proeast:


It’s really sad how hate and bigotry has eaten so deep into them. That dude is probably hungry and hopeless but will rather expend his energy to hate on others.

They forget that the basic reason naira continues to crash against the dollar is because Nigeria is producing next to nothing. How can Vietnam that has land borders with China be producing almost everything they need locally yet Nigeria that is thousands of miles and oceans away keep complaining of cheap Chinese imports?

Now that Aba has come to help Nigeria overcome this existential problem, some primitive bigots are still hating??!!!!

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Those evil entities should be watched closely, so that they won't cause any physical damage to the power station.

igwebuike01:

I just de laugh your people. South South can't even managed the pH distribution company but EEDC is making huge profits next after Lagos. The east don't really fancy this "rich state" mentality because it impoverish the masses

No wonder, na "poor state" mentality dey affect una so.

ahaz:

Ooh it's not a big deal? So what is stopping Sound, Oyo, Ekiti, Ogun and kwara from getting theirs, ooh sorry I forgot Kwara has being snatched from you people..eehe, what is stopping your primitive enclaves from bulding even just 59mw of a generating station..envious souls.

Your ignorance is appalling, in the past, every power generated goes to the national grid, so no state was encouraged to generate its own power but with the new bill, things have changed. if the new bill had not been signed, Geometric would have transfered it to national grid.

Putindbutt:

No wonder, na "poor state" mentality dey affect una so.

See person wey rich state mentality dey worry, A people wey no fit sink common borehole dey clam rich state, no worry na cholera go reply you soon

Putindbutt:

A law that has already been signed is not yet general law?. You guys made a mistake coming to Nairaland, na for here we go dey expose una mental weakness.

Oga I have noticed that since the news of Aba power breakthrough came up you have lost sleep ever since, I will advice you to brazen up and write your will cos our achievements will definitely kill you before your time, take this from me.

TopBanter:


Precisely. IPPs are virtually as old as our current democracy which began in 1999. Nothing new or innovative about them regardless of the core technology involved. The purpose is same i.e provide power generated independently of the Nigerian grid.

Yet trust the insecure people, who would even describe their poop as beautiful, to be making noise over what is now a model that will be obsolete soon.

The FG, under Buhari, enacted the electricity and railway Acts of 2023 that gully decentralised the operation of power and rail in Nigeria.

With that development, small IPPs are nothing to deploy or celebrate today, for 'up to speed'and informed folks, because they were for an era when States, industrial zones, extensive government administrative area (like Alausa) and even upscale residential estates sought to escape the inefficiency of the central power generation, transmission and distribution solution previously domiciled under the FG.

These people are simply insecure and suffering from inferiority complex thus prone to over-hyping even the most mundane development they are affiliated with.

Below is what the SW is now targeting after the 2023 full rail and power deregulation law was ratified by the Buhari government.

Too many people, because they know Nigerians never read, use grey areas to decieve and deliberately misinform Nigeria for their own ulterior motives.

Why would sensible folks be manufacturing 7 litre V8 vehicle when all is now in place to allow them utilise the option of producing self-charging electric vehicles instead?

Discrete IPP models are obsolete. I expect to see even middle income States innovatively using different financing options to deliver what the SW is chasing below at State or regional level.


https://www.nairaland.com/7669913/southwest-states-launch-regional-electricity

You are the one rather unsecured and reeled with envy and acute jelousy that will only lead you to an untimely death.

With all the IPP mentioned by you, how many of them have being operational? If yhanof Geometric is not significant,why the Federal government show much interest to the point of the vp going their in person or are you saying that the Dangote refinery is not significant as well since we have many licensed reffineriy projects voncieved in the past before his? The point is, we are not talking of how many have being in the past or who started but which one is operational and completed.

For your information the Abs power station is a full functional fsikity equiped with it's generation and distribution mechanisms and not all this I pass my neighbor generators scattered all over your states you call IPP project's...Oga no die on top our matter oo, please take care of your family they need you more.

