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i can see that the populace is becoming enlightened and educated by the day. A lot of things is wrong with the structure of this nation. Mind you, many of these structures, policies were good at the point of inception, but they were only good for those times. What went wrong? Why did we go back to sleep after we built many of these structures and infrastructures (whether tangible or intangible) in the pre and post independence era?

Nigeria, truly has got no think-tanks.

If we had futuristic leaders at the helm of affairs in the time past, they would have been able to project and set foundations for constant upgrade and improvement s in the policies they made and in the infrastructures they built. We should take a cue from china.

To the subject of this thread; at the time when those treaties/agreements or whatever was signed with these countries, Nigeria needed the Kanji Dam so strongly. But as static as we were (are), we didnt make provision for any default. We should realise that the promise that parties involved would uphold their own part of the bargain is a flimsy excuse for Nigeria. We claimed we are the giant of Africa, we wanted to be the industrial hub of Africa, our population as at 1980's was still the highest in africa, even at that time. So relying on power production from kanji and a few energy plants even at that time is an aberration and a big slap to the so called think-tanks at that time.

To add more fuel to the ravaging fire was the population explosion that Nigeria experienced. It will interest us to know that Nigeria's population was only 45.1 million in 1960 and given the country's level of energy demand and industrial development, the power capacity was just enough and we could call our dear country the "giant of Africa". But seriously, we dont expect the same 22 cm diameter pot that cooked 4 cups of rice for a family of 4 to still cook the same quantity for a family of 23. You have to get a bigger pot and increase the quantity of the rice.


There is no need going to deep into the history of our carelessness and foolishness as a nation.

What is the way forward?

The reality of things in the power sector has fully dawned on the Honorable Minister but I am disappointed in him because he has been given to accept that reality, he is now singing the same bullshit narrative and excuse that those bastards (yorubas will call them alainikanshe l.e those that have no good will for this country) sang to us.

We know the situation of things, but we want a leader who will be disruptive; a leader who will challenge the status quo; a leader who will come up with innovative and sustainable ideas and implement them.

The energy sector in Nigeria as we know it is an arena filled with all kinds of inefficiencies, corrupt people, saboteurs and many agents from the pits of hell.

First and foremost is the aberration called National Grid. At this point, we should realize that whatever structure that worked for country A might not work for country B, even if country B will adopt country A's strategy, it must consider the factors and conditions that are peculiar to her. So the need for a modification. Nigeria's generation capacity is around 12000MW. Transmission capacity is around 5500MW and the distribution capacity is only around 4400MW. Mind you, these figures hold for an idealized system working at 100% capacity. Of course generation is hovering around 4000Mw and eventually, what gets to the consumers (185.99 million nigerians) via DISCOs is around 2050MW. All these are attributed to the miserable inefficiencies associated with the kind of National Grid we have in Nigeria.

There have been new power plants installed, commissioned and some are being built as of today. But the reality is that no one is talking about revamping the already dead transmission lines that runs several kilometers around the country. It is an oversight; a deliberate omission So even if our generation capacity goes to 20000MW today, only 2050MW will still get to the consumers. Shall we rerun new set of electricity transmission cables all over Nigeria again? (Now you know what the $16billion Obasanjo's administration misappropriated could have done to the power sector) Humour me

Clearly, National grid cannot accelerate the needed growth we want.

So let us revisit whatever constitution or policy that set the framework of the power and energy sector in Nigeria.

I would propose that while we include more energy sources into our energy mix, we should at once focus more on decentralizing power (both energy power and political power ). The preachers of renewable energy should please read up on the economics of renewable energy. It would be great to achieve what Denmark, Germany, Switzerland have achieved in the area of renewable energies, but i will ask you to look at these countries and see what is common to them all; they are developed countries and that is why renewable energy can thrive. To a very large extent, generating power via renewable is cheaper than via fossil fuel. They were able to overcome the challenge of renewables' intermittent supply.
But this wont be obtainable in third world and developing countries like Nigeria, from cost perspective. A good scenario is the Massive solar PV/Solar Concentrator project in Morocco. The project was an initiative of the govt of Morocco and the European Union, but the European union backed out at the execution stage because of project's sustainability and viability even though morocco has impressive solar irradiation. Morocco went on with it and the first stage has been completed.
Let us develop more coal plants, ensure that we have uninterrupted supply of gas to our gas stations etc. But what i propose today is to have stand alone power plants. I am 100% percent sure that investors will troop in if it is no longer a must to supply to the National grid.

