"And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing:"

One of the most unfortunate variant of mechanical energy is potential energy. Don’t get me wrong, it has useful applications across a wide range of disciplines – think about hydroelectric power (HEP) for instance. However, while so much energy remains at a height and is stationary, it is of no profit. Potential energy needs be converted to dynamic (kinetic) energy before work can be done. Work is the product of force and (useful) distance!

I have started on this note to provide a useful background for the subsequent unfolding of my thoughts this morning. I took a break out of life (nairaland, WhatsApp and YouTube/Netflix) to finalise my thesis. Considering the rapid growth of information especially on energy transition and energy justice, I had so little time to catch up and ensure that my thesis (essentially papers) captured the most up-to-date knowledge. During that span, so much seemed to have occurred in Nigeria and elsewhere.

I will this morning touch on two – Buhari’s gaffe (again) at the Commonwealth meeting in London and Adichie’s interview (with Hilary Clinton) gone bad in New York.

The Nigerian youth currently finds himself at the cusp of a major trilemma – defining who he is, asserting his presence and securing his future.

Your responses so far are what I will term "hits, back to back"!

Nigerians really need mental re-awakening. Like you rightly mentioned, Germany runs on coal (over 30%) along with USA, UK, China, South Africa (over 80%) etc. Yet, we (Nigerians) that haven't successfully powered street lights for 24 hours are shouting environmental pollution! It is folks like the fellow who took you up that make me see why the global North continues to bully us into useless agenda like climate change and CDM and Paris Agreement etc. When Nigerians won't school themselves on facts but would rather allow emotions and outsiders determine what we think, the end result is ZOMBIES!

Thanks for being an enlightened Nigerian!!!

GavelSlam:


Coal is coal.
It has never been clean.

They've been excavating coal from Munster for centuries using it as a source of energy. Why all of a sudden must Dangote be treated differently?

While a low CGPA is not advisable, there are additional factors that can weigh in your favour for full funding. A critical factor is PUBLICATION. You need not target UK scholarships or US schools but then it is possible to attract attention from say South Africa or Europe (eastern) with a CGPA of say 5.5/7.0 (UI format) and 2-3 Q1/Q2/Q3 journal papers.

So post graduation, doing one year of research in uni is a sure way of getting an edge. Also, many funds down south (Africa) are from a lecturer's cost centre which implies that during your research stint you might be able to establish useful links and get nice recommendations from your lecturers to colleagues outside that could be the tie-breaker.

A low CGPA is not advisable but for postgraduate studies, research prowess at UG levels offers absolution (more like 'go and sin no more'.)

I’ve reached the land of corn and wine,
And all its riches freely mine;
Here shines undimm’d one blissful day,
For all my night has pass’d away.

Chorus
O Beulah land, sweet Beulah land,
As on thy highest mount I stand,
I look away across the sea,
Where mansions are prepared for me,
And view the shining glory shore,
My heav’n, my home forevermore.

The Saviour comes and walks with me,
And sweet communion here have we;
He gently leads me with His hand,
For this is heaven’s borderland.

A sweet perfume upon the breeze
Is borne from ever vernal trees,
And flow’rs that never fading grow
Where streams of life forever flow.

The zephyrs seem to float to me,
Sweet sounds of heaven’s melody,
As angels, with the white-robed throng,
Join in the sweet redemption song.

Source: https://austinbhebe./2012/08/26/o-beulah-land-sweet-beulah-land/

I have just recently lost my advisor and it has been a period of deep and sober reflection. I am not seeking to understand why he should have died so suddenly neither am I seeking some clarifications on why God didn’t intervene.

As I have had and I’m having time to reflect, I can’t but wonder how funny life is. A day after his demise and I’m making inquiries on getting a new supervisor! Folks around are moving on with life – forging new alliances, re-aligning partnerships, re-strategizing etc. While the body of a great scholar is still cold in the morgue, life moves on! I never expected life to standstill albeit momentarily or for nature to blast out aloud in honour of the demised prof.

I saunter quietly into the auditorium for his lying-in-state and I am greeted by a wooden box which houses the corpse of my advisor. After all his accomplishments and awards and laurels and publications and contributions to scholarship and the larger academic community, my advisor is housed in a wooden box. This larger than life and ebullient guy is put there in a box for public viewing and for re-assurance as to the certainty of his demise.

