₦airaland Forum

mrvitalis:
How much would it cost you to have 24/7 light in lekki.... That's probably 100k a month minimum ... Plus service charge how much 50k
That's 43% gone... How much to fuel your car per month minimum 100k thats 53% gone
Data, cable, tv subscription that's that's 50k minimum

That's 630k gone... No food no outing no cloths, car maintenance nko?

You would struggle with 1 million a month and won't have much saving

Lol, is electricity, petrol, internet or streaming free in Canada? In the hot summer my brother electricity bill in Houston hit $400 a month, Insurance for car $100 a month, insurance for home owner, $200 a month, Gardner $60a month, water $70 a month, gas $40 a month. Phone bill $30 amonth, rent $2k a month.

Point is if you keep $500 out of that $5k consider yourself lucky.

To each his own sha. Yes things will work abroad, environment is pristine and all that. And those things do matter, so I can see why people will want to go.

mrvitalis:
King of where?

Petrol for car is say 100k , house rent for a good place is 150k a month
That's 250k

Eat in an eatery is 7k per day to 15k per day

With 500k you would be struggling

To be a ok in Nigeria, live how u want to live you need 2 million to 5 million a month

Haba!!! Which N7k food are you eating?

And no you don't need N2mln to N5mln in Nigeria. If you earn N1mln a month net in Nigeria (all other things equal) you are probably better off in the short to medium term than someone who earns $5k net in America where rent for a 3 bed alone could take 40% of that. However if you get a N4mln 3 bed in Lekki, you have spent 33% on housing. And with fewer bills to pay.

To put it another way, someone earning $5k a month may struggle to buy ticket to come to Nigeria (credit card aside) more than you can afford a ticket to fly to America with your N1mln.

In the long term though because of devaluation, that's where the challenge will be.

Seefinish:
75% out of 100% of appointments done so far by Tinubu favours Yoruba. This is the highest point of tribalism.
He should respect Federal Characters

I agree. Unfortunately that idiot Buhari set the precedence!!

juman:
I laughed.
You must be joking.
Ibadan need it than most cities in nigeria.
In fact, every state capital need it. It reduce gas emission.
I have lived in a small country that cannot be more than one quarter of ibadan´s population, and they have all kinds of transportation system.

The objective is not to reduce gas emissions. Its to reduce time spent in traffic and improve productivity which enhances GDP. And it only makes sense when it is financially viable. Oyo state is a relatively poor state. I was in Ibadan just this last weekend. From Challenge to UI didn't take me 30mins. Ibadan does not have much traffic. Especially now that high petrol price has severely limited cars on the roads.

And what city is that. Ibadan is just about 2.5mln people. I'd like to know the city of 600k that has a train system. I am not talking of tram or street car in just the city center o! I mean a proper train system like what Lagos has.

A lot of American cities of more than Ibadans population don't have subway or any form of train mass transportation at all.

Neither does any city in West Africa if Im not mistaken. And that is capitals of countries like Accra and Abidjan that harbor more wealth and you are talking Ibadan that has almost no industry. If you aren't working in UCH , UI or Civil service in Ibadan (and maybe some of the few banks) you have no sensible job in Ibadan.

This is Ibadan traffic at 12pm on a Monday! green everywhere. Why would I then spend N200bln on train. I'd rather spend N10bln on CNG buses.

Its about getting value for money, based on our own economic and social realities, not wanting to be like London for the sake of it.

Believeintruth:
Leave them with their lies and propaganda, if 80k passengers use that train Lagos roads would be empty. Do they know what 80k is on the road at a instant?

He said 80k in ONE MONTH!!

juman:
Lagos Blue Line Trains is wonderful achievement.
Very lucrative business.

Other states should copy it.
Kano, oyo, kaduna, rivers, etc. It can be lucrative in those states.
God bless nigeria.

Not every city needs it or can afford it. In Nigeria maybe only Kano and Onitsha comes to mind. Ibadan certainly doesn't need it. It's a sleepy, poor town without much traffic.

Siberia01:


Lol... A railway making headlines In Nigeria 2023

The same electric trains that were running in the 1940s in Berlin

That's not really the point. We are happy we have it now. Simple!

The fact that Lagos should have had this many years ago is topic for another day.

soccerlite:
Lolzzzzz

Half education is worst than no education

You better go and dash govt the properties

Wait

With this your fish brain you really acquired 3 properties

Unbelievable

What did I say in that post that equated to fish brain? Because I don't agree with you. Lol

I can bet you that on no level can your brain match up to mine in socio-political and economic discourse.

Do you know the multinational organisation's I've worked for and that I belong to?

I beg go and sit down. You and I aren't on the same level. I know that for a fact!!

