sarrki:
To be sincere

Niger state is pathetic

They have kainji, Jebba and Shirroro yet wallow in darkness

jaymejate:
Let's see if they will do operation Scorpion dance for them too.

9jakohai:


For once you Nigerians should stop blaming poor power supply on some amorphous body called our 'leaders'.

Power, both at generation and distribution has been in private hands since 2014. GEJ offered you guys the chance to say no to privatization, and you all kept quiet.

Second, we need billions of dollars to guarantee 24/7 light. We need investments upward of 15bn USD for the next few years to fix transmission, fix power generation, etc.

And the fact is, even at full capacity, 7000mw is not going to give Nigeria light 24/7....when Lagos town needs 10000MW alone.

Finally, we Nigerians aggravate the problem by not paying our bills , by bypassing the prepaid meters, by chasing DISCO officers when they come to enforce bill payment, by bribing DISCO guys too. How can you get servicies you are not paying for? Yes, govt agencies are guilty of same, but so are millions of Nigerians.

And the bills we pay aren't even enough. And we are not even earning enough from oil..we need oil to be at $139 per barrel to have a budget free from borrowing.....to fund power.

So, if you want to blame govt for power..go ahead. Blame yourself too.

P.S...Blowing up the dams won't make a difference....it would only make things worse....drives away investors, plus we would have to take a big fat loan to fix things.

9jakohai:


For once you Nigerians should stop blaming poor power supply on some amorphous body called our 'leaders'.

Power, both at generation and distribution has been in private hands since 2014. GEJ offered you guys the chance to say no to privatization, and you all kept quiet.

Second, we need billions of dollars to guarantee 24/7 light. We need investments upward of 15bn USD for the next few years to fix transmission, fix power generation, etc.

And the fact is, even at full capacity, 7000mw is not going to give Nigeria light
24/7....when Lagos town needs 10000MW alone.

Finally, we Nigerians aggravate the problem by not paying our bills , by bypassing the prepaid meters, by chasing DISCO officers when they come to enforce bill payment, by bribing DISCO guys too. How can you get servicies you are not paying for? Yes, govt agencies are guilty of same, but so are millions of Nigerians.



I disagree with you on the issue of bill been served by disco, how do I expect me to pay 15k, 10k, 7k per month while the maximum number of hours I was given light was 8 hours. How do I pay for service I don't enjoy. Let disco serves all their customer pre-paid meter and carry out proper monitoring. It is very unfortunate the company that acquired all PHCN do not have financial capacity todistribute pre-paid meter.

Those who are bypassing could face the law and jail them. I'm not in support of cheating. Let everybody pay for his or her services he / she enjoy.

And the bills we pay aren't even enough. And we are not even earning enough from oil..we need oil to be at $139 per barrel to have a budget free from borrowing.....to fund power.

So, if you want to blame govt for power..go ahead. Blame yourself too.

P.S...Blowing up the dams won't make a difference....it would only make things worse....drives away investors, plus we would have to take a big fat loan to fix things.

sarrki:
To be sincere

Niger state is pathetic

They have kainji, Jebba and Shirroro yet wallow in darkness

9jakohai:


For once you Nigerians should stop blaming poor power supply on some amorphous body called our 'leaders'.

Power, both at generation and distribution has been in private hands since 2014. GEJ offered you guys the chance to say no to privatization, and you all kept quiet.

Second, we need billions of dollars to guarantee 24/7 light. We need investments upward of 15bn USD for the next few years to fix transmission, fix power generation, etc.

And the fact is, even at full capacity, 7000mw is not going to give Nigeria light 24/7....when Lagos town needs 10000MW alone.

Finally, we Nigerians aggravate the problem by not paying our bills , by bypassing the prepaid meters, by chasing DISCO officers when they come to enforce bill payment, by bribing DISCO guys too. How can you get servicies you are not paying for? Yes, govt agencies are guilty of same, but so are millions of Nigerians.

