₦airaland Forum

LordAdam:
Don't mind them. It was under GEJ that the first coal electricity production plant was commissioned by a private company. I wonder if that project will be continued, now that Buhari is there. Or if more coal plants will be commissioned by Buhari.

No expert has said we cannot use coal electricity in Nigeria or that we would not derive the same benefits countries like US, China, South Africa and the rest of the world is deriving from using coal to produce electricity.

The worse part is that Nigeria has a very huge market for electricity. The total estimated demand including industries according to MAN is at least 100,000 MW. Then Nigeria can export electricity to the entire West Africa, spreading our influence and bringing in more revenue.

-Lord

Please let us be factual.

There was exactly ZERO construction or commissioning of coal fired plants during Jonathans time. All i remember is an MOU.
Infact the ex minister of power signed more MOUs than contract agreements throughout his term.

Coal is the best and easiest solution but GEJ did nothing to turn around the coal mining sector . All Buhari has done is also mere good intentions as well.

winterfell007:
i have said it one million times. investment in embedded power generation is surest way to go. NERC should license independent power operators that can build smaller power plants that ranging from 1megawatts to 59 megawatts to be deployed to large residential estates such as Festac, Gowon estate, Shagari estateand Jonathan estate. cut off the inefficiency associated with grid transmission. Lagos state pioneered it, Anambra state is already started building such facility that for estates such as Ngozika estates in Awka. we really need to investing in off-grid energy solution that's the way forward.

You actually think the world will allow you to do embedded power? No way. Go and read Kyoto and the latest targets. Ten 50MW stations pollute five times more than one 500MW station. If you say you will solve the problem by adding flue gas treatment, the cost of each power plant will double. Embedded power still requires connection to the grid so it is "NEPA substation" kind of thing everywhere.
Osinbajo has brought a better solution . Solar energy at 5MW per apartment and you pay small, small over many years. After each battery bank replacement your bill goes up slightly then comes down again

kITATITA:
When people like you are blowing up gas pipelines, you think Buhari will queue at the filling station with plastic container to buy petrol.

Yes if i were Buhari, i would put the whole region on lock down. Full militarization of the place. Let them come and fight Nigerian Army. Since they think they will win, it will last years and they will lose everything . Young people will grow from teenage to thirties fighting. Then they will kniw what curse of war is about.
Maybe that is what the North needs to catch up with the rest of the country.

Generally speaking i am inclined to people suffering when they glorify war. Go and ask kids in Syria. They have lost everything and all the parties fighting will never ever ever get what they are fighting for

Emekamex:
The government should invest more on dams.
-It is more reliable and more stable.
-It is less prone to vandalism.
Gas supply has always been an issue in Nigeria year in year out due to vandalism, it is about time we think outside the box and do things differently.

They are looking for money for Mambila dam. I think three clean coal power plabts can be streamed in three years in Enugu or Ajaokuta. Funny enough , a project like Ajaokuta would have been producing gases and heat energy to fire 1000MW

Ovamboland:
The writer only succeded in deceiving himself with his opening of non-affiliation and went right on to repeat the campaign lines used by PDP to denigrate and insult Buhari's candidacy.

He further exposed himself when he eulogized Jonathan for freedom enjoyed by the press thereby cheapening the sacrifice made by ordinary Nigerians of all walks who confronted the most vile military dictatorship we ever had under Abacha going as far as what is termed guerrilla journalism. Our reporters were so valiant, and many were simply killed by the the state then, that the Abdulsalami administration was unable to maintain any further crackdown on media freedom. To reduce that heroics to the magnanimity of Jonathan or even Obasanjo is a big fallacy by the writer. Under both leaders and Yar'adua, there were spurts of intimidation of the media though never large scale as seen before.

The truth is unconstitutional governments like military types can only pretend to guarantee citizen's constitutional rights. Whether the direct in your face dictatorship type led by Buhari from 1983, who sets up tribunals to try accused, or make draconian laws to gag whomsoever will be against their agenda and try to live by their own laws. Or the one who came smiling in 1985, ruling by deceit and subterfuge, repeal the gagging laws but operate according to it anyway, sends letter bombs to it's opponents or accused, or asked us all to tighten our belts but wound up with 50 bedroom mansions, private jets and huge private financial investments.

In all a poorly written campaign material to support the then ruling government's desire for another term, without in insight or farsighted statements. All the allegations of suppression of the press, of women and religious conversion (not mentioned by writer) has not happened

This is exactly what i am saying. It might appear to be a good piece to fresh graduates from UNN or FUTO but it is shallow in the extreme.

Another big lie being told is that the problem of Nigeria can be solved by some kind of "financial innovation" the talent for which was only granted by God to PDP as a party and a select few other people including Jonathan as a person and three others NOI.
LOL. I laugh in kenery language. This is as credible as saying only the thief can manufacture and deliver back to the car that he stole in the first place.

