It was when the weather became very hot & unbearable AEDC decided to show their incompetency.

WonderManly:

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/business/business-news/515269-aedc-gives-reason-for-low-power-outage-apologises-to-customers.html?fbclid=IwAR0PAT358oxvP5vfRpeq3PYJIQN_JitaUYe8NfvNWsFi32_0XkhQ7BaAg94

Nigeria is a failed state. We sold electricity to other African countries that now have stable electricity but we don’t have enough for ourselves.

[quote author=sparkyJ post=110757052]Na now dey break abi?[/quote
Like they just discovered our source of power supply yesterday and would want to start doing something about it today...........fake and daft people sleeping and praying over practical issues........they just like the lawyer turn power minister obviously know nothing and can offer nothing

Like they just discovered our source of power supply yesterday and would want to start doing something about it today...........fake and daft people sleeping and praying over practical issues........they just like the lawyer turn power minister obviously know nothing and can offer nothing

Kpengla:
Seun your new supermod has serious deficiency in his English language skills...your headlines are an awful mess

What is the person's moniker?

I remember some time ago when some people here that just lack wisdom and sense saying that the government has generated so much power but the problem is distributing it. Shame on all of you. Some people will just be supporting stupidity and I wonder what kind of humans some of you are. You can't different wrong from right.

CryptoTeacher:
With the current scarcity of fuel in the country, why won't power generation also have problem.

By the way, it's not low power outage. It's low power supply because if the outage is low, it means there's enough power supply and no need to tender an apology. Kindly correct the title, OP.

KAI OYIBO OOO, I WONDER IF ITALIANS SPEND MORE LIKE WE DO, TO CORRECT DER OYIBO. HMMM

Kpengla:
Seun your new supermod has serious deficiency in his English language skills...your headlines are an awful mess

I swear. "Low power outage"... SMH

backbencher:


Because Nigerians do not want to pay the market price for fuel and light.

That is why the problem will persist, when Buhari goes, and why the problem was there before he came.

You cannot bring in fuel at N282 and sell it at N162, and not expect problems. Also, power costs over N80 per kwh to produce, yet we sell it at N71, and lower. And you think there would be no problem?

No profit, bad service.

Ur analysis is wrong
Nigeria has enough oil, solar, gas and hydro resources, and it has the potential to generate 12,522 MW of electric power from existing plants. most days, it is only able to dispatch around 4,000 MW, which is insufficient for a country of over 200million people. The 4000MW mostly come from hydro. It has nothing to do with the price. As for the fuel, the solution its for us to have refineries not what u are suggesting. We take those things from here to them to refine and bring it back with so much money and expect to put that amount on citizens, when govt can easily build refineries and the price of fuel will fall drastically

backbencher:


Because Nigerians do not want to pay the market price for fuel and light.

That is why the problem will persist, when Buhari goes, and why the problem was there before he came.

You cannot bring in fuel at N282 and sell it at N162, and not expect problems. Also, power costs over N80 per kwh to produce, yet we sell it at N71, and lower. And you think there would be no problem?

No profit, bad service.

Exactly. Especially the Power issue. I know communities that don't even pay for power the use, yet they keep blaming government. They will be talking of other countries enjoying steady power supply, but they don't know how strict the government of those countries are on people not paying for power... Once you don't pay, they disconnect you immediately.

Apc HV failed in everything

buchilino:


KAI OYIBO OOO, I WONDER IF ITALIANS SPEND MORE LIKE WE DO, TO CORRECT DER OYIBO. HMMM

Italians do not have to correct their English because it's not their official language. When you make a language your official language, using it well is a responsible thing to do. By the way I wouldn't have bothered about any error if the topic conveyed the actual message.

Try and stop writing in capital letters. It doesn't make your points better.

CryptoTeacher:


Italians do not have to correct their English because it's not their official language. When you make a language your official language, using it well is a responsible thing to do. By the way I wouldn't have bothered about any error if the topic conveyed the actual message.

Try and stop writing in capital letters. It doesn't make your points better.

ONE: I DON'T TELL U WAT TO DO OR WAT NOT TO DO.
TWO: ON PAPER, OYIBO IS OFFICIAL LANGUAGE, HAVE U EVEN LISTENED TO UR PRESIDENT WEN HE SPEAKS ENGLISH. HE DOESN'T SPEAK GOOD ENGLISH BUT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WAT HIS COMMUNICATING. IF A SENDS MESSAGE TO B, N B RESPOND, COMMUNICATION HAS TAKEN PLACE MY DEAR.

buchilino:


ONE: I DON'T TELL U WAT TO DO OR WAT NOT TO DO.
TWO: ON PAPER, OYIBO IS OFFICIAL LANGUAGE, HAVE U EVEN LISTENED TO UR PRESIDENT WEN HE SPEAKS ENGLISH. HE DOESN'T SPEAK GOOD ENGLISH BUT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WAT HIS COMMUNICATING. IF A SENDS MESSAGE TO B, N B RESPOND, COMMUNICATION HAS TAKEN PLACE MY DEAR.

