OF A TRUTH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS TRYING IN THE AREA OF PAYING LIPS SERVICE TO MATTERS THAT ARE OF GREAT IMPORTANCE.
FELLOW NIGERIANS 21 DAYS TO THE FINISH LINE, IT LOOKS TO ME THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE OF THEIR NUMEROUS LIES,

30 MINUTS AGO I SAID UP NEPA AFTER ABOUT 19 HOURS OF NO POWER SUPPLY,
WHAT IS YOUR TAKE,

VISIT www.edgemasters..com to see Comprehensive report,
warm regards

I say people will continue to be in the dark, till they can tell the govt that enuf is enuf.

Myth&mirage

when will this darkness stop?

mcwalka:

when will this darkness stop?

when we grown some balls to challenge them.

No point waiting. . . It was never going to be achieved
Instead look forward to the next promise in January 2010

Fhemmmy:

I say people will continue to be in the dark, till they can tell the govt that enuf is enuf.

This!!!! Until it happens, we will still remain in perpetual darkness

Nigerians will find ways around their govt. short comings. Example is seen the use of solar panel now. Soon everyone will av solar panel to power up their home, which will mean killing 2 birds (fuel scarcity and PHCN power problem) wiv a stone (solar panel). I will not be surprised if invention have started on using solar panel to power automobiles.

But on a serious note we need to demand more from our leaders

Are people still expecting 6000mw this year? It is very unrealistic.

OAM4J:

Are people still expecting 6000mw this year? It is very unrealistic.

Very, mii dear!!

6000MW. . . Dream ON.

What pains me is how someone will come out, look us in the eye and tell us something he has no plan to do. And you remember the EMERGENCY on power! Another will still come tomorrow with his lyrics.

goat go bit person for 9ja one day

The attitude of Nigerians towards matters such as these is extremely DISGUSTING. Nigerians deserve to be maltreated and insulted by these bastards till they realise that they have been idiots for 49 years.

Ha , Nigeria, there is one mad fellow making dreadful nice on the BBC Hausa service. Dora needs
to shut him up. As someone said, Nigerians and have always lived with this anomally, but for how long.
Individual effort will on the home front (self and family) will not inject the massive power requirements
for industry and essential social services like the health sector.

More distressing is the loud silence from the legislature.

- What is the situation report on the power probe?
- Is this NIPP thing still on?
- What is the progress so far made?

I tire Oh

Nigerian Government, jus anoder damn promise of building brigdes where their ar no rivers. If u like give dem 6000 yrs, i bet they can't build the 6000 Megawatts.

we can make it in jesus name,

[size=18pt]6,000MW no longer possible this year –FG
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The Federal Government on Tuesday made a U-turn on its promise to deliver uninterrupted power supply, saying 6,000MW of electricity is no longer possible by December 31.

It said at the 15th summit of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group in Abuja that going by all permutations, the deadline would not be met.

The Chief Economic Adviser to the President, Alhaji Tanimu Yakubu, who made the government’s position known, said, “We may not achieve 100 per cent of the target. We have been able to achieve 5,200MW so far.

“As I am talking to you now, 35MW is being added to the national grid and another 100MW will be added in the next two weeks.”

Yakubu did not give a firm reason why the 6000MW would not be met, but THE PUNCH had exclusively reported on December 3 that inadequate gas supply might invalidate the December 31 deadline.

THE PUNCH had, in the publication, reported that power stations run by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria were facing a huge gas supply shortfall of not less that 77 per cent.

The report had said that gas supply fell by 76.7 per cent as the power stations got 182 million standard cubic feet of gas per day as against 782.77 million scfd.

But the Minister of National Planning, Dr. Shamsudeen Usman, who also attended the summit, argued that if the government attained the 5,200MW, it would have recorded 86 per cent or 90 per cent of the 6,000MW.

He said the figure (86 or 90 per cent) would be regarded as an excellent result if assessed in an examination.

The minister, who said the nation needed 30,000MW of electricity by 2020, assured that after 2011, additional 2000MW would have been added to the power sector.

Even though President Umaru Yar’Adua made power generation one of the pillars of his administration’s Seven-Point Agenda, he had curiously revised downward the 10,000MW target set by the government of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2007 to 6,000MW.

Yar’Adua had, during his campaign, promised to declare an emergency in the power sector. The promise is yet to be kept more than two and half years after he assumed office in May 2007.

Also speaking at the event, Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan said some elected government officials failed to do the right things because they were frightened by perceived enemies and fear of not getting a second term in office.

He said that delivering the dividends of democracy took more time because of the need to allow every arm of government to perform their legitimate functions.

Jonathan said, “In the civilian era, things are a little bit slow. The 2008 budget for instance was passed by about the middle of the year. We have this problem of delay that comes from the National Assembly.

“Now, we are still awarding contracts for 2009. With the adjustment of budget implementation to March, implementation of capital budget will be better.”

He explained that the government proposed a stimulus budget for 2010 to ensure that positive results were achieved.

The vice-president also said that it was not true that Nigerians were paying exhorbitant taxes, adding that tax reforms were ongoing to ensure that Nigerians got value for the taxes they paid.

He added that what made the case of tax payers worse in Nigeria was that they also spent a lot of money on infrastructural needs, especially on power.

Jonathan said the government had embarked on diversifying the sources of power, adding that $100bn must be invested on infrastructure in the next 11 years.

He also emphasised the need to ensure that the economy was driven by the private sector, adding that when Nigerians go to schools or hospitals abroad, it is not public utilities that they patronise but private institutions.

At the Presidential Dialogue session of the event, a Managing Director of World Bank, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said corruption thrived in Nigeria because of the failure of government to punish known culprits.

Emphasising the need to invest in the nation’s education and health sectors, Okonjo-Iweala said the elite in Nigeria might not know how badly the quality of education had deteriorated.

Asked to advise the government on what it needed to do to eliminate the perception of Nigeria in the international community as a corrupt nation, the former Minister of Finance said that ordinary Nigerians were not corrupt.

She said, “I want to repeat what I have always said; 99.9 per cent of Nigerians are not corrupt. The ordinary Nigerian is not corrupt. But there is impunity in the country.

“We know people that have done the wrong things. We know institutions that have done the wrong things. They are also known abroad. No action is taken against them. There is impunity in the country.”

The World Bank boss said much of the 2010 budget needed to be invested in the health, road construction, education and power sectors.

The President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, Mr. Gbenga Adefaye, who was on the panel, expressed regret that government’s affairs were not being conducted with openness and transparency.

He said it was sad that for 10 years, the country had not been able to pass the Freedom of Information bill.

Responding to this, Shamsudeen said while the FOI bill was desirable, the Yar’Adua administration had, in the interim, done so much to make governance open.

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art200912163363248

This govt is clueless. Now they are saying 6000MW is no longer achieveable, we have always known that but i am very bittered by the statement made by Min. of National Planning who said that we now have 5200MW generating capacity, the guy is an idiot and he is trying to take us for a ride, generating capacity is not the same as actual [/color][color=#990000][/color][color=#990000][/color][color=#990000]generation and transmission [/color][color=#990000]that the president was so sure of as early as june this year[/color][color=#990000][/color][color=#990000][/color][color=#990000][/color][color=#990000][/color][color=#990000][/color][color=#990000] and for good effect since 1997, we have always possessed more than 5000MW capacity but what was lacking in our ability to actually generate, transmit and distribute such capacity.