I look across the auditorium and I sigh deeply. With all these laurels and achievements, my advisor had failed to reproduce himself. Of course, he has kids who should take after him, but glaring there albeit subtly was the fact that my advisor’s demise had created a vacuum. I pick out a colleague of his (a full professor) who was there with his student (also a full professor) and my sigh this time is deeper.

It dawns on me that his untimely demise robbed him of this precious gift of succession – grooming a worthy successor. I think of all our exploits and planned research and my heart sinks. I recall ‘the plan’ and efforts meant at positioning our research group in the limelight. We were having tremendous success churning our Q1 rated research with real impact and were taking a step further to go multidisciplinary.

I remember my daily routine of visiting ResearchGate, wondering and scheming about a day when my RG score would match and beat my advisor’s. I remember my sleepless nights this past year and the bouts of ill health I had to go through all because of ‘the plan’. When I see the end of my advisor and take a second look at ‘the plan’, I am moved to tears.

As I think about him and his brief time here on earth, I begin to learn bitter lessons –
• Life is a personal journey – despite the pain of bereavement felt by the wife and kids, no one accompanied him to his final resting place. At the grave, his family performed the dust to dust rite and retreated to allow sand to be poured on the box containing my advisor. No one joined him there! He is going to spend from this night onward alone there at the cemetery. I’m typing this tribute in the comfort of my room. He will be there and with time be probably forgotten as nature takes its toll on the box and his corpse.
• Freely live life – my supervisor was a dreamer and quite energetic fellow however, I would not want to live life with a moments care about many issues. While I must plan and make adequate arrangements, I must live life free of unnecessary encumbrances. I must have ‘me times’ where I take out sufficient time to rest my body and mind. Holidays and leisure times must be planned for adequately and regularly. Travels, picnics, skiing, cart racing, golfing etc. are some activities in my bucket list. In living to impact and affect lives, I am vividly reminded that it is only the living that can influence the living.
• Have a legacy – Hmmmm, this is important. An inventory of my advisor’s graduated students presents a shocking fact. He had not left any legacy behind. It is not uncommon to hear statements like ‘Ah, prof was a workaholic’, or ‘Ah, prof used to send emails as late as 2am’ or ‘Ah, prof was a smart man’. These are just passing statements that have not translated into a legacy of ‘I’m going to do a, b and c because of prof’s influence’. There is no one he has produced who could effectively enter his shoes. I am learning a bitter lesson from this. My goal as a future academic must be from end to end – to see my advisees graduate and reach greater heights than I can attain. I must create that environment for my future advisees to thrive. That environment must be free of control mechanisms on my part to contain them! They must be allowed to be the architects of their lives. While I guide them, I must give them the needed allowance (no matter how painful) to evolve and metamorphose into a product of their own making. This is necessary to enable them own their lives and live it with fulfilment. I must affect lives beyond religious sects and ethnic circles. My influence must not be within a sphere that is racially or religiously bigoted. My influence must transcend race, religion and locations. My interest in people must be to primarily discover themselves. My legacy is in the successes folks I come across make out of themselves.
• I am not indispensable – That my advisor is dead doesn’t mean my supervision ends. No, shockingly, a replacement is in line to succeed him. Another person gallantly enters to enjoy without stress all his labours! His demise has not caused any serious pause or problem. Ways would always be sought to circumvent the vacuum his demise has created. I am taking some serious decisions that fellows around aren’t okay with. Have I paid them any attention, No! Do I care about their feelings or disappointments, No! We all were gathered to eat and be refreshed at the residence of the late great prof – what an irony. Everyone has moved on with their lives! I am thus building a very resilient backbone to withdraw without a moment’s hesitation from activities when I am convinced of the need to without being bothered about anyone feelings! Yar’adua died in office and today he is only mentioned en passant.

Dear prof, we may have had our differences, but one thing is certain, it has been a privilege working with you. Your demise notwithstanding, I have taken it upon myself to see that your dream and passion for research impact especially in our chosen field doesn’t die. Never mind, you have lit a fire within me, and no matter how little, it is going to continuously burn bright.

I look forward to comparing notes with you when we meet someday in yonder on how I bested your records and accomplishments! I can see you chuckle.

Till we meet again, goodnight!

1. Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide;
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, oh, abide with me.

2. Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day;
Earth’s joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see—
O Thou who changest not, abide with me.

3. I need Thy presence every passing hour;
What but Thy grace can foil the tempter’s pow’r?
Who, like Thyself, my guide and stay can be?
Through cloud and sunshine, Lord, abide with me.

4. I fear no foe, with Thee at hand to bless;
Ills have no weight, and tears no bitterness;
Where is death’s sting? Where, grave, thy victory?
I triumph still, if Thou abide with me.

5. Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies;
Heav’n’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

Source: http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Abide_with_Me/

Next time please spend an extra minute looking at the site to save you some embarrassment. The same site has 2017 and real time ranking.
I clicked on the real time ranking and voila it shows Jeff Bezos https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/#version:realtime. I am not competing with you on who is right, I am only pointing out an obvious mistake. Simply say thank you and move on.

Luukasz:
Bezos was the richest man some 6/7 months ago but currently Bill gates is the worlds richest man with an estimated networth of $86B while bezos is currently 3rd according to forbes http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/ Perhaps if you had done more research and acquire more knowledge rather than just study you wouldn't have been misinformed. Clearly you are lacking in information and no wonder most first class graduates are just academically brilliant but outside of academics they lack the required intelligence to excel and suceed in life

Just a little more study and you would have realized that the richest man in the world is currently Jeff Bezos. A first class student would ace that!

Luukasz:
Having first class doesn't guarantee you anything in life. The daura man Buhari doesn't even have a pass yet Professor Adewole, Prof itse sagay bows before him.
Likewise other profs, Bill Gates doesn't have a first class yet he's the richest man in the world.
Aint talking anyone out of first class, but whats the point in having first class and you end up working for someone who doesn't even have a cert.
Develop yourself as an individual rather than chase after academic excellence besides i've come to discover most of those who chase after academic excellence always end up building another mans dreams cos thats what the school has programmed them to do. They spend so much time pursuing academic excellence when that time and energy could be channeled into developing themselves as great minds with intellects

While I respect your view I think it will be childish of UI to do that. There is no doubt that UI has always wanted to go fully PG and reasons vary from the fact that fees are higher for PG students, they constitute less nuisance unlike UG students and in terms of research PG students normally have higher outputs than UG students. Also, UI doesn't have the facilities to handle 4000 UG students and is traditionally known to favour smaller sizes of intakes to minimise the attendant nuisance noticeable in other FG universities. Lastly, I might add that UI still believes in taking in the very bright students which accounts for its low intakes of UG students and it's strict admission process for PG students.

Statsocial:
UI is deliberately taking less students to improve its Times Higher Ranking. A large undergraduate body does a university little good. By taking very small amount of UG they would have reduced the student - lecturer ratio and would give them the opportunity to retain PG-which is a Gold mine for rankings. UNN has been unsuccessfully trying to break into Times for years now. They might need to tow the path of UI to make their top 1000 ranking come through.

Lalasticlala

Nonsense. I thought he would have brought in more Shehu's and Adbulkareem's. When it comes to personal projects, the selection criteria is merit but for national projects mediocrity and "corpsocracy" (apologies to FFK) rule the day.

Perhaps because it is guaranteed with our forex reserves domiciled in JP Morgan and co.

GavelSlam:
Yet every time we sell our Eurobonds they are oversubscribed.

Smart eye. I tell you, those guys especially Shehu and Femi don't have shame. How their kids still cope seeing their parents embarrass themselves on the public scene is what I don't understand. So Hembe was penciled down since 2015 as board chairman? Sometimes it's better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak and clear all doubts.

sholatech:
And Garba Shehu defended the ghosts in the list based on the fact that they didn't tamper with the list submitted since 2015. Mtchew

5. Nigerians might not be human beings – I know, I know, slow your roll. This is just an initial hypothesis! When I see Nigerians who are owed salaries for 20 months end up collecting salt (N500), groundnut oil (N2000) and N5000 to still vote for the same ‘beast’ who has deprived you of decent living for over 20 months, then I can conclude logically, that Nigerians might not be human beings. Maybe we are between animals and the folks in the global north. When a government can be so bold to say things that are not normal and yet Nigerians do not react as human beings, then it is either we have been deluded (another possible but extreme conclusion) or better still we are sub-humans/super-animals. The following statements should buttress my assertion.

