₦airaland Forum

Hmmmmmm...........my people are sleeping! Nothing is for FREE oooo.

Indeed the children of this world are wiser than the children of the kingdom....

Paulpaulpaul:
It was not fixed but Barca got official backup. That ref, killed that match walahi

Dem cut your slip.......

scholes23:
E nor make sense joor

Explain why you think its not a good move.....Lets learn

Cutehector:
Aba cannot develop itself..

I'm so sorry to say, that your statement is kinda degrading, who in the world gave china a thought before they broke even?

ABA HAS THE POTENTIAL TO RULE AFRICA MARKET AND IT WILL IN JESUS NAME. For the record, ABA products are being exported to various countries stealthily and they are of great quality, The pain is that such quality product are not crested as MADE IN NIGERIA.

If we can develop and encourage ABA and ONITSHA, the sky will be the starting point for manufacturing and production in Nigeria

He is only following the footstep of his father....but all this na with undertone! how long shall you keep giving people fish instead of showing them how to fish for themselves..... These haut mondes just wants to be worshiped forever, so they don't mind impoverish everyone so their minds are weak to accept anything they bring....... SO SAD!

and una dey listen to dis kind papa abi.......lol!

My people.... all na wash

ai nise n damu awon kan sha!!!

minwafor:
Tell them Pastor. Not when men like Kumuyi, Adeboye,Oyedepo and me are alive.

How about men like you and I, if you look well the future of Christianity in Nigeria is hanging on our generation oooooo......These generals you mentioned now are getting old and either we like it or not, they will soon leave us, They've done well to hang on to the cross and win their generation for Christ. OYA NA YA TURN NOW! its either we evangelize seriously now or God forbid we be "evangelized by force"

How come the DISCOS are complaining of a thing they are not investing into??
so are they trying to say they increased the tariff to pay salaries of these their arbitrary 10,000

Who send them make dem employ wetin dem no fit manage.

Honestly this Power sector is meant to be more viable than the Oil industry but the level of the corruption in it is mega worseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee than the whole Naija put together #Mtcheeeeeeewww#

ChimaAdeoye:
[size=16pt]Type of threads that make people mock the SE.

Just look at the gravel road and it's tiny width with no gutters. Only God knows its length.

Anyhow, tell this guy to invest in agriculture, poultry and build small agro-based factories to employ youths in his community. That will help develop his place much faster than the 100 short gravel roads[/size].

Na so people like una dey use mouth jam rock...... Freedom of speech online no mean say make u dey misfire person wey u no know. Instead of you praising the goodwill of a man who did his own bit to bring smile to his people's face you dey jam talk..... Dia riz God ooo

Come to think of it, the very people who kicked against the military every time are the so called politicians, yet the level of advancement we've gotten so far has the bulk of it credited to the military administration even the so called constitution we are using right now are fabrics of the same military decrees they kick against.

In the last 16 years of Democracy in Nigeria, these so called CIVILIAN rules has not forge a simple consensus of thought to come up with a constitution that represent the people, yet when they are asked they keep blaming the skewed constitution as the military's regimes fault.

[size=15pt]I am not an advocate for Military rule oooooooo[/size] but this our so called politicians aren't bringing joy to our faces,the level of corruption, stealing and impunity is [size=20pt]ALARMING[/size]. all they know about is their selfish interest. they do a pinch in order to appease the sycophants and ignorant masses to get their votes then vanish into thin air after they win, dem go turn dem sef to leap year.
[size=14pt]Seriously the Military had their excesses and ruthless dealings but the kin madness wey dey this civilian rule sef fit make mad man vex say he don taya to mad. [/size]

Same talk we heard when they came out against INDOMIE.....hmmmmm
Suddenly our good Old De Rica, Gino, Tomapep are now fake because some people just finish building their own processing plant......hmmm
If you want to change the tide in the market change it and no spoil other people name to advance your own cause because same thing you've done awaits you in front..hmmm
Hypo no fight Jik or Parozone to enter bleach market o, na just competitive edge and aggressive marketing dem use.....
No force hands to your side because you sabi the so called power brokers today....

Una don try create panic for tomato farming, we no shout too much, make una hol una sef ooooooo

Another sweet story of Grass to Grace, just anoda Olajumoke in another form!

God bless you bro! All the hustle paid off, All what seemed like foolishness or stupidity paid off.....

