₦airaland Forum

Gnaeusmagnus:
Discos are declaring force majeure because they are not allowed to set their prices.

NERC forces them to in essence sell power at 30 % of the actual cost price, then there is the fact that most people don't pay their bills, and estimated billing even makes the matter worse, and even government agencies owe discos.

This means low income for the discos and by extension the Gencos.

Government could change things by allowing discos to charge the price they want, punish defaulters, pay the discos what they the government owe them, enfrce meter distribution, and so on.

The elephant in the room is that power is expensive, and it is going to cost lots to get to stable & steady power supply

ednut1:
The average nigerian cannot afford electricity that is the main issue

You people with all this garbage mindset.

Bonny in Rivers State has 24hours electricity and all buildings including shanties have power, because they use prepaid meter. Nobody has time for you if you like pay, if you like don't pay. Nobody has bypassed their meters.

good for her

GamalNasser:
I don't see any tunnel or glass , I just see a metal scaffold skeleton

Get used to Nigerian version of English language.

ClassicMG:
I can't see any tunnel oo, all I'm seeing is just a round about with lighting work

You need to get used to Nigerian version of English language.

for jobless people.

Just got married 11-months ago, to avoid victimization at place of work, if she like make she go, no wahala
In fact I dey hope say she go walker. It is not worth all the hype.

I make sure to send IV to all supervisors, managers, and everybody, then after the marriage also send "THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING" message to all, for those on whatsapp including pictures and short video.

ibnlawal:
This pompous show off that you've acclimatized with yourself is kinda childish. You don't need yo screenshot any sh*t. Besides, it's Wi-Fi you are using.

lol, why bothering yourself with the dude? He is using free wifi from a Hotel close to his abode. Sometime ago the dude mentioned he hacked the hotel wifi, and you know most five star hotels are on unlimited, just like the big corporations, only impact is, it will slow down the connection for others using the wifi connection at the same time.

naijadrivablog:
In Cross River alone, Naijadriva can confirm that after 8 Miles Calabar to Ugep (where local boys wait for sinking vehicles to push and make money), to Odukpani, to Biase are in a deplorable state.

Calabar - Ikom road is bad. It takes about 8 hours to get to Ikom. Okpoma-Oba Road is bad (near Ogoja and Ebonyi State).



More photos of some bad sections of the road:

Is it the same road GMB launched since 2015?

https://www.nairaland.com/2678907/buhari-launches-calabar-kastina-ala-super-highway

Stop lying, the road is completed.

cc omenka

imhotep:
What about the legislooters?

Cc lzaa gmbuharii afamed

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Is it legislooter that award contracts?

If they don't blame governors, they will blame legislooters for a federal project.

theenchanter:
no, i've never been there but judging by ur pics and what i've read about it, u're overhyping it.... nothing specular, we need to stop celebrating mediocrity in this country.

Chief, why are you aguing with that man? He is an elder paid to spread false information.

Those places you see, being touted as tourist attraction is NLNG owned residential area for their workers. You can't gain access except by invitation. It has a very strong access control system using RFID which must be swiped at entrances to gain access to certain area as programmed by the company. The real Bonny community is like the typical Ajegunle town in Lagos. The only difference is that they have 24-hours electricity at cheap tariff, pipe borne water from 5am-6am morning and 5pm-6pm evening daily. The water times are like clock work, it comes in the morning exactly 5am and stops 1-hour later.

dipoolowoo:
By Adedapo Adesanya

She made this comment while answering a question asked by Senator Kasim Shettima as to why the capital market didn’t step up to absorb the effects of Nigeria going into a recession in 2016. /

These people are a big joke. You want to blame capital market for not taking action to stop the recession?

Factors that cause a recession include high interest rates, reduced consumer confidence, and reduced real wages. Effects of a recession include a slump in the stock market, an increase in unemployment, and increases in the national debt.

1. Nigerian banks give loans are very high interest rates. Government is not doing anything to reduce the interest rates to single digits.
2. Many states could not pay salaries, some paid half salaries which reduced real wages
3. Dollar to Naira exchange increase without increase in workers salaries, which also meant reduced real wages.

What did the government do? Which policies did the government put in place? None. Instead government decided to increase tax and imposed additional taxes, which in turn reduced the real wages of workers.

grandstar:
Though Akwa Ibom is on the list, I don't feel it is a true member as its IGR is heavily dependent on the oil sector. It is too exposed to that sector.

Lagos and Rivers I believe are the true champions.

Can the FG survive without oil money and VAT?

Some people just make it seem like the FG is struggling to make money and spoon feeding the states, while it is the other way round. The FG takes all the money from the states and redistribute to all including majority of states that can't survive on its own.

Ogun state that people are shouting just as the Aregbe governor did previously, was the first state to owe workers' salary when the allocations to states reduced due to falling oil prices.

MrBrownJay1:
This stuff happens ALL OVER THE WORLD bro, not only in Nigeria....and thousands are languishing in jails with trumped up charges from dubious cops...but that doesn't mean every person is innocent either.

