₦airaland Forum

We got here because pretty much everything you and I consume is made abroad and imported. We wear tm Lewis and Thomas pink, we all strive to wear Louboutin, all the cars, doors to houses, watches, electronics etc are imported. Even when we have in innocent, we all prefer Benz, when we have local pampers we prefer foreign pampers, even though we have milo we prefer imported ovaltin, though we have nasco cornflakes and biscuits we prefer Kellogg and mcvities......... and on and on and on.

TPAND:
You yourself is just as literate as Senator Sani. You think from the Surface, Shiroro Dam, Kainji Dam, other Dams, and HEPs what happened to them. HEPs generate more MW than the gas powered plants.
There are so many kids here on nairaland that are products of failed and dysfunctional educational system.

That's not correct. Power capacity from our gas powered plants is far in excess of hydro capacity. Kanji is our biggest hydro and at best can do only 760Mw. However Egbin and Alaoji are both in excess of 1000mw and are both gas. I can count at least 6 other power plants that are in to 400 to 500 my range.

This is for new adopters. What about those of us who already have? No new packages? Any way I haven't loaded my smile since December. Smile currently has the worst data value proposition in the whole country for both Gsm and LTE. Spectranet gives 2 times the Gb of smile and cyberspace 3 times (not sure of swift since they ain't in ph) and it's not like they are significantly faster than spectranet. Also waiting for ntel. My "Smile" has turned into a frown!

The drop can never be due to only one reason. I would expect that all the reasons given on this thread are correct to varying degrees. It's a pity we don't have proper statistics in this country. It would have been useful to know exactly how much less cars there are on the streets, how much less people are showing up to buy petrol in jerry cans for generator and how many people are leaving cars at home or car pooling.

wayodude:
I am not usually pessimistic but I am willing to wager £50 with someone that this will not happen as stated.

Only £50 ke? I would go as high as £5000!

Wildrage:
Amaechi should just deliver without making stupid promises of deadlines. How can someone who could not deliver 3km of rail in 8yrs be shamelessly giving deadline of 2yrs for 100km rail

I totally agree with you! Doing either of them in 2 years would be a stretch even in China with their renowned efficiency. In Nigeria it is 100% impossible. Consider that we have not even secured the right of way, much less design, talk less of construction.

Lol @ ice cream!

But really the lack of critical thinking and aggressive action in this country baffles me.

Below is a link that details how an international airport in India has become self sufficient in electricity by developing solar panels over 40 acres of its unused land. The project delivers 12MW, cost $9.5m and took 6months!!

What I wonder is with chronic power shortages in Nigeria, why have we not gone the route of large scale wind and solar? I know it's not automatic, but an extrapolation of the example above means a 1000MW solar plant would cost circa $775mln. Surely we can use some of the recovered loot for that!


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34421419

Airtel clearly does double billing for data. My data manager says I have used 2.1Gb. Airtel says I have used 3.9Gb. Almost pelrfectly double. Something wrong somewhere. NCC, these are things you should be looking into o!

Airtel clearly does double billing for data. My data manager says I have used 2.1Gb. Airtel says I have used 3.9Gb. Almost pelrfectly double. Something wrong somewhere. NYC, these are things you should be looking into o!

naturalwaves:
It may sound offensive but I can authoritatively assert that nowadays, about 70% of Nigerian ladies are prostitutes. I remember joining a very good social networking site BADOO about 12 years ago and all seem well. Go there now and see how Nigerian ladies have shamelessly turned it into a tool for prostitution. You can hardly make regular friends there, all they know is hookup, zex, money. Most of them are so senseles that the only asset they think they have is their veevee.... Public asset. What a shame!

Most of them on badoo are guys mind you! They are posing as girls and trying to extort money for "transport"

greatgod2012:
Lies!

APC members and lie is like 5&6.


Ameachi is only saying this just to score some cheap goals.

Why didn't Gej do the clean up himself and score bigger goals for himself politically.

Miscellaneous:
I watched the news on TV when buhari made that speech so don't spew trash here. Lie nor go help u & buhari

Even if he said so N ko? Have you never made a threat before? I have told someone before "..... if I catch you I will kill you...." and I was quite angry, but does that mean I killed anyone?

wordychap:
>Return d pipeline protection contracts to ex-militants.
> Renege on reducing budget to Amnesty program
>Renege on reducing budget to Niger delta ministry
>Renege on reducing budget to NDDC
>Publicly renege on scraping Amnesty program by 2018.
>Publicly apologizing on d 5%/97% talk and promise to run an inclusive government
etc.

So in short a country should succumb to the will of common criminals?? Are you listening to yourself? I am sure you are educated? So you would rather spend 12 years schooling and then come out of school to be told that national resources that could have got you a job have been used to pay Tompolo and Co?

I hope you realize that the problem we have now with kidnapping is because the government negotiated the first time and suddenly of became easy business. Why do you think America doesn't negotiate with terrorists?