Ain't nothing as sweet as what God endorses! BE SENSITIVE to God's leading,

it may sound foolish, just obey
It may take longer, just persist
It may be hard to bear, just endure

[size=16pt]ITS PAYS OUT AT THE END[/size]

Maxineng:
Welcome home. So of all places him no see any better place to make us shine na just bad things him dey post kai

Kai!!!! Meggida The guy i be "froud" of where he come "por" faaa! Walahitalai........lol -guy he was just been real, he is from IB and has relatives in ABK no qualms...... na Generator dem dey use, no qualms....at least he was proud to show his Grandma without no extra makeover and showed his father's parlour as simple as it is.... He better pass some people wey follow illegal visa go yankee come back dey form like dem no dey toilet, or some of our so called "celebrity" or internet or blog celebrities wey na to dey show their naked body for net dem take popular... ALL FOR YOU TO KNOW ITS ALL ABOUT GRACE......HOME IS HOME no matter how far you've gone. Be Proud of the young man joooo

After una go say make we buy naija to grow naija..........These ones now na Naija made? Wetin happen to partnering with Innoson Nigeria?
We dey go front dey go back...I haf taya for this "feffle" sef

Lets value the ingenuity and vision of the fish farmer that's believes only a graduate is qualified enough to
bring to play in a world he is envisaging! Kudos to you sir!!!

Abeg wetin be graduate
Who be graduate?
Wetin be the work of graduate?

All in life gets beta thru nice packaging!!!
The banking system you know today was once ALAJO in the past but an innovative forward thinking "LITERATE" not just a so called "graduate" ooo
change the game and now you have the likes of GTB.

Before, God is good motors and others were just packed full with Agberos but now they have websites, u book online...graduates are working there, Bank Managers and Directors are running after them, you siddon there dey say Graduate wan sell Fish!....Ok naaa

No be inside show-glass dem take dey sell meatpie wen we bn dey small?? Mr Biggs, Tantalizer, KFC change game now and you will be proud as a graduate to work for dem abi?

DESPISE NOT THE DAYS OF LITTLE BEGINNING........

DROP YOUR EGO AND BOOK, GO COLLECT THE JOB NOW.

IN SHORT I WILL ADVISE YOU TO DITCH THE CERTIFICATE AND GO CREATE YOUR OWN BUSINESS, SOONEST GRADUATES WILL BE BEGGING TO WORK FOR YOU!
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SEE MY LOOK FOR ALL THOSE WHO CLAIM GRADUATE DON SUFFER!!![/size]

Thank you bro, your wisdom no go end!!!

Sometimes I hear or read about people saying their representatives in the National or State Assembly or Minister has not done this or that for them, that they are yet to feel the impact or receive the dividend of the democracy. Using Nigeria as a big fat case study!


Please in your own view, what can you term as true dividend of democracy to the people by the so called "elected"!

This one will be nice

This is a beautiful stride....can another state invest massively in cultivating a rice farm and partner with Lagos state to process and bag. All the states can't have it all, let some states invest in the planting, let some invest in processing and let some invest in finishing, if your states seem not viable for some of the trade, your state government can invest money in other states or come to consortium with other states! with that we will all foster an inter-state commerce and dependency, we will generate internal revenue that can help the economy. We can even do it to a point of states selling public shares of this companies to help protect its posterity.
This is my humble economic suggestion!

cybriz82:
Is she a japanese? Last time I check I tink say na kneel down yoruba dey kneel down greet person.is she forming queen of naija? Y not kukuma jobale.

****......abeg where you take go school? Na Iceland or Sambisa forest, even Iceland and Sambisa forest understands courtesy.... its sad and appalling that we are losing our graceful conduct and mannerism to this bane of new-age sophistication! #Shiooo #Mtcheeeew #Iranu

kodded:
wo lai inferiority complex dey wory this woman sha

Oya see transformer make u hug am, as you no gree get respect! Children of nowadays sef!!!

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Undone roasted plantain.....the kind you buy at Doyin Busstop in Lagos when you are in traffic............lol!

Irritating

OZAOEKPE:
WE IN PDP SET THE PACE, FOR OTHERS TO FOLLOW

Must we add a Political party name to every little thing alive..........#mtcheeeeeewwwww.

Abeg make we celebrate a virtuous woman jare, a woman worthy of being emulated by all our young girls of nowadays!

No come spoil our mood with this your PDP, APC, SDP, NRC, KOWA even HIV/AIDS political party thingz.....abeg!!!!