Putindbutt:

Lol, ontop 188MW for only 7 LG. I told you Caanaland is turbine powered. If these churhes need, they'd have got lincense & generate more to sell to various communities. There are industrial clusters with IPP. There's nothing special in Geometric, people have been generating power before you.

This your IPP or I pass my neighbor generator, what stops it from being used to light up your cities? What stops your states from making use of the initiative to light up your cities of it's that easy and versatile enough...The people from your tribe are the dumbest humans on earth only smarter than an earthworm.
You people feel you know but know actually notting cos a poorly educated and brainless margots fomnyour tribe can't educate us, una no reach.

Putindbutt:

Caanaland and Redemption camp are not generating for profit and both are turbine-powered, go and verify. Geometric power is generating power for profit purpose, that's the difference. many industrial clusters are on IPP too, small boy.

So what's stops you from generating in large quantity for profit? So you don't need electricity to pump the bore hole wey NDDC out for your hamlet abi? Why all this envy for God sake? If it's not a big deal on naira land it's a big deal all over and every known media outlet ran all manner of televised discuss on this and are all having this move so opinions of some non entities like you on maraland gossiping and hating like frustrated women in an a polygamous marriage will not stop the fact that ABA has made history, you can go hang your worthless self.

proeast:
Just like the rejected stone that eventually became the pillar, Aba is now on the threshold to becoming Nigeria’s saving grace!

The situation in Nigeria is now almost hopeless except for the sliver of hope glimmering from Aba. Firstly, let’s look at the current situation of things & why no manufacturer will survive in the long run except they move their production base to Aba now:

1. Power generation has remained abysmal and in some cases worsening yet energy bills keep skyrocketing! Nigeria’s power generation still hovers around 4000 megawatts for a population of over 200 million. That’s most likely the lowest in the world per capita. No serious manufacturer can rely on PHCN, so they’re left to produce their own power & make use of PHCN as backup.

2. For a manufacturer to produce their own electricity, they would rely on diesel. A liter of diesel is currently 1700! Now multiply that to the number of liters their generating sets consume daily, weekly or monthly & tell me if any manufacturer can still run optimally and profitably?

3. Unfortunately, there are no official & clear-cut plans by the government to change this deplorable situation. So, it’s either MNC’s & local investors move their plant to Aba or go bankrupt/extinct eventually.

I went to Vietnam, a country that has border with China yet I was shocked to discover that almost everything consumed in Vietnam is produced in the country. So, I asked myself, how the hell was Vietnam able to overcome so-called cheaper Chinese goods? If Vietnam that has land borders with China could keep so-called cheap Chinese goods off their shelves, then why not Nigeria that is thousands of kilometers away?

With cheap & reliable electricity from Geometric, industries/plants in Aba can easily produce cheap goods & eventually ensure that Nigerian produced goods effectively replace those from China. If Vietnam can do it, then we can do it even more!

Aba has large markets & chains of distributors. It is connected by rail. Is near to cargo international airports in Owerri & P.H. As well as Onne seaport. Goods produced in Aba are daily supplied to markets all over Nigeria and to other countries like Cameroun, Gabon, Chad, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea etc.

Aba has become Nigeria’s best kept secret & saving grace. Any investor who fails to take advantage now should only blame themselves.

Well, you make a good case.

Aba could well be Nigeria’s joker.

The fulcrum for indigenous industrial take-off.

9japride:
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Those evil entities should be watched closely, so that they won't cause any physical damage to the power station.

You and your ilk are the "evil entities" you call others. Hatred of others has damaged your thinking and reasoning capacity beyond redemption.

Please, who would want to pursue what is now ancient and inefficient technology that is today rendered more or less obsolete by the full deregulation of the electricity and rail sector of 2023 under Buhari?

Unlike you JJCs, many of us have studiously followed development in the power sector for decades because we know the importance of electrification to industrialisation, manufacturing, SME proliferation, economic growth, inflow of FDI etal.

