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Why are we suddenly producing half the gas we need?

“Available operational data indicates that thermal power plants collectively require an estimated 1,629.75 million standard cubic feet (MMSCF) of gas per day to operate at optimal capacity. However, as of February 23, 2026, actual gas supply to the stations stood at approximately 692.00 MMSCF, representing a significant shortfall in daily gas supply requirements.”

The wonderfully amazingly helpful magas.

The primary was upended as early voting began last week, when the San Antonio Express-News reported that Gonzales had an affair with an aide who later died after setting herself on fire. The story prompted a wave of other damning revelations about his relationship with the aide, Regina Santos-Aviles, and gave fresh momentum to his leading primary rival, Brandon Herrera, who already came close to unseating Gonzales in 2024.

The late push for Herrera comes as Gonzales continues to face damaging reports about his relationship with Santos-Aviles. The Tribune and other outlets reported that Gonzales asked her for sexually explicit pictures in late-night text messages.

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/27/tony-gonzales-affair-texas-23rd-congressional-district-brandon-herrera/

benalvino3:
Make Jesus a republican, likely the front runner, and they will say he is worse than Trump.

The above is very true, ben.

Apart from the extra baggage of obnoxiosity that dump carries with him, many of us just don't like Republican policies, and if Jesus front runs such policies that Jesus will not be our Jesus but will be our satan.

It's like we don't exactly suffer from TDS, but from MRDDS, maga republican deranged dump syndrome. And we are very delighted to see those republican magas do what it is they are currently doing to themselves, to be honest with you. They couldn't better help ensure they don't win an election again till after 2050!

In our view, a dump supporter must have a very warped understanding of Jesus and God, and even themselves in the scheme of things. Just that we know a light will bulb in minds one day.

AlphaTaikun:
@budaatum

Whoa! Did you lose consciousness? It's wonderful you came round again. I hope you didn't have a major head injury from the "about 2 minutes" of passing out. Some folks have fallen unconscious in the bath and had some head injuries after hitting a hard floor surface in the past.

I very must have lost consciousness, getting out a hot bath so quick. Must have fell in slow motion because head was very ok. Silly really, since I felt it coming like last time I passed out. But before I could do anything I found myself on my back staring at the ceiling.

I'm lucky I didn't end up with the laptop in the bath. And that reliance on luck for the continuance of my existence is why the word stup¹d applies to me. It's also why I'm making it known here on Nairaland so I can't lie that I wasn't stup¹d, again, since it's the stupidest thing I've done since I more stup¹dly swam in toxic water a decade ago.

Bath water temp is going down for sure. And I should consider going back to just reading a book and listening to music in fact, and swim more.

SpaceX:
Only people who have maggots in their brain do business with APC

Smart people get big wise maggots so they can do business with satan for the common good.

AlphaTaikun:
Your last paragraph cracked me up here...

Indeed, the new machine has to sit right on your desktop... (NO more aquatic locations for viewing YouTube videos). I once had one of my mobile phones fall into water in the bathroom years back. I learned some punishing lessons from that experience and I don't take my mobile devices near water ever again. ONLY the paranoid survive. That's a true maxim! Although we live in a world of vibrational energy (cause and effect), so, any thing bought new will deteriorate in time and space.

I've never used a "Pcspecialist" brand in my life. I might pick up one of that brand soon after seeing your post and watching online reviews of the brands you mentioned here.

I do indeed need to become a bit paranoid as I'm not paranoid at all. I'm not too reckless often, being a cautious risk calculater, but this one did creep up on me.

Now I look back, it's like when I put mobile down after a call once and roller bladed away. Hours later was I like, where is my phone!

That phone was a brick and not cheap in 1996. But I wanted an upgrade I couldn't justify, so I stup¹dly abandoned my phone on a bench in Hyde Park so I can go get a new one.

I like PcSpecialist because you can choose specs to suit need and purse, and the solid 3-year warranty. I've Return Merchandise Authorized (RMA) twice, and just the savings on labour made it worthy. The service itself was outstanding and felt like money back.

Annoying I'm lapsed on home content because I'm often careful and minimalised. Must look into now my new machine is on the way.

I was video calling a nephew in Lagos who asked if I was fasting. Said I was, and technically I was having gone to sleep at 5am and only just recently awoken.

He saw my new book by Nana Asma'u, and I told him who she was, but he didn't even know her father.

I'm saying because it would be remise of me not to.

Further readers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Asma'u

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futa_Tooro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torodbe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fula_people

https://www.nairaland.com/4508641/american-politics-thread-trump-47th/5740#138595013


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln6PDMk5ApY

DMCA:
budaatum d walker of d walkee

You no say.

