₦airaland Forum

Princewill1:
Poor minimum wage of 30k in Nigeria means that Multichoice pay lesser on staff wages in Nigeria (part of cost of production) in Nigeria than in SA. One of the reasons why the charge here should be cheaper.

And operating costs such as diesel, multiple taxes and levies is more in Nigeria, so one of the reasons why it should be higher.

Muhammad234:
South Africa, the national minimum wage was first
implemented on the 1st of January 2019 at a level of 3,897
ZAR (259.27 USD) per month; this was later adjusted to
4,045.09 ZAR (269.25 USD) per month

How is that Dstv problem? Go and face your government for a better wage. Dstv pays the same dollar for content.

Boyewu:
They don't buy fuel to their generator before they watch in south Africa.

How is that DSTV problem?

adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/FG-warns-saboteurs-as-power-generation-rises-to-4,800MW

There is no cabal anywhere. if you do the right things, the right things will happen.

We sow maize, but we want to reap yam!

Why didn't the NITEL cabals stop MTN and ECONET then? When you make the right amount of investible funds available and execute the projects diligently, we will have the desired outcomes.

dre11:
https://dailytrust.com/why-some-nigerians-dont-want-power-sector-to-work-fg/

they have started with conspiracy theories again!!

koladebrainiac:
they almost arrested me on Friday if not that i quickly run i had already crossed the fiirst lane, then a guy on Mufti wanted to grab me,sensing this i quickly bolted almost got hit by a car then i disapppeared . where will i see up to 60-70k

So what if the car hit you?

MEEVEET:
I finished secondary school at 15 and was considered too old at home ( I moved primary school a few times costing me 2 years)

Most of my relations finished at 13 or 14

There are people abroad who graduate from University at 13,14 15 ... Yes university

Some people get PhD at 19

Putting a cap to this age of admission is wrong for a nation that wants to advance

Those are very, very rare cases and those individuals are at genius level. Stop peddling rare occurrences as the norm.

I entered OSU at 17, graduated at 22 and I have been working for over 20years. My life didn't end because I didn't graduate at 19!!

Where are we rushing too.

Slytiger:
Ever wondered what the coolest coastal road trips in the world are? Picture the scene, you're cruising along a breezy, coastal highway, windows down, your favourite playlist on the car stereo. Utter bliss.

There's a real sense of freedom and romance to be had with a classic coast road trip, especially if your drive includes dreamy coastal scenery, quirky pit stops, challenging roads and fun passengers.

A coastal drive is the perfect road trip for seaside lovers and those seeking adventures and travel memories that will last a lifetime.

This attempt to 'greenwash' coastal road will only work for the largely illiterate among us - of which they are unfortunately many.

A road is meant to get you from Point A to B as efficiently as possible to boost economic activity. That economic activity could be trade, productivity, tourism etc. While a road may produce scenic views and become a sort of tourist attraction, it's very unlikely that that was the aim of its construction.

One thing you'll notice about almost all the roads you provided pictures to is that the road is flanked by mountainous regions. The road hugging the coast is therefore born of NECESSITY, as the cost of attempting to construct through the mountains continuous peaks and valleys will be mind boggling.

Nigeria doesn't have that terrain challenge, so why are we spending unnecessary money building a road that requires so much sand filling, when we could push it inland a little bit?

But wait, that road already sort of exists!! It's called the EAST WEST road from Calabar, to Uyo to PH to Warri to Benin to Ore to Shagamu to Lagos.

What makes sense is to do the VI to FTZ phase, then after the FTZ take the road to join the existing East West Road after Ore. That saves us a ton of money for other roads across the country that need urgent attention.

You people comparing us with roads in US, UK, Japan, China, Sweden etc check their annual budget and ours

Nigeria $33bln
US $4Trln
Japan. $750bln
South Africa $130bln

We should spend our money more wisely.

Konjiboii:
Lol which kin blatant lie be this, how much kon be 2 bedroom for ikorodu?

So 4 bedroom duplex in ikorodu and ikoyi is the same price abi?