In fact, IPP only became popular because many proactive leaders wanted to use it to escape the inefficiency of FG-controlled power generation, transmission and distribution in Nigeria.

If you are not a JJC and pro-Igbo bigot you would realize several leaders, to include TInubu's pioneering effort for Lagos, even initiated ambitious IPP projects, that they later abandoned, when the FG gave approval to States to generate electricity.

Soon though, it became clear this was cynical and facetious obfuscation by the FG because IPP would have to still generate power into our national grid to then recieve a less than satisfactory percentage back because FG retained transmission and distribution rights then. This is why the enthusiasm for IPPs waned leading to their abandonment.

IPP are not a staple of the developed world and would not even had been an option if OBj, upon gaining power in 1999, did what Buhari did in 2023 by vesting the full power with States to generate, transmit and distribute their own power for their own use.

Don't therefore come here celebrating old and shunned IPP technology, as a 'game changers or 'saving grace of Nigeria, at a stage that States and even regions (the SW for sure) are now planing full and comprehensive electrification solutions after they had abandoned frustrating IPP adventures of the past.

You people should stop this dimness for god sake. It makes you all appear brainwashed and mentally 'challenged'.

No where will anyone be building any new IPP today, unless they had spent heavily to do so before Buhari's 2023 full deregulation of the power sector, when most States and region are now at planning stage to roll out well-structured and articulate plans for optimal and upscalable State and region-wide power supply.

What you people are doing is the equivalent of praising a hole in the ground toilet you built before everyone gained the water supply and hardware to build flushing cistern toilets. Stop the inferiority complex-driven idiocy abeg.

Stop exposing your ignorance and lack of knowledge in public because you are desperate to tout yourselves and all things affiliated to you as 'superior. When others then expose your illiteracy you foam at the mouth calling them "evil" because they did not allow your ignoranf lies fly.

Use the link below to educate yourself about IPP and why Lagos and others shunned it eventually. I
have provided an excerpt from the article to give a general idea of the central issue. Hope you lot will now shut up and dedicated yourselves to gaining knowledge yet I doubt, because of deep and raw hatred of others, you are capable of that.

By the way, all you IPOB trolls and haters who began following Nigerian politics only after Obi joined Labour should read the link below also to note Tinubu is never the mate of your empty and worthless 'Yes Daddy' failure and fraud.


https://www.nairaland.com/2194879/how-fg-cheated-lagos-state

‘However, in clear breach of the BPPA and the spirit of the Contribution Agreement, NEPA failed and or refused to devote any or all of the electrical output of the IPP to customers in the areas designated in the BPPA submitted for its contribution by NEPA,” the state said.

With this additional supply from AES, the total output from Egbin averages 800megawatts when gas is available.
The only issue under contention was that the power generated from AES was being transmitted to the National Grid for the use of the entire country, instead of only Lagos and this bordered on alleged failure by parties to honour contractual and business obligations.
Despite the controversy surrounding the Enron power project, the Federal Government still joined Lagos State to see the wisdom in breaking the monopoly of PHCN, hence the massive construction of power plants across the country and the planned privatisation of the ailing utility giant.

I don't understand some people on this forum


Somebody opens a thread to market his region,to showcase what he has that just might benefit others,just like a true marketer will do and all hell is let loose

All the venoms,biles,claws,fangs,devil horns and tridents are unleashed,.. haba

For showcasing what you have? If e pain you,show your own naa.

This is messy jor


And na one region dey always do this nonsense..

Please Change for your own good

Putindbutt:

His headline is funny to me, maybe he doesn't know we're talking about 188MW, and he's saying every manufacturer should relocate there, that small power will collapse. Since FG has since electricity bill into law, i expect more investors to set up power plants in any state of interest pretty soon.

The bill was passed by Buhari, almost a year ago. What are the investors waiting for?

Putindbutt:

Another lamba. Give us full information.