That kid's mother sold bread. She'd carry him on her back hawking bread then when she gets home with bread she don't sell, she'd let her son at it so she can charge the father.

The father sold meat. He'd buy cow on credit and pay after market day. Except he had an inclination for tramadol and mariju, which often meant he couldn't pay for the cow so he resorted to swindling people. He had lots of wives and children too, and no he couldn't feed them well.

I used to take his 2.5 year old son off his wife every 5 day market and feed him ewedu and bitter leaf and fruits from my farm. She'd collect him next day most times but began leaving him longer, and he was getting stronger the six months, then his father killed my six cows and never paid for them, so I returned his son to him so it can't be said I held his son ransom.

His son's inability to walk and thin hair and bloated stomach and small bone density and eventual death 2 months after I returned him was all due to malnutrition and his parents stupidity, and felt like they'd killed my own child. 3 months later the father died too, so I'm now known as the person who made a little boy walk and kills the father who stole cows.

Predictor3:
The only thing that can make Nigeria work is for the north to be decoupled from the south. Ibo and Yorubas insult each other die, but intermarriage among the two is farrrrrrrrrr higher than intermarriage between either of the two and northerners.

Predictor3, my previous stands. Just replace Brendaniel with you and go read our conversation from the beginning and you'd be up to speed.

I was asked to unrealistically assume I was president buda of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, so telling me I am being unrealistic is like telling me my skin is brown.

And p.s. I don't want to marry anyone. I just teach people to use the brain in their head. The choice of learning however, is entirely yours. Or rather, their's.

Predictor3:
I'm Yoruba like you, except you are not Yoruba. I'm not Brendaniel.
Why are you mixing up the two?

You must please forgive me Predictor3, I am so very sorry for mixing you with Brendaniel. It's just that you argue pretty the same argument. Still forgive me. i will read some again and respond where necessary.

As for my Yoruba ness. budaatum is from the Orolu Kingdom of Ifon Osun in Osun State in the Yoruba land in the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Africa.

budaatum:
My higher grade was to build a desktop, but components are far too expensive and scarce at the moment.

Reading this 5 years later is ironic. Now components are not even available!

HenryStarlife:
Would you like me to introduce you to the real Donald Trump?
I will gladly do so.

I don't want to meet dump. I just want to know why you think "someone who idolizes Donald Trump should not be a presidential candidate of any country", if you'd be minded to tell us like Flangelo12 and Namaster kindly appropriately have.

Predictor3:
You are not being realistic. I read where you said you would bribe almajiri with free lunch so they could attend school. It's not in their character, so it will fail. What they want is exactly what they have now. I've been to the north and I've seen clearly that they will not change. The only thing that can make Nigeria work is for the north to be decoupled from the south. Ibo and Yorubas insult each other die, but intermarriage among the two is farrrrrrrrrr higher than intermarriage between either of the two and northerners.

Before one teaches, Brendaniel, one must first learn about teaching, and the nature of humans, and how we learn, and how to teach, etc etc etc, and what to teach why, but the fact you seem to think character can not be changed amuses me considering your own character changed from pro Nigeria to anti.

Free breakfast, free lunch, free books, free uniforms, free shoes, free transport money if they can not get to school starting from age 4-5 all the way to 18, insha'Allah.

First year will teach them ali ba ta sa and a b c and the alphabet of your own language and 1 2 3 4 and plus and minus and multiply and divide and what, why, when, where, who, and how. I will force it into their character at the early stage before their tabula stops to rasa and they will not depart from it.

Please know that you did ask me to be unrealistic when you asked me what buda would do if buda was president buda, when in the current reality no one has elected buda, and nor has buda campaigned to be president, realistically.

Why should someone who idolizes Donald Trump not be a presidential candidate of any country please?

Brendaniel:
My people(the Igbos)

Your second paragraph is the just showed it here , for your third paragraph, don't you think the Islamic north has been given so much opportunities on that for over 60 years and refused to learn?

Thankfully, not all Igbos think or reason or want what you do.

If, as you say, "Islamic north has been given so much opportunities on that for over 60 years and refused to learn", then the teachers should first consider themselves bad teachers and learn to teach better before blaming the student for the teacher's inability to teach the student.

Once the teacher considers that it is they the teacher, who must learn to teach better, the student might likely learn in six years what you couldn't teach it in 60.

Do know that many Igbo people are my fellow Nigerian peoples too, and that though tribe and tongue may differ we are one Nigerian family.

RealityKings1:
£2,008.00 is alot to put in water

You don't say! I was stup¹d to put it in water and I been kicking myself ever since.