Zonefree:
What kind of useless lie is this?

Person wey get 250k to pay per annum go come live under bridge?

That's ikoyi slum price

Urheadmaster:
Expressway no side walk no bicycle lane and some people are applauding the rubbish

Are you ok!? Sidewalk on am Interstate expressway!? Bicycle lane?

Bolu004:
Kindly compare their bouquet price in South Africa even though it's PAYGo then come back here an argue sir.

There is no such thing as PAYG in SA. If there is provide a link to their SA website where they advertise PAYG!

Nazgul:
Their new prices have already been confirmed. Gotv Supa+ is now N15,700 against it's former price of N12,500.

The problem with Nigerians is that we don't speak with one voice. Tribalism really divided us. If not tell me how these criminals would constantly keep exploiting us year in year out and all we can do is to grumble on social media without any action?

What have you done about:

Bread
Petrol
Diesel
Medicine
Transport
Rent
Rice

But DSTv is your problem!






But DSTv is yourbproblem

Racoon:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-26/nigeria-plans-a-10-billion-diaspora-fund-to-attract-dollar-inflows?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=africa&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-africa

It's not about diaspora fund. Money can be borrowed from anywhere. The fact that the money came from Nigerians in diaspora doesn't mean it's any better than if it were to be from Eurobond issuance. It's still a debt.

The issue is what projects will it be spent on? That needs to be known upfront and the cost associated with each project clearly specified

Kobicove:
You mean an unresponsive person was transported from VGC in Lekki all the way to Lagos University Teaching Hospital a journey which would take at least 90minutes at best...is it that there are no hospitals in the immediate locality where he could have been taken for medical attention?

Good question. What about Reddington, Lagoon, Evercare?

jmoore:
Anyone that can pay above 100k per month can afford solar.

Not that straightforward. Solar may require as much as N5mln upfront cost if you want at least 5kva inverter and 10kwh li-ion battery storage which I imagine would need like 15 panels.

Inverter like N800k
Battery like N2.5mln
Panels @N100k each N1.5mln

baretalk:
What have the lazy ineffective governors been waiting for... federal government has since given states and entities right to build their power infrastructure...since the beginning of this administration.

So power plants just spring up overnight abi? Didn't some states have to do the groundwork to get their state electricity regulator up and running first?

Nigerians just talk nonsense Sha.

Anyway I don't expect state governments to be the ones building power plants. They should let the private sector tender for the provision of electricity at a contracted rate and they go build it.

Lagos State can have 500MW floating solar on Lagos lagoon in 3 years if they are serious. There is a global glut of solar panels now, particularly from China. Now is the best time. And we can back ot up with grid scale batteries for nighttime when the sun isn't shining.

Dennisochampa:
I no understand Nigeria...

Why can't we study the power supply structure of countries where power is constant and apply the same principles to our own power sector

Countries like united kingdom, power is 24hrs and does not shake... What are they doing differently that our government cannot adopt

The billions of dollars wen emefiele thief suppose Don reach to take kick off stable power project...

If u add the ones wen we dey waste for subsidy, e go reach carry the project reach somewhere and if u come add the ones wen people like matawale don thief..... E go reach to finish and commission the project

What they are doing differently is that they are paying the appropriate price for electricity.

Nigerians always want government freebies

Energist:
Compare the two in US $, you'll see a slump. I know that some taxes especially from the oil and gas industry come is USD

Exactly! It's easy and pretty dumb to say VAT increased when a $1 VAT in 2019 would be N365 and the same VAT today is N1400.

oz4real83:
1gb is no more 1gb, N100 card is not even enough to make up to 3 minutes of call, and these people still keep claiming they haven't increased tariffs

When I hear this sort of thing I just shake my head!! Una go download all manner of useless app for phone, that use data in the background, then you'll be wondering where all your data went to and make stupid comments like 1GB of 5 year's ago is no same as 1Gb today!!