Emirofsambisa1:
In an interview with The Sun, Minister of Labor and Employment, Chris Ngige, says Nigerians who are complaining of hardship in this present administration are PDP loyalists. 

[b]“I don’t know what you mean by hardship and those you call Nigerians. Are they the federal civil servants getting their monthly salaries as and when due? We don’t owe them, not even allowances and there is no reason they should be unhappy with the APC govern­ment. Are the okada riders among those complaining when they are making brisk businesses or the gradu­ates we will soon address their problem of unemploy­ment after the passage of the budget? Unemployment is the harbinger of Boko Haramism, harbinger of IPO­Bism, OPCism and militancy in the Niger Delta. It is a scourge and serious disease condition that we must fight and that is why we are in this ministry and government. We have job creation programmes under the supervision of the Vice President and other inter-ministerial ones that will be rolled out very soon. By the time we roll out, more funds will be put into the economy. Let us warn that the funds are not for stealing. The only difference between APC and PDP is the stealing of the lots of floating funds. Many of the elite were grabbing these floating funds and they are the ones protesting that they are not happy with the present government. Those complaining especially the elite are members or loyalists of the PDP. We are not bothered because we are going to continue with our common-people’s programme and I want to assure that the tide will soon change. So, we are waiting for the budget. Don’t forget that we are not the ones that appropriate funds but the National Assembly. We have given them budget, done some alterations and amendments as needs be in areas where some people try to mutilate and we are waiting for now. Once they approve the budget as proposed, we roll out our programmes”he said.[/b]



Nigerians complaining of hardship are PDP loyalists –Ngige


AS a seasoned politician and professional medical doctor, Dr Chris Ngige, the Minister of Labour and Employment has established himself as a household name.
Although traumatised by the recent tragic death of the Minister of State, James Ocholi (SAN), the former governor of Anambra State speaks to Daily Sun in his office in Abuja on a wide range of issues, dwelling on the ragging issue of the senatorial rerun election in Anambra State.
While defending his decision to pull out of the re­run, Dr Ngige shockingly announced that he was not even prepared to contest the March 2015 senatorial election but did because he wanted to mobilise and garner support for President Muhammadu Buhari.
He equally commented on the controversial issue of the President Buhari government paying jobless Ni­gerians N5000 stipend, revealing how his ministry has categorised the programme into four segments.
Ocholi’s death
I want to describe the incident that happened to Ocholi and members of his family as a bad dream which will fade away. But I woke up the next day to realise that it has become a reality.
Having worked closely with him in the ministry, I cannot but say that I feel a very deep sense of loss. It was a loss aggravated by many situations that made us work together by various ways and in diferent parts.
We first worked together in the APC merger com­mittee where he represented the Congress for Progres­sives Change (CPC). It was a committee with many lawyers and SANs including him and the present At­torney-General of the federation. He was among those who made the committee very tick.
In fact, he was an engine room of the constitution drafting sub-committee. Some of us who are not law­yers but professionals in party administration march them wit for wit. It was a memorable experience work­ing with him in that committee.
He also graduated into the Interim Executive Com­mittee of APC as the Deputy Legal Adviser, a position he held for about nine months. During those assign­ments, he was on top of the situation. He was always at hand to handle every emergency situation by way of offering legal advice and solution in the absence of the substantive legal adviser.
We became closer from there having known him since his Law School days as a contemporary to my brother. I was, therefore, pleasantly surprised when Mr President announced him as my Minister of State for Labour and Employment.
Before the announcement, he thought that he was bound to Justice Ministry or any other ministry but not Labour. I felt that Mr President knew that Ocholi and I always engaged ourselves in intellectual discourse. Since we were united again in the ministry, I never had any hesitation in assigning duties to him because our relationship had become a roundabout, intertwined friendship.
He never shied away from taking up responsibilities and we were very free with each other. I am particularly worried about the two committees he was heading be­fore his death. They are very critical to the nation.
The committee of stakeholders in the oil and gas industry comprising PENGASSAN and NUPENG at one end as unions, the labour contractors at one end and the International Oil Corporations (IOCs) like Shell, Mobil, Agip and others at the other end with the Labour ministry as the facilitator.

We wanted the committee Ocholi was heading to work for eight weeks and come up with a solution to the problem. He was also heading the ever-rearing and tricky situation in the health sector where there are other associations and unions getting themselves into an amalgam called JOHESU.

