₦airaland Forum

Bamibor:
They just cited some shady technicality about wind reading to rob her of her second world record time.

The verdict us that a record time of 12.12 secs, is maintained for her.

Nothing shady about it. Educate yourself! When wind speed is more than +2.0m/s then speeds are not ratified as records. She had a +2.5m/s in the final.

uniquelyspecial:
No she didn't in Tokyo, but had a good outing.
She came fourth I think.

I've always believed in her

You are right. My mistake. She came 4th!

Osyxcel:
Oga. 100 litres cannot run a 60/80KVA generator under full load for 24 hours, not to talk bigger generators.

Also consider that the generators may not be new, thereby fuel consumption may be higher.

True! In my estate we use a 100kva gen and it uses 10litres per hour, so that would be 240 litres in a day. A hospital would probably need a 1000kva gen, which might use like 50 litres per hour.

She has already won the GOLD medal in another world record of 12.06!!

KanwuliaExtra:
Checking for illegal drugs before I congratulate prematurely.

Especially with all these upcoming athletes with no prior history of success,

Wetin she dey do before this?

Congrats sha. Pesin must start from “ONE WHIA“.

I also hope with all my heart she hasn't taken performance enhancing drugs.

But to say she has no prior history of success shows you don't follow athletics. She was the last Diamond League champion in 2021 I think and won a medal at the Tokyo Olympics. She also won a medal at the 2019 World champs in Doha.

Racoon:
....Says ” we’ve  learnt a lesson “


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2022/07/apcs-failure-in-osun-divine-test-from-allah-abdullahi-adamu/amp/

Your number one problem is Buhari! How do you rectify that?

Onucs:
Corpers nko?

Corp members are even in a better state. No other responsibility like wife and children. Many times they get accommodation and their hosts give them food from time to time, especially if in a village or small town.

quentin06:
No need talking to you, you re speaking from the point of ignorance, arguing blindly.

Have you ever paid electricity bill before? Your response tells me you havent.

What does my analysis have to do with whether I have paid electricity bill before? All you children on Nairaland!! Again, shows the shallowness of the current generation. Can't hold an analytical, intelligent conversation based on logic, fact and understanding for 2 minutes before resorting to juvenile tendencies!!!

quentin06:
Telecoms prices are being regulated they dont increase tariffs arbitrarily like power sector.

Telecoms dont receive grants from the FG and CBN like power sectors do.

Telecoms invest in infrastructure, they build masts, power them to run and secure them.

Mention one significant assets built by Power sector, they have increased tariffs with no significant improvement in supply, they sre still being subsidized by the government till today. They dont provide tansformers , wont fix broken poles . All they know is to collect for services they dont render.

Only an idiot will call the complaints of the failings of the power sector beer parlor gist.

The body set up to regulate the power sector is useless (offcourse the collect 1% of the gross revenues discos collect)

They donot obey govt directives to ensure that at least 50 percent consumers in their respective zones are metered.

For Telecoms you can see what you re paying for, but for the discos its a racket.

Face it the Power sector has failed woefully partly because the people who run it are incompetent and only interested in stealing from customers.

You are only making this irresponsible statement because you benefit from the corruption that fuels the Discos.

Telecoms prices are pseudo regulated yes, but the point is that it is cost reflective.

The fact that they don't receive grants is evidence that the telecoms sector tarrif are cost reflective. In case you don't know, grants are basically a subsidy.

Most of the infrastructure was built between 20 to 10years ago. Yes they may still upgrade from time to time, but the build out is basically complete. Therefore marginal cost is very low, and which means average cost will continue to drop as scale increases. This is why tarrif is same despite devaluation cos average cost also falls. In power on the other hand, as at privatisation, there was an existing massive infrastructure deficit. Profits and cash flow need to be in place before further investment can be made. Power sector investments need to be made with power purchase agreements in place. You don't just build plants without specific customer in place. But the imbalance in the sector, poor regulation etc prevent that from happening.

Anybody who reads my analysis and yours and has anything resembling a brain will not agree that I'm stupid, rather quite informed, intelligent and analytical.