The reality of life and the situation of Nigeria is harsher than this. We have to restructure at a deeply personal level , change paradigms about life and go back to agriculture and production. Farming, small scale manufacturing preferably using only raw materials.
We need to work hard and fight corruption. Young people have to force themselves to learn new skills preferably those that are in direct demsnd in industry. A university degree is probably going to be a disadvantage soon.

What of tge biss of this man. The man we elected to defend Nigeria to which he swore on oath to perform

This article is intellectually blank. A personal opinion shared by a certain folk from the SE part if Nigeria. What i find funny abiut parochial world views is not the narrowness of them but the lack of reality. The writer obviously thinks Nigeria is defined by a few cities , its needs summarised by the needs of the urban midfle class and time will freeze itself for these demographics.

After he wrote the article, i am sure a lot has happehed. Buhari won the elections, the bottom dropped out of the oil market, Jonathans appointees were mostly all found to be corrupt and Naira lost most of its value . All the smug, self deception has vanished. Nigeria before Buhari was fake. A half educated middle class jerking themselves around thinking they were going places with a currency whose value was deternined by the market performance of volatile commodity. Nigeria was deceiving itself big time throughout the PDP regime.

There is no modern economics. There is production, creation of value, supply chain, global sales , earning of foreign exchange and re investment of same. We cannot jerry-rig success without hard work, discipline and lack of corruption.

MrPresident1:
I am very much interested in the evolution of this story.

That girl is possibly under some kind of hypnosis.

18year old boy and 17year old girl. Which kain hypnosis be dat?
It is pure, natural physical attraction.

watts75:
Ese Oruru is 17yrs
Yunusa is 18yrs

This is getting interesting

She is too young to change her religion. Stupid kids shoukd have been patient. Stupid parents should have kept eyes on their kids

Mogidi:
Thanks @theshadyexpress, this is but a fraction of roads reconstructed under Dr Jonathan.
Great article.

Reconstructed. We want to see NEW roads.

Let me also tell you. The East west road contract has been awarded about six times by PDP governments, the money chopped and then the contract re awarded. When they really want to scam, they award a road contract, appropriate the money, secure a chinese loan for the same project, then later convert it into PPP.

The things that PDP did with roads in Nigeria are ten times more criminal than Dasuki gate. Osinbajo was not scratching the surface

Austino101:
......................... 1 of d new roads built by GEJ is d double lane road frm ughelli to Patani in Delta State.........xo abeg of Prof 2 go into proper checkings b4 he start anoda lie of d year..,.....i dnt mean revamp road......newly constructed road including d 2nd bridge built by setraco construction company in Patani LGA of Delta State

This does not sound like a Federal Road. Is this a Federal road built by the Ministry of Works or Delta state?. Was it an intervention by other bodies like Desopadec or NDDC?.
I think you are lying,

careersap:
It is a fact that GEJ built more roads than any previous head of state. One shining example is Benin-Ore road that defied 7 past head of states.
The VP might have backsliden.

Benin Ore road is a new road to you?

It makes sense to give Buhari two tenures. Nigeria needs to be comprehensively changed and a single term is not enough

Please stop disgracing this man with the epiphet Nollywood actor. He was far above Nollywood in class and pedigree. They were the grandfathers of Nollywood.

Actually this is true. Jonathan had five ministers that were the best one could have in the whole world. Outside these five, the others were dull, incompetent thieves like Moro and Stella Oduah.
As i said many times good ministers cannot compensate fir a clueless and bad president

Oladimejyy:
PMB is boosting our soldiers moral......Thats why it good to have a brave president not that otueke coward that has phd in fraud

That PhD in fraud was even fake sef.

Dear Doyin Okupe, please give us the list of new roads built by Jonathan

TonyeBarcanista:
Is it not funny that a member of FEC when GEJ was in government, Samuel Orthom is now an APC Governor of Benue state? Is Orthom incorruptible?

What about Kawu Baraje, a Chairman of Nigeria Railway Corporation in most part of GEJ era that led nPDP to APC? Is he absolved?

What about the light rail fraud of Fashola and Amaechi in Lagos and Rivers respectively? Are they clean?


On the subject, the investigators/prosecutors should do their work and go to court BUT APC shouldn't seek to score cheap point with this. Beside, the Transport minister under GEJ and NRA are to respond.

You are owning corruption subliminally when you post this. My advice to most Jonathan supporters or SE/ SS people is to separate the man/people from the party or tribe to protect the party or tribe. There are many incorruptible and uncorrupted PDP members yet many APC memvers if you gave them Nigeria to run, it would be like "Gone in sixty seconds" and it is our treasury that i am talking about o.. not a sportscar.

The Senate President is APC, yet PDP supporters find themselves defending him. Why?

When you mix everything together and try to defend everything and everybody , thst is when you start looking ridiculous.
No corrupt politician can make me personally look ridiculous.

dammytosh:
As long as it is GEJ.

Many things are possible.

He might not even be aware he signed any contract.