It is the umbrella body for all the associations in the health sector.
Considering my situation and that of the Minister of Health as medical doctors, I felt that the best person to head the harmonisation meeting should be a non-med­ical or health-affiliated professional. He was the right person to look at the issue dispassionately without bias.
His capacity as chairman of this joint negotiation committee had recorded a geometric progression. In fact, as at the beginning of this month, I had got com­mendation text messages from the Minister of State for Health and others on the success he had recorded.
The brief given to me already on what they have dis­cussed proved that tempers have already gone down dramatically and monumentally.
When I heard the news of his death, I thought it was a rumour especially as I was rumoured to have collapsed and died in the National Assembly during budget defence about some weeks ago.
Initially, I regarded the news about his death as the same rumour from the same people. It came when I had finished a television interview where I extolled his analytical mind, greatness, intellectual bent, erudition and scholarship.
It was when I got security report that I started net­working with people who confirmed it to me. I cannot believe that death has taken away James Ocholi, his son and wife.
I was shocked to the marrow and even as a medical doctor, I saw patients die but none was as shocking as Ocholi’s death. I had no in­clination about his death. It was like a thunderbolt that only time can heal the shock.
Ocholi’s person and what to miss about him
James was a man of many parts, he was very ebullient, agile and a workaholic. He was one man that never grumbles for any assigned role and I noticed it while we were in the same committee in the party. It was the same while we worked in the Labour Ministry.
He stays in the office late like me and as somebody who likes work, I developed special interest in him. He had a very good analytical mind. He had the capacity to evaluate issues, compartmentalise them and come up with the necessary deductions.
He was intelligent with very scientific mind even as a legal person. He was a very good family man who attended virtually all functions with his wife and little wonder he died with his wife and son in the same car. I can only pray that Almighty will accept their souls.
If only we can run our programmes very well, conclude all the ne­gotiations he started through the memo briefings he had given to me, it will be a very good legacy to his memory.
I am very sure that the Federal Government will also honour him. Mr President has a package for his family members and I can assure that none of the surviving ones will sufer in his absence.
The controversy over FG’s payment of N5000 to jobless Nige­rians
We will not give N5000 for people to go and sit down at home and be sleeping; we won’t give the money to loafers and indolent persons. We are going to give to categories of people that fall under the three programmes we have packaged.
The first programme is Teach Nigeria. It is a programme we take graduates, NCE holders, education and professional graduate majors, comprising geologists, biologists, lawyers, engineers, scientists, pure and applied scientists as adhoc teachers.
In this category, Nigerians will be converted to emergency and aux­iliary teachers. They will undergo training, depending on where they are domiciled. If it is near the training centre, we can give them N5000 each as transport fare.


After the training, which might be two or three months, we will now synchronise with the state government and deploy the beneficiaries not to federal schools but state schools.
It is not also true that we will only deploy them to primary schools. Some of them will go to secondary schools. We have told the NUT that they are partners in progress on this matter because we recognise teaching as a profession. We equally recognise the teachers’ registra­tion council.
Just as we have council for medical persons, nurses, the teachers’ council will be part of the programme. They would be certified to start teaching. If, for in­stance, the engineers secure employment elsewhere, other persons will take up their teaching position.
We want to domicile the management of the centres under the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), a parastatal under the Ministry of Labour. The special­ist capacity centres can take many graduates, the Lagos and Bauchi centres can take over 4000 trainees each in a cycle of training. It is the same for Lafia and Enugu centres that can take as high as 2000 trainees each.
We will graduate them in that cycle and based on the degree of certification received from the NDE voca­tional centres, the beneficiaries will migrate to the next category for specialisation in order to have Trade Test Certificate graded into certificate one, two and three.
The trade certificates are the progenitors and re­placement for the former City and Guild Certificates recognised all over the world including Europe, America and Canada. Holders of that certificate can be employed in Nigeria or outside the country under a Labour Migration System. We are partnering Interna­tional Organisation for Labour Migration (IOM) sys­tem, a European Union-based organisation.
That is why we have made it clear that we are now creating pink and blue-collar jobs because there are no white-collar jobs anywhere for this administration to give Nigerians. We are facing mining, agricultural de­velopment/farming, rice, tomato cultivation, palm tree development so that we stop the importation of rice, palm oil and even tomato puree.
We are going into fish farming, bee and honey de­velopment programmes. We are concentrating on agri­culture and mining as part of skill acquisition and blue collar jobs. The pink collar jobs are the service pro­viders from those who acquire service skills. Among them are computer, GSM phones repairers, cake bak­ers, mechatronics, hairdressing and barbers. Some of them will be required to do five hours for two days and 10 hours in one week. They may do 20 hours or more in a month to qualify to collect N5000. There are others that will do more hours maybe because of their involvement in helping FRSC in traffic control or other type of community work which will involve working three times in a week. This category of persons can­not collect the same amount like others. They will get N10,000.
The fourth category are the physically challenged, the disabled confined to the wheelchair. These are the vulnerable in the society. It is the same for the aged that are not under any pension and have no children or relatives to help them. We will document them among those that fall into the category of N5000.
The long and short of it all is that we are not go­ing to tell people to line up on the road as unemployed persons and be dishing out N5000 to each of them. No government ever does that, not even in the civilised world. If we do it, Nigerians will abuse the scheme.