There is no racket. DISCO cannot supply when national grid keeps breaking down, gencos don't supply, gas lines are down, customers don't pay etc. Where will the cash come from? There is no free lunch anywhere.

Having said all this, that is not to say Discos May not have their own issues, but it's not just their fault and in my opinion not mainly their fault. I would blame discos like 30%.

quentin06:
The only privatization that worked in Nigeria is that of Telecoms, PHCN failed and NNPC will fail too.

Telecoms worked because the right people were involved, there were no cronies.


The last two failed because the assets were sold to cronies.

As far as I'm concerned all this talk of being sold to cronies and incompetent people is mostly beer parlour gist. Any proper student of economics and business will know that there is a lot of difference between the telecoms sector and power sector.

Telecoms companies were given free hand to set their prices, electricity companies were not.

Telecom tarrifs have always been cost reflective, electricity tarrif have not been.

By the nature of telecoms (a virtual product), you cannot steal it or avoid paying for it. Electricity is often consumed without paying or outright stolen.

The marginal cost of providing telecoms service to extra 10,000 people once the infrastructure was rolled out is pretty much zero. To supply electricity to new 10,000 people will always require new infrastructure (poles, wires, transformers, more generation etc). Hence why the tariffs needs to be cost reflective.

Telecoms are not burdened by any middle man. Mtn sells directly to customers. Electricity is burdened by Too many players. GENCO, DISCO, TCN, NBET, GAS COMPANIES, etc and can only be as strong as its weakest link.

Besides NNPC has not been sold, so what are you talking about? Hence my beer parlour gist!! Too many people are uninformed in Nigeria about how things really work, yet we all feel we are well educated. Hence why so many people cannot be employed by multinational companies.

Guderian:
Crazy people.
Who said everyone gat the same ambitions,some people earning 7 figures monthly are tired and depressed with their job, they want to try somefin new

Most people leave their high paying jobs and become adventures or do somefin they love

Na Nigerian poverty mentality. Oyinbo that has had comfortable life all their life sometimes leave well paid jobs to be climbing mountains, doing humanitarian work etc. But because of poverty mentality, we are always thinking about more money to eat and be fat, buy car and house etc.

jumper524:
To be completed in 2 years??
Most project when dem dey forecast to finish in two years no dey finish in the end.
If na lie ask dangote refinery and 2nd Niger bridge.

If its completed in 4years,I'll be impressed. Nigeria's poor logistics, infrastructure, forex availability etc make it difficult for projects to progress according to schedule. Not to mention community and security issues.

Bigfish121:
Nice.i dey very surprised say this car na v4.very nice car though.

No such thing as a V4. It'll likely be a turbo charged straight 4,ehile AMG models will either be a straight 6 or turbo charged v6

kernniejay:
Going by your analysis and logic, if a Professor in Nigeria spends N700k per annum on rent, and he will have 1.3m left for the whole year, have you considered the cost of fuelling his car and generator on daily basis, cost of school fees of two children in the university (and probably another two in a private secondary school), cost of cooking gas and cost of electricity (which are provided by govt in the US at a subsidized rate), cost of foodstuff which is racing at alarming speed every week and other factors like other dependants (e.g. Aged relatives or parents etc) which is usually not the practice in the US, if you convert all these costs to dollar and compare, you will see that Nigeria is a hostile place to survive.

Guy which electricity and gas is subsidised in US? Who is feeding you trash? I'm in houston as I'm typing this and petrol is $4.50 per gallon (that's N497 per litre using official rate of N420/$). My last electricity bill was over $200 for June cos its bloody hot at the moment. Hotter than normal. So Hvac is overworking.
My car insurance is $115per month and property tax is about $4500 annually and mortgage is $1850 monthly? Are bills in Nigeria this high?

Professors in Nigeria should earn more no doubt, but please do not compare blindly to America.

tony0806:
*MODIFIED*

2,000,000 monthly

As at 2019, Nigeria had about 11,877 professors (though this include both those on private and public higher institutions).

That means; monthly, the government will pay 2,000,000 x 11,877 = 23,754,000,000. That's over twenty three billion naira monthly.