Investors will focus its resources on a particular area/municipality/town/state and provide uninterrupted supply. You will see how rapid the development will be. For Example, if Ajaokuta's 22MW plant focuses on Ajaokuta and its environment, industries around that region will be guaranteed of power, more industries would likely be set up there; which in turn gives the powerplant the flexibility to scale up; to expand in order to meet the increasing demands. Redemption camp with its 10MW diesel and gas turbines is a taste of what all nigerians should be enjoying. So is Winners Canaan land.

But is our Honorable Minister ready to do the needful?

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Whuna:
So what will happen to them??

Hello citizen of hell. Scammer of life. How is the business?

I bet you don't even know me. One of the victims you succeeded in doing LEGOVER for

Nairalander pls beware of this guy. For as long as God blesses me and I have the means to visit some of the threads on this forum and I promise I will spot you and expose you.

You are even dull. You keep using thesame graphics and phone numbers for advert

Hannahyoumg:
Ok

So you are back. Scammer of life. Citizen of hell. God has forgiven you but you haven't accepted his gift of redemption.

Nairalanders pls beware of this miscreant. And he is even gullible to keep using the same posters every time.

Mods pls take care of this guy

[quote author=Thegoodlord=57106079]The relationship has been a no sex one from day one. I just finished a dry fasting then and prayed intensely that God revealId this girl to me cos I do have this inner witness that there is something she is not telling me. That same evening I finished and called her, she now made those confessions to my shock. The things of God she's a novice but very willing to learn.
Let me tell me one thing I discovered about marriage. God can never choose a wife for anyone. But the greatest prayer is for God to reveal who your partner is and after that, the whole option is left for you to choose.
For instance, I had this girl initially before this one, I prayed and God showed me where we married but she got diabetics in future and I was not happy in the marriage. Through inner witness, the Holy Spirit told me that I've been shown the barrier ahead, but to marry her or not is entirely my own to choose cos as soon as I marry her, if I ever treat her bad...God won't be happy with me... So I withdrew. Now this one is entirely my decision again to choose.
This scripture holds me down...

1Co 7:12 But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.
1Co 7:13 And the woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.
1Co 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
1Co 7:15 But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such [cases]: but God hath called us to peace.


Then this one is the key testing me betwixt two options...

*1Co 7:16 For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save [thy] husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save [thy] wife?*[/quote]Bro, I thank God for your conviction and your strong faith.

The bible says we live by faith and not by sight. She can be woman/wife if you are willing to invest in her spiritual growth.

She loves you and you love her. Well, this is only the starting point. Let your love be guided by christ's love. You will have to be paitient with her. You will have to be tolerant. Don't ever remind her of where she is coming from. You have to be very alert to this. Whenever u quarrel, pls don't bring her past into it. Remind her of God's love towards her.

I don't know how long you guys have been dating and if you have even transitioned into courtship, but I will suggest that you delay any marraige plans for now (if there isn't too much pressure on both of u sha). As I said earlier, invest in her spiritual growth and if eventually for some other reasons you guys seperated, she would be better than she met you and of course you would be better afterwards.

Trust me it will not be a jolly ride all through. But note that marriage is meant to be enjoyed and not endured. And ultimately, prepare you both for eternity. I would love to hear good testimonies about how God helped both of you made your relationship work.

You can check some of pastor Godman Akinlabi's teaching on marriage and relationships on youtube.

Bro. I appreciate you man.

Many guys here are just viewing this from the lady's perspective and are being sympathetic and apologetic; "oh she's changed", "she is willing to learn and change", "she sees you as her pillar"etc etc.
These are good qualities a guy would always want to see in his lady. But marriage transcends all these.

From a christain's perspective in which Jesus' model of a marriage should be our yardstick. Amongst all these "GOOD" and "WONDERFUL" qualities your babe has, I think what you should look out for is her love for Jesus christ and how she feels about doing God's will even when she goes down emotionally, spiritually or even when she is tempted to take some 'shots' of drugs. How willing is she to yielding herself to the expression of Holyspirit in her. You should have a glimpse of this from the joint devotions you have, the time you guys spend together to study the word of God.

My friend, any worthwhile relationship is a long walk and with God at the centre of your relationship, you will enjoy life.

My dear OP. You have done what a gentle man should do. God bless you for that. I trust you didn't base your relationship on sex and other frivolities.

Don't be decieved, there is no angel among we humans, but we can strive towards that perfection as commanded by God. A commenter said she sees you as her pillar. Walk her through the right paths, encourage her in the lord, the two of you should attend christain conferences that will help both of you grow, let her trust you. Be her shield.

But, the real question, which I should have asked before writing this long epistle is are you being led by the Holy Spirit into this relationship? And if so, do you truly know what LOVE means?

Answer this and you have your answer.