And the bills we pay aren't even enough. And we are not even earning enough from oil..we need oil to be at $139 per barrel to have a budget free from borrowing.....to fund power.

So, if you want to blame govt for power..go ahead. Blame yourself too.

P.S...Blowing up the dams won't make a difference....it would only make things worse....drives away investors, plus we would have to take a big fat loan to fix things.

Mouthpis:


Mr sarrki

To be honest I have been noticing u for a couple of days/week now, something seems to have changed about u.

I have been following all ur comments on this forum and have noticed a lot.

But like I said up there, there is something different about u recently.

It's the first time I will be quoting u here and I mean no harm, but just noticed that it's like u are now seeing the true pictures of the sufferings of the masses now than before.

I have been following nairaland as far back as 2011, but decided to activate my account/profile just, I think last month.

Pls Nigeria belongs to all of us, let's try to do/say what will move this country forward irrespective of what part of the country we come from or what party we support.

Pls, use ur office/position to bring us all together.

Thank you Mr Sarrki.

emmie14:
Were you paid or influenced to vomit these trash? Does it mean that federal government doesn't have $15billon to upgrade electricity?. How can poorer countries like Uganda and Ghana provide regular electricity to their citizens but Nigeria -giant over them can't because you want the price of oil to skyrocket? Meaning non- oil producing countries are not supposed to access electricity. Please bro let us stop soliciting for our lame government since first republic.

9jakohai:


Wetin you dey talk about?

Power has not been govt's responsibility since 2014.

Plus, selling electricity to other countries provides.....you guessed it...income for Nigeria.

South Africa sells electricity too....to most of the Southern hemisphere African countries.

Even then...24/7 power needs $300 bn over the next 3 years. Our reserve is $36bn. Chew on that...before you blame govt, past or present.

anthony86:
Sometimes I ask myself how did our neighbour countries do it. Go to Benin and Niger or Ghana they have constant power.

stellx:


I beg to disagree with you second paragraph as the government still has substantial shares in power generation though the distribution aspect is wholly commercialized with inefficient players running the show.

Our qualms with the government is that it has failed to provide the regulatory framework to grow the power sector.

Like you did allude, Lagos alone can utilize our total power generation, so why not decentralise the grid network and make the States consume what they generate instead of feeding all power into a national grid system that collapses when power drops below a certain benchmark.

Power in its current arrangement is stalling development of critical sectors of the economy.

ABIOLAXYZ:
let them blow it

9jakohai:


For once you Nigerians should stop blaming poor power supply on some amorphous body called our 'leaders'.

Power, both at generation and distribution has been in private hands since 2014. GEJ offered you guys the chance to say no to privatization, and you all kept quiet.

Second, we need billions of dollars to guarantee 24/7 light. We need investments upward of 15bn USD for the next few years to fix transmission, fix power generation, etc.

And the fact is, even at full capacity, 7000mw is not going to give Nigeria light 24/7....when Lagos town needs 10000MW alone.

Finally, we Nigerians aggravate the problem by not paying our bills , by bypassing the prepaid meters, by chasing DISCO officers when they come to enforce bill payment, by bribing DISCO guys too. How can you get servicies you are not paying for? Yes, govt agencies are guilty of same, but so are millions of Nigerians.

And the bills we pay aren't even enough. And we are not even earning enough from oil..we need oil to be at $139 per barrel to have a budget free from borrowing.....to fund power.

So, if you want to blame govt for power..go ahead. Blame yourself too.

P.S...Blowing up the dams won't make a difference....it would only make things worse....drives away investors, plus we would have to take a big fat loan to fix things.

LordAdam16:


Where's the $15b going to come from?

Or do you think they print dollars?

Ghana has just about 28m people. A couple millions larger than Lagos. If Lagos was independent, do you honestly believe they would be having epileptic power? Ghana can't even pay the power loans they've taken and are in a fix now.

I don't make excuses for the government. They've been terrible. But there are no easy answers to the power issues we're facing. And continue passing blames doesn't help.

-Lord