SafetyFirst:
Rogue nation

Na real rogue nation. The Level of impunity in Nigeria is scary!!

soccerlite:
Some of you just hear one political gribbish someone and resound it

Which tax gangan are a lot people not paying

Many people collect rent and don't pay a dime on it. I have 3 properties and I don't pay shi shi

ogododo:
https://dailypost.ng/2023/10/14/imf-proposes-higher-taxes-as-solution-to-nigerias-fiscal-challenge/

The article headline/topic is misleading!! The topic says higher taxes, but the article sys more revenues. They are not the same thing.

More revenue can be raised by increasing the collection efficiency and bringing people into the tax net, while taxes rates are exactly the same!!

mfm04622:
Yet, we are a poor country, not because of corruption, but because of our population compared to how much we make as income

Combination of both actually

WhisperedNoise:
I thought underaged betting is illegal. These betting sites should be thoroughly vetted by government agencies. They are becoming a nuisance to young people in the country.

Abi young people are becoming a nuisance to themselves!!

Afobaba33:
Vigilante work directly with the military operations


The strike was based on intelligence gathering


So no cause for alarm

And talking of the terrorist weapon oga look well at the first picture,you will see it in the rubble's


Some have been picked up by military personnel in the pictures


Open your eyes

Are you minding them. Nigerians type before they look and think!!

Omooba77:
https://saharareporters.com/2023/10/10/breaking-labour-minister-suspends-mc-oluomo-baruwas-factions-nigerian-transport-workers

NURTW as a whole should be banned across Nigeria as a whole. What value do they add exactly? I do not see 1 positive thing they add to citizens or government. Yet I can see like 5 negatives!! So why are they even in existence?

DREAMHOMES6970:
Op you said over 100 bodies, what am seeing here is not up to 15. Anyway nice one cus if it were before we won't see any evidence

So you expect there to be pictures of every single body on the floor abi?? Na wa o!!

Philipmoon2:
I suspect something fishy, why are they burning them so that they won't be recognized, and i did not see any Aka 47, it's only knife that i saw. Sometimes i don't trust Nigeria military

The report says NAF (Nigerian Airforce) dropped bombs on them, you are asking why the military burned the bodies?? Na wa o!!

obiekunie01:
PLS HOW COMES THERE IS NO SINGLE WEAPON ON THE GROUND THERE?

How comes the 'terrorists' don't have any weapon on them.

The very first picture on the left, no be gun be that? With explosive that powerful to dismember bodies that way, it would do the same to machine guns. Besides the military folks could very easily have picked up any weapons still deemed usable before the pictures were taken.

You must be one of those who always claim that while military always go after bunkerers and IPOB/ESN, they never attack herdsmen and militants in the north. Hope you have seen now?

Zandena:
This is evil, callous, wicked and disastrous to the public universities!
Imagine an agency of government established to help public tertiary institutions in infrastructure and modern teaching facilities would now extend the gesture to privately owned businesses/ institutions whose primary objective is to cripple public institutions.
What is wrong with our government oh God!

"Whose primary objective is to cripple public institutions"! Really!!! This statement alone exposes the quality of your critical thinking and reasoning ability!

jimmyolasun:
And who tell you Saudi go still dey pay that kind cash in the next ten years Only if you just dey enter adulthood, look up china and others wey don try am before... Naa just first sets of players dey enjoy the looting. Once likes of Ronaldo and few o retires, you see Neymar go go Brazil back and then once the likes of mbappe and halland with Bellingham still dey fight for Europe with no big name going to Saudi, they go back to default. Naa wetin do China be that before dey realize money no fit buy it all... Not in football

Very good point! I had almost forgot about the time China was also offering big bucks. They have calmed down now!

flexyrule:
A country that God blessed with crude oil, has not been able to build one functional refinery in over 30 years. it's data center that you think they'll go and start losing sleep on?

Seems some of you underestimate the uselessness of this country.

Serious.

As far as it doesn't affect the elites, they won't do it!

I agree that it will be a challenge, but don’t be too negative. Main One has data center in Lagos. So also Galaxy backbone I think, which is government owned. Like I said, if the will is there it could be done.

The Uber app is expensive because as a public company they are constantly pressured by Wall Street for bigger and bigger profits.

If we make ours non profit oriented. Just focused on break even and a bit more for upgrade in new tech etc, it could be done.

I want to believe ride hailing drivers across the country should number like 200k.

If 200k people pay N20k a month in a year as service charges to the app, thats N48billion annually.

flexyrule:
The government would also buy Amazon Web Servers right?

Or you think it's just the app?.

Have you ever wondered why the network downtime on these apps is usually less than 1%?

