lastempero:


The guy is just chilling and surviving despite the huge loss he is incurring. The last time he celebrated his birthday, he was very bitter.

thats sad.

deomelo:



You can not pick and chose what and who is visionary. Tinubu is a visionary leader just like Awo was in his days.

The societal and political environment today and back in Awo's regional administration era when Awo was able to actualize his vision independently with his own funds from the SW are not even the same today so where is the basis for comparison?

impact on the people.moreover Lagos has the funds.

deomelo:




It's never been about funds, it's always been about the constitution, laws and governmental restrictions.


The fact that Lagos state built the first IPP in Nigeria under Tinubu and still did not get the benefits in Lagos state means it was never about money, it was and still is about laws, constitution nd government policies.

but this is what i have been trying to tell the other dude. no matter how brilliant or smart you are, these laws created to favor a few would make ones vision or idea look ordinary. The IPP under Tinubu is a classic example. so i would repeat the same thing here. We need a new constitution......

It's not about the constitution, but bad leadership quality and bad citizens. In terms of light generation, transmission and distributions, the problem start with poor planning on each categories. There are some Estates, GRAs, well plan residential areas, and some areas around this our very country that don't even believe that there is something like power outage, they only read it online or when they leave their domain. Our villages, towns, cities are not well planned, roads are constructed anyhow, houses were built like something else, People will build house under high tension transmission line & you can't try any poo with them cos they'll claim victim. Generation is quiet simple but have is own problem as well Dam(rainy and dry season, expensive to build, long transmission distance), Coal-steam engine(pollution pollution pollution, transportation of coal from source), Gas turbine(pollution pollution pollution, transportation of fuel, expensive, bursting of gas pipeline), thermal-pollution, diesel-pollut

The Transmission of power is simple and have little problems aside from maintenance. But where the problem is is the distribution where the customer and distribution companies are trying hard to outsmart each other, problem will arise due to jampacking of buildings, high cost maintenance of distribution materials.

wirinet:

That's what I have been telling the "Nigeria held us back" crew. If you get visionary and sincere leaders, no system can hold them back, they would find a way around all obstacles.
For example, to beat the states must "feed the national grid" law, don't pass through the national grid, don't use the transmission lines. Just create clusters - industrial, commercial or social clusters and the generate power locally to those clusters. Some private companies are doing it.

To beat the 13% derivation law, create oil companies and bid and obtain oil licences in your state. If the state own or partnered companies drill it's own oil, it will receive 40% share of crude sales along with 13% derivation.

As I also say, it is only a bad workmen that quarrels with his tools, good workmen perform wonders with bad tools.

not as sweet mouth as you think

a very important topic like this will not go to front page,

all u see are pics of expired nollywood oloshos n bbnaija whores

This topic is quite informative and should be pushed to the front page please.
Lalasticlala,Mynd44.



There are a lot of reasons why we don’t have steady power in Nigeria.

Before you get power in your home, electricity has to go through 3 stages: generation, transmission and distribution. Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy. Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation. Electric power distribution is the final stage in the delivery of electric power; it carries electricity from the transmission system to individual consumers.

With a population of 194 million, about 90 million of those people lack electricity, and the majority of those who don’t, have very inadequate power supply in their homes. In Nigeria, our electricity mix is predominantly powered by natural gas. However, as at October 2017, natural gas accounted for 74% while hydro power accounted for 26%. The generation sub-sector presently includes 23 grid-connected generating plants in operation with a total installed capacity of 10,396 MW (available capacity of 6,056 MW) with thermal based generation having an installed capacity of 8,457.6MW (available capacity of 4,996 MW) and hydropower having 1,938.4 MW of total installed capacity with an available capacity of 1,060 MW. This comprises of the privatized GenCos, Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and the generating stations under the National Integrated Power Project (NIPP).

There are moves in place to change this, as the government has signed 14 solar Power Purchase Agreement (PPAs) with 14 developers with the potential to deliver over 1,000MW of solar power,as well as making efforts to complete and commission the following renewable energy projects: 10 MW Katsina wind farm, 30MW Gurara Hydro Power, 29MW Dadin Kowa Hydropower, 40MW Kashimbila HydroPower and 700MW Zungeru Hydro Power.

In the first quarter of 2018, our cumulative power supply was 114,556 megawatts. With a centralized system, this figure is very low for 194 million people to share, and with increased electronic use, the grid is even more strained. Since we know that gas is our main power source, we should know there are constraints in production and transmission of this gas to generation stations, such as: production of hydrates, unavailability of gas because of Gencos defaulting in payment to gas producers, lack of investments, flow issues, destruction of pipelines by militants in the Niger Delta region and inadequate gas infrastructure. As such, our transmission capacity is 7,124MW (Feb 2018 figure). Distribution issues are mainly due to vandalism.

In summary, we do not have regular power in Nigeria because of the security situation, corruption, and inadequate investments in increasing our generation and transmission capacities.