₦airaland Forum

not4sure:
Some of those building was like 2 - 3 yrs old so let me tell you, it is just poor maintenance culture from either the student or you their teacher

Poor maintenance from student and teacher indeed! Are d students and teacher responsible to buy chairs, desk. repair d leaking roof etc. Can't u see that the classes is like ordinary carpentry workshop? What are fashola and Lagos state ministry of education doing? I bet you will not say the same thing if the school is not from APC government

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FROM SEGUN OLATUNJI, ABEOKUTA
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One of the public amenities people are in dire need of, but in acute short supply across the country is electricity.

The problem of inadequate supply of electricity has be come so intractable that most Nigerians have ironically got used to living in the dark, es pecially at night while those who could afford it now go for power generating sets of all kinds.

Sadly, the power generat ing sets have become death traps for many as their usage has continued to claim many lives. Oftentimes members of an entire household are wiped out overnight in circumstances caused by inhaling and suffocating from deadly fumes from power generating sets.

State governments have continued to make efforts to improve the supply of elec tricity within their domains. Many of them have invested huge funds in various kinds of Independent Power Project (IPP) equipment to give power supply a fillip.

But in Ogun, a state which prides itself as the new hub of industries in the country, a N9billion mini-power plant equipment is rotting and wasting away while citizens and businesses groan under the thick blanket of near-permanent darkness.

Due to inadequate elec tricity supply, most of the artisans and technicians in the state have turned commercial motorcycle riders, while many others resorted to doing menial jobs just to make ends meet.

The elements of weather are already taking their toll on the mini-power plant equipment packaged in about 30 wooden crates and abandoned at the car park of the state secretariat, Oke- Mosan, Abeokuta, since 2011 when the Governor Ibikunle Amosun came into office.

The wooden crates housing the equipment are dilapidated and have become haven for rodents of all kinds. The mini-power plant equipment was purchased by the immediate past admin­istration of Otunba Gbenga Daniel.

Lack of power has ad versely affected the supply of potable water in the state, including Abeokuta, the capital. The taps have for years run dry and residents resorted to other means to get clean water, because the state water corporation has been somewhat comatose. Inad equate supply of electricity has seriously hampered the operations of the water works as it has become impossible for it to pump water into pipes across the state.

Last Thursday, due to incessant power failure, proceedings at the Federal High Court, Abeokuta, were delayed for over one hour. Justice Folashade had to apologize to lawyers and litigants for her inability to begin sitting at the normal time of 9:00am, saying that this was due to the inability of the technicians trying to put the court’s generator in order to finish on time. delayed for over one hour. Justice Folashade

Interestingly, however, one of the aban doned mini-power plant equipment installed by the immediate past administration at its twilight in 2011 has since been supplying electricity to the state government secretariat, the Governor’s Office and the Government House in Isale Igbehin. Not only that, the plant also supplies electricity to other key government establishments, while the surplus is also said to be sold to private organizations, including some highbrow privately owned schools in Abeokuta.

Yet, the state government has insisted that the equipment is outdated and would therefore not expend funds on their installation. In actual fact, the equipment has been put up for sale but potential buyers are yet to indicate interest.

Commissioner for Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, however, declined to respond to inquiries by Daily Sun. She neither picked her calls nor replied to text messages sent to her phone between Thursday and Saturday.

But earlier this year, while responding to a question on the abandoned mini-power plant equipment during the occasion of the 2014 Budget Breakdown organized by the Ministry of Budget and Planning, Adeosun stated that the government decided to abandon the N9bil lion electricity equipment because they had become obsolete and too expensive to install:

“When we came into office, we met the power equipment on ground. N9billion has al ready been spent on that equipment, they were asking for additional N5billion. In addition, they wanted N3billion to install it.

“When you want to spend that kind of mon ey, you have to do cost benefit analysis, which we did. We called in some power experts, they looked at the equipment and they said this equipment is about 20 years old. To install it with N3billion, with that money you can buy brand new equipment, far more efficient than that average equipment.

“They said if you have that kind of money, we do not advise you to implement this equip ment. I’m sure you’ve gone past that power plant and seen the plumes of black smoke coming from the power plant. Go to Dan gote’s plant at Ibese, look at the tiny, efficient, quiet power plant and that’s modern technol ogy. So, that’s why we took that decision.

“What we are trying to do is and we’ve told the contractor, look for somebody who can buy this and let us use the money to buy something modern. It is not new equipment, it is used equipment that was sold to us. We’ve already paid N9billion, if you have any buyer, maybe you can help us to advertise.”

