₦airaland Forum

Blue3k:
Incase your all wondering functions of Ministry of power.





Source: http://www.power.gov.ng/index.php/about-us

did u read the document you posted the very first few paragraphs actually confirms what I just said, the power ministry formulates policies and regulations...just read the doc. nerc does not formulate policies, it only regulates.

AZeD1:
That is the function of NERC.

nerc does not set policies, it only regulates, policy decisions is still purely the responsibility of the power ministry and besides nerc is an agency of the executive arm of govt, not some foreign entity that cannot be controlled by govt.

grandstar:
The federal and state governments are owing the DISCOS 300billion? And most Nigerian consumers feel it's their birthright either not to pay for electricity, to steal outright or tamper and pay only a portion. Onless an iron hand is unleashed on all parties, the power sector will be in a qusndary

are these not the problems that bedevilled the former NEPA and phcn that privatization was supposed to fix? the various investors were supposed to bring in innovations and solutions that will tackle the challenges that faced phcn, but it seems they wanted to treat it as a source for free money.

macaranta:
Not very practical.. Given the number and customer type discos work with.Good luck dragging an ex militant that just bypassed his meter to court or a military officer who's high ranking... Or a native doctor... Or a minister.. The list goes on and on.

why not? are they above the law?

preacherz:
90% of prepaid meter users in the Country bypassed their meter

Now ask your self if you are a part of this 90% before making hypocritical comments


Udo

where did u get that statistics from? any citation or u just sit down in your room and pull figures from tin air, besides whose responsibility is it to secure their network?

yommen:
You wanted privatisation, you got it. Now they cant sell more to you since you already owe them huge amount, you want them out. Sorry, go and repair your generator and if you dont own one yet, get one and generate yourself. Shikenah!

who owes them huge amount? in my location l don't get light for more than 3 hours in a day and some day nothing, but they still bring exorbitant bills and ask us to pay for power we never used. that's daylight robbery.

AZeD1:
They are rejecting it because the can't afford to pay for it.
As of now, the Minister of Power is a more or less a ceremonial post because there's really nothing the power minister can do to the gencos and discos since they are private entities.

not true, the govt as represented by the power minister has the power to define policies and set regulations, it also has the power to mete out appropriate sanctions to bodies that violate its regulations.

agabusta:
I just dont understand. Some people are alleging that it is because they will still make their money from estimated bills. And they in turn will not pay for the rejected power.

bro u nailed it, they know they will still charge whatever they want from the customers and customers will have no option but to pay. the whole privatisation exercise was a scam, I was hoping buhari would have the courage to revisit it , but that is not likely to happen.

why una never steal the destinies of the white people wey una dey buy their clothes from the various "bend down" boutiques?

vowsng:
pls what's the name of that vehicle, some one tell me pls, i like strong looking cars.

dats old school ranged rover, one of the earliest of the brand.

Sibrah:
To an extent you are right, but the fact that India gets it so cheap tell us something very important here. Can you compare clean energy of less than N50/kwh to that of N170/kwh?

yea I understand what you mean by clean energy but in this part of the world the people and the govt do not care for clean energy hence they will not be willing to go the extra mile. solar is quite expensive bro even in the U.S. and other western countries solar and green energy companies depend on govt subsidies to be able to compete with other energy sources.

Sibrah:
You need to tone down your obsession with power topics you hardly understand enough.
Go research the average cost of solar power in India, then ask yourself what's the sense in Sokoto state generating power at N170/KWh.

India is more technologically advanced than Nigeria. a sizeable component of their solar power inputs are manufactured domestically thus reducing cost but Nigeria will have to import everything trust me I did a study sometime ago on the cost per watt of solar in Nigeria it hovered around 70 cents to a dollar per watt and that is on the high side.

Sibrah:
Sometimes back I read of how India was able to generater solar power at a rate of N20/KWh. I use N320/$ conversion rate then. If I use N480/$ to be on a safer side that's still N30/KWh. And it was S-O-L-A-R for God's sake.

the difference between India and Nigeria is that a good portion of their solar technology is domesticated, if Nigeria were to do solar I bet that every aspects of the technology will be imported from China thereby increasing the cost dramatically.

kettykin:
Lagos cannot do solar because of rain. Sokoto can do solar because of the abundance of sun light

since when did rain atop solar generation? even in the us where there is so much snow and not as much sunlight as Lagos they still generate power from solar.

admax:
Anger can't undo what has been unfortunately done.

The living should learn from the mistakes of the dead; A single lady has no business employing a cook talkless of a male cook...nah.

