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oyb: Each household that signs up to their service receives two LED lights and one mobile-charging point in their home at a cost of 25 rupees (£0.301) per week. The setup cost is an additional one-off payment of 40 rupees (£0.4cool. "This is the kind of price point that the majority of them can afford," Sandeep Pandey, MGP's operations manager, explained.

wow! this is fantastic - i'm off to get mine now! this solution will power my tv, fridge, pc, washing machine , freezer

is this the best sort of dosh that you can come up with

how many times were you dropped on your head, or are you naturally this stoopid?

oyb: oga afro pseudoscience, are you so daft, stoopid or just like your master that cannot counter anything i posted?

all across the world, solar energy is heavily subsidised because everyone is hoping it will pan out in the long run.

see beafs solar powered boat solution

this is what the joker thinks will work on an industrial scale

this is the sort of roadside consultantcy we can expect from beaf

i mean come on, the only thing the likes of beaf can be consulted on is internet smear campaigns of the crude beer parlour fishwife kind "gej good ogbeni bad!"

Imagine ekt bear posted stuff that mostly had to do with Europe and the US, yet he was talking about solar energy. Oyb has stup!dly posted extracts to show that solar energy is not cheap in the UK. Why would it be when snow falls there?
Some people are abysmally unimaginative and low self-esteemed. Why else would anyone compare solar energy in a temprate climate with that in a tropical one. Isn't that daft and mentally lazy?

[size=14pt]Indian villagers' lives transformed by new energy delivery system[/size]

A social enterprise is providing low-cost mobile-charging and light services through micro grids in Uttar Pradesh, enabling the poorest to cease relying on kerosene – and to stay connected

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But it is here in Uttar Pradesh, one of India's largest and poorest states, far away from the country's straining power grid, that US-born entrepreneurs Nikhil Jaisinghani and Brian Shaad have started to pioneer a wholly different energy system, designed to meet some of the most basic needs of the poorest.

Their company, Mera Gao Power (MGP), provides ultra-low cost lighting and mobile phone charging services to individual houses by building and operating solar-powered micro grids at a village level.

Each household that signs up to their service receives two LED lights and one mobile-charging point in their home at a cost of 25 rupees (£0.301) per week. The setup cost is an additional one-off payment of 40 rupees (£0.48). "This is the kind of price point that the majority of them can afford," Sandeep Pandey, MGP's operations manager, explained.

The benefits of these simple services for a village household are multiple. The lights not only allow individuals to work after dark, providing additional time for activities that generate income, but they permit extra time for children to study.

Gbawe: GEJ and Allison-Madueke effectively controlling the sector you have your answer to the bolded above. [size=14pt]It is very obvious there is a systematic plan in place.[/size]

jmaine:
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The bolded is pregnant with meanings and connotations. .what is the systematic plan of GEJ and Allison in engaging in oil bunkering. .

Gbawe needs to give us insights and clues to what he was referring to . . .

You hit the nail squarely here, jmaine.
Gbawe thinks he is clever with his troubling "we and them" outbursts. I would expect him express form and act like a coward as he has done so far by avoiding your challenge for an explanation which your super-size font makes unavoidable even to the blind.

I join you in calling Gbawe to drop cowardice and provide an explanation.

Gbawe! Ayam waiting.

It is all largely down to economies of scale, says Jenny Chase, head of solar analysis at BNEF. In 2011, enough solar panels were produced worldwide to generate 27 gigawatts, compared with 7.7 GW in 2009. Chase says solar power is now cheaper than diesel "anywhere as sunny as Spain". That means vast areas of Latin America, Africa and Asia could start adopting solar power. "We have been selling to Asia and the Middle East," says Björn Emde, European spokesman for Suntech, the world's largest producer of silicon panels. Over the next few years he expects to add South Africa and [b]Nigeria [/b]to that list.

sheyguy: Beaf stop being funny. With Gej and DAM effectively having power over NNPC and the oil subsidy scam going on, it is crystal clear for those who want to see it.
As for Oyb, i think he has the right to do what he is doing. Remember when IMF chief praised Gej govt/Sanusi, you were there to support, so i naturally expect to you have a comment on the thread oyb is inviting you to.

naptu2: Anecdotes from someone that worked @ the Mint in the 1980s (I don't know if this is true, but this is what he told me).

1) They are searched before they leave the office (patted down, but may include strip search).


2) There was a day that a small sum of money was missing (I can't remember, but I think it was a few one naira notes). They were detained over night.


I remember that, back in the 1980s, a team of mobile policemen, complete with saxon armoured car and landrovers, guarded the mint.

Katsumoto: Beaf

You are simplifying the process of starting a business in Nigeria. Its a lot more difficult than you are making it to be.

Please pick one of the examples you gave and provide a high level overview of the process involved in starting up. Assume the entrepreneur is a graduate with 3 years post qualification experience.

I suspect you are raising all these points about Nigerians being lazy, etc simply to absolve the government of significant blame in the whole mess.

Nigerian governments of the past have failed, the current government is also failing. No amount of passing the buck can mask that.