As at today, Nigeria produces about 1.2m BPD of crude oil (Our main source of income, excluding mineral resources from the north which I don't know why they don't mention it. Only God knows where that money is going to). Using the official exchange rate of about 414 naira/dollar,
If 1 barrel is about 93 dollars, this becomes 1,200,000 x 93$ = 111,600,000 per day



that's a total income of 111,600,000 x 414 = 46,202,400,000 (Nigeria's income from crude oil).

THEN; 46,202,400,000 x 30 days = 1,386,072,000,000. This is over 1.3 Trillion naira monthly.

Boy o boy, This country is making money.

SUMMARILY, THE GOVERNMENT CAN PAY ASUU COMFORTABLY.

First of all not all of Nigeria's daily crude production belongs to Nigeria. Nigeria operates JV and PSC structure and in most cases the Government take ranges from 45% to 65% of the crude.

Secondly even if we assume government takes 50%,not all of that belongs to FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!! It will still be shared at FAAC to all tiers of government.

Brendaniel:
Abike should be the one hiding her head in shame, everything Kemi said is true...

Nigerian politicians love being told what they want to hear, instead of the truth! When someone called Nigeria "fantastically corrupt", the Presidency went on a rampage! Yet is that something that the average Nigerian will disagree with?

prince3009:
The bridge was to be financed under a public private partner-ship (PPP) with 60% of the funding coming from the contractor, Gitto Group; 20% from the Federal Government; and 10% each from the Anambra and Delta states.

I like the WAS! That WAS the original plan but it did not come to pass.

SocialJustice:
The $110 you refer to can be shared by 200+ users. That's $0.55/user for unlimited broadband.

How do you want to share it? You want to run cable to 200 houses? Or which WiFi modem has enough coverage for 200 houses? That many devices across 200 houses will degrade the speed to becoming almost unusable.

prince3009:
Point of correction, it was never a project by Muhammadu Buhari!

It was a brainchild of GEJ which his administration paid the contractors to handle just before Buhari was sElected into office.

Let's state facts the way they truly are!

That's a big lie!! GEJ did not pay any contractor anything for the project. Funds were mobilised and paid by Buhari from the Sovereign Investment Fund and I think some Sukuk bonds before the work really took off. The work has barely stopped During Buhari tenure, albeit a little slow, but that's the case with projects in Nigeria due our terrible logistics systems.

SocialJustice:
Space X just sent the last batch of satellites for global coverage this month. In the next 5 years, nobody will be talking about cable TV again. Obsolete, annoying technology.

You can't pay N20k ($33) for dstv, yet you are clamouring for Starlink that currently costs N66k ($110)?

Please explain that logic!

grandstar:
Tinubu is a firm believer in restructuring and wanted PMB to look into implementing some of the proposals arrived at the conference organized by GEJ administration towards the end of that government but PMB was not interested.

Tinubu was visibly pissed.

Let's see what Tinubu himself will do if he gets there?

Thantayo:
Nawa

No insurance scheme, no government relief support Nothing

We are always one disaster away from poverty in Nigeria.

So the owners can't take insurance policy by themselves abi?

iiifedimma:
In as much as i am never one of his church member, what is bad is bad, they shouldn't have beat him. There's no any joy in losing a property and this country is getting worse


What was the needs for beating him up? Y, Was that part of the mission? This country can never learn and Was he resisting them from doing their jobs? Was there any prior order for evaluation? What is all this pls


What soludo did was totally wrong am not against him demolishing his church but ordered his men to humiliates, harassed and beat odumeje up is totally wrong..

Soludo didn't offer police to beat or humiliate Odumeje. An ill trained police force need no order to flaunt their madness!!

Omihanifa:
Just imagine the kind of questionable people that bought these discos. Nigeria is in a total mess. I can bet everything that apart from Abuja and Lagos discos. Others didn't invest anything to upgrade their assets.

I think it has less to do with the people that bought the assets and more to do with the many structural issues in the electricity sector among which include a non cot reflective tarrif, massive electricity theft, incapacitated, TCN, people not even paying their bills, poor legal framework etc

All this talk of questionable people buying the assets is just cheap beer parlour talk for the uninformed. Nigerians typically cannot analyze real issues and like to proffer shallow reasons for the issues we have.