And the app is almost 100% online?

Where there is a will, there is a way. We have data centers here in Nigeria don’t we? We can use another data center somewhere else say Ghana or SA for redundancy. Theses technologies are known, we don’t have to depend on Oyinbo for everything. After all the Netflix server for west Africa is in Ghana or is it Ivory Coast.

SoNature:
I like that Fela Durotoye made the list. I want to see him because Nigeria's president someday! Congratulations to him!

I hope not. Listened to the guy speak before. Not a lot of real understanding of issues in my view. Motivational speakers tend to say a lot without saying anything.

I rate Donald Duke over him.

braine:
Vehicle type, the app and specific characters influence profit.

You cannot use a car with V6 engine that will finish your fuel on time.

Bolt charges 20%, indriver 10%, why would one use uber that charges 35%? Thats sick.

Funny enough,this is where FG could help people. How about if the Ministry of Technology commissioned some tech guys to develop a Nigerian version of Uber that is owned by the government for which drivers pay 5%. The technology is already available. This is how the FG could help Nigerian youth. Besides it helps keep the money in country. Why would Uber take 35%of our local money for what?

Oyindamolah:
You are not a smart business man, we have inhud, bolt and co why stick with only Uber plus your story doesn't add up, how many liters did you buy?

Just give him the advice! You don't have to insult him by saying he isn't smart!!!

OmoOgunOriginal:
https://platformtimes.com.ng/special-report-suffering-knows-no-bounds-ogun-roads-collapse-amidst-abioduns-lg-chairmans-callous-indifference/

Did Abeokuta people come out to protest for Mohbad!? If so you folks should call on those same folks to come out to protest against your governor.

metodman:
If my memory serves me right, I think power is always relatively better in Nigeria during wet season?

There are reasons for that.

Hydro power generation is better during that period

Weather is much cooler and electricity conducts better in cool weather, so transmission losses are less

Due to cool weather people don't use AC as much, so demand is much lower, so there is more electricity to go round. In June, July, August and September I could sleep with just fan, but in the last few weeks, its been getting quite hot so I am now using AC more.

The grid is more stable due to all the reasons above

wunmi590:
Lol, Ogun state doesn't have a governor, I don't pity the people who are from there, because no matter how iou convinced them, once they dash them 2k, they will still go ahead and vote for incompetent..

If not that my wife said she doesn't like the life of Lagos, Abeokuta is a no no for me

Has nothing to do with the governor actually. It's all about the capacity of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC). You can see that most areas under their network Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Kwara are struggling with availability of electricity. The problem is that asides IKEDC, EKEDC, Abuja DISCO and maybe PH Disco, others are serving pretty poor states, so they are struggling with their revenue profile, so no money to invest.

Terrible in my family house in Ashi-Bodija in Ibadan. If you see light once in 4 days, apparently that's a good outcome

Hoping that the progress we are seeing in Lagos will soon spread out to other parts of the country!!

stepaside1:
The Power decentralisation act has been signed into Law, enabling States and other entities participate in the Power value chain. Real challenge is upon us and we are still speaking grammar like many Nigerians do. Apart from Edo and Lagos States, who else is taking this challenge up? Talk is cheap

Even if a Power Act is passed by a State, it doesn't magically mean anything will improve anytime soon. Is it these our bankrupt states? There is still plenty of work to be done before we see improvements. In the case of Lagos, the following still need to happen:

Lagos Electricity Regulatory Agency will need to be set up

LERA will need to engage with NERC and DISCO's on its planned regulations

Except LASG plans to lay new parallel cables to everybody's house, it will need to engage EKEDC and IKEDC on how best to achieve this improved supply.

To improve supply, more electricity will need to come from somewhere. This will need to be sorted out. This costs money and takes time.

Even if Lagos plans to take electricity from an existing plant somewhere that has excess capacity, a transmission line will need to be built to deliver it to Lagos. Before its built, it will need to be tendered, contract awarded before a contractor even starts work.

These state laws will take minimum of 3 years before we begin to see any impact.

wunmi590:
Good morning Nairalanders,

Based on the report that, the federal government have increased the National grid from 13,000MW to 14,000MW.

What is the light situation in your area currently? Is it constant or still bad?

https://www.nairaland.com/7870272/fg-grows-national-grid-power

what's the light situation in your area

Capacity and Generation are two different things. Besides the headline is also wrong. Its not National grid capacity that has grown to 14,000MW. Its actually installed generation capacity.

However, electricity is much better in Lekki, Lagos. In Ologolo area of Lekki in the past 3months, we've been averaging 20hrs a day.
Lagos will naturally benefit more from the improvement because Lagos has more people with capacity to pay.