• Lai Mohammed: “..the Fulani herdsmen are from Mauritius. They are here in Nigeria because of climate change…” (modified) Mbok!
• Ganduje: “…I’m only pretending to sleep at functions…” (modified) Incredible!
• Aregbesola: “I do not have a bank account as I have not earned salary since becoming a governor” (modified) Say what?!
• Femi Adesina: “Buhari has fulfilled his campaign promises” Aibo!
• Lai Mohammed: “One masquerade can create 1000 jobs” Jesus wept!
• Fashola: “Increasing meter installation will improve power supply” Iskaba!
• Lai Mohammed: “PMB government has spent almost N2trn on infrastructural projects. But you can’t see it because of the huge size of these projects.”

Let me go and do something profitable today. Everyday news from Nigeria is a nightmare. May God help us all.

3. Religion has further helped in eliminating any little self-worth, self-esteem or self-value that remained in Nigerians owing to our fundamental problem of being IDIOTS. I will buttress this point subsequently. The recent debate over tithing in Nigeria coupled with the growing spate of allegations of misconduct perpetuated by religious clerics has revealed a lot about the religious centres in Nigeria. Humans with limit on living have been seen pontificating on the Nigeria sphere and speaking blasphemies. News media is awash with clerics who have and continue to subject their ‘followers’ to despicable acts. We have seen church members worshipping a chair a prominent cleric sat on, we have seen church members bringing comb to church to comb their hair, we have seen members told who to vote for in elections, we have seen church members humiliated by church leaders etc.

Aside this brainwashing, we have seen youths extend stupidity to higher extremes like the lady who decided to wear a hijab to her call to bar and folks who felt they were too religious to wear the khaki trousers for NYSC. Furthermore, we have seen NYSC camp opening dates shifted because some people were fasting etc.

4. Nigerians have no depth – Oh my, I have come across countless Nigerians and for the most, I have left disappointed! My discussions with them have shown over and over that our thinking process must have evolved parallel to the conventional thinking process of humans in the global north. Most Nigerians have a limited scope of what they want to do with their lives – no long-term goals, no excitement for adventure, no allowance for risks. They just want the easy way out. Most of them who are religious hide under the cloak of religiosity to excuse their short-comings. Others are more interested in results than process, hence short-cuts to them is not a crime! Most Nigerians have no plan! 2017 ends tomorrow and most Nigerians have no clear-cut plan of what they intend to do for the first quarter in 2018! They have expectation lists/cards of miracles that must be answered in 2018 with no plan on how to achieve anything. Many want good grades in school but have no study plan. Others are expecting a miracle job with no evaluation of their skills and a plan on how to have some competitive advantage. I have come across countless Nigerians who cannot anticipate problems/chaos and plan accordingly for them.

• Employment – create 3 million jobs per year. Thank God for NBS (National Bureau of Statistics) that has constantly intimated us that unemployment rate has just increased to 18.8%. Continuing further, over 1.6 million Nigerians have left full time employment in just 3 months! With over 34 million Nigerians being unemployed/underemployed, that is 40% of Nigeria’s workforce. Thus, for nine consecutive quarters, unemployment has been on the increase in Nigeria. While Ngige claims that about 7 million jobs have been created, NBS intimates us that between January 2016 and September 2017, 8 million Nigerians have become unemployed. The government has not been able to realise that the economy locally is sustained by cottage industries that contribute over 50% to GDP and 70% of employment. Furthermore, the failure of this non-realization has seen government pay little attention to policies and programs that would sustain these industries and enable them thrive under harsh economic situations. As at August 2016, MAN hinted that about 272 local companies had closed shops in Nigeria due to forex restrictions with other industries at 20% capacity utilisation. Government has either decided to play deaf or is at loss on what to do. Recently, we were all shocked to discover that the government was hiring consultants from Malaysia to advice on ERGP which was conceptualized and developed by Nigerians. It is finished!