I weep for this country.

Have we attained self sufficiency in food production?
Can we say we have scored a 70% in food security?
What about developing a quality value chain for our agricultural products?

Aren't we running in circles if we foolishly enslave ourselves just as we did in petroleum; where we sell raw materials (crude) and buy back tens of refined products (PMI, DPK, AGS etc).

What is this unbridled cravings for cheap dollars? How does a government create an enabling environment for economic development and inclusive growth vis-à-viz job creation especially at a time the nation demands diversification in the economy?

We wanted sufficiency in rice, but our local farmers prefer to sell rice to neighbouring countries (Niger Chad etc). What is happening to us? Is it the hunger for dollar or what? Mind you, our naira is devalued so those farmers are getting less than the worth of their goods.

If one can buy a made-in-KENYa chocolate in Nigeria, why can't we have our cocoa transformed into feedstocks for chocolate, candy, biscuit, beverage, cosmetics industries, and export to other countries?

If India can package some shitty brown rice and say it is medicinal and export to other countries, why can't we transform our yam to elubo, ikokore etc and package as well, put directions for cooking and state the medicinal values and sell to them instead of exporting the freshly harvested yam

Banana flour is known for its potency in preventing and curing diabetes and prostate cancer, we can be world leaders in terms of research in food and herbal medicine.

Our leaders must be visionary. While we seek immediate measures to lift our dear nation out of recession, our ultimate aim must be to develop Nigeria and not underdevelop her by shortchanging ourselves.

Exportation in exchange for dollars isn't going to solve our problems but complicate it. Let us provide goods and services for the local population first before we export.

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Hmmmm. I love this discussion.

The first thing we should address is our society's approval of this. The society (especially at family level) sees this as unacceptable and forbidden. But the hypocrisy of our traditional sanctity (especially of the Yoruba's) can be spotted in the practice of some newly crowned traditional rulers taking older beautiful wives of the deceased king to be theirs. The same also happens in homes when a man dies and his younger brother inherits his possessions including his widow.

But the good news is that you can let your own values and not some myopic societal values define you.

However, with the proliferation of cougars and sugar mommies and younger guys' awareness of these ladies/ women are willingness to shower them with physical, material and emotional goodies, the innocent older ladies might not stand a chance. (trust me when I say many cougars/sugar mommies can offer emotional succour to their sugar boys. They are good listeners

The lady in question must lookout for maturity in the younger guy she is in a relationship with. She must ascertain that the guy will not be intimidated by the societal norm. Also, she must be brave when the society taunts her.

Emmanuel Macron defied his father's instructions and married his 24 year older woman. I can boldly tell us that she played a part in the development of macron. Today macron is the world's youngest president.

I have no issue with dating older ladies but I can't do a Macron Oooo . 3 years is the max for me.

Dare art Alade's wife is like 2 or 3years older than him and they fine.

Asiwaju12345:
My sincere advice for you is to be silent about it in the form...I am also in the same category with you.

Thanks bro.

Sambest2:
Awon A1 ni Economics, personally and Idealy, you shouldn't include your current studies if you will not round up by say August for Assurance or by May for Advisory. Don't you think they may consider it and advice you to complete your studies? (I believe you know what it entails when a recruiter advices you in this regard?).

"Awon A1 ni Economics" abi nah i have to be in the PwC mood
Thanks.

But another thing is how to explain the gap in my CV. I left job on the last day of January and this is April. What have I been doing since I left my previous Job?

Hello guys

Please I need some advice and help concerning Personal History Form part B (Education and Professional Qualifications). I am currently doing my masters program in my BSc course; which is not related to Accounting/Auditing @ all. Is it advisable to include this in the form?

Please note that I have made up my mind that the masters program would be the alternative forgone if PWC clicks.

Tax and Assurance guys scheduled for 21 April where una dey Ooo

BellyJean, Black101,.....

Let's discuss

Bintak:
Yawa go dey if Big brother makes any move to rig this game

419. Scammer of life. How market?

Nairalanders and Nigerians pls beware of this "apanilekunjaiye"

God of Justice will not give you rest until you repent and stop this wicked act.

Welcome back SCAMMER. How business? How many people have you done legover for?


Nigerians, beware of this 'apomolekunjaiye'.

I am very optimistic about the test this time.

I encountered a very tricky question though. It appeared like 15 times or so
'I change my behaviour to fit in to different situations' something like this.
Looking at PWC core values, Agility is one which requires one to be sensitive, adaptable, flexible, alert to change, move quickly and be decisive. But i feel agreeing to this might contradict the integrity/accountability values. In my own opinion, i think your yes must be yes and your nay be nay. So changing your behaviour whenever the situation changes is a no for me.