Islie:
Marketers Lament as 45% Banks’ CRR Hampers Buying Products in Cargoes from Dangote Refinery

•Say with monetary policy tightening many banks unable to extend huge loans

•Masters Energy gets two million litres of diesel from Dangote

•Says quality of product meets Nigerian standard



https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/04/23/marketers-lament-as-45-banks-crr-hampers-buying-products-in-cargoes-from-dangote-refinery

I beg. This is a useless article. How much is required to buy diesel that Nigerian banks cannot afford to lend? If I buy 10mln litres at N1000, that's just N10bln!

iwaeda:
https://dailytrust.com/electricity-fg-targets-6000-megawatts-by-end-of-2024/

The article doesn't even relate to the headline. Nothing in the article says how exactly the government is going to go from 4000 megawatts to 6000 megawatts. Which power plants are going to add to that power generation?

Paraman:
So Obi want the Government to fix all the roads all over Nigeria in less than 1 year?Mumu man

This is the same way some idiots were wailing about Eko Atlantic City when Tinubu started the project.

And what is in Eko Atlantic now

adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/Marketers-eye-N700/litre-diesel-after-Dangote-price-cut

If diesel is so vital in the production process, the government and companies should be aggressively doing the following:

Increase electricity supply to offset diesel powered generating sets. Even at N225/kwh, its still cheaper than using expensive diesel to power your factories

Alternatively companies should migrate to solar where practicable. There are companies that do Solar as a service, where you pay a tariff and the company doesn't have to bear the upfront cost.

For trucks that Criss cross Nigeria, they should migrate to CNG powered.

adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/Nigeria-set-to-receive-fresh-$2.2bn-World-Bank-loan-Edun

What's the money for and how do we plan to pay it back in 20 years? If crude oil is totally out of fashion by then, what will be our forex sources to pay it back?

Tetrahedron:
Thank God common sense is coming back to Nigeria gradually, now all those from Niger rep, Togo, Benin rep, and Tchad will be caught

There's one mechanic workshop near my place of living. Almost everyone in that workshop is from Benin Republic. And I'm very sure if they really wanted to all of them could get Nigerian passports and nin. All they have to do is bribe, and nin will come out, along with Nigerian passport.

ppogba:
Whoever wails over this should have their heads checked.

BVN should be basic requirement.

Dem go still wail funny enough. Like you can get anything done in Yankee without social security number.

PressMyButton:
This is a subtle warning to SEPLAT. For two and half years, SEPLAT have refused to do anything on the oil wells, lying fallow, wasting away, the country losing billions of dollars. If the FG withdraws his lincense, our neigbours from the other side will start the cry of victimization.

This has absolutely nothing to do with sSeplat by the way

Paraman:
https://punchng.com/fg-to-execute-3-8bn-gas-supply-agreement-in-may/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

We don't have gas for our idle power plants, yet. These ones are looking for gas for yet another project!

Antiurchins:
The way dollar will jump 🦘🦘🦘 back to 2000 like a kangaroo will be brutal this time because what they have been doing is artificial depreciation of the dollar. Once the reserves they used in servicing the forex finishes, it will go back to high. It's not the first time, Buhari did the same thing. That's the reason Nigerian foreign reserves went down recently. If the naira is naturally appreciating against the dollar, it will instantly reflect on the prices of Products in the country

Was the depreciation of the naira that rapidly natural!!?? But when its appreciating, now its unnatural

This Band A to E is not the best approach in my view.

They should simply have done a tiered system like what I proposed in the link below.

https://www.nairaland.com/7963173/nerc-sell-kaduna-electric-over#127851494

This way those who use a lot will pay more and those who use less will pay less. The Band A system means that there is too much focus on band A areas and band B to E people are barely seeing light now.

The tiered system means there is no excessive focus on only a small section of the population.

Kenochi:
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2024/04/diesel-gulps-80-of-manufacturers-profits-man/

if that's the case, then they should be happy to be on Band A if that gets them 20hrs, as grid electricity is far cheaper than diesel generated electricity, even at N225kwh