Reconsidering his decision for senate rerun elec­tion
Well, I can tell you that a lot of water has passed under the bridge since the last election. The same sce­nario does not exit again when I contested that elec­tion. As situations emerge, we and our party will try to find a solution. Personally, I was not even interested in contesting the senatorial election of March 2015. I con­tested because I wanted a base for my party, the APC, in the South-East, I wanted to work for our presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, and make sure he gets at least 25 per cent in the South-East.
APC has won that presidential election and I have achieved that major goal. The people of Anambra State watched as PDP seized the ballot result and wrote whatever they wanted. As at today, the new scenario is that I am on another national assignment which is also very critical to the change agenda of Mr Presi­dent and our party, the APC. Looking at that scenario vis-à-vis the new rerun election, I know that we have capable hands in that senatorial district and so we are still searching for the right person to fly the party’s flag.
We are still discussing within the party and I can tell you that many scenarios have been throwing up like the recent court judgment by the PDP which ordered INEC to regard the rerun election as a fresh election in which parties can present new candidates.
Nigerians angry with APC government over hardship in the country
I don’t know what you mean by hardship and those you call Nigerians. Are they the federal civil servants getting their monthly salaries as and when due? We don’t owe them, not even allowances and there is no reason they should be unhappy with the APC govern­ment.
Are the okada riders among those complaining when they are making brisk businesses or the gradu­ates we will soon address their problem of unemploy­ment after the passage of the budget? Unemployment is the harbinger of Boko Haramism, harbinger of IPO­Bism, OPCism and militancy in the Niger Delta.
It is a scourge and serious disease condition that we must fight and that is why we are in this ministry and government. We have job creation programmes under the supervision of the Vice President and other inter-ministerial ones that will be rolled out very soon.
By the time we roll out, more funds will be put into the economy. Let us warn that the funds are not for stealing. The only difference between APC and PDP is the stealing of the lots of floating funds. Many of the elite were grabbing these floating funds and they are the ones protesting that they are not happy with the present government.
Those complaining especially the elite are members or loyalists of the PDP. We are not bothered because we are going to continue with our common-people’s programme and I want to assure that the tide will soon change. So, we are waiting for the budget. Don’t forget that we are not the ones that appropriate funds but the National Assembly. We have given them budget, done some alterations and amendments as needs be in areas where some people try to mutilate and we are waiting for now. Once they approve the budget as proposed, we roll out our programmes.


http://www.sunnewsonline.ng/nigerians-complaining-of-hardship-are-pdp-loyalists-ngige/

It is actually not a crime to keep quiet when you dont know what to say, even the bible said it that "The more talk, the less truth; the wise measure their words - Proverbs 10:19 " Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent. - Proverbs 17:28"

Can't these people just quit talking and let their works speak for them........... #Mtcheeeeeew

udmbat:
Ajalorun of Ijebu-Ife is far above all of them listed. Ask the ooni of ife if you dont believe me.

I think we will have a great problem in Yoruba land when all these old kings and elders are dead, i think we will all lose the truth of our identities to fame, politics, affluence and influence. Imagine the confusion being set all these distorted tales. Our major problem is that we lack proper documentation of things. I must tell you that Ooni is no king in Yoruba land, counting him as one of the Big Kings is absolute distortion. I think we must learn that truth that the only son of Oduduwa is Okanbi, who died before his father and have 7 children, who are the main Yoruba Kings. The children of these 7 children are the extended branches of the true Yoruba Lineage.