Google Amaraku Power Station and cure your ignorance(I doubt). When this was executed somebody was in far away Chicago with marks of white chalk on his nose.

Built by indigenous engineers. Not Chinko.

TopBanter:


You and your ilk are the "evil entities" you call others. Hatred of others has damaged your thinking and reasoning capacity beyond redemption.

Please, who would want to pursue what is now ancient and inefficient technology that is today rendered more or less obsolete by the full deregulation of the electricity and rail sector of 2023 under Buhari?

Unlike you JJCs, many of us have studiously followed development in the power sector for decades because we know the importance of electrification to industrialisation, manufacturing, SME proliferation, economic growth, inflow of FDI etal.

In fact, IPP only became popular because many proactive leaders wanted to use it to escape the inefficiency of FG-controlled power generation, transmission and distribution in Nigeria.

If you are not a JJC and pro-Igbo bigot you would realize several leaders, to include TInubu's pioneering effort for Lagos, even initiated ambitious IPP projects, that they later abandoned, when the FG gave approval to States to generate electricity.

Soon though, it became clear this was cynical and facetious obfuscation by the FG because IPP would have to still generate power into our national grid to then recieve a less than satisfactory percentage back because FG retained transmission and distribution rights then. This is why the enthusiasm for IPPs waned leading to their abandonment.

IPP are not a staple of the developed world and would not even had been an option if OBj, upon gaining power in 1999, did what Buhari did in 2023 by vesting the full power with States to generate, transmit and distribute their own power for their own use.

Don't therefore come here celebrating old and shunned IPP technology, as a 'game changers or 'saving grace of Nigeria, at a stage that States and even regions (the SW for sure) are now planing full and comprehensive electrification solutions after they had abandoned frustrating IPP adventures of the past.

You people should stop this dimness for god sake. It makes you all appear brainwashed and mentally 'challenged'.

No where will anyone be building any new IPP today, unless they had spent heavily to do so before Buhari's 2023 full deregulation of the power sector, when most States and region are now at planning stage to roll out well-structured and articulate plans for optimal and upscalable State and region-wide power supply.

What you people are doing is the equivalent of praising a hole in the ground toilet you built before everyone gained the water supply and hardware to build flushing cistern toilets. Stop the inferiority complex-driven idiocy abeg.

Stop exposing your ignorance and lack of knowledge in public because you are desperate to tout yourselves and all things affiliated to you as 'superior. When others then expose your illiteracy you foam at the mouth calling them "evil" because they did not allow your ignoranf lies fly.

Use the link below to educate yourself about IPP and why Lagos and others shunned it eventually. I
have provided an excerpt from the article to give a general idea of the central issue. Hope you lot will now shut up and dedicated yourselves to gaining knowledge yet I doubt, because of deep and raw hatred of others, you are capable of that.

By the way, all you IPOB trolls and haters who began following Nigerian politics only after Obi joined Labour should read the link below also to note Tinubu is never the mate of your empty and worthless 'Yes Daddy' failure and fraud.


https://www.nairaland.com/2194879/how-fg-cheated-lagos-state

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I don't really understand your ranting? The power development in Abia is a step in the right direction.
What other options have you guys came up with?
Even if government want to use nuclear energy, is the country even safe for such system? In addition with poor management of facilities in the country.
The truth of the matter is those people who always says Igbos will never be president are same set of idi@ts who are not happy with the development in Abia state.
My advice to young Igbo youths, is to be cautious when dealing with those who disturb everyone with one Nigeria slogan. The hate in the society is real, it's only a mischievous person that will want to deceive Igbo youths not to believe that there is a systematic hatred towards them so that they then be taken unaware.
They must always be at alert . Abia state and the entire south east is moving forward.

