olujastro:

No mystery here. Your discos are not ready to do business yet courtesy of the 2013 paddy-paddy privatisation.
Instead of selling the discos to serious people, they sold them to their political cronies like Abdusalam and Tunde Ayeni (Ibadan and Yola discos) Emeka Offor (Enugu disco). Same Ayeni that donated N2billion to Jonathan's campaign in 2011.
While the gencos and TCN have stepped up their capacities, your discos are not able to distribute the power produced due to lack of capacity. They are supposed to invest money and improve their capacities. Instead they lazily dish out estimated bills to get easy money.
That's what we call Political Privatisation of Nigeria's power sector.

Vdsc:

But what is the buharo government doing about it?

Thw fans of the president claim he is incorruptible, but we are not seeing it in the life of the common man.
An incorruptible president should go after these discos and get the licences.
Buhari should stop worrying about atiku visa and focus on issues that matter.

Haba.

olujastro:

Somehow I blame Fashola but I also pity his situation.

greatdreamer:
Not surprised, we gave Malaysia palm fruits and now we are importing palm oil from them.
We sell our crude oil and import refine products .
We are going export electricity to Burkina Faso to power their industries and then we import their finishing products

docadams:


Obviously the problems lie with the TCN and the DISCOS. TCN says there is system overload because of low utilization by DISCOS resulting in load shedding. The DISCOS are like a bunch of spendthrifts living off inheritance. They've got no acumen for growing the business. Not until this implants of GEJ/PDP are supplanted, regular power supply will continue to be a mirage

Blue3k:


Source: https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/298292-nigerian-power-firm-to-sell-electricity-to-burkina-faso.html

AkhereOkaka:


You're right the process of Privatization of the power sector under the GEJ/PDP led federal government then was not properly done. They sold the then PHCN to their cronies who where incompetent to manage distribution of Electricity.
But my take on this as a solution is that Power Generation, Transmission and Distribution should be removed from the exclusive list and put in the curcurent list so that states that has capacity should be aor zones can generate electricity distribute to it citizen if there's excess it can be sold to Nigeria Bulk electricity company as against what is obtainable now where when you generate you must send it to the National grid.

Lota11:


lol.. u cracked me up.. Do u mean Nigeria is a useless country

Vdsc:

Why would you pity him?
He is the FG. The regulator in charge.
The FG can force them to upgrade their system or help them upgrade while they pay back gradually.

I don't believe the discos are the reason we don't have power.

It is too elementary.

olujastro:

No mystery here. Your discos are not ready to do business yet courtesy of the 2012 paddy-paddy privatisation.
Instead of selling the discos to serious people, they sold them to their political cronies like Abdusalam and Tunde Ayeni (Ibadan and Yola discos) Emeka Offor (Enugu disco). Same Ayeni that donated N2billion to Jonathan's campaign in 2011.
While the gencos and TCN have stepped up their capacities, your discos are not able to distribute the power produced due to lack of capacity. They are supposed to invest money and improve their capacities. Instead they lazily dish out estimated bills to get easy money.
That's what we call Political Privatisation of Nigeria's power sector.

Vdsc:

But what is the buharo government doing about it?

Thw fans of the president claim he is incorruptible, but we are not seeing it in the life of the common man.
An incorruptible president should go after these discos and get the licences.
Buhari should stop worrying about atiku visa and focus on issues that matter.

Haba.