[size=16pt]SO MY BIGGEST QUESTION FOR ALL OF US TO HELP US TRACE OUR ROOT IS "WHICH OF THE BRANCH LINE OF THESE 7 CHILDREN DOES YOUR VILLAGE, TOWN, CITY OR FAMILY LINE BELONG TO?"[/size]

If we can't trace you to any of these people, then you must be a stranger or visitor, slave or Prisoner of war (not meant to be derogatory in any form), or a merchant.

Fight for supremacy should come by the truth in our lineage connection.

mikewonder:
Story highlights

Nigeria plans to open the first pencil plant in West Africa in 2018
Government officials believe this will create at least 400,000 jobs
Pencils are seen as a way to kickstart a manufacturing industry

(CNN)With the value of oil and the Naira currency in decline, Nigeria is turning to old-fashioned pencils to provide relief.

The Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu, recently announced that the first pencil plant in West Africa would start production in 2018.

"We have all the things to produce a pencil, which is used by a large number of people from our young pupils to engineers," Onu told Nigerian newspaper The Daily Trust.

"The private sector will come in to do the production and we will see the benefits. When production of pencils begins, Nigerians will be amazed at the multiplier effects. It will create a minimum of 400,000 jobs."

The Minister explained that pencils use raw materials that Nigeria possesses in abundance, such as wood, graphite, and rubber. All pencils are currently imported, which has become prohibitively expensive as the Naira struggles.

Reviving industry

It is hoped that pencil production can help to revive the manufacturing sector, which has declined since the oil boom of the 1970s.

The textile industry alone employed around 350,000 people in the 1980s, a figure that has fallen to 25,000 today. The total manufacturing sector employed 18% of the workforce in 1982, but under 12% today.

The government has adopted former President Goodluck Jonathan's Nigeria Industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP) to scale up industrial production. Onu claims that pencils will be the first of 1,000 products that could now be manufactured domestically, with six-cylinder engines next on the list.

Pencils can be a logical first step in developing industrial capacity, believes Professor of Economics Stephen Onyeiwu of Allegheny College.

"Pencils use simple, mature technology and raw materials that can be sourced domestically," says Onyeiwu. "The size of the market is huge, and we could export to other African countries."

The Professor believes that success with pencils could pave the way for more sophisticated production. Economic analysts Mckinsey predict Nigerian manufacturing has the potential to deliver output of $144 billion a year by 2030, up from $35 billion in 2013.

Faith gap

However, Onyeiwu is skeptical of state-led industrial enterprise, citing the past failure of fertilizer and cement initiatives, and stresses the need for private sector leadership.

"The history of the government's involvement in the industrial sector has been disappointing," he says. "The government's role should be to facilitate...they should introduce policies to attract private investors (such as) to bring down interest rates."


Reaction to the pencil project has been largely negative, with many social media users noting the contrast with neighboring Uganda's launch of a solar-powered bus.

One scathing article by Nigerian journalist Emmanuel Uchenna Ugwu attacked the scheme as a "dubious joke."

"It is a pity that Nigeria is fantasizing about the made-in-Nigeria pencil in this age," the author wrote. "That the government of Nigeria is projecting the coming pencil as a sort of technological revolution shows that Nigeria has recorded satisfactory success only in insulting and betraying its potential." http://edition.cnn.com/2016/03/10/africa/nigeria-pencil-production-ogbonnaya/index.html

Please this is no good news abegi!...........there are many more projects that have been completed in this country by our wonderful graduating students in every tertiary institution, why not let us look through them and spin out more viable companies than wait till 2018 for pencil factory that will employ 400,000 people. this is what you get when you put a star plug into a rectangle hole. #Mtcheew....yeye dey smell

simtosul:
The highly pronounced power failures across the country in the past few days may worsen following a partial system collapse that occurred on Tuesday, and the continuous drop in electricity generation due to what the government says is the vandalism of pipelines that supply gas to the power plants.

As a result, power generation dropped to 1,580.6 megawatts on Wednesday.

Data from the Nigeria Electricity System Operator as well as information from senior officials of the different electricity distribution companies confirmed that power generation plummeted massively on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The officials noted that this resulted in the reduction of the electricity load allocated to the Discos, stressing that this was why many parts of the country had been recording blackouts in the past few days.

