Shekarau is heads and shoulders above Ribadu and Buhari intelligence-wise.

Other two are too slow, do not know how to answer questions or think on their feet. They are tough questions, but it shouldn't be impossible to answer them.

However, Shekaru is supposedly very corrupt (from what I've read.)

I'll need to investigate the man more though.

Sharp answer, Shekaru! Good job.

Ribadu gets an D on the last question.

Genbuhari3:

eku_bear

na your father be dumb backside.

Buhari is not a debater! I am not happy as well with his performance but I know who he is.

Heh, my father is just as clever as I am. In other words, he is your lord and master.

Ribadu dodging the question, still!

He has said absolutely nothing!

He is dodging the question!

Answer the question, RIBADU!

Haha, very tough question from this woman! I like her  

Goodluck did a good job by dodging the debate, imo.

He benefits from Buhari and Ribadu doing poorly.

He'd likely do just as badly. . . but doesn't lose standing by skipping out.

Fake drugs is the big problem with healthcare  

Buhari is a dumbass.

Oooh! Tough question from this woman!  

Shekarau has a big advantage for me in that I can actually understand his English easily.

Ribadu and Buhari. . . it is a struggle to understand their language  

Pat Utomi would murder these three guys in a debate. Why wasn't he invited?

Where will the money come from, Mr. Ribadu? You didn't answer the question. . .

ROFL @ Buhari's terrible answer

EzeUche_:

What makes Shekarau unqualified?

You are talking about things you do not understand Americana boy.

He is just pandering, not saying anything. He botched the EFCC question. . .

Nigeria is a weird country though. Fashola is wayyy more qualified than any of these three guys. But I guess for various reasons cannot run.

All three of these guys so far are just blathering.

Ad break?!

Lol.

Epic fail.

Entrepreneurship needs electricity, loans, infrastructure. Simple as that.

None of them have impressed me so far.

Apart from its centrality, accessibility and abundant water supply, the location also possessed a clement environment. Also, following the not-too-happy relationship of the colonialists with the large indigenous population of Lagos as capital of the Lagos Colony and Calabar as capital of the Southern Protectorate, the British considered the virginity of a location an important consideration in their choice of a capital. Kaduna, with its sparse and scattered settlement of the indigenous population, satisfied this criterion.

No sooner had Lord Lugard settled down in Kaduna as regional capital in 1912, than he began to plan for it as Nigeria’s capital, ahead of the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern Protectorates in 1914. This followed his promotion that same year as Governor-General of the amalgamated Nigeria. As Governor-General, he did not hide his antipathy towards Lagos and recommended that the capital be moved to Kaduna as quickly as possible. “Government House, Lagos,” he wrote in one of his papers, “would make an excellent hotel if the transfer to Kaduna was achieved.”

http://www.gamji.com/haruna/haruna251.htm

This Lord Lugard fella. . . quite an asshat 

Another terrific article: http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5534749-146/story.csp

Key quote, for me:

Demand and supply

Demand considerably dwarfs supply, resulting in the idle power generation capacities in the country at presentt. Gas utilisation is a challenge, as a result of various factors such as the lack of necessary gas gathering and distribution infrastructure, violence in the Niger Delta often resulting in pipelines vandalism and related environmental issues.

The International Oil Companies (IOCs), who are the primary producers of associated gas, want a commercial price for gas supplied to the domestic market, that matches international prices.

But the government sees gas as a national asset, hence wants it to be priced low, especially for the power sector, in an attempt to keep the retail electricity price low. Since the LNG prices are more attractive, the IOCs have an incentive to divert gas to the high end export markets as much as they can. And since they do not have an incentive to supply for the domestic market, they flare the rest.

Ewah Otu Eleri, a director at the International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development (ICEED), said, “This should be part of a national process of confronting the challenges of gas flaring. The regulation of the industry is clear: the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) is in charge of setting these standards. However, broader issues such as pricing, investments in gas gathering, and distribution infrastructure, etc. are part of a complex web that demands greater leadership.”

If the FG would let the oil companies sell NG locally at close to international prices, then:
A) Plenty of NG to power Nigeria's power plants
B) Less flaring of gas

I don't want to say to Nigeria's electricity problems are simple, but they are not hard. Tell the FG to stop setting the price of NG for power generation. Let the oil companies sell gas to PHCN and independent power projects at market prices. And then tell the FG to stop interfering with the price that PHCN sells electricity for.

Do these two things and you largely fix the electricity problem in Nigeria, imo.

^-- Really cool if you think about it.

Wikipedia currently lists Nigeria's landmass as 923,768 square km.

When this project is finished, we will have to update Wikipedia to take into account the territory that Fashola has added

NewsMar 17, 2011
   
Lagos – Gov. Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State says the reclaiming of 2.4 million cubic metres of land from the Atlantic Ocean for the Eko Atlantic City Project has expanded Nigeria’s territory.

Fashola said this on Wednesday while inspecting the project being executed by the South Energy of Holland in association with some others firms.

We are reclaiming and restoring the geographical territory of Lagos State and by extension that of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

We are reclaiming the land lost to the Atlantic Ocean by uncontrollable erosions that we have now brought under control,’’ the governor said.
He commended the contractor for its commitment.

The Commissioner for Water Front Infrastructure, Mr Adesegun Oniru, has just informed me that within the next 24 months,  Lagosians will begin to see the emergence of one of the apartment blocks, a 24-storey building emerging from where we stand today, meaning that the future has started.

