talk light don boku for my area. Even when rain dey pour sef light dey. Nw e dey hard for dem to carry light for Kaduna city.

philips70:

Quite certain any heavily industrialized nation have some kind of power challenges. Mind you SA is in Africa and Nigeria have long been priding herself as the giant of Africa and recently taunting others with the biggest economy stuff via a rebased GDP. If you know the level of transparency, integrity and thoroughness it takes to generate and sustain a MW of electricity you will know where am coming from and give SA due recognition in this area.

ujoinme:

No one is denying that in the short term that SA generation capacity is higher than that of nigeria, but SA energy sector is wholesomely own by the SA government and we know how inefficient govt. parastatals are and already as i pointed out earlier the SA energy sector is under a lot of strain presently and in the long term it future dosent look so bright.

Secondly SA also uses nuclear reactors to generate part of its electricity a technology i would prefer is kept out of Africa espercially in light of the nuclear dissaster that occured in Japan recently,and also SA depends largely on coal for its energy, which is not entirely environmentally friendly.
Nigeria, on the other hand in the short term:Its energy sector looks bleek because of low generation capacity, But in the long term Nigerias energy future looks brighter than SA because Nigeria has successfully unbundled/privatize its energy sector which will make it more efficient than the Government ran SA energy sector. and the choice of fuel for nigeria energy is gas which is not only environmentally friendly but is a resource that Nigeria has in Abundance,Nigeria is one of largest reserve of gas in the world.
And if in the future Nigeria also decides to utilize the not so environmentally friendly fuel ie Coal for power generation, Nigeria also has large reserves/deposits of coal that it can tap cheaply.

So my point is for you to be objective in your analysis of energy sector in both countries and not just regurgitate statistics that favour your myopic analysis.