It was learnt that the partial system collapse that occurred on Tuesday happened at the Shiroro Power Plant and dragged down electricity generation to as low as 1,233.4MW from a peak of 3,207.7MW recorded on the same day.

Data from NESO showed that by 9.48am on Wednesday, power generation was 1,580.6MW, with the Ikeja Electric getting 237.09MW; Abuja, 181.77MW; Eko, 173.87MW; Benin, 142.25MW; and Enugu, 142.25MW.

Others are Ibadan, 205.48MW; Jos, 86.93MW; Kano, 126.45MW; Kaduna, 126.45MW; Port Harcourt, 102.74MW; and Yola, 55.32MW.

One of our correspondents gathered that prior to the partial collapse of the system, the Abuja, Ikeja and Eko distribution firms were getting over 350MW each to meet the power needs of a considerable number of their customers.

In fact, it was learnt that the normal baseline allocation for the Abuja Disco was 450MW, but on Wednesday, the firm got 181.77MW around 9.48am, according to data from NESO, and this further dropped to 131.77MW by 1.25pm.

On reason for the slump in electricity generation, officials at the power arm of the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing told one of our correspondents that the same old issue of gas pipeline vandalism had continued to pose challenge to adequate electricity generation and distribution.

An official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “Gas is vital for power generation and most of the electricity being generated in Nigeria is produced by gas-fired power plants. Both the ministers of power and petroleum have often called on Nigerians to help safeguard these infrastructure, but we keep recording explosions of gas pipelines.

“Currently, repairs are ongoing on some of the ruptured pipelines and once they are completed, we believe generation will pick up again.”

Last week, the acting Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, Dr. Anthony Akah, lamented the incidences of vandalism that led to the reduction in peak power generation and supply from the national grid.

Akah, who spoke in Abuja, solicited the support of members of the public and the Consumer Protection Council to collaborate with electricity service providers and security agencies in ensuring adequate protection of power installations across the country.

Similarly, the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, told journalists in Abuja on Tuesday that vandalism had been a serious challenge to not just the oil and gas sector, but also the power sector.

Meanwhile, the management of Ikeja Electric has apologised to its customers for the epileptic power supply across its network in the past three days.

The Head of Corporate Communications, Ikeja Electric, Mr. Felix Ofulue, made the apology through a statement on Wednesday.

Ofulue attributed the poor service to the ongoing activities by labour unions picketing the facilities of the company over the purported sacking of 400 workers.

He said the company’s employees were not on strike, but that they had been prevented by the protesting labour unions from gaining access to its facilities and “are, therefore, not in a position to provide any consistent service to our valued customers.”

Ofulue noted that the situation had impacted negatively on power supply as well as the purchase of recharge units because all the substations, business units and undertakings had been taken over by members of the protesting unions.

He said, “Ikeja Electric regrets all inconveniences this action may have caused its customers and appeals to all its customers to please bear with us.

“We assure our customers that the company is doing its best to normalise the situation within the shortest possible time. We thank all our customers for their patience and understanding.”

Power sector workers under the aegis of National Union of Electricity Employees and Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies had on Monday picketed the head office of the Ikeja Electric over the sacking of 400 workers of the company.

The union had issued a seven-day ultimatum to the management of the company last week Tuesday to recall the disengaged workers or face industrial action.


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Abeg why the power dey go down small small, who dey thief am small small, make the person kukuma thief am finish make we know say na zero megawatts we get for National Grid. At least we don dey use our Generators, inverters, Solar panel, Lanterns, Candle, Atupa and pali isana since tey tey! Abeg if dem wan work make dem work but we will NEVER SUCCUMB to that Tariff hike without first getting what a taste of the goodness we are going to be paying for.
In fact I don provoke sef, make una come pack una wire for my house ooooo or come drop am comot for transformer because i wan use the wire spread cloth oooooooooo.
#mtcheeew
They claim the Distribution companies are now private yet they dont have the money to finance their business or what? Why caant they pump their money and let market pricing dictate the tariff like the Telecommunication saga. Thieves approved only one DIS-COY per place or to several states or region, why wont those DIS-COYS turn themselves to gods and lords over us and hold us hostage. flood the market with more distribution company per state and force competition into the sector, then watch the growth and productivity skyrocket exponentially.

Godswillnwaoma:
who sold that weed to you.

Pure ONDO WEED ooooooooo......lol
Dem dey talk BANK he dey call MTN, MTN NA BANK!!!!!!