9japride:
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I don't really understand your ranting? The power development in Abia is a step in the right direction.
What other options have you guys came up with?
Even if government want to use nuclear energy, is the country even safe for such system? In addition with poor management of facilities in the country.
The truth of the matter is those people who always says Igbos will never be president are same set of idi@ts who are not happy with the development in Abia state.
My advice to young Igbo youths, is to be cautious when dealing with those who disturb everyone with one Nigeria slogan. The hate in the society is real, it's only a mischievous person that will want to deceive Igbo youths not to believe that there is a systematic hatred towards them so that they then be taken unaware.
They must always be at alert . Abia state and the entire south east is moving forward.

You’re just a paranoid bigot like most of your ilk.

Systematic hatred towards Igbos yet una carry una leg waka to go and live , in the millions, with those you claim hate you.

Do you people ever introspect to note how delusional and paranoid you sound. Those who truly believe others hate them go and live with those “enemies” in their millions?

They hate you yet you won’t stay away from your “haters”? Is that not sheer madness?

I cannot even address the rest of your post full of ignorant rubbish.

a4cube:
Google Amaraku Power Station and cure your ignorance(I doubt). When this was executed somebody was in far away Chicago with marks of white chalk on his nose.

Built by indigenous engineers. Not Chinko.

Lamba!

ahaz:

So what's stops you from generating in large quantity for profit? So you don't need electricity to pump the bore hole wey NDDC out for your hamlet abi? Why all this envy for God sake? If it's not a big deal on naira land it's a big deal all over and every known media outlet ran all manner of televised discuss on this and are all having this move so opinions of some non entities like you on maraland gossiping and hating like frustrated women in an a polygamous marriage will not stop the fact that ABA has made history, you can go hang your worthless self.

Mr. illiterate, the lincenses they had was for religious purposes not for commercial. There are many industrial clusters running on IPPs, so make una rest.

stonemasonn:
Is land available(in acres)?

Abia state has more land than Lagos, yet Lagos is doing well investment-wise.

What this means is that there is enough land in Abia state to accommodate more businesses than Lagos.

rdokoye:


The bill was passed by Buhari, almost a year ago. What are the investors waiting for?

9th senate under Buhari never passed it, Tinubu came in, made a few changes to the bill, signed it and sent it to the senate who then passed it into law. so, it wasn't up to a year, probably 3-4months. Anybody can now generate power including universities, communities, individuals, etc. It is left to state government to create boards/commission that would regulate power in their respective states.

stonemasonn:
Is land available(in acres)?

Aba unlike Onitsha have unlimited landscape for expansion.
Infact land is very cheap in Aba.

igwebuike01:

Aba has higher GDP per Capita than Lagos. The level of ignorance from your people is very funny. Note that world bank president personal approved this project after visiting Aba for feasibility studies. Aba purchasing power and disposable income is huge. 188 for 9 LGAs is very huge by Nigerian standards for now. Of course geometric will expand, but for now the 188 will have excess to be sold to National grid

Nonsense statistics that Nigerians project. Which GDP per capital? Where Abia or Aba wan see the GDP per capital? Which statistical agency talk the nonsense?

If you have a $1bn investment to make, where will you situate it? Aba or Lagos?

Which of the two states has the most purchasing power?

TopBanter:


You’re just a paranoid bigot like most of your ilk.

Systematic hatred towards Igbos yet una carry una leg waka to go and live , in the millions, with those you claim hate you.

Do you people ever introspect to note how delusional and paranoid you sound. Those who truly believe others hate them go and live with those “enemies” in their millions?

They hate you yet you won’t stay away from your “haters”? Is that not sheer madness?

I cannot even address the rest of your post full of ignorant rubbish.

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You are not a business man that's why you are sounding this way. Haters can keep hating and that won't stop an Igbo from doing business in your region.
Tell that those who always remind the Igbos that they can never be president. Funny set of things. Igbos are the only tribe that practice one Nigeria, others are just a bunch of hypocrites. For your information, Igbos will keep traveling to all regions in country until Nigeria cease to exist.

proeast:


Lol, Canaan land generating 15mw or redemption camp generating 10mw for themselves can’t be compared with what Geometric is doing in Aba. Using big generators to power a neighborhood is different. How sustainable and cheap is that in the long run? How impactful is that to the GDP? Mind you, Ariaria already has similar dedicated power plant that has been running since but it would be stupid to compare its effect or significance to Geometric.

