₦airaland Forum

tonaydo:
I swear I didn't read the post


too long

As is the norm, Abati was picked up on the ONSA issue just as obanikoro was.

Bala Mohammed meanwhile was held on a suspicious 1trillion land deal and 1b bribe.

Thank me later.

realtem:
seriously......
So all those bashing you received ontop tecno matter was not in vain.




From today henceforth, I'm now an APPLE advocate.... I will fight for and defend apple wherever I find myself on nairaland maybe my story will turn out like this my sister's own and iPhone 7 will be delivered to my door.

Apple, ehn?

You go tire.

Even if you suck Tim Cook's nuts....at most they'll give you an ipad case.

Lionbite:
A girl is crying somewhere now, sumtin she don spread legs for anoda person collect am with less than 100 alphabetical letters.

Any girl wey spread leg for Tecno deserves AIDS

youngest85:
90% of ladies assets is nt bought wt deir money

Liar.

90% of women buy stuff with their money.

Or are you the owner of their punna?

sapiosexual1:
Mentality of a typical Nigerian.
Medical care is first preventive, then curative or palliative. I need not say more, have a nice day

Routine medical checkup isn't the same as medical treatment you dumb broad.

Medicare is given when a condition exists.

Problems exist before solution, that's the nature of causality.

Thus, people receive medical treatment for ailments. And that's reactionary.

No one gets drugs for being healthy

Pull your head outta ya skinny blue arse, ya twit.

Music festival celebrating AFRICA held in TEXAS.

These pretentious idiots will never wake up.

Donkaz:
Mhmm...
This is sad

...is it that the entertainment industry doesn't pay as much as I think or those in it lack a savings culture

They get paid peanuts.

So they craft fake expensive lives to make up for it.

They party and drink hard to keep up appearance.

Then they fall sick, get abandoned...and die.

sapiosexual1:
I hope you didn't fail to note that it was a reactionary care and not proactive

What?!

Seeiously?

Medicare is ALWAYS reactionary.

People fall sick, they go see a doctor.

Besides, he's under arrest, not on medical vacation.

Try harder.

Hey OP, couldn't rotate the pic a bit before posting?

Almost broke my damn neck.

Khrisfame:
This is Total Madness... I swear...

Our local girls sell it for far less.

For N400 you can nosh a naija virgo.

gen2briz:
They should just stop this arrest if they're not ready to sentence anybody jare...


EFCC has been arresting since politicians since but yet to sentence any of them.


EFCC and arrest be like

EFCC doesn't sentence, the courts do. And guess what? The judges are also corrupt!

What, are you living under a rock?

The answer: MREs.

sapiosexual1:
As a health professional, I certainly wouldn't look at it through partisan prisms like many above me are doing. You don't joke with a person's health, under no circumstance.
The foregoing is what makes us different from the rest of the world, we would mercifully treat even Shekau himself if he were to be under our care.
Pls give FFK adequate medical consideration

Guess you missed the part where his spokesman said he was expertly and sympathetically cared for by the EFCC medics.

bejeiodus:
Some information should be classified so that it doesn't affect investigation. Besides, like Amsmart said, these media reports pass a guilty verdict on the suspects which is a complete erosion of their right to a fair trial.

The EFCC really needs to be circumspect in its dealings with the media.

She's guilty of wiring $900k she can't explain the source of abroad.

That's all the EFCC said.

They didn't mention corruption.

The whole point is to boast about spending 24k.

Didn't he see the menu when he ordered?

AZeD1:
I'm not a novice in the power sector and I can tell you that if those guys had done due diligence, they would have known about most of the issues.

2) Metering in Nigeria doesn't favour the power companies. Every time a pipeline is vandalised, the power companies are supposed to lose money, but my bill stays the same or sometimes increases because I am given an estimated bill.

Look. Estimated bills are not sustainable, nor do even 40% of customers pay. The arbitrary charges work against the Discos since hardly anyone pays.

In as much as some are over billed, a great many more are under billed. Most businesses and households are not paying what they should since the marketers tend to under bill just to elicit customer response. When service is dropped, or when a house hold acquires new appliances, the energy company remains unaware and the bills remain the same.

I've seen a house with 4 water heaters and 5 2hp ACs paying about 5k a month.

