ZombieTERROR:


As expected... Buhari zombies are wired to suffer till all eternity...
They will tell us that south Africa that got their independent yesterday are worse off than Nigeria just to make the failure look good.. Infact having stable power is impossible

Pathetic...

UDUJ:


I think we are almost there. For the past 4 weeks I have been having 24 hours uninterrupted electricity supply.

The only problem is the exorbitant hike in electricity tariff fees just introduced. Before now I get about 480 units for a 10,000 naira recharge. After the tariff hike I get just 189 units

Notatribalist:
Very very good question..

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

Mistakemaker:

Which city is that?

jmoore:


Who is talking about cheap power?
Is the topic about cheap power?

The topic is about 24/7 power supply.

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

lykwhoishe:
One reason, Discos and their management of the end electricity consumers. You can arrange for 33kv line or a dedicated 11kv feeder to ur end and get almost constant electricity but at a very very high premium cost. Discos ain't for volume, they are more concerned with markup.

Mistakemaker:

Nice one

But neighboring countries Nigeria sell electricity to have constant power

RealEzee:
u don't have point to talk you are talking Awoof, e no make sense at all.

U r not providing a service to people's satisfaction and you're saying they're not paying for ur service, is that how business is run ni?

Provide better service then you can have the moral ground to Condemn your customers for failing to pay up not the other way round.

kikero:


South Africa has a large industrial sector, and a large minerals sector

People there also don't bypass their meters or chase away electricity workers or refuse to pay their bills

Also you don't have rates of 50 percent of people defaulting

One disco manager told a relative of mine that many people get power for free in the area they run. So they put pressure on people

And before you accuse me of being a buharist...my point is not to defend Buhari. Buhari in a way is part of the problem. If he had diversified the economy, maybe we would have had income to pay more for subsidising power. If he had not opposed GEJ on subsidy in 2012 , things would have been much different

But the main reason why we have power issues in Africa is that we don't pay for it. Nigeria is a good example of that.

And by the way the maps were to correct your comment that most African countries have light 247 . They don't. The data proves it.

Even SA is experiencing rolling power cuts as at last year. And rising bills too. So all not well

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

guru90:


who told u, 9ja no gat money. Seems like u are not from 9ja.

kikero:


Banning generator won't solve the problem

Even if we had light 24/7, in times of natural disasters, a generator works to provide power while the power supply is being fixed

Generators can also be used in remote areas where powe cannot reach

ZombieTERROR:


Buhari is all that is wrong with this country...

The man is a punishment to the nation

Woe to any man who supports him

Mistakemaker:

Then what do the fg stand to gain by keeping it in the exclusive list and suffering the people.. To me states should be allowed to generate power and supply their states, you will find out some states will have stable electricity

kgr8mike:
Until u do that forget power in nigeria. The importers will not allow the sector to work. Do you know who killed Bola Ige (a power minister with a resolve tn give us 24/7 power supply)? The statusquo is the lifeline of some people. So if you need a change then change the statusquo. Otherwise you will become the provebial madman that does a thing same way and expects a different result.

kikero:


What resources?

When many people are not paying their bills?

When our major income streams are falling drastically? Especially oil.?

When people bypass their meters

And stop this nonsense about not paying for power because we don't see it

Back when GSM came into this country, service was poor, you could not even call another network for over 2 years , and missed calls were common

Yet we kept on paying high prices for that, and the companies took our money and made things much better. And built a multibillion business and a telecom network that required no government money or intervention

We have a power sector that needs money. Yet we refuse to pay our bills, we demand low prices and we bypass meters when installed

At the end of the day, the power sector cannot attract investment and cannot take loans to build things...unlike MTN, airtel and Glo that even had loans lined up before they started business self and 9 mobile.

As a result we don't have light.

Again, you cannot run a successful business if half your customers don't pay

This problem has been ongoing since long before Buhari took office in 1984. Since the 1970s infact.

Igbochief001:

We don't have the money to invest into power

kikero:


Which we can't get because 50 percent of Nigerians and many government agencies don't pay for power.

And because of the poor revebue stream , power companies can't get financing, be it from revenue from bills or financial agencies to pay for improvement

And they are even in a deficit of 1 trillion naira annually.

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

jmoore:

The topic has nothing to do with free electricity.

You talk about subsidies. Do you live in Nigeria? Many Nigerians are maintaining companies they have no shares in. They contribute money to fix new poles, fix transformers or buy new ones. And you say these Nigerians are not ready to pay.


Nigerians can pay for 24/7 power supply. Make prepaid metres available.

dukeprince50:
if there is power, industries will grow.
if industries grow, more industries will spring up.
if more industries spring up, there will be job.
if there is job, there will be money.
if there is money, we can pay for power

allthingsgood:


Power is a complex industry. It's not enough to just generate.

kikero:


GSM companies were not providing good enough services to most people's satisfaction in 2001-5.

Yet we paid, and they raised enough cash from the income to make things better.

See!

tumababa:

And if all these are Available , the politicians wont be able to use people as thugs....