If you think raising close to $1 billion USD & the local expertise to go with it in building such project is easy, then what stops your states from replicating Geometric?

Gosh, you guys should stop being insecure. A post advertising Aba without mentioning them yet they’re all over the place showing their insecurity.

Spit!

A lot of Igbo are blissfully naive and ignorant about the capacity of these people to hate and work against Igbo economic as well as political interests! I have warned Ndigbo that we will never reach our full potential as a people sharing the same country with them....using our own human and natural resources to develop organically at our own pace and on a level playing field! They're now in control of Aso-Rock and, together with their northern allies, have not only been diverting a disproportionate amount of economic and political benefits to their region and people, but have also been working to undermine Igbo interests as well! GEJ gave Ndigbo a seat at the table they've sat at from the late 60s to date, and this is one of the reasons they despised him so much and were desperate to get rid of him!

The moment i saw the topic of the thread, i knew exactly the people that will have a problem with it and give it traction....arguing back-and-forth! You can never try to sell economic opportunities Aba has to offer to investors without these insecure people feeling threatened! Try to ignore them!

IGBOSON1:


A lot of Igbo are blissfully naive and ignorant about the capacity of these people to hate and work against Igbo economic as well as political interests! I have warned Ndigbo that we will never reach our full potential as a people sharing the same country with them....using our own human and natural resources to develop organically at our own pace and on a level playing field! They're now in control of Aso-Rock and, together with their northern allies, have not only been diverting a disproportionate amount of economic and political benefits to their region and people, but have also been working to undermine Igbo interests as well! GEJ giving Ndigbo a seat at the table they've sat at from the late 60s to date, and this is one of the reasons they despised him so much and were desperate to get rid of him!

The moment i saw the topic of the thread, i knew exactly the people that will have a problem with it and give it traction....arguing back-and-forth! You can never try to sell economic opportunities Aba has to offer to investors without these insecure people feeling threatened! Try to ignore them!

Honestly, the situation is as disgusting as it is pathetic. I never mentioned them, their states or region. But only explained facts about how Geometric could help local industries survive and thrive. Yet these same people took it personal and became so angry. Talk about seaport or international airport in the East, these same people will start crying again. Talk about politics, the same thing!

Something is really wrong with these people. You can’t have this amount of hate for others and be normal. This is beyond witchcraft and Igbos should really be wary of them.

mightyhazel:
I don't understand some people on this forum


Somebody opens a thread to market his region,to showcase what he has that just might benefit others,just like a true marketer will do and all hell is let loose

All the venoms,biles,claws,fangs,devil horns and tridents are unleashed,.. haba

For showcasing what you have? If e pain you,show your own naa.

This is messy jor


And na one region dey always do this nonsense..

Please Change for your own good

You're ignorant. I only asked him to dial down on the ignorance that made him.pronounce IPP I his region the "saving grace" of Nigeria.

Do you people not understand the reality of how no ambitious State will be interested in an IPP today same as no one will use a 1999 GSM phone in today's age of ultra smart phones?

You people are like children who cannot be
corrected because you are unreasonable and don't want to listen to rational and logical correction.

IPP is no "saving grace of Nigeria" as the ignorant OP announced. Far from it.. That is what I am saying to your delusional kinsman OP.

IPP was attractive when FG generation was low and States felt they could secure steady power by generating supplementary electricity to use for their own need to deal with the shortfall of FG generation output.

Today, that is not needed because crafting complete and optimal electrification solution is now entirely in the hands of States since Buhari assented to the full deregulation of power.

We are correcting your ignorance and megalomania you are using to make a fool of yourselves and you keep seeing paranoid delusions about "one region".