Katsumoto: You mentioned precious stones, waterways, solar energy, etc. All those require huge capital. Perhaps I am mistaken; please break it down how all those industries dont require huge capital. For instance, how do you mine precious stones without huge capital?

BTW, I see that you are trying to evade many of the points raised.

Katsumoto: There is a lot wrong with this post Beaf

1. The government is responsible for setting macroeconomic policies which are meant to stimulate the development and growth of industries

Katsumoto: 2. Even when opportunities are identified, an entrepreneur must still make a profit. And you can only make a profit when your revenue is greater than your costs. For instance, China has 30% of global rare earth deposits but 80% of the market. Why is that? Because it is cheaper for an entrepreneur to mine rare earth in China than anywhere else. In countries where infrastructure is in a developed state, an entrepreneur is not guaranteed to make a profit let alone in a country like Nigeria where the non-existence of infrastructure increases your costs astronomically. How can an entrepreneur make a buck in a country notorious for graft, lack of power, and infrastructure?

Katsumoto: 3. You mentioned a lot of industries that require a lot of start up capital. How are individuals supposed to find the necessary capital to mine precious stones. Even in Germany, the government had to subsidized the firms that tap solar power to sell to the grid at above market price

Katsumoto: 4. You turned your attention to Nigerians in diaspora forgetting that there are millions of Nigerians who are still living in Nigeria below globally accepted poverty levels. Why aren’t those Nigerians taking advantage of those opportunities? You keep making these statements about Nigerians all depending on Abuja. That is not the case; travelling through Nigeria, one can see the hardship being felt by millions who get up every day to work and provide for themselves and their families but with little to show for it.

Katsumoto: 5. Yes there are opportunities in Nigeria but it appears that only those who are in government together with their friends and families are reaping from those benefits. Any monkey can make millions in Nigeria supplying very basic products such as toilet paper or pencil if the monkey in charge is his friend or uncle.

Katsumoto: 6. The Nigerian educational system has been failing the Nigerian economy and people for almost 25 years. Nothing is being done to address that. How do you expect people to see opportunities when they lack basic education. Yes there are very rare people who have the ability to make a buck even without education but other factors are at least present. How can a man strategize properly when he has to get up very early to go to work, pay through his nose for transportation, sit in traffic for hours, work for over 10 hours, return home through traffic only to find there is no electricity when he gets home. If Steve Jobs were a non-connected Nigerian, Apple would be just be a fruit.

Katsumoto: 7. There is no level playing field in Nigeria. The current Nigerian government, just like other governments before it, is not doing nada to address these serious issues. If you want to accuse Nigerians of being lazy or visionless, then the Nigerian government must first do its part to ensure the development of the Nigerian economy.

Both past and recent research suggests that some groups – notably Black Caribbean, Black African and other Black groups – are over-represented in psychiatric hospitals. [7]

The high number of African Caribbean people being diagnosed with schizophrenia is well documented, with some studies reporting between two to eight times higher rates of diagnosis compared to the White population. [8]

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Men from Black Caribbean, Black African, and other Black groups were more likely than other groups to have been detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. The figures follow the same pattern in all the ‘Count me in’ reports from 2005 to 2009. [12]

Gbawe: GEJ and Allison-Madueke effectively controlling the sector you have your answer to the bolded above. [size=14pt]It is very obvious there is a systematic plan in place.[/size]

jmaine:
...;

The bolded is pregnant with meanings and connotations. .what is the systematic plan of GEJ and Allison in engaging in oil bunkering. .

Gbawe needs to give us insights and clues to what he was referring to . . .

You hit the nail squarely here, jmaine.
Gbawe thinks he is clever with his troubling "we and them" outbursts. I would expect him express form and act like a coward as he has done so far by avoiding your challenge for an explanation which your super-size font makes unavoidable even to the blind.

I join you in calling Gbawe to drop cowardice and provide an explanation.

Gbawe! Ayam waiting.

However, people from African and African Caribbean communities, including those of white and black mixed ethnicity, can face additional problems which may affect their mental health. Everyday life has a big impact on mental health, and black communities in the UK are still more likely than others to experience problems such as bad housing, unemployment, stress and racism, all of which can make people ill.

People from African and African Caribbean communities are more likely than others to be admitted to hospital for mental illness.

Beaf: Some people never fail in their constant striving to come across as id!ots.

ogugua88: I wouldn't expect you to have much clue, Reno.

90% of them would have made more money in Nigeria? Maybe, probably not, but there are Nigerians who prefer clean money that they work for, rather than political handouts. Integrity and dignity versus shame and illegality.

Onlytruth: Beaf just know that ndu_chucks ONLY interest in the story is the accusation of war crimes against Biafran soldiers in the MW incursion. He honestly doesn't care about anything else. His brother Murtala Muhammad committed one of worst war crimes DOCUMENTED during the war, when he lined up [b]thousand[/b]s of men and boys at Asaba and executed them. The crime is well documented, and maybe even the direct commanders are still alive.
He wants to equalize the genocide accusation on both sides.

ogugua88: They live unhappy lives because they're working double to send money home to the country y our president is supposed to be fixing.