But I am very delighted to say that I am now out of purgatory and my punishment is finished. I shall be getting a Pcspecialist Recoil 18" 275HX 32GB RTX 5070Ti 1TB from a benefactor.

I will make it sit on my desktop, and I will go find more benefactors just in case I'm stup¹d again.

“The rebasing confirms that Nigeria’s economy may be statistically larger, but it is not more productive, nor more industrialised. Without a strong industrial base, GDP expansion may just become a hollow statistic,” Ajayi-Kadir said.

https://africacheck.org/fact-checks/factsheets/factsheet-nigeria-rebases-its-economy-again-heres-what-sets-it-apart

Brendaniel:
You see one of the reason why I and my people want to leave you people to continue with your Nigeria... you just showed it here...

Brendaniel, who are "your people"?

What have I "just showed it here" to you?

IGBOSON1:
In Nigeria, the actions of 'a few ignorant people' are a reflection of the generality of the populace! So just admit it,

No! I refuse to admit such nonsense.

Me being a Nigerian and a murderer and a thief does not in any way reflect Nigerian you being a murderer and a thief much less the million other Nigerians who have never murdered or stolen, and anyone who thinks it does and generalises thus is the ignorant one, I admit.

As for your below, I can not disagree.

IGBOSON1:
....
the generality of Nigerians are the problem! From the generality arises the particular....a country's leadership cannot be seperated from or rise above the capacities of the generality of its people! If a people are generally docile, lazy, bigoted, tribalist, have a rent-seeking and rankadede attitude, a misplaced sense of entitlement, no sense of justice and fairness, and are generally daft, these unwholesome attributes will invariably be reflected in it's governance, politics and leadership recruitment process!

A Confession.

I murdered my laptop. I drowned it in the bath, and my stup¹d pained me so much that I couldn't confess till to AlphaTaikun.

It happened just about August 2025 when I put my lovely hardworking loyal Pcspecialist Ionico 10875H RTX3070 64Gb 2Tr underwater and drowned it and began bearing false witness that my laptop took a bath.

I was soaking in the bath, watching youtubes as a mamiwata me when and I stepped out to pea and next I was staring at the ceiling. I must have been out at least 2 minutes. I got up and saw my laptop in the bath. It was totally submerged. My Pcspecialist Ionico 10875H RTX3070 64Gb DDR4 2T NVMe had been murdered by drowning by me!

That is my sin. This is my confession.

A Confession.

I murdered my laptop. I drowned it in the bath, and my stup¹d pained me so much that I couldn't confess till to AlphaTaikun.

It happened just about August 2025 when I put my lovely hardworking loyal Pcspecialist Ionico 10875H RTX3070 64Gb 2Tr underwater and drowned it and began bearing false witness that my laptop took a bath.

I was soaking in the bath, watching youtubes as a mamiwata me when and I stepped out to pea and next I was staring at the ceiling. I must have been out at least 2 minutes. I got up and saw my laptop in the bath. It was totally submerged. My Pcspecialist Ionico 10875H RTX3070 64Gb DDR4 2T NVMe had been murdered by drowning by me!

That is my sin. This is my confession.

Stephen0mozzy:
Una too dey rush for most things.

Don't mind us. I began teaching my children ABC and 123 when they was still inside the belly.

https://www.babycentre.co.uk/a1049781/will-my-baby-learn-anything-in-the-womb

https://www.ngala.com.au/resources/how-baby-learns-in-the-womb/

Brendaniel:
Remember when I told you Tinubu's policies were going to fail and you argued that, good policies was all the country needed, today what do you rate Tinubu's policies success?

When you keep teaching and they refuse to learn, what do you do?

No, I don't remember when you told me "Tinubu's policies were going to fail and you argued that, good policies was all the country needed". Post a link to remind me please.

I do not agree that Tinubu's policy to remove fuel subsidy and free float Naira have failed, and no indice shows Tinubu's policies have failed yet, though you are welcome to provide me with evidence of his failure.

If I keep teaching you and you refuse to learn I will first consider that I might be teaching you the wrong way and will therefore adopt various other teaching methods to try to get past your learning barriers. But if you continue to refuse to learn, I will eventually decide not to waste my precious time trying to teach you who refuses to learn and will give up teaching you who refuses to learn and go and teach those who are willing to learn since not only 'refusing to learn you' exists.

Hezzyluv:
Just 7years imprisonment for $2.1m

Plus, he lost everything as well, including reputation.

I once visited a friend whose 2.5 year old son would not walk. I reached my finger out for him to grab and we walked up and down the yard for about half an hour. He began crying half way through but wouldn't let go of my finger.

Next day I turned up and the he was hiding, and as soon as I found him began crying. I stuck my finger out and he grabbed it and we walked up and down the yard, but at some point he dropped my finger and just walked up and down the yard beside me.

