Emyogalanya:
we are almost saying the same thing while i'm saying in effect that the lack of power has eventually killed our industries etc. The current populace are after power for vain things

dude u r not saying anything Close to what he said, what vain things, is that how you think really? The greater good was cited by the bud and you come up such thoughts, like for real? So that's your thought process why the country should be in darkness? You need a rethink really,is it your place to even judge do with the power they are given, something they pay for? Like for real? Other nations that enjoy good power supply do their government monitor their usage as they pay for it?

Smh

DamZik:
Nigeria has made you believe simple thing is difficult. 24/7 electricity that some private companies have been generating for years in Nigeria. Generating constant light is not the problem, the problem is the mediocrity of our politicians. Let them not decieve you further. Change your thinking.

dont mind those clog minds. what Nigeria needs is Extension education. its citizens dont even know what can be done.how can they demand for what they dont know?

Anambra,Imo has large gas deposits. Lagos,Anambra,Rivers,Imo,Ogun and practically all Niger Delta can easily afford to generate and sell to neighbouring states. Why are they not doing so?? Which serious company will generate all that electricity from Lagos only to lose it someone in Sokoto who he has 0 jurisdictions over payment of bills because of some stupid national grid when he can easily sell to those within Lagos who are more than willing to pay for the electricity

You see,the issue is very basic and anytime we're ready for things to change,they will

For those mentioning nuclear power,you better wake up from your sleep. As someone already mentioned,nuclear plants are not where you embezzle money meant for nuclear reactors or something. There's no probe or Efcc for that one. You simply get what you deserve. Go watch Chernobyl to get a sneak peek of the dark side of this form of energy

Depressed101:
stop making it look like rocket science.it is doable if we put to it. there is a problem,this is why there is innovation to solve it. with innovation nothing is impossible.

Lol ...Bros all our capital expenditure since 1999 no reach $50 billion ooh

Ignorance is bliss ...no wonder some of una still think say Nigeria go work

dukeprince50:
not just PMB but all our past leaders are useless, infact PMB administration brought up the idea of nuclear energy but we kicked against it cos we are scared it will be mismanaged and cause a disaster but we forget nuclear energy is the neatest and most environmental friendly

Nuclear energy in this corruption ridden country? We can't make hydroelectric power and gas powered electricity work, you are now talking of nuclear... Abeg oh

We don't want stories that touch! Russians have had nuclear disaster and other advanced countries. So for now, we're not ready

No light down here for the past 2months

jmoore:
Corruption, mismanagement and lack of foresight.



Last month, Nigeria achieved 5,420.30 MW in the national grid, the highest in history
Transmission Company of Nigeria was proud of this
announcement. This type of records are not the ones
you blow with trumpet.
National grid has been swinging between 4,000+ MW
and below for years.
4,517 megawatts was attained on December 23, 2012.
4,545 megawatts was attained on July 13, 2015.
5 years later, an addition of 1,000 MW approximately
is not something to be celebrated.

We need a quantum leap in solving the power
problems of Nigeria.

Egypt added 25,000 megawatts (MW) of new power
stations to their national electricity grid during the
period from June 2014 to June 2018. Got that? 25,000
MW in just 4 years.

In October 2018, project consortium partners Siemens,
Elsewedy Electric and Orascom Construction officially
unveiled one of the largest combined cycle
megaprojects in Beni Suef, Egypt. The teams completed three plants totalling 14,400 MW in a record time of 27.5 months at the cost of €6 billion.


One dude foolishly asked if we can afford to pay 24/7 power supply. It is like asking if we can afford to pay 24/7 access to phone services or 24/7 access to water supply.

exactly.

kikero:
Because we produce power at 53 naira per kWh and want to sell it at.30 naira per kWh making a loss of 33 naira or more.

How can a selling price of .30 naira against a cost price of 53 naira incure a loss of 33 naira? ... You may need to revisit your business maths again.

Igbochief001:

Lol ...Bros all our capital expenditure since 1999 no reach $50 billion ooh

Ignorance is bliss ...no wonder some of una still think say Nigeria go work

which shit newspaper do you read?

Igbochief001:

Lol ...Bros all our capital expenditure since 1999 no reach $50 billion ooh

Ignorance is bliss ...no wonder some of una still think say Nigeria go work

which shit newspaper do you read? by the way the amount you mentioned above doesnt cut through the amount of money we have borrowed since the 3years. how come your calculations dates that figure back 1999.

Igbochief001:

Lol ...Bros all our capital expenditure since 1999 no reach $50 billion ooh

Ignorance is bliss ...no wonder some of una still think say Nigeria go work

which shit newspaper do you read? by the way the amount you mentioned above doesnt cut through the amount of money we have borrowed since the 3years. how come your calculations dates that figure back 1999. let me guess. you are doing guess work because you think ignorant people like your self will swallow it

kikero:
Because we produce power at 53 naira per kWh and want to sell it at.30 naira per kWh making a loss of 33 naira or more.

Another angle

Depressed101:
which shit newspaper do you read? by the way the amount you mentioned above doesnt cut through the amount of money we have borrowed since the 3years. how come your calculations dates that figure back 1999. let me guess. you are doing guess work because you think ignorant people like your self will swallow it

Disprove me with facts n numbers or just shut up

allthingsgood:


True but that's a long term goal. As at today tho, can u pay for 24/7 electricity

What kind of a useless lazy question are you asking?

Mistakemaker:
What exactly is stopping Nigeria from having 24/7 electricity and making money form it as well as stabilising the economy?

Let's hear people's thoughts

1) National grid : this is the bane of the problem. Instead there should be multiple grids or network of mini grids at the level of state , local govt and organisations.