Let me tell you even if Niger delta seceded today in 30years time nothing would have changed much . Why? The people will still be chanced by their useless political leaders. I have seen several protests to shell, total and agip gate because communities have no water or road. I have never seen a protest to government house for the same agitation.

coolzeal:
Why is it difficult to restructure this country into fedrating units? That alone will spark up development and solve our problems as a nation.

I doubt that it would make a difference. Why? Via the same bloody politicians you have now would still steal all the money. The problem is not more states or regional systems versus state! It's simply because we have useless leaders at every level.

I think we should consider importing gas. If it were me I would create a receiving facility at the lekki free trade zone and send the gas via pipeline to the power plants that are outside the Niger delta like geregu, omotoso, egbin, papalanto, and others.

Mambilla would also get very high priority from me as well as large scale solar and wind power. Surely with the plenty sun up north we have solar potentials. A 500MW solar plant can be up and running in 18months if we move very fast. Also with the Harman tan wind that blows in from the Sahara at that time of year, I would think we have good wind potential too.

Also we have to enable investors in new power plants to sell directly to specific discos instead of sending everything to an inefficient national grid first. For eg a solar plant up north could make sense if I would be able to sell directly to Abuja disco.

omenka:
What were they planning o do with all that money when they have no Foundations or any other charity organisations?? Why did they feel so insecure the had to steal just about everything in sight?? Haba. Why are Africans like this

Very good question. I wonder why we are this bad

Montaque:
Wow! This is the way to? U cant be serious.
So the president determines who is corrupt or not? Some of us are worse than this undemocratic and crude head of state.
Thiis has just siidelined the judiciary in a supposed democratic government.
A news broke out that a despote is personally compiling list of his supposed adversaries without an independent arbitar, and people are shouting and haiiling him instead of calling for an objective inquiry. U deserve pmb anyway

If anyone has actually returned money, doesn't that suggest something? Besides the list doesn't necessarily have to be corrupt Nigerians but Nigerians who have returned money. Let the courts then determine corruptibility. That's how I would pitch it anyway.

thesicilian:
Won't it be so much easier to just make a list of those who are not corrupt?

Wow!! This is the quote of the day!!

todayboy:
Buhari give a Fulani man contract to clean ogoni land
What's the benefit of the useless clean they dredging the water for bigger ships to pass
That's not clean up

Are you educated at all?? Where in Ogoni land is a water way that anyone is dredging for big ships to pass? To pass to where? This types of senseless thoughtless statements are not welcome at all. Which Fulani man was even given the contract? People just go online and talk trash. Education is not just having a degree, it's more of making use of knowledge and logic to make rational choices. There is no rational or logical reasoning in your comment in the context if the discussion topic.

Not a bad idea if well thought through and implemented.

I actually wonder why FG had not gone all out for solar.Or why our Genco's and Disco's haven't collaborated to set up some fairly large solar farms in the north.

Gaddafithe2nd:
I dey go buy Glo.

Trust me, you go soon run leave them again.

Hmmm mm! I wonder if the rest will follow Glo's price lead here. We all know the reason for it is because they have the shittiest, most unreliable network. Airtel, MTN and Etisalat must be hoping none of the other makes a move, cos if one goes the others must follow.

That said though, it's not really costing them much (if any) more. What I've observed is wheen people get more data for the same price, they use it more and then back to square one at the end of the month. Besides the fact that it's monthly means they will still get roughly the same amount in as much as they keep in touching distance with the competition.

This is what competition should bring about. Though I also notice that the quality of the data networks is getting slower and slower. Even the baba of before, etisalat, is not as fast and zippy as it used to be.

The impunity in this country is really becoming worrying. For me we are suffering the incompetence and in discipline of the police force for years now. Nigeria is one country where nobody fears or respects police because we are used to bribing them.

Internet on all the networks seems to have been slow of recent! I could almost swear by etisalat before, but even they are messing up a bit now.

Meanwhile our Minister for Technology says that Nigeria will soon be self sufficient in the manufacture of pencils. Hip Hip Hooray!!!!!

There must be like 20,000 Danfo and Molue in Lagos. Are there enough of these buses to cater for that number?

kingstylo01:
meanwhile, somewhere in Spain

That must be Barcelona

How does a currency devaluation boost local stock prices?

NLEFCC:
Really there is something wrong somewhere. First we heard they are planning to build Modular Refineries, now they want to privatize the world class Refineries that they have already.

Black man with too much wahala...Maybe it's time to get expatriates to run the Refineries for profit. Or possibly make a British man Petroleum minister.

Explore every possibility but whatever you do Biko don't sell our Refineries, hopefully one day we will get it right.

We should consider a British man for president sef! After all, we have done a useless job by ourselves since 1960!!

mrvitalis:
Negotiating with militans was Nigeria greater mistake
Buhari should not follow that part, level the community if need be just end this foolishness

Let amnesty international talk

Enough of this rubbish, the government should never bow to any group not at all

Negotiating the first time with militants and kidnappers was a big mistake because of opened up a totally new industry. However, we are past that now. Buhari needs to tread carefully going forward. I don't support conceding to militants, but all out military action is not the answer either. Like it or not, the oil for our forecast and the gas for our power plants come from there and Nigeria is on its knees currently.