It's difficult to understand you. I understand the president better.

Kpengla:
Seun your new supermod has serious deficiency in his English language skills...your headlines are an awful mess

Is English Nigerias official language

CryptoTeacher:


It's difficult to understand you. I understand the president better.

AT LEAST WE AGREE ON SOMETHING

EEDC haven't given us electricity for two days now since the rainfall. I really hate rainfalls in Nigeria because it seems to come with a lot of wahala for our electricity. Ukrainians still have electricity even after almost 2weeks of invasion but here,it's always a different case.

Since they know how to apologize, we customers too shouldn't pay for what we didn't use.

Devil1Messenger:

Ur analysis is wrong
Nigeria has enough oil, solar, gas and hydro resources, and it has the potential to generate 12,522 MW of electric power from existing plants. most days, it is only able to dispatch around 4,000 MW, which is insufficient for a country of over 200million people. The 4000MW mostly come from hydro. It has nothing to do with the price. As for the fuel, the solution its for us to have refineries not what u are suggesting. We take those things from here to them to refine and bring it back with so much money and expect to put that amount on citizens, when govt can easily build refineries and the price of fuel will fall drastically

Well, yeah, but to maintain and expand that capacity, you need to make a profit selling power. To fix the transmission, you need to make enough of a profit selling power to raise the money

I can have 1000 acres of tomato under cultivation, but if I am selling at a loss, the same way DISCOS and GENCOS sell power at a loss, I would be losing money.

As for fuel, the same thing. In order to keep petrol subsidised, NNPC sold fuel at a loss, the result of which not enough profit to keep up our refineries, or to build new ones, and thus they all broke down.

Please try and get your prepaid metre even if you have to buy it yourself, we have barely had any electricity for three weeks now, I don't care because I have a prepaid metre , they won't see a dime from me till they give me light, that is why they don't want people to have prepaid metres

GET a prepaid meter to stop the arbitary non-stop extortions!

The same excuse of low level of water in dam yearly since I was born. Stupid people keep your excuses to yourself and do the work you are supposed to do

The reason is more than one. Why does the headline say "reason"?

backbencher:


Well, yeah, but to maintain and expand that capacity, you need to make a profit selling power. To fix the transmission, you need to make enough of a profit selling power to raise the money

I can have 1000 acres of tomato under cultivation, but if I am selling at a loss, the same way DISCOS and GENCOS sell power at a loss, I would be losing money.

As for fuel, the same thing. In order to keep petrol subsidised, NNPC sold fuel at a loss, the result of which not enough profit to keep up our refineries, or to build new ones, and thus they all broke down.

There are a lot of ways to generate revenue to finance these projects without putting burden on the citizen. The cost of governance is too high. Just take off 50% they pay to senators and house of rep members and even the presidency and stop the allowances for a while, but they won't do it

Devil1Messenger:

There are a lot of ways to generate revenue to finance these projects without putting burden on the citizen. The cost of governance is too high. Just take off 50% they pay to senators and house of rep members and even the presidency and stop the allowances for a while, but they won't do it

1.Taking off 50% of the senators and reps won't pay for the costs of production. To put things in perspective, budget for national assembly is at least 1.5 trillion naira in total. Half of that is 500 billion naira. Subsidy costs in both the power and petrol sectors exceed 2 trillon annually...and they are rising. Projects cost is even higher...we need to do a lot of building and repairing. Power sector, even when they have a good year, are always at least one trillion naira short of what they need to fix things.

2.At the end of the day, the priniciple is still the same. Run power and petrol profitably, and they would grow. The GSM folks were allowed to charge whatever they wanted...even when service was so poor (at one point someone could not call a Econet, now Airtel line with an MTN line, which is how Nigerians started having two sim cards)..and they used the profit to fix things.


3.The problem with your argument is that you can extend it to other sectors. Like government can wake up and say that yam is too expensive and force yam sellers to sell yam at n200 per tuber. Where is the yam seller going to get money to pay his supplier, and by extension the transporters, and the farmers that produce the yam, at N200 per tuber.?