• Oil – Stabilize global oil price at $100/barrel, reduce local fuel price to N45/Litre, stop importation of refined petroleum products within one year in office and build one new refinery every year for 4 years. I have been laughing for minutes now. At this juncture, I must confess that I’m confused on what really we are as Nigerians – mad, crazy, dead, stupid, fools, idiots, beasts, useless, clowns, I don’t know. How was Nigeria (not among the top five top oil producers) going to stabilize global oil price? We have not even been able to meet OPEC’s quota for us and yet we were going to be able to influence world price? In fact, OPEC recognized our uselessness and didn’t place any restrictions on our export capacity like they did to Saudi Arabia and others and yet, Buhari who doesn’t have school certificate was going to stabilize world oil price? On local price stabilization, oil price is expected to hit officially N200/litre next year (2018) from N145/litre (increased by this same clueless government). When I discovered that Dangote’s refinery (a private project) is now being supported massively by Nigeria and her arsenal (CBN, MoF, Commerce, customs etc.) and yet the project is still projected to be completed in 2019 then I begin to wonder how Buhari hoped to build 1 refinery per day.

• Power (electricity) – add 20 000 MW to the national grid in four years. If they say Nigerians need deliverance, I think that’s an understatement. Even South Africa has not been able to add 10 000 MW to her grid between 2008 and 2017 (that’s 9 years) despite World Bank financing. In fact, South Africa has had to re-commission already decommissioned coal power plants (despite utilizing old technology with higher emissions) just to have a high reserve margin. So how is Buhari expected to add 20 000 MW to our grid in four years (5 000 MW per year)? Where would he get the loans for the project (considering the fact that our foreign budgets have been underfunded consistently by up to 70%)? Where are the experts to man such projects? How is the investment going to be recouped? What plans are there to help in improving revenue collection and reduce ATC&C losses? These guys really took Nigerians for a joke!

• Security – Buhari led APC promised to within the first 3 months of their administration end boko haram. We cannot list the number of casualties recorded and continued to be recorded in the fight against boko haram. The Nigerian Army had to lie and recapitulate when they were exposed during the ‘senseless’ oil prospecting in the Chad basin. Even the security agencies have recorded hundreds (if not thousands) of casualties in the fight against insurgency. The recent approval for $1 billion in boosting the war against boko haram is a testament to the fact that 2 years after, the war has not been won. Wars are not fought with mouth. Wars are fought with strategic planning, credible intelligence gathering and counter-insurgency policies that are up to date. This is not 1967. Ask America about her failed wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. As at the time Buhari was pontificating about his ‘certain’ victory against insurgency he had forgotten that while criminals had modernised, the military had remained docile, archaic and been politically influenced. We now have a politically polarized military. Buhari underestimated the enemy and over-estimated his failed military career which saw him ejected out of office like hunting a rat from a hole. He failed to consider the preparedness of the Nigerian military and failed to eject politics out of the military. The end result is what we have today. Obasanjo though part of Nigeria’s problem, understood that a political military posed serious national threat, hence his utilization of Danjuma in weeding out political soldiers during his first term in office.

• Education – Free feeding for all school kids and free allowance for 1 extra year post NYSC for all graduates. That Nigerians fell for this scam shows how shallow minded we are. Who was going to bear the cost of this phantom project? What accountability structure was to be put in place? What statistics was available on number of public school children across the country? How was this project going to be sustained? As a social intervention program was this the best option? Could there have been a better alternative to mass feeding? What was the intended aim of this project? Nigerians didn’t care, we just believed. In Benin, they would say ‘Ozwor’.

I have gone through most comments on nairaland and on deeper reflection, I have come to the following initial conclusions:
1. Buhari is not in charge of the affairs of governance of Nigeria. Owing to his long hiatus in the United Kingdom and frequent junketing around the globe for no benefit, coupled with revelations on the approved $20 billion NNPC contracts and other sundry allegations, one can easily decipher that there is a kitchen cabinet made up of unelected Nigerians who are known/unknown to the Nigerian public and who take major decisions that affect Nigeria.

2. Nigerians have been evaluated mentally and found to be IDIOTS. I am a Nigerian and thus I am not going to shy away from the fact that these miscreants in governance have evaluated Nigerians and found us to be IDIOTS. I will buttress this point subsequently. During the 2015 electioneering campaigns, some of the deliverables that the APC promised Nigerians where as follows:

I woke up this splendid Saturday morning quite late. I decided to sleep long into the morning and just be lazy. My body needs a lot of rest this period. Furthermore, I have been happy of late owing to the great news emanating from back home (Nigeria). I have been observing that the increasing hardship and poverty has been ‘polishing’ the brains of Nigerians.