His parents said it was a miracle, but it really was just patience and allowing the child to practise. Think of it like teaching to drive a car and they might learn quicker from you.

Dazidon:
budaatum LordReed wirinet etc

Illude more.


https://galeriemontblanc.com/en/blogs/articles/what-are-the-most-beautiful-works-of-vassily-kandinsky

Brendaniel:
You really need to face reality about Nigeria, you are trying to fight ideologies.

This is not true sir.

buda is not fighting anyone's ideologies. buda is asking you and everyone else to fight your own ideologies by yourselves.

Brendaniel:
Sometimes you leave people to learn.

Oftentimes, one must teach people so they may learn.

Brendaniel:
Firstly I understand how democracy works,I just wanted to point out and show you the flaws on the kind of democracy Nigeria and most parts of the world practice, when they say majority carries the vote, you believe you have a choice for that statement, true in a sense, but then someone can weaponize it against you and then you find out you cannot change the leaders as you wish just like in a military government, that's one of the flaws of democracy.

First know that I am not the only one wishing my choice is the president of Nigeria, and so do not expect my wish to always win at every election.

One great Igbo Man wrote this book every Nigerian should read. In it he says "the hunter has learnt to shoot without missing, so the bird must learn to fly without perching", instead of giving you like you suggest and having no choice.

I should learn to fly better if my democracy is hunting me, basically, since I should actually be the one making sure votes count, and the one who suffers if I don't.

Brendaniel:
When they say majority, they never specified the majority of what kind of people(I would have loved to shed more light on this, but I don't want to make this response too lengthy)

You will need to "shed more light on this", because most don't need light shed to know a person with 2 votes out of four has a majority if one of sat on their lazy ass and refused to vote.

Brendaniel:
I may not need to be president to give the people a referendum, The people of Nigeria should be given a choice if they want to be Nigerians or not.

You must live in a universe where Nigerian people are given the sort of choice you suggest. I live in the alternate universe where Nigerians are not directly given that choice. They may of course elect Reps and Senators who promise to give them that choice so they have it, but I myself have not yet come across a candidate who won a Nigerian election running on a mandate to divide Nigeria. Do tell me if you have.

Brendaniel:
More reason why Nigeria needs to have referendum for all regions, it means the people of Nigeria have never being given the option of full choice to decide what they want,

People are "never being given the option of full choice to decide what they want" anywhere in the world ever, Brendaniel. There's always been a king or an emperor or a god or a government who decides what you should have or not.

But that said, we have democracy, which is a referendum, at least on who rules us, and we ought to be using it don't you think, instead of some people telling some people to boycott elections, which is the same as telling them not to use their own powers to choose.

Brendaniel:
even the UN acknowledges the rights to referendum and self determination.

The UN also emphasizes the preservation of the territorial integrity of member states, you forget to add!

Brendaniel:
so can we all join hands and allow democracy run its full course to give all Nigerians the opportunity to enjoy democracy in its fullness, because if you are supporting the current system of democracy Nigeria is currently practicing...

Just stop already please! You are sounding like a person we cooked a whole cow for but can not even finish a leg.

We had an opportunity to "enjoy democracy in its fullness" at the last election. Almost 100 million Nigerians were registered to vote in this "current system of democracy Nigeria is currently practicing" but less than 30m Nigerians actually went out on poll day to "enjoy democracy in its fullness" that we were not given but fought for but refused to use and that the President Tinubu won by less than a mere 10% of registered voters.

When we fully enjoy the democracy that we already have to its fullness so like at least 50% (I'd rather 90%, note) of registered voters enjoy the current democracy we have and vote, then yes, change the system to referendocracy. I will support you.

Brendaniel:
then you are supporting a system that is not giving Nigerians democracy is about the will of people and when that will is suppressed, it means that democracy is flawed and a bit likened to a military government that also suppresses the will of the people. Support democracy to run in its fullness if you really believe in it, except you don't.

I don't believe that people are given anything by those who lead them, Brendaniel. I understand that every thing a people have gotten from their rulers is what they fought for, often with their blood too. So, I should learn to impose my will better if the rulers suppress my will, Brendaniel, and I do that by promoting to everyone they vote. It is in fact my sole mission leading up to the 2027 Elections to support democracy in Nigeria by advocating you vote.

I believe the below to be true.

In a statement, the Minister said, “It is important to state clearly that Nigeria does not have, and has never had, a state policy of religious persecution.

But my atheist ass might get kicked by state sponsored Hisbah if I dare wiggle it in Kano, I bet.

Open source too, so available for tweaking.

https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor?tab=readme-ov-file