“AEDC knows full well the place and role of electricity to life, economy, and security,’’ he said.
Lies

backbencher:


1.Taking off 50% of the senators and reps won't pay for the costs of production. To put things in perspective, budget for national assembly is at least 1.5 trillion naira in total. Half of that is 500 billion naira. Subsidy costs in both the power and petrol sectors exceed 2 trillon annually...and they are rising. Projects cost is even higher...we need to do a lot of building and repairing. Power sector, even when they have a good year, are always at least one trillion naira short of what they need to fix things.

2.At the end of the day, the priniciple is still the same. Run power and petrol profitably, and they would grow. The GSM folks were allowed to charge whatever they wanted...even when service was so poor (at one point someone could not call a Econet, now Airtel line with an MTN line, which is how Nigerians started having two sim cards)..and they used the profit to fix things.


3.The problem with your argument is that you can extend it to other sectors. Like government can wake up and say that yam is too expensive and force yam sellers to sell yam at n200 per tuber. Where is the yam seller going to get money to pay his supplier, and by extension the transporters, and the farmers that produce the yam, at N200 per tuber.?

Do that 50% for 4years and use it to build refineries. Nobody is asking them to subsidise. This govt never believed in subsidy until they came in. Why couldn't they used the idea they had then which is build more standard refineries and end this subsidy once and for all. They won't because they are benefiting from it. There is more to this subsidy issue than we read on papers.

backbencher:


1.Taking off 50% of the senators and reps won't pay for the costs of production. To put things in perspective, budget for national assembly is at least 1.5 trillion naira in total. Half of that is 500 billion naira. Subsidy costs in both the power and petrol sectors exceed 2 trillon annually...and they are rising. Projects cost is even higher...we need to do a lot of building and repairing. Power sector, even when they have a good year, are always at least one trillion naira short of what they need to fix things.

2.At the end of the day, the priniciple is still the same. Run power and petrol profitably, and they would grow. The GSM folks were allowed to charge whatever they wanted...even when service was so poor (at one point someone could not call a Econet, now Airtel line with an MTN line, which is how Nigerians started having two sim cards)..and they used the profit to fix things.


3.The problem with your argument is that you can extend it to other sectors. Like government can wake up and say that yam is too expensive and force yam sellers to sell yam at n200 per tuber. Where is the yam seller going to get money to pay his supplier, and by extension the transporters, and the farmers that produce the yam, at N200 per tuber.?

Do that 50% for 4years and use it to build refineries. Nobody is asking them to subsidise. This govt never believed in subsidy until they came in. Why couldn't they used the idea they had then which is build more standard refineries and end this subsidy once and for all. They won't because they are benefiting from it. There is more to this subsidy issue than we read on papers.
And if we don't do the needful now, the price of fuel will continue to increase. The more population increase, the more the demand will increase and the more govt will have to pay to bring it , thereby resulting into increment in price. The amount OBJ govt spent in bringing it, wasn't the same Yaradua and GEJ spent, isn't the same buhari govt is paying now. Logistics and cost of refining will definitely increase with time and that will in turn affect the final price. U pay money to transport it to abroad and u pay money to bring it back when everything can be done here.

"low power outage" see the kind of people seun is paying to run the platform.

Devil1Messenger:

Do that 50% for 4years and use it to build refineries.

We need far more than that to build one refinery.

Nobody is asking them to subsidise.

Building refineries in Nigeria does not mean cheap fuel. Refineries cost money to maintain, and expand and upgrade, plus refining fuel is a very expensive process.

Niger has oil and refines fuel at home. One liter costs N350.

Even the fuel we refine abroad in substandard refineries costs N250 at least, if not more, per liter to produce.

Subsides are there because 1) Nigerians want them 2) Nigerians want them 3) Governments prefer them, because they are scared of the implicaitons of no subsides (prices being higher for everything else). The subsidies on the other hand are bad for our economy and refining capacity.

This govt never believed in subsidy until they came in. Why couldn't they used the idea they had then which is build more standard refineries and end this subsidy once and for all. They won't because they are benefiting from it. There is more to this subsidy issue than we read on papers.

Because, governments in Nigeria are afraid of the high price bit resulting from removing subsides., and that includes this government (Buhari would have kept fuel at N87, if Emefiele and Kalichukwu had not talked him out of it in 2015). I myself support subsidy removal totally, and have done so since 2012, but anytime I suggest it on this site, I get cursed to high heavens.

Removing subsidy would have guaranteed increased investment in domestic refining..in plain englisch, more refineries.

shevchenko:

Is English Nigerias official language

Mumu

sparkyJ:
Na now dey break abi?

At least, they gave reasons and tendered an apology to their customers which is the right thing to do.

You people can never be satisfied no matter how one tries.