Is SW the mate of the SE these days to be jealous of una? With this full deregulation of power and rail, see where the entire SW will be in 3 years while you braggarts, only interested in playing to the gallery, keep shouting IPP.

No serious State is interested in IPP today when, subject to financing, they can even invite Siemens etal to craft an optimal generation, transmission and distribution solution that will fully meet the electrification need of their State.

Simply tell your ignorant brothers to improve their knowledge before rushing online to make a fool of you all as an excitable ethnic group with nothing upstairs in their head.

Putindbutt:

Lamba!

At least your ignorance is cured. Back to your Putin and America abi Jews misinformation.

proeast:


Honestly, the situation is as disgusting as it is pathetic. I never mentioned them, their states or region. But only explained facts about how Geometric could help local industries survive and thrive. Yet these same people took it personal and became so angry. Talk about seaport or international airport in the East, these same people will start crying again. Talk about politics, the same thing!

Something is really wrong with these people. You can’t have this amount of hate for others and be normal. This is beyond witchcraft and Igbos should really be wary of them.

You're a coward. I am one of those who took you to task for your misinformation, driven by your inferior complex and insecurity, so stop pretending to be a victim.

You hailed something as Nigeria's "saving grace" and I simply tride to tell you to tone down your ignorant megalomania and backtrack.

IPP today is as much a saving grace as the phone shown below has anything to teach an iPhone 15 or a Samsung S23 currently.

I don't know why you people lack humility so much. You offend by deliberately peddling misinformation so you can praise the ' messianic' capability of the Igbo man yet when corrected you begin to play victim of envy and bad belle from others.

When the DAWN commision identified the joint electrification of the SW as a gamechanger as far back as 2013 and Tinubu, in 2000, had already delivered a pacesetting IPP project, does it make sense any Yoruba will envy you people obsessed with celebrating mediocrity?

Just learn to curb your ignorant megalomania abeg.

Instead of making noise and writing trash, can you show one single private independent power plant in your region as significant as Geometric? Not even no man’s land has any despite the billions it is getting from Nigeria.

Barth Nnaji built a huge private power plant worth almost a billion dollars to provide 24/7 electricity to Aba only for slum dwellers to be crying.

Pathetic losers!

TopBanter:


Precisely. IPPs are virtually as old as our current democracy which began in 1999. Nothing new or innovative about them regardless of the core technology involved. The purpose is same i.e provide power generated independently of the Nigerian grid.

Yet trust the insecure people, who would even describe their poop as beautiful, to be making noise over what is now a model that will be obsolete soon.

The FG, under Buhari, enacted the electricity and railway Acts of 2023 that gully decentralised the operation of power and rail in Nigeria.

With that development, small IPPs are nothing to deploy or celebrate today, for 'up to speed'and informed folks, because they were for an era when States, industrial zones, extensive government administrative area (like Alausa) and even upscale residential estates sought to escape the inefficiency of the central power generation, transmission and distribution solution previously domiciled under the FG.

These people are simply insecure and suffering from inferiority complex thus prone to over-hyping even the most mundane development they are affiliated with.

Below is what the SW is now targeting after the 2023 full rail and power deregulation law was ratified by the Buhari government.

Too many people, because they know Nigerians never read, use grey areas to decieve and deliberately misinform Nigeria for their own ulterior motives.

Why would sensible folks be manufacturing 7 litre V8 vehicle when all is now in place to allow them utilise the option of producing self-charging electric vehicles instead?

Discrete IPP models are obsolete. I expect to see even middle income States innovatively using different financing options to deliver what the SW is chasing below at State or regional level.

https://www.nairaland.com/7669913/southwest-states-launch-regional-electricity

Another page filled with rubbish and no substance. After writing the trash, you couldn’t even provide any tangible evidence except a senseless analogy.

Okay, since IPP has become obsolete, can you tell Nigerians what replaced it?