2) not handling over discos and gencos to expatriate companies like China, India , Russia , Japan etec. If these discos and gencos were sold and manage by different companies from China, India and Japan etc , the story will be different.

Corruption is what is keeping Nigeria from having 2/47 power. Deregulate the power industry and let FG hands off 100%, you will see power will improve. Private investors won’t mind investing 2-4 billions dollars in a particular state (generation, transmission and distribution inclusive) in a particular state with pay as you use system, tell me why there won’t be 247 power? ... The cabal benefiting from the current epileptic power supply won’t allow that happen.

Igbochief001:

[s]Disprove me with facts n numbers or just shut up [/s]

sorry i dont have time to educate you,continue reading your kunu news paper,maybe a pint of sense will fall in to your thick skull.just maybe.

To me, it's corruption and inconvenience

RealEzee:
dude u r not saying anything Close to what he said, what vain things, is that how you think really? The greater good was cited by the bud and you come up such thoughts, like for real? So that's your thought process why the country should be in darkness? You need a rethink really,is it your place to even judge do with the power they are given, something they pay for? Like for real? Other nations that enjoy good power supply do their government monitor their usage as they pay for it?

Smh

On you

Depressed101:
sorry i dont have time to educate you,continue reading your kunu news paper,maybe a pint of sense will fall in to your thick skull.just maybe.

No wonder u are depressed

Kaduna1stson:
Incompetent leadership, we chose a man who has never had light as he trained his cows for the past 30 years as president. Failures begets more failures.

God bless Umaru Yar'Adua

You think power will come by the wave of a magic wand?!
This kind of mentality is what is killing us.
GEJ some of you love to praise sold our electricity to his friends and cronies but Buhari gets the blame each time.
I blame una.
Keep saying trash and get egged on by like from simpletons.

fjjc:
The major problem of electricity distribution in which 24/7 power supply will be achieved are sole sabotage by marketers of various kinds in IBDC. The meters they fail to make available is where they catch out on the populace. These marketers will go to various houses that do not have meters or the sole call prepaid meters and give those houses one ridiculous amount to pay. Failure to pay the money, they will come for disconnection. If there are enough prepaid meters electricity will be available in abundant.

prepaid meters has nothing to do with constant electricity

1. Corruption and sabotage between crooked and corrupt private, political and government actors since independence.

2. Privatization was a good idea, but in our usual crooked and corrupt ways, they sold privatization and power assets to their crooked and corrupt cronies with zero power generation, distribution and power management expirice and lack of funds to expand and manage the power assets they bought.

3. Nigerians should stop acting as if they are innocent participants because there more than enough blames to go around and there are no solutions that doesn't involve Nigerians rich or poor paying full price and doing what's necessary to sustain quality and timely electricity.

4. We made serious mistakes by citing gas fired power plants many states away from gas gas plants, we also for many decades did not start and finish conceived power projects like the 3000MW Mambilla power project, luckily, we are addressing it.

5. Yes, we've made mistakes, but we must move on collectively with workable and everlasting solutions and in this regards, I'm happy that the current administration is approaching this issue holistically by addressing the every angle and aspects of this problem from power generation to distribution, transmission, billing, software and power management by engaging Siemens.

6. Power generation, distribution, transmission, billing system and management demands heavy financial investment that must be repaid and sustained by the consumers without exceptions.

7. We can not keep admiring and comparing Nigeria with other countries because in other countries, they have poor people too and it doesn't' matter, poor people must pay for electricity or get disconnected from service.

8. Many Nigerians are hypocrites and awoof loving people, they go to other countries and obey their law and pay for consumed services, but in Nigeria, it's a different story, they come up with excuses and reasons why they should not be asked or forced to pay for anything.

9. With Nigerians tapping and stealing power, the Generation, distribution and transmission companies can not make any money, they can not recoup their investments and definitely can not expand and better their operations.

It's is hypocritical and misguided to always blame the government because the thieving and sabotaging masses are part of the problem.

10. Power cost money and somebody's got to pay for it.

Golan007:


Who would create this mythical "enabling environment"?

following the same template other developed countries used, abi our government like saying they're implementimg current best practices of other developed countries of which they often use when making policies, yet the government fail to copy in entirety the policies and implement them as their foreign counterparts do, isn't this covid phase a perfect example? Did the country at large benefit from the government? Abi it's only to do lockdown? What happened to stimulus like other countries, aids and etc? Abi they want to say it wasn't budgeted, did their foreign counterparts budget for covid? All the loans collected this covid phase what has it been used for? My area I saw no palliatives ooo, instead fellow neighbors helping each other out, landlord association trying to ease the needy among us, churches and mosques doing their best to provide food supply for its members and people in the area, that's the picture of naija, citizens doing it for themselves regardless of the government, now what are we hearing at this closing phase of the covid is increase in fuel price, food stuff, power tariffs and the likes, e makes sense to you?

its not rocket science that basic amenities such as power, good roads, education, Healthcare, security are to be provided by the government, abi is it not the same things enjoyed by the same developed countries they claim to copy?here every citizen is their own government doing this for themselves jejeli in the midst of lack,when the government finally tar one street they will not let us hear word like as if it wasn't what they were meant to do before.



Yet they can't account for the taxes already paid by its citizens. Is it hard?

Now increase almost taxes and lay more payments on its citizens to tell us they're only trying to conform with what other countries are doing, bud if they were even doing something with the other ones we've been paying do you think Nigerians will have a problem with increase in taxes or tariffs?

Let them provide those basic necessities, an environment to thrive and watch its citizens do more, person way never chop no dey reason how to create car, one priority at a time.