I remember when I was serving in Abia State in 1999 and people I met in Aba and Umuahia were excited that Orji Uzor Kalu was going to be their Governor. I asked one guy what the excitement and his answer was " Orji Uzor Kalu will use his money to improve their State". Shallow beer parlour thinkin!! Someon actually thought a poilitician will use his personal wealth to develop the state!!

We should stop making this a joke!! First Tonto Dike and now Jennifer.

To me it's clear that Blessing took those drugs. She didn't even bother to appeal cos she knows she isn't getting out of it and she's too old to race afterwards.

We have moved on to Favour Ofili.

Thanks to Blessing for her contribution to Nigerian female sprinting.

Rosement:
Who broke your heart?

Lol

SIRTee15:
Govt is social service not profit making venture. That's why we need competent people at the helm of governance. They know how to balance the book.

The solution to Nigerian electricity problem is complete decentration of the whole system- generation, transmission, and distribution. The burden on national grid is not sustainable and will eventually collapse. No matter the tarrif or fund pumped into it.
The Nigerian exclusive list is a joke. It's the main hindrance to Nigerian economic prosperity.
I repeat, No Nigerian can afford the real cost of electricity. It's laughable to think tarrif hike will solve electricity problem.

There is nothing fantastic about the real cost of electricity. Even if its N800 Kwh, its better than running generators that cost thrice as much from a Kwh basis.

Rosenews2233:
Breaking News: Apostle Chibuzor Chinyere of OPM Promises Overseas Scholarship, Cash to Person Who Picked His Missing Phone




https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02RkeLEWfcbLrYHuxQjAUrpwjnbfvrE5h8BSg3yxi3dSxzLeA1umCoNXt1Y28Ym4g8l&id=640564470

Doesn't be have his contacts backed up to the cloud?

DSS1335:

Comparing before and after look ( recent picture) of the young lady, one can clearly see that she has bleached and bleached away the normal functioning of her kidney. How can someone who was dark in complexion be whiter than the Oyibo people? Well, there is a huge consequences to those who use bleaching cream whether organic or inorganic, your skin as an organ, will absorb all the chemicals into the bloodstream, from which they need to be eliminated off by the either the liver or the kidneys there by overburdening these organs.
Hmmm! Due to the alarming rate of proliferation of organic creams dealer in Nigeria, a commensurate increase in specialties nephrologist will be required

She's looking almost like albino

Mickykarim:
IT WAS NOT AN ILLEGAL DEALINGS. THE ENTIRE EPISODE WAS DOCUMENTED IN THIS LETTER, HE SENT TO THE UK EMBASSY FOR THE BOY''S TRIP TO ENGLAND.

He stated in the letter that the boy was going to the UK as a DONOR in a heart transplant for his beleagued daughter. And, not any kind of organ HARVESTING either.

https://www.nairaland.com/7193631/parenthood-tears-desperation

I HAD EARLIER SUSPECTED THAT THE PERCEIVED "INNOCENT" BOY WAS PART OF A LARGER RING OF CONSPIRACY WITH AN ULTERIOR MOTIVE UNKNOWN TO THE Ekweremadus.

The conspiratorial nefarious group with the culpable boy must be investigated and with his co conspirators should be made to face the law.

WITH A GOOD DEFENSE TEAM. THE LETTER ABSOLVES HIM FROM THE ALLEGATION OF ORGAN HARVESTING AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND OR BOTH.

There is no Co conspirator anywhere. Seems the boy just wanted to Japa. Not surprised too. 9 out of 10 random people taken to UK for such purpose would likely do same.

NoQualmz:
This issue has taken a political tune.


The house of assembly members were accused to have demanded for 1000 teachers slot and e be like say the commissioner na another Dora Akunyuli so they’ve been planning for her. Including the issue of sacked PTA teachers been asked to go take competency exams before they can be absolved fully.. two groups fighting the commissioner through a well planned VN.

Nigeria I hail theee

Most pple hate corruption because they were not included in the corrupt proceeds...this best explains most Nigerians

True talk. Nigerians are corrupt at heart!