Ignorant and crassly insecure lots that are always triggered even with things that doesn’t concern them. Hausas saw the post and remained calm because they’re not insecure. Same with the middle belt, SS etc but the perennial insecure ones jumped in and started pouring spit everywhere.

Is there anywhere they mentioned your tribe, region or states? Are you the only ones in Nigeria?

Pathetic and primitive people.

TopBanter:


You're a coward. I am one of those who took you to task for your misinformation, driven by your inferior complex and insecurity, so stop pretending to be a victim.

You hailed something as Nigeria's "saving grace" and I simply tride to tell you to tone down your ignorant megalomania and backtrack.

IPP today is as much a saving grace as the phone shown below has anything to teach an iPhone 15 or a Samsung S23 currently.

I don't know why you people lack humility so much. You offend by deliberately peddling misinformation so you can praise the ' messianic' capability of the Igbo man yet when corrected you begin to play victim of envy and bad belle from others.

When the DAWN commision identified the joint electrification of the SW as a gamechanger as far back as 2013 and Tinubu, in 2000, had already delivered a pacesetting IPP project, does it make sense any Yoruba will envy you people obsessed with celebrating mediocrity?

Just learn to curb your ignorant megalomania abeg.

Yet the $1 billion USD power generation investment by Geometric was made in Aba and not Lagos. Can’t you see the joke is on you?!

LegendHero:


Nonsense statistics that Nigerians project. Which GDP per capital? Where Abia or Aba wan see the GDP per capital? Which statistical agency talk the nonsense?

If you have a $1bn investment to make, where will you situate it? Aba or Lagos?

Which of the two states has the most purchasing power?

proeast:
Just like the rejected stone that eventually became the pillar, Aba is now on the threshold to becoming Nigeria’s saving grace!

The situation in Nigeria is now almost hopeless except for the sliver of hope glimmering from Aba. Firstly, let’s look at the current situation of things & why no manufacturer will survive in the long run except they move their production base to Aba now:

1. Power generation has remained abysmal and in some cases worsening yet energy bills keep skyrocketing! Nigeria’s power generation still hovers around 4000 megawatts for a population of over 200 million. That’s most likely the lowest in the world per capita. No serious manufacturer can rely on PHCN, so they’re left to produce their own power & make use of PHCN as backup.

2. For a manufacturer to produce their own electricity, they would rely on diesel. A liter of diesel is currently 1700! Now multiply that to the number of liters their generating sets consume daily, weekly or monthly & tell me if any manufacturer can still run optimally and profitably?

3. Unfortunately, there are no official & clear-cut plans by the government to change this deplorable situation. So, it’s either MNC’s & local investors move their plant to Aba or go bankrupt/extinct eventually.

I went to Vietnam, a country that has border with China yet I was shocked to discover that almost everything consumed in Vietnam is produced in the country. So, I asked myself, how the hell was Vietnam able to overcome so-called cheaper Chinese goods? If Vietnam that has land borders with China could keep so-called cheap Chinese goods off their shelves, then why not Nigeria that is thousands of kilometers away?

With cheap & reliable electricity from Geometric, industries/plants in Aba can easily produce cheap goods & eventually ensure that Nigerian produced goods effectively replace those from China. If Vietnam can do it, then we can do it even more!

Aba has large markets & chains of distributors. It is connected by rail. Is near to cargo international airports in Owerri & P.H. As well as Onne seaport. Goods produced in Aba are daily supplied to markets all over Nigeria and to other countries like Cameroun, Gabon, Chad, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea etc.

Aba has become Nigeria’s best kept secret & saving grace. Any investor who fails to take advantage now should only blame themselves.

Concentrating on Africa alone will give Aba a fortune, let alone worldwide

proeast:
Yet the $1 billion USD power generation investment by Geometric was made in Aba and not Lagos. Can’t you see the joke is on you?!

Right now I will do it in Aba. Lagos no get energy. I will not power my factory using my fart