When I saw the catholic church harass that ‘ogre of a clown’ in Imo State, I was impressed. When I saw Nigerians publicly put the government on the spotlight over fuel scarcity during the Christmas celebrations, I was impressed. When I read that people where no longer paying attention to those ‘overfed idiots’ called organized labour, my heart leapt for joy. When I read that workers in Osun State were proceeding on an indefinite strike, I was overjoyed.

As usual, when I saw those ‘bloated pigs’ gather in Abuja to approve $1 billion to fight insurgency despite repeated claims by the government that boko haram had been technically defeated, my heart sunk; that was a joy killer.

You can thus imagine my heartbreak to wake up this morning, and low and behold be confronted with the news – “Buhari appoints 3 dead men as board members”. In fact, Francis Okpozo who died December 2016, was appointed as the new chairman of the Nigerian Press Council (NPC). The other two (so far discovered) are Reverend Christopher Utov (who died March 2017) appointed to the board of the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER) and Chief Donald Ugbaja (who died November 2017) appointed to the board of the Consumer Protection Council (CPC).

Nice observation there. The key is equal not less or greater.

CorGier:


Hmm.
Archimedes must be turning in his grave.

This report and prediction isn't entirely the fault of the current administration.

When Youths who are supposed to be engaged in productive activities are jumping up and down in shows rather than engaging in creating value or sustainable income stream this is what you expect because tomorrow these same Youths will queue up in their millions to apply for easy jobs like N-power and other time wasting jobs.

When Nigeria becomes a really credit and capitalist system like south Africa Nigerian Youths will pity themselves.

Folks in their productive years work tirelessly to ensure their future is guaranteed. Rather than waiting on govt to secure a living for Youths we are expected to go out and eke out a living. It is the inability of Youths to use their brains and energy for productive activities that sees 35 and 40 years old adults still collecting subvention from their parents. Today we now define Youths in Nigeria to be people up to 35 years. Shame!

It's a pity I tell you. 2017 is ending and young people elsewhere are re-strategizing for 2018 and young people in such a difficult country as Nigeria are queuing up to watch 'show'. This calls for national mourning, weeping and wailing. Tomorrow these are the folks that will queue up to apply for N-power jobs and other time wasting jobs.
If Awolowo and Azikiwe and Achebe and Soyinka were all attending shows in their youth they won't be where they are today (for those still alive) or have made the impact they have made on our course as a country.
This is really heartbreaking becos 31st night majority of these same folks will be in various churches shouting amen I receive it. Haba, even if na juju, e get expiry date now!

MrHistorian:
Is the reason for the backwardness of this Country not lucid to everyone now?

What Youths make-do of their time now is attending concerts to see mates of their younger relatives out of the urge to shout,jump and dance for a night without any benefits. . .

Some idiots will still compare USA despite the glaring imbalance in economic strength.

@ OP, the posts and pictures are deeply appreciated. However, we must be able to ask the hard questions for posterity sakes. There is no doubt that the library was indeed funded at the taxpayers expense.

The donations surrounding the fundraising for the libraries would have been condemned in developed worlds. Where did the state governors at time of fund raising get the funds to contribute? Can we trace and investigate the motivation for the huge donations from Elumelu (Transcorp, STB purchasing UBA etc.), Jim Ovia, Otedola etc. Was their donations a form of kickbacks?

The library has come to stay, but at what cost to society? How many kids would have been educated? How many roads would have been built? How many hospitals fully functional? What is the opportunity cost for the library?

Shying away from these questions imply we either have short-term memories or are afraid of the elites. It is because we failed to put this library on the spotlight that upcoming crooks are becoming brazenly bold and daring in their looting of our commonwealth.

The library is cool, but at what cost to society?

Even with World Bank funding, delays pushed back on power projects in SA. The issue is that we have no analysis or technical report on the health of our transmission network in the public domain.

We need to know the state of our transmission lines (age, losses, sagging etc.). Then we need to know about our HV transformers at the various transmission stations (age, loading capacity etc.). Next is to have an idea of what each DISCO can receive and overall, we need an idea of the load consumption pattern of Nigerian households.

Unfortunately, most of our researches have not covered this sphere. If these data are available, simulations can be run to design a gradual scale up in terms of network upgrade. Without a concerted plan, gov't will only be running in circles which is what Fashola has been doing - chasing tails!

