During the last elections, I worked well for Edo state , even donated money wey no dey to ensure LP has a strong base in Edo and all of a sudden...you ppl want to give it to PDP?

Many other people donated to ensure LP no loss for Edo. We held spaces...I practically turned into a beggar. Goin to dms saying please support us in Edo and now you ppl want to give Edo state to a failed party?

You are all not well!!!!

I m gonna take this personal!!!

As power supply continues to dwindle across the five South East states, residents of Anambra State lament the hardship the development has brought on them.

An investigation by DAILY POST showed that acute water scarcity has hit all the major towns in the state.

In Anambra, public water supply is almost nonexistent. For example, state water supply and public utilities’ offices have remained only a physical office, with no activity taking place over the years.


As a result, many families rely on sumo-powered boreholes drilled in their residences, for their water needs.

But for close to two months now, electricity supply in most parts of Anambra has remained epileptic.

While most parts of Anambra have remained in perpetual darkness, other parts that are privileged to witness power supply can only get low voltage that seems far too low to power their sumo, or any other household appliance.


The high cost of fuel and gas has also limited many commercial water sellers from engaging in the business, making it hard for families to access water.

In many instances, many water vendors no longer sell water, while the few that are available sell at very exorbitant prices.

For example, in Okpuno area of Awka, most residents who live in high rise buildings, but cannot afford to pump water using their private boreholes, have to rely on public boreholes, most of which are in far away locations.


A resident, Mrs Rose Obasi said: “In the 10 years I have stayed in Awka, I have never experienced this level of suffering. Almost throughout this term, my children have been going late to school.

“The reason is that they wake up and go to fetch water every morning; before they come back and prepare for school, it is already late.

“The stress they undergo to take water up to the third storey-building where we stay is another work. We are really suffering, and I don’t know when this will come to an end.”


Another resident of the area, Mrs Ifeoma Eke decried the impact of the current situation on women and children who are saddled with the responsibility of fetching water for household use.

“We now need to leave everything else to look for water. In many places, you buy one jerrican for 50 naira.

“You can imagine the impact of the stress on every family. The children are out looking for water when they are expected to get busy with other things,” Eke bemoaned.

A final year student of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Amara Chukwudi, was full of frustration over the situation which had made them spend unnecessarily.

“I bathed this morning with sachet water. There was no light and we could not find any means of pumping water in our hostel.

“Remember the price of petrol is equally unfriendly. Nigeria is fast becoming uninhabitable,” she lamented.

A mother of three, Mariam Zaidu, also shared a discomforting tale about the water challenge.

“More regrettably, this is happening at a time when there is too much heat. My children could not sleep yesterday.

“At the same time, power supply has dropped drastically. We need urgent government intervention, honestly,” she concluded.

In Onitsha, the densely populated commercial capital of Anambra State, electricity consumers also expressed worry over poor supply of electricity and called for withdrawal of licence from the power distribution firm, Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC).

Some of the consumers, who spoke to DAILY POST, claimed that at this critical period of economic crisis where hyperinflation of goods and services was the order of the day, the EEDC had contributed to diminishing their economic fortunes through unnecessary power outages for long hours.

Mr. Oseka Ifeajuna, a businessman, who owns a cold room in Onitsha, in an interview, disclosed that Nigeria does not want to grow as an economic giant because of selfish interests of owners of power distribution firms.

He reasoned that if the Federal Government under the then President, Goodluck Jonathan had considered some foreign electricity giants, poor electricity supply in Nigeria would have been a thing of the past.

He lamented that the high cost of fuel has also contributed to the downturn of his business, as he has no other alternative to survive in his cold room business.

Mr. James Onyedika, a barber, criticised both the Federal Government and the power distribution company, EEDC, for short changing Nigerians economically.

Onyedika said that the Federal Government and the EEDC were contributing to mass poverty in the country through their policies and actions.

He described the Federal Government and the power distribution company as “agents of darkness.”

He said that skilled youths were being suffocated in Nigeria under the present administration.

“This government is hypocritical. They don’t want poor people to survive in this country. How can you ask people to engage in one skill or the other, but at the end come up with one policy to cage the same people you pretend to be helping?” He queried.

He called for the withdrawal of the operating licence of EEDC, saying: ”It is highly unfortunate that a power distribution company managed by an Igbo man is contributing to poverty in the South East knowing that Igbos are industrious people who own several businesses and could be easily affected by poor supply of electricity.”

Reacting to this, the EEDC has insisted that it has the power to supply electricity in the entire South East zone, but stated that the supply of gas has been a major challenge.

In a press release by the spokesperson of the organisation, Mr Emeka Ezeh, EEDC said: “We wish to inform our esteemed customers that the current state of power supply within its network which has resulted in a drop in supply availability is due to low power generation caused by gas constraints to the thermal generating companies.

“This situation is beyond us, and this is not peculiar to EEDC. This development has resulted in low generation, leading to a reduction in the quantum of daily megawatt hour (MWH) of energy allocated to distribution companies nationwide.

“Consequently, the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), which is our primary source of power supply is constrained, as they only transmit what is generated and have resorted to System Load-shedding to forestall possible system collapse.

“This situation has equally impacted the quality of service to our customers, as we are contending with very low energy allocation wheeled to us by the TCN for distribution to our customers. A situation that has left us load-shedding available power to ensure it goes round.”

Meanwhile, as things stand, with the current rate of the dollar to Naira, which has remained high, the procurement of gas supply may remain high for a long time, and this will continually affect the allocation of power to EEDC, for onward distribution to end users.