Some fuel stations are billed as R2s.

If none of the consumers are accurately billed, with a great deal underbilled and a substantial number not paying, while a lot contest their bills, how does that favor the disco?

Do Discos even have enough resources distribute all bills?

Metering is the solution. Especially smart meters.

Take time out and discuss with any disco rep their mentality.

Seems the OP didn't get it.

Victor asked his Twitter mercenary to tweet the message and the merc copied and pasted the entire message Victor sent.

AZeD1:
I don't know what you are on but if metering favoured the discos, they'll have metered consumers since

Also most of the owners didn't know what they were getting into, they just saw it as a way to make money without minding the technical challenges.

Meters aren't free, are they? They're a substantial investment and no one is lending Discos any money while their revenue is shot to hell.

And when the meters are somehow acquired, they've to be discounted to near zero purchase for customers. It'd take some time to recoup the investment. And that's without taking into account energy theft through Meter bypass.

Metering is always the best for any utility company.


As for the claim that most of the investors didn't know what they were getting into...well that's true. But it's only on account of the misleading info the BPE sold the buyers. They were under sold on the technical challenges.

I'm an insider and I have investor friends.

AZeD1:
This is a big lie. One of the most effective ways to collect tariff is via prepaid meters. The reason why customers have not been metered is because estimated billings favour the discos as they can charge for power not consumed.

You've no idea what you're talking about. Estimated does not favor Discos because of too many problems inherent with estimating energy consumption. Wrong consumer classification, under billing, etc add up to the ATC&C losses especially when historically billed consumers are the ones less likely to pay (being postpaid) AFTER consumption of energy while the Disco still has to pay the MO for this consumed but unpaid energy. That's why sometimes the bills are crazy: other consumers bear the cost of the defaulting ones. And herein is catch 22: any consumer feeling over billed will refuse to pay, thus leading to loss of both revenues.

Metering is always preferred as it's prepay: your revenue comes BEFORE energy is consumed, and all consumers are placed on the proper tariff class.

AZeD1:
This is a fact but this is not a tariff issue but a management issue. Many of you guys didn't know what you were getting into. Y'all thought you were going to make a killing with little or no efforts.

Nope.

There is a great degree of material and data rot before the utilities were sold off to the Discos, and BPE gave the prospectors false data about the state of things.

Three of the most fundamental problems are:

1. The transmission network is a shoddy mess. And it's still owned by government wholly. System collapses are a daily occurrence. Also, TCN sends energy indiscriminately even into remote or commercially non viable areas where no revenue can be recovered commensurate with the value of energy sent. To the Discos this is a major loss point since energy is a commodity like any other commercial product. There are also so many technical losses on the network occasioned by poor equipment.

2. The customer data from NEBSA is fraudulently inaccurate and incomplete, meaning Discos have to plough resources into customer discovery and enumeration. While this is ongoing, millions of hidden customers are siphoning free energy for which Discos have to bear the financial burden.

3. The tariffs are not cost reflective. Whether post or pre paid, the average tariff under MYTO 2 does not cater for the cost of the industry even if consumers pay 100%. It costs money to buy gas, generate energy, transmit it, distribute it, and pay all costs in the energy value chain. And even without the spiking exchange rate the tariffs are a poor revenue mechanism anyway.

The BPE sold a turkey to the investors in its bid to rid itself of its albatross (fowl pun intended) NEPA, and lied and smoke screened to the buyers.

Now Nerc expects the investors to pump money into the system from funds pulled out of thin air when the losses are mounting.

Consumers expect 24hour electricity at cheap costs without a care to how much it takes to supply even an hour of energy.

Also, consumers are resistant to the doctrine that electricity is a commodity; they prefer to see it as government subsidized service to which they are entitled.

It always amuses me when someone would spend 20k on data and 10k on airtime, but wouldn't spend 2k on electricity.

And he'll want to charge his phone all the time.

Another delusional snake oil salesman high on weed.

okomogo:
Dasuki's case is also another watermark. It's been hell in this zoo called Nigeria where police stops and search even your wallet, arrest you for carrying a laptop, only God will save you if you have a naija porn video in your phone, international Mastercards in your possession automatically makes you a yahoo boy. Meanwhile some people used over 270million to clear grass. God will answer our prayers soon.