GavelSlam:


So if you were given 1 trillion dollars today you think you can provide uninterrupted power supply to every home by June 2018?

20 000 MW in four years?! God these guys really took us for big fools. Even South Africa has not been able to add up to 10 000 MW in 10 years. Aside the Medupi and Kusile power plants, they have had to re-commission already decommissioned power plants just to have enough reserve margin. 20 000 MW in four years and we believed! My God! What about the financing, cost recovery options etc. Electricity price in South Africa is around the same price in Nigeria, so what is the increase being hyped by the government going to do?

anonimi:
Is this the 24/7 electricity promised by barawo bubu and his 40 thieves cabal of the All Poverty Congress, APC
Bloody liars, propagandists and rogues.


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Superb!
If they only knew. What makes it worse is that the unwillingness of Nigerians to follow due process and request for meters makes them 'foolish' because in trying to be smart by sorting the DISCOs illegally, we are actually paying premium price for darkness.

And since DISCOs won't increase purchase from GENCOs, the GENCOs are forced to scale down generation (lower gas purchases, under-utilization of plants, high losses etc.).

Perhaps communities should fight for common meter installation. This way houses can organize themselves into a block of single consumers and insist on a large meter. Each individual house is then billed based on common agreement by the block of houses and the money generated is used to settle the units shown on the meter.

This might just force DISCOs to roll-out meters for all!

SalamRushdie:


I hope you dont believe that evacuation inadequacy crap ? The truth remains that Discos reject electricity intentionally because they can sell darkness at same price and nothing will happen , EGBIN genco has been complaining that discos reject 70 percent of the electricity sent their way and the reason is simple , its because Discos prefer to trade darkness instead of light because its a miilion times more profitable.. they just take as little as they need to keep deceiving the customer to pay the estimated bills which ia actually a utility bill for darkness disguised a and electricity bill.. as long as 80 percent of customer remain without prepaid metering there is no hope for Nigerian electricity improvement .

On point. In addition to low transmission capacity we have about 10% lost due to T& losses then another 30-50% lost due to thefts, non-metering (ATC&C losses).

So celebrating 5 000 MW being transmitted is quite a slap on our faces!

Caseless:



We have problems with our transmission capacity too. We generate 7k MW, but transmit 5kMW, with 2k MW still left in the system.

7k is what we generate as a nation. So bad.

Of course, but you forgot that there were pre-conditions to be satisfied before states could access their subsequent refunds!

Even the federal govt is owing salaries on the massive scale. Case in point is ASUU/NASU etc.

Well, Nairaland has about 2 million members (let's not account for dormant accounts etc.). Thats just 1% of Nigeria's total population. It would be shocking to believe that such a survey would effectively account for the wider Nigeria.

So what is the gov't putting in place to guarantee a smooth transition from N-Power to life - accessible loans with single digit interest, agric loans, business loans etc.

For the environment for business, the capital flight in the last 2 years says it all!

GavelSlam:


The president cannot do anything about state salaries. It is not his remit by law.
He has even done more than he should by applying bailout funds which many states still mismanaged.

Please don't talk about the theory of power because the a small survey was carried out here on Nairaland and your opinion would not supersede that of the many respondents who participated from all corners of the country.

Npower is meant as a welfare scheme so stop assuming it is for graduates to live on eternally.

It is not government's role to employ but to create the environment for enterprise. This is being taken care of.

Of course, we are not saying the gov't doesn't want to try. The first and primary area where this gov't has failed is in salaries. Why is the president not commenting on states that still have backlogs to both workers and pensioners despite numerous bailouts? Why is the federal gov't still owing staff salaries? This is the lifeline of the SME's. You and I can't deny the fact that 2019 elections is the main pre-occupation of this government now. So, listing companies as achievement is a slap on our faces as Nigerians.

When you mention N-Power as an achievement, I weep. How much does N-Power pay a graduate? Is the payment capable of precipitating growth? N-Power is simply creating circulating poverty. You move some folks from one spectra of poverty (access) to another (mobility) and term that achievement? N-Power is no different from NYSC!

Power situation has not improved bro, consumption has only reduced drastically which creates the illusion of sufficiency. How can 3500 MW which wasn't sufficient 10 years ago now be sufficient 10 years after? This just proves to you that poverty is growing.

I hope you are aware that Nigeria with a population of say 180 million people will officially house the highest number of poor people (80 million) next year February beating India with a population in excess of 1 billion?