A resident, Mr Bala Usman lamented that: “It is even worse that it is happening at this time when the weather is so hot.

“With the level of heat we are experiencing, and nonavailability of power, I’m afraid, we’re headed for the worst.”

Twistaray:
Nigeria bi wo? Nah Yib.o man.

Something that's been trending on Twitter and everybody already knows he's Yi.bo you come here come dey say ' Nigerian'? Lool

nairalandankrah:
The indigenes are being terrorised!

Kushites:


So that an aretfact was stolen in 1987 - 40 years ago, means the British should hold on to our treasures?

Do you think nothing has ever been stolen from British museums?

Read Here:

British Museum told to keep better records after theft of 1,500 items

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/dec/12/british-museum-told-to-keep-better-records-after-theft-of-1500-items

So, BRITAIN SHOULD RETURN OUR TREASURES SINCE 1,500 TREASURES GOT STOLEN FROM THEIR MUSEUM, AND THEY CAN'T MAINTAIN IT.

opamoses1:
If they get returned back to Nigeria, they would be restolen and then find their way back to the homes of millionaires and billionaires in Europe instead of public museum.

It happened I think in the 1980s.

opamoses1:

The truth is bitter. It would get stolen again and returned to Europe like the ones stolen in Jos in 1987.

decatalyst:
Hmmm...building gigantic buildings for goats and chickens to inhabit till Christmas or August meeting.


Please start building factories, institutions around these areas in order to engender rapid development.

opamoses1:
Not suprised one bit. They can't take 1/3rd of what they give.

This dude is just like Seunosewa, he used to pander to the ibos in the past.

Dear Igbo Followers, I Will NOT BE BULLIED

Tbh its not all of you that make my Igbo reviews about tribalism, A LOT of you support me and when you disagree with some things i say about your cultures food, you respectfully disagree and I have no issues with that.

But A LARGE chunk of you, the moment you hear me say Igbo or east, Your penis starts to stand and you quickly go the route of He hates Igbo’s, he’s a tribal bigot… because I talk say Fisherman soup sweet pass Oha?

Dont bring that energy to my page this year.

Do you know how wild it is that I have been to All the geopolitical zones in Nigeria and it was sweet, but the ONE TIME i went to the east for food tour I swore never to go back there because of Some of you’d bad behavior on my reviews.

Many times i would wana book a flight to Imo or Enugu but i’ll be like ‘Nah, before ai go there and say The jollof in Mama Nkwchi Buka no bang, and the next thing I know y’all would makw me trend for being a tribalist.

Some of you might not be violent physically but in the food scene, EVERYBODY that is not Igbo is scared of talking about or exploring Igbo dishes because they know the feedback from you people would ALWAYS be violent and emotional.

In case this post offends you, I said what I said.
This year I will talk about dishes from All tribes Including igbo and give my undiluted feedback. And I am ready for any smoke that comes with it.

Again, I have Zero issues with Igbo people, I love your culture, but sometimes m, a lot of misbehave online when your food is mentioned.

Jcoleworld911:


Chaii🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Are you not wicked like this?🤣🤣🤣🤣

They run away from their d1rty sisters and be looking for fine tall well kept igbo girls 🌝

Who will blame them nah?? All their rich and well to do men married Igbo girls, infact is an achievement for a Yoruba man to marry an Igbo girl

Yemi cregx of former bbn said it on national tv

Judolisco:
Congrats to him... Some people Don dey vex for thread again... When your man gets there let him appoint other tribes in key places una hear...dat was Jonathan biggest undoing

nonhuman:
We that are studying engineering in FUTO, futmina, futa etc who have employed us

flokii:
That's an Igbo lady born and bred in Lagos.. dem plenty like that and their Yoruba is very fluent that you won't tell on time that they are outsiders.

True Lagosians are enjoying peace and soft life as we speak.. no overcrowding, no lousy neighbors to disturb people's peace during festive period.

Christistruth00:


In his last Map of Biafra Simon Ekpa packed the Itsekiri and all the Yorubas in Kogi inside it
Not knowing that the other Yorubas would be duty bound to rescue them

Tjra:

Most Igbos didn't vote Asiwaju because of the lies peddle against him before the elections by the associates of Gbajue.

Good news is many of them have seen the truth now and are glad he won.

Lies may go on for a thousand years but surely truth will eventually catch up with it.

I'm glad it happened real fast.

Jcoleworld911:



Yours in Anambra is better

Our own here is an eyesore, see below

BeautifulMind2:

Ask that question to Chinese that dominate in industries in your region if southwest is better than China, Igbos are entrepreneurs they are everywhere hustling not just southwest, you can only learn from them instead of hating them, your ancestors fought for one Nigeria why are you complaining

Abagworo:
Learn to differentiate between turning to one city and being built up . Anambra has always been 2nd most built up and urbanized State after Lagos with Imo as 3rd but it doesn't translate to being one city. That's the reason people from those particular built up area pften called Igbo heartland are everywhere more than other Igbos. That urbanization needs to be halted to allow planning for spacing and possible city development to save land for the indigenous people.

Opolopoopolonio:
What keeps chasing you guys away from your 'beautiful cities'

vanbonattel:
We are proud of ourselves and our achievements, any angry bats should choke on their hate

Bobloco:


Stop being an internet wildebeest

KwuoteYourFada:


Schooled about keeping archaic rusticated buildings?


You people are poor simple!


Lazy asses who can't rehabilitate thier parents home


Una no get shame

Bobloco:


I hope you can as well attest to his knowledgeability when he called Tinubu a KNOWN DRUG LORD