May her soul R.I.P and may her killer rot in hell (unless the merciful God forgives him) and his lineage will still suffer the consequence.

I agree with you bro, a single lady has no business employing a male cook, I hope others in similar situations learn from it.

timsTNA:
Niger Delta don't trust edo people. You cowards let APC rig Edo state election without doing anything to stop them. They never regard you as ND. Even in the last talks the Niger Delta had with Buhari, there wasn't an Edo rep on the team that went to abuja

you are either very ignorant or deliberately twisting the truth to suit your purpose. Edo was in the Niger delta delegation? but again I am not surprised considering that you are child of hatred and that hatred is what kept your region backwards compared to the two other major ethnic group in Nigeria.

comshots:
That is the result a nitwit president will get when his government,without providing logistics for local production,keeps banning what Nigeria don't produce.He will only give room for desperate smugglers to be importing substandard products.

it is not everything you blame on the president, the truth is that we have so many unscrupulous persons in this country.

idupaul:
Put Ambode in power sector for 2 months and notice the difference

that was how they hyped fashola before now, since he became minister what has he done.

eezeribe:
You are right. The so-called bitcoin will also fade away someday...
Many have come and gone... I still remember Liberty Reserve

bitcoin is not like liberty reserve, it is not owned or regulated by a particular company or country, it is a cryptocurrency read more and for those of you connecting bitcoin to mmm, bitcoin has been in existence for many years, Nigerians are just getting to know it now.

herzern:
I can't help but lauqh at one of the posts above mine.

If truly bitcoin appreciate..why are you all in a hurry to sell?

Infact,Some offers discount.

My take is that the value isn't subject to appreciation,It depreciates too.

don't mind them it flunctuates like every other currency.

Cortana2:
I'm sure there were no 'pre-wedding' pics in their days.

"In their days?" the lady is 34, you make it sound as if they are old. 34 is still a pretty young age, heck there are many 34year olds who are yet to get married.

seenter84:
Bro na uninterrupted I won type o.. All this smart phone and predictive language.

Thank u

Lol. yea I know it was a typo.

gocac:
this goes to show how weak obama is, even as the president of the most powerful country in the world, very shameful....!

he is a lame duck president now.it is known fact that outgoing presidents no longer hold much power and influence as allegiance tends to shift to the incoming president.

Carrottop:
well, I do it's a cryptocurrency platform...just like Skrill..But then do you know MMM used Bitcoin as a payment platform offering 50% discount to users of Bitcoin?...that singular act of theirs should tell you they were in cohort and it brought in more people to the MMM fold....which is why the government is investigating their activity in Nigeria

skrill is not a cryptocurrency

tnthommie:
What happened to PM abi what happened to LR?

I think the guy was referring to LR, PM is still active and waxing stronger.

Carrottop:
The unholy solemnization between MMM and Bitcoin may spell doom for BitCoin...BitCoin shouldn't have meddled with MMM.

guy go and study what bitcoin is, even the US federal govt has not been able to control bitcoin much less this clueless govt filled with incompetent idiots. it is a peer to peer cryptocurrency with no central reserve or repository.

seenter84:
But seriously for this country.... When we won get in interrupted power supply?

Gen for naija Na way of life

we already have interrupted power supply, it is uninterrupted power supply we are looking for.

Oilwell:
One of Nigeria's major problems now is Blogging. they are unregulated, creating lies, panic and fake news up and down

it is called freedom of speech bro and it is a fundamental human right.

diportivo:
Fake news
E neva crash,remain small
Guys can still PH but not GH na.....and I think dats cool...or not
Who cares

but who are the people receiving the pH since all macro have been frozen?

sweetcocoa:
Obviously.

Just needed to let you know there are anniversaries without marriage.

of course there are anniversaries for various things even bf and gf can have anniversaries to celebrate how long they have been dating, but a marriage anniversary can only be celebrated between two validly married persons.

sweetcocoa:
Well, I don't know if he paid family rites before now, I'm speaking based on the pictorial evidence before us.

I don't think church wedding is what's valid before the law.

Also, people can celebrate being together, you don't have to be married to have anniversaries.

church wedding is not what legitimizes a marriage, rather it is the payment of the bride price and registering it with the govt. that matters that is why a couple can simply quietly do court registry without any ceremony and still have a valid marriage.

sweetcocoa:
So they can't celebrate the anniversary of being together? And since when is An English wedding the yardstick for being "officially" married?

being officially married means the man would have done all the necessary family requirements e.g payment of bride price. without this they were not officially husband and wife in the eyes of the law and of God.