That boy is lucky, read below the story of the innocent dude who spent 31yrs in US jail, with NO EVIDENCE whatsoever: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/23/fbi-evidence-single-hair-kirk-odom

Nigerians, always comparing apples and oranges. US case a crime was committed, someone filed a complaint and a different person was arrested without tangible evidence of having committed the crime. In Nigeria police arrest and fabricate an imaginary crime against the accused without any complain or witnesses.

FreelanceRebel:
Why not shut it if your lack patriotism for your country. your nightmare Buhari will be out of the game in 3 years

Some children of hate here think this is about Buhari. Why are you guys so unintelligent? - xnsandrxns

His patriotism won't win the case, but facts will.

tactius:
Discos are forced to charge bills below production costs, so they reject power because they cannot afford it.

Nigerians and government agencies not paying for power makes things worse

You always sound like a local champion. Unfortunately, you are not discussing with your village people.
How can you the playing the same gibberish on auto repeat anytime it is mention that "DISCOs are rejecting power."

Are Discos producing power? They knew the ratio before delving into the business, why the sudden lamentation?

If the power is cheaper than their cost, is there anybody pointing a gun at their head? I read sometime last year that they wanted to revoke their licenses but they refused.

Someone says take power and pay a fixed amount, then sell to you customers with this markup. You reject some of the power.

So filling stations too should be justified to sell fuel above the pump price after the government had sold to them at a fixed price and given the fuel dealers a maximum markup they can add. I suggest you should also importune the masses to accept the filling stations sell at market price since the N145 is below production cost, the same way you have been doing for the DISCOs.

Please i need visa. Once my visa is approved I pledge to marry 5 wives for a start, then ten before visa is granted to lalasticala and seun who is in search of a virgin wife

kennygee:
Don't you people look into the family you are marrying into?

It is very obvious her mother doesn't care about marital values and the place of a wife in a home.

I am not an agitator for divorce and I'll tell you that thus is not enough reason for a divorce.

Give it a try, sit her down, tell her the things you won't accept in the marriage anymore, that until you see changes, you won't give her your all.

Tell her to focus on you and leave her family alone.

You can never be AGITATOR.

joey150:
How does everybody else cope in Nigeria?

How do other businesses that rely on electricity cope?

I freelance in my spare time, but this question reeks of attention seeking in my honest opinion.

Almost every Nigerian has to contend with epileptic power supply in one way or the other. From the small artisan shop around the corner to the big multinational companies in posh and lush locations.

A freelancer is no exception to the rule, neither is their struggle any different.

Nigerians always offpoint.

He asked a question. if you have no advice for him, why castigate him.

Is he forcing you to respond?

lol

send to jock section

Everybody no say this man na otu-osha

Na only that one you see or hear?

What of maclean for toothpaste
or closeup for toothpaste

Omo for detergent.

Key soap for bar soap.

marriedmum:
Watch how this lady defeats a rapists who tries to attack her after she steps out of her car.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bfd2iOrSF8

una want turn nairaland to nonsenseland?

na wa oh, they way girls don dey kill their boyfriends.

Hmmmmmmm, boyfriends will soon become and endangered species in Nigeria.

SillyMods:
LWTMB!

Pigs always celebrate negative reports from NBS but quick to dismiss positive reports from same NBS.

The swear wey dem swear for una no get mate.

Even America with all their science and technology research never find cure for zombies. how much more Nigeria.
Only miracle fit help us in this country.

helinues:
Very good.

We are beginning to receive sense in Africa

Kenya, not the whole of Africa.

Note that some people in Nigeria are planning to vote a demented old man as president of the nation.

We know it is propaganda stats, they did it while in opposition, how much more when they are in power and control every every, if you know you know.

This vindictive man never forgets nor forgives

Amosun better Atikulate his stand before 16th Failbuhary

chimdiada11:
the blame game continues

OBJ the navigator of APC responding to APC election eve gimmick.

Celebgistz1:
“”We recommend that the President and his co-travellers should read Chapters 41, 42, 43 and 47 of My Watch for Chief Obasanjo’s insights and perspectives on the power sector and indeed what transpired when the allegation of $16 billion on power projects was previously made.

“If he cannot read the three-volume book, he should detail his aides to do so and summarise the chapters in a language that he will easily understand.

This OBJ get mouth oooooooooh

“”Chief Obasanjo challenges, and in fact encourages, anybody to set up another enquiry if in doubt and unsatisfied with the EFCC report and that of the Hon. Aminu Tambuwal-led ad-hoc committee.”

See challenge, oya na, over to the lifeless one.

OBJ the navigator of APC responding to APC election eve gimmick.

Propagandist everywhere and they are even worst than critics who are always bad leaders.

tysontim:
The person that started this deji is a Yoruba, attack Osun or Oyo instead leave kano abeg.

They are the no 1 tribalist everywhere