I am being honest with my answers here. But just like every other tests, personality tests can be beaten. So what is the point if a very good faker can fake his choices and scale through. I would say the Personality test is not a good measure of Candidates' suitability for a particular role. I would prefer a one on one interview, Assessment Centre etc to this poor and faulty assessment procedure.

Anyways, i look forward to the next stage.

Pls help with pTDF past questions for Corrosion Control Engineering. olusoladedeji@gmail.com

Samkeniyy:
My practice test feedback

Bro..... was the feedback sent to you mail or was it displayed the moment you finished the practice test?

THE WAIT!!!

This film don dey enta season 3.

My dear OP.

Don't worry. I can see that you will make a better wife someday. This is the time to get closer to God. One of 2Face's baby mamas who even had two (2) kids for him is married to a good man; a pastor for that matter.

Damn anyone who says you can't meet the man for you. Pls do well to train your child in the way of the lord. Tell God about your heart desires. He cares.

Hmmm. They are cute together.

But this is not totally a 'Christian' thing Ooo. If we don't want to lower the standards, they shouldn't even be holding hands @ all . Na until after they have been joined together.

Me too go love Ooo

hello @ everyone

I recently applied to University of Alberta for an MSc course. I completed the application since 29 December 2016 although the deadline is 1 April, 2017. I was only able to get the link to a website provided by the school to monitor my application progress yesterday. I discovered that they are still waiting for references from my referee. I have been in touch with my academic referees and every time i talked to them, they said they havent received any mail from the school. They also said that the institutional mail server is not reliable and sometimes they dont get the emails sent to them.
Immediately, i wrote the school of Graduate studies that they should resend the requests to them. I hope this delay has not in anyway affected my application, given that the school's deadline is still April 1 and i submitted mine since last year december. I know they must have started the pre-screening process, but my thoughts were if they needed anything concerning the screening process that i hadn't provided, they would contact me.
I never got any mail from them. The department is highly competitive cos they give scholarship to all admitted students. I pray i havent messed things up.

Is there anyone who has experienced something like this before, and especially, with university of Alberta, pls share your experience.
Thanks.

what does this mean?

What verification do they need again since 2013. Unless they are just crediting the beneficiaries bank accounts.

Nawa OOoooo

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easy343:
This is not bad

Why do I have this feeling that you are the same guy that duped me?

I may be wrong. But if you are the same guy, the day of reckoning is near.

Longman6:
Hello, i think a newspaper is gradually appearing to be a better alternative than the picture, though not totally,

Thin and colourful, mordern day newspapers are thin(like tissue pappers) and colorful(courtesy of Mtn and burial advert)

custodian of dreams and wishes adorned; holding the thoughts of yesterday and the hopes of tomorrow every newspaper you pick up has an historical perspective while holding out for the future in some sought of ways.. through suggestions and editorials and event that are sheduled to happen in future

Of pictures, of speeches, of words with lasting laughter that stays the same time and time again a newspaper contains all of this things except the laughter part which can be said to be captured

The wave of a hand, never destroying Crinkle, crisp, clear You wave your hands when turning through the pages of a newspaper, the lines are clear... Am yet to fully understand theme of Crinkle...

So far only a picture contends with this.

Yeah. A very old newspaper

Well, I think it might be a picture of you as a baby.
OR

A write up about ur self, ur dreams, ur passion.

OR

A write up about your old self. Ur mistakes, the poor decisions u've made etc

The thin colourful, crisp (as in tender; crisp potato chips. But with crinkle preceding crisp, the meaning has been delineated) Albeit, an old picture of you still suffice.

Custodian of dreams, wishes... in my own opinion is still the baby version of me.

The wave of a hand, never destroying. Crinkle, crisp, clear -described. Could mean ur baby photo album

OR

A newspaper that carries the date October 1, 1960.
Cos those lines could be describing Nigeria at her independence.

Again, judging from the previous tasks, the answer to this may not be personal to the candidates but be a general thing that the candidates must get

Hello @everyone awaiting Cardinalstone call/invite.

I want to clarify some doubts and answer some questions that have been bothering me after the test. There was a space on the answer sheet for us to fill in the Question set or type. My verbal question sheet had K on it (hand written though) I didn't see any on the quantitative question sheet. I didn't bother to fill anything.

Could this have affected my test? Are the questions the same for everyone?

Neither success/invite mail nor regret mail has been sent.

I just tire joor.

Hello @everyone,

I am confused about the CoverLetter Part. Also, a guy told me that there is also a section where about 5 essays are required from the applicant.
I didnt see this essay part while i was applying.

I hope i am safe