By this singular act, the contractor has indeed put its money, time, experience and integrity into the project so as to deliver it as promised, starting with the construction of the 1.5km ocean seashore,’’ he said.

Fashola noted that in 2007, sea waves of about 70 metres high buffeted the coastline, but that shorelines constructed by the contractor protected Victoria Island and Ikoyi from being flushed.

He said that the shorelines would also protect the Eko Atlantic City when completed.

It will be a new city on the coast, a city that will run and operate like any other city in the world with 24 hours electricity, new business centres, housing and efficient transport facilities.

This is the future that Lagos promises, a future that is within a short distance,’’ he said.

Oniru said that areas reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean were lost to the ocean from 1905.

The commissioner said that with the reclamation, Lagos could now account for 180km of the 853km stretch of Nigeria’s coastal area.

The firm ground we are all standing on today  was part of the Atlantic Ocean which was between 12 metres and 15 metres deep before the contractors
reclaimed it,’’ he said.

He listed facilities that would be in the city to include network of roads and surface water bridges.

There will also be a dedicated electric power generation with underground distribution network of service ducks to provide  information technology services,’’ he added.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/03/eko-atlantic-city-project-has-expanded-nigeria%E2%80%99s-territory-fashola/

Obasanjo is an Igboman, write down his 12 years for the SE 

^-- Politicians make silly promises all the time right before elections

Don't take them seriously.

I highly doubt Jonathan would really do this; it is too foolish.

He said it while in Kano. It is probably just to get northern support. Maybe northerners like building airports or something, rather than stuff that will actually help them.

@honeric1: Policies like this:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-626421.0.html

Can you imagine the government trying to set the price for electricity several years in advance, rather than letting the market/private companies set it? And they don't even set it at a price at which businessmen/investors can make profit. Who wants to be forced to sell at a loss?

To be fair, corruption and others issues play a role.

But silly gov't regulation is the biggest reason electricity is dead in Nigeria.

Realistically, the government shouldn't even have a role in setting the price of electricity. . . the market alone should.

I think power supply is worse.

If there were power supply, I can start a factory of some sort in my village, employ my people and make money. Even something as simple as buying groundnut from the north, making peanut butter and selling it to Lagos   (I dunno how good this specific manufacturing idea would be, but just an example.)

If I can do that, my town will be well-off and happy, whether Nigeria is corrupt or not.

bashr4:

they wont access the loan, southerners and foreign investors will end up benefting from it or it will just remain there in the bank and end up in the pockets of northern elites . they have been doin that since 1999. 

That sounds very sad to me. If you put food in a man's mouth and he refuses to chew, what can you do to keep him from starving? 

^-- Why does he keep hanging around dudes like OBJ though? Do-or-die, vengeful politicians like that?

Why isn't the FG spending any money fixing the infrastructure in the SW?

Why is it keeping silent as many are slaughtered in Jos?

Also it appears to me that he is likely as profligate as any of these other guys. . . the secret sharing of money around Christmas to the governors, etc.

Doesn't all that concern the heck out of you? 

mohumyta:

That's Agro Cargo airport, the best achievement of my state Governor Gbenga Daniel in Ogun for farmers in his hometown.

Isn't rail and roadway far far cheaper?

Air is a REALLY expensive way to transport goods.

Lagos, -  Dr Sam Amadi, Chairman of  Nigeria Electricity Regulation Commission (NERC), says electricity consumers should expect tariff review by June  this year.

Amadi disclosed this in a paper at the Business Environment Roundtable organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) in Lagos on Thursday. The roundtable had the theme “Private Sector Perspective on Power Sector Reforms”. Amadi  said  that the commission had already started the methodology, valuation and cost analysis to ascertain the actual price per wattage in the new regime. Amadi said that he could not specify whether the tariff would be reviewed downward or upward.

“I cannot say because it is not magic, but through adequate mathematic calculation,’ he said. According to him, the commission would send out the findings by April after the elections and conduct a public hearing to hear stakeholders’ input to the regime. He said that such sensitisation would also enable the stakeholders to understand the formula used in arriving at the new tariff. “What is of paramount importance to the government and an average Nigerian is how to have adequate power supply,’’ he said.

Amadi said that consumers and investors would be better off with the new tariff regime at the end of the day. He said that the development would also encourage investors to invest in the power sector. “The tariff regime, by law ought to be carried out in 2013; it was brought forward because of the ongoing reforms.

Mr Abimbola Onafowokan, a participant at the programme, said that most of the feasibility studies for the reforms had no local content because they werer done abroad. He said that the major challenge facing the reforms was the uncertainty of gas pricing and which could erode the benefits of the reforms if not effectively. (NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/03/consumers-to-get-new-electricity-tariff-soon-nerc/

^--- Well said on the above two posts. My main beef with the PDP is that they love rigging and installing incompetent men in Yorubaland. If they rigged and installed COMPETENT guys, I wouldn't even be (as) mad. All I care about is results, really.

But instead, the PDPs modus operandi is to rig and install guys like Segun Oni, who clearly have no business governing. This leads to stagnation and underdevelopment.

Let us freely choose our leaders in the SW of Nigeria. Don't hold a gun to our heads if we choose ACN over PDP. . . as Ade Dosunmu, Obasanjo and others implicitly are doing (who have subtly implied we won't get development in the SW unless we vote PDP.)

In free and fair elections in the SW, the PDP will be kicked out, and good leaders installed. Let us have our good leaders and don't freeze us out of development.