In what we assume to be the most advanced country in the world, the US, cops don't just pull you over and arrest you at will...


...they also shoot you dead point blank. Especially if you're black.


Some nigerians make a lot of noise about "rule of law" and "rights" and "democracy", but conveniently forgetting that it takes an upheaval to get there.

The US killed, maimed, degraded and humiliated Red Indians to become a nation.

They lynched, starved, tortured and debased negros to become a people.

And to this day, they still have corrupt cops. Corrupt CEOs. Corrupt politicians.

Their cops have the power to pull you over and harass you, even arrest at will. And when they kill you, they almost always get away with it.

It took them about 300 years to get here.

We're just 50 years old.

So stop moaning.

kcnwaigbo:
Lol The AG is seriously working for his money there is no big deal after all there are all members of the NBA who has already made their point.

BTW if they want the judges to be suspended they better advice the DSS to forward any imaginary evidence they have to the NJC other the honourable jurists will remain in office

The last 4 letters of your name spell "igbo".

So yeah, we know where your pendulum swings.

DesChyko:
Not sure what you are trying to tell me, but I'm sure you're reacting to your notion of someone else.

This:

They really are doing themselves no favours with media trials

You said that, to which i responded.

And the point I'm making is, you call it media trial when the press carry the report or when the security agents release a statement.

Which invariably means the arrests should be done in silence, which would still provoke an outcry.

So which would you have them do, Mr Smarty Pants?

DesChyko:
Commando EFCC

Let them just try their best to get a conviction. They really are doing themselves no favours with media trials.

If they don't announce the arrests and charge, you people would accuse them of abduction.

If they inform the public, you call it media trial.

I remember the Haliburton fiasco, the Madoff case, and so many others where the American people were daily inundated by the media and FBI press briefings.

Seems in nigeria we want the security agents to be both publicly accountable and gestapo-ish.

Talk about having your cake and eating it.

YorubaStinks:
This goat face again

Without Linda Ikeji, she's no body

Where does she work ??

What does she do for a living ??


I know she owns a shop and office, the shop and office are located in-between her legs

Hahahaha

EreluY:
[size=18pt]Is abuse of public office a crime in Nigeria? And how many of your politicians have been jailed for theft, funds misappropriation and money laundering? Rather than chase the substance (the evil that has derailed Nigeria's progress), you people are chasing shadows. Nigeria is eternally and irredeemably doomed, and I've lost count of how many times I've said so NL.[/size]

People have been saying Nigeria is doomed since way before lord lugard superglued the country together.

Yet here we are.

Civil war did not finish us, ethnic wars did not kill us, succession of bad rulers did not finish us, boko haram and militants and robbers and kidnappers and 419 did not finish us.

We're resilient, even as we suffer, but this too shall pass.

Meanwhile, in the face of stark poverty, recession, bad leadership, hunger.....we deserve some light entertainment.

Bring on the next sextape!

ULSHERLAN:
Instead of them to let it die a natural death, this one is writing something about it now. Let me even check what is there

Ya think this thing is gonna go away soon?

Not unless there's a worldwide internet blackout or whatsapp, Xender and Bluetooth are no more.

Or it'll die when another young idiot makes another sextape and the voyeuristic youth of today flock over to the new diversion.

patriotic9jaboy:
Reno is a fool who likes to talk too much. Why the Efcc and Dss allows him to work free is still a surprise. He is a staunch critic of this government and deserves to be arrested and probed for corruption. I hope he is whisked away to kuje prison soon. Useless parrot

Hey.

He's cahnged his name.

Now he's known as Wendell Simcard or something.

OBTSubtle:
You can imagine a fuçking whorish lesbian quoting the Bible??


Shut your dirty fingers... Your friend has been exposed for all the sins..

Obviously this author is part of a larger group of lesbos.

She's in on it too. Maybe she's the one with the camera.

I'm willing to bet their local grocer makes a killing selling cucumber.

Zedoo:
Nooo I use aboniki mixed with soul mate hair cream.... Nor be "soon" oga do am today!!! Lol

Whoa there, Nessie.

Is someone starved?

Sensie:
What's your definition of crush?! Olodo sombori

Ho!