This is very true. However, we need this railway. Let the probe not delay execution.

emekamn:
why not an indeginous firm of charterred accountant? Let's go local 100%. Seems people who preach to us about paradice don't believe in it.

PWC is not just Chartered Accountancy pleeaase.
They have a lucrative governnent services business already working with most US government departments (ministries) .
Chartered accounting consulting is actually their dying business

I have worked in consultancy. The methodology is different with foreign consultants. They also have many unbelievably robust tools and ability to leverage whst they have done for successful businesses to governments. Our civil service has gibe down in quality, working with consultants is one way to improve them.

TheGoodJoe:
Stake Holders in GEJ pulling out their resources. That is all I see. The Federal Government should focus on Subsidizing production in Nigeria and the reduction in prizes of made in Nigeria goods.

This will make the local consumption of our made in Nigeria goods to grow, while reducing the cost of living.

God Bless PMB.

Gbam
Nigeria has a steady hand now. Good luck Jonathan was running a loose ship. He was even too afraid to go and read his own budgets. That was how clueless that President was. Only five ministers knew what they were doing and for them, they started too late, Aganga or had their policies destroyed poli thieves e. g Adesina whose agric progranme was arguably all flash but was furthet wrecked by importation of rice and palm oil.

APC is a very intellectual party. Their supporters are smart, young , urban dwelling professionals. It is easy for them to understand that there is no difference in policy thrust in the 5k for the worst unemployed youth which is the VP's pet programne and Buhari's insistence that the young people do some work for it. So what will happen eventually is public construction works by direct labour and a minimum salary of 18k per youth.

The programme is already in the budget anyway so it appears the PDP zombies are the ones in la la land about it.

rozayx5:
the zombies keep chatting sai baba while the economy goes into oblivion

kenai firefire anonimi

They moved it under Jonathan when the oil price crashed. This was the second time. The first time they noved their money was during the global financial crash

These are the kinds of investments the Buhari government should not depend on or reckon with. These are fast monies moving in and out of countries without adding to the country in real terms- Indorama, Nestlé, Cadbury, and real producers of goods and services are still here. Nigeria needs sustainable i investment .. Not fast money. . ,

kITATITA:
Someone please educate me; is there any country in a monolith economy that got better after currency devaluation

Very very intelligent question. There is a new kind of colonial mentality going on. A young educated Nigerian reads Bloomberg, Reuters and New York Times and takes their suggestions as ultimate panaceas. The mis-informed press of the worlds greatest debtor becomes oracle. I laugh in kenery language. The mumu wey dey worry IPOBs/IPODs/IPADs just comot for gym. You dey import fuel do every thing and you wan devalue

Final Score:
ManU (Team 2) 3
Arsenal. 2

TippyTop:
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Buhari would be faced with Boko Haram, IPOB and Militants. Nigeria would become the new Syria.

Nigeria will bury all her enemies

This is stupid Nigerian youth for you, justifying corruption without even thinking past effects. he has not looked at the cause and the chronology. Next year he is in front of Jamaican embassy applying for visa. To think really deep about anything is a problem yet they want breakthroughs.

Deep spiritual stronghold in the mind.

caselessogbuagu:
Gej and his service chiefs are too braindead to be this innovative.

Brain dead and pocket alive. In one instance on a single day Badeh shared $800k each with an officer four ranks below him.
My ex President was just there looking dumb as usual. Why w3 wont he, did he work or soend money to be president?. Did he campaign, just a lucky idiot mis using his position.

Henry240:
Landmines are a risk, however, they would operate away from the battle. The bikes would feel the much needed reconnaissance role, so risks are lower.

The bikes are 95% safe from IEDs. Their weights are too low to set things off usually. It is also easier for a bike to avoid IEDs. No sophisticated land mines are in Boko arsenal.

Sheriff and Fayose. The well educated militant founder and the dumb taxi driver with the big mouth. This is degradation of the country. The PDP is more than all these local champions. PDP used to count Ekwueme, Akinjide, Lar as members. It was Jonathan that dumbef it down. I hear Mama Peace wants to contest governorship. Who has cursed this party?

Sharplogger:
dunno Y Nigerians are soo blinded from the truth...I weep for this country & I weep the more 4 in vain do I weep cos the wheel of dis country is being staired by a Rockie

Buhari is a rookie. Ha ha ha.
We brought an NDDC officer into Aso Rock , you did not call him a rookie. You are calling a former head of state, minister of petroleum who was building all the infrastructure during the Abacha regime a rookie. What are you smoking?

YourMrBoo:
Buhari is a dullard
APC is a very big scam scam

This article needs an intellectual to understand. You are a tape recorder programmed to type those six words.
" the bureaucracy lacks depth". Do you understand what that means?. GEJ stripped the civil service of ability to function as the FG was completely privatised. I know for instance that Okonjo was working with only international consultancy companies throughout -like Mckinsey whilst turning the bureaucracy to mere file pushers. Jonathan's government also stripped the ministries of files and key information. Buhari is actually building a government from the scratch.