GavelSlam:


No one says it is uhuru.

But this government is encouraging private enterprise from Agriculture to small scale industries.

For the unemployed youth the Npower programme was formulated from which there are 200, 000 beneficiaries at the moment.

There was a thread here just yesterday asking people to comment on the power situation in their locality and it showed a lot of positivity though not perfect.

The government can do better but they are trying.

In as much as we can have divergent views, please always be open to truth! The businesses that have closed shops are the major employers of labour. Small and medium businesses employ the bulk of labour in the country. Also, they are the major contributors to our economic growth and revenue (tax) to the government. This is the reason why in the UK and other countries, incentives like tax breaks and other reliefs are provided for them to keep them in business during recessions. The MNC's and IOC's just employ a tip of our total workforce and contribute just a fraction to government revenue. They have the clout to survive due to their long term investments and financing commitments. This government has not been able to realise the significant role of the SME's and formulate tangible policies to keep them afloat.
The flop of the ERGP policy and the herculean route of the Industrial Development (Income Tax Relief) Act coupled with difficulty in accessing to forex, reduced purchasing power of households (due to delayed salaries, no jobs or steady income source etc.) has not been addressed by this government!

GavelSlam:


Why should I when I see expansion and new industries such as petrolex springing up?

Why should I when I know every Nigerian knows Kebbi state is a massive rice producer and Lake rice is available in Lagos?

Wetin concern common man with policy when he dey see food chop and place to work?

Receive sense.

Hmmm.... Don't forget that Buhari would even sign off our sovereignty is asked to do so. He's very grateful to be courted by the west after being sidelined for years. Also, the clowns and town criers he has surrounded himself with are mostly nonentities and inconsequential fellows who have no locus standi to even supply valuable contributions. They are all happy to have their livelihood sustained. It will take someone with some international clout whom the president respects to steer the narrative of this government. if this govt can humble itself and seek out our local and int'l experts who have built some name for themselves and have extensive networks, then we can begin to defy western conventions and re-organize our alliances.

tsdarkside:


then the goverment must cancel that agreement they sighned with europe.....

i was shocked when i saw buhari signing that clean energie nonesense.....

we both know they will never help us build a nuclear plant...illusions....they dont even want us to have a simple steel plant sef....

Ah, China would be more than glad to build it for us. They are currently building over 500 coal power plants worldwide. The technology is no longer the exclusive preserve of OECD. Of course, China would be looking for something, but then we would have a life line to quickly accelerate development. We can't go anywhere without stable electricity supply.

tsdarkside:


forget it...whites are not going to help you in anything when it doesnt benefit them...why should they..??...that would be silly of them...

humans are not a giant family....we are fractions...different types....a leopard will never go into a union with lion....or a gnu with a giraff...

life doesnt work that way....

(Well China is an ancient nation and has been able to develop local capacity over time.) Where are we going to get the turbines from? What about the associated technologies that are domiciled in the west? We need their skills and expertise to have our plants up and running while insisting on technology transfer.

irrespective of who is in charge, South Africa is doing great. Stable power, powerful economy and great FDI. Can we say the same about Nigeria? Its ZAR 1 = 26.68 Naira minutes ago.

tsdarkside:


i dont know why blacks think they need whites to develope...doesnt make sense to me.... ....

but dont develope without building your army oooo....or else you will end up like libya....

their are many interests in keeping africa down.....south africa a black nation my foot....the people may be black but they are not realy in charge.....

Electricity problem in Nigeria is multifaceted but at the root is policy conceptualization, development and implementation. That's the reason why Fashola keeps spewing nonsense regularly. If he's not generating electricity from sugarcane he's improving electricity supply through the installation of prepaid meters. There's no policy on achievables and direction so it's not possible to evaluate any progress.

Energy (electricity) poverty in Nigeria is dual - access and mobility. in the global north, having access means having sufficient electricity based on your ability to pay. In Nigeria, having access is one, being able to increase electricity consumption is another. This is usually evidenced in the rural areas where they have all those mini-grids. Also, these mini-grids are left to weather variations - availability of irradiance.

World bank should stop deceiving themselves and provide loans for coal power plants. Imagine having a 4 000 MW coal power plant. That is enough to ginger investments in transmission to be able to distribute the power.