Daniel in his reaction said the government’s claim was laughable and mischievous. He spoke through his media aide, Steve Oliyide: “Let me state clearly that those equipment are of the best high quality and standard. This unfortunate decision is in continuation of the mischievous politics of discontinuing all the policies and programmes of the previous administration.

“I will expect that members of the Ogun State House of Assembly will ask to conduct a probe inviting independent experts in the field to assess the equipment. Is it not laugh able and inverted logic that the government of Senator Ibikunle Amosun said it was going to sell the equipment which it claimed are obso lete? My elementary knowledge of marketing -buying and selling- implies that you can only sell what the buyers want to buy. So if the equipment are obsolete, who do you want to sell them to? One would think he would ask to return to the original manufacturers and claim some warrantee. I think it’s time we stopped mischief in political administration for the good of the good people of Ogun State.”

Residents also reacted to the develop ment. A businessman, Mr. John Kilanko, of Obantoko, Abeokuta, said: “I don’t know why we like playing politics with everything in this country. This same government has been using the one installed by their predecessor to generate electricity for their own use and even selling the surplus to privileged private organizations. So, what stops them from in stalling others, instead of allowing them to rot away? Yet, people and businesses are really suffering. It’s not the government or governor who bought them that matters to the ordinary people.”

A civil servant, Femi Balogun: “You can imagine what we do to ourselves in this country. PHCN cannot supply us electricity, yet some people in government feel they are the only ones who deserve to enjoy good things of life. They’ve been enjoying the only one they installed to serve them and even sell to others, as we understand, yet they don’t feel the remaining citizens too should have access to electricity. This is too bad!”

A commercial motorcycle rider, Kazeem Jimoh, said he and many of his colleagues were forced into the business due to the constant power failure: “I used to be a welder. That is the trade I learnt, but since I don’t have that kind of money with which to purchase a generator for my kind of work, I had to close shop and move out to get something else to feed my family.”

A petty trader, Mrs. Yetunde Oloyede, lamented: “I used to have an ice block-making business but since the electricity situation worsened and I cannot afford to continue to fuel my generator because it’s not profitable, I had to quit the business. You can see some of my ice block-making machines out there. Our government should please do whatever they can to give us electricity to do our business.”

Another civil servant, Mr. Wale Odusanmi: “Our governor should also try and provide electricity for us in Ogun. We are happy with the roads, bridges and other infrastructure he has put in place, but electricity supply will crown everything he has been doing since he came into office.”

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=90638

What's wrong with Nigeria system? Everything seems to be falling

There is nothing GEJ will not do to win 2015 election. His desperation sometimes disgust me.

Is this a joke or what?

Ekiti kete. I will give my new female dog that name

Long over due

Op does not know about Peter Obi influence in GEJ administration. No Igbo politician is more close to GEJ than Obi

APC and lie. Smh

APC = change

If they like. None of our business

cramjones:
Be careful, IPs are traceable. There are limits to internet freedom, don't overstep that limit!

-CramJones

Foolish man.

The beast has risen from the north

Nigeria has always be a failed country. I'm not surprise

Almajiri syndrome

The story and photos of the unique Nigerian serve as daily inspiration for those who have a soul of an adventurer.

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Enthusiastic Nigerian biker Ogbonnaya Kanu became the first man to ride from Nigeria to Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of the African continent.

And it is not the first record achievement of Kanu, who last year rode to Europe and back in 36 days, The Newsrescue has reported.

Also referred to as Foto Dadi, in 2012, Kanu became the first Nigerian biker to ride solo from Lagos, Nigeria to Austria, going through France, Germany, Austria and Italy; and in mid-October he made another grand solo trip from South Africa to Lagos.

A chemical engineer by profession, Kanu is eager to get the most out of life. He is not afraid of the new, of breaking the limits and changing the attitude of the world towards Nigerians. But no matter what, he always comes back home.

The energetic biker is the co-founder of the Board of Trustees of the Easy Riders Motorcycle Club of Nigeria; co-founder of Ride Easy Motorcycle Training School; co-founder and member, Board of Trustees, Ride Easy Motorcycling Club of Lagos, and Superbike Clubs Association of Nigeria (SCAN). The guy is also the first and returning Vice-President of the Association of Nigerian Motorcycle Clubs.
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nigerian-biker-ogbonnaya-kanu-sets-world-record/193336/

That marketing manager need to be sack. What sort of silly idea is this.....?

The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has accused Governor Babatunde Fashola of misleading Lagosians about the duty of the federal task force.

The party in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Taofik Gani, said Fashola was wrong to have told Lagosians to resist officials of the task force.

It said the governor had suddenly intensified his verbal attack against the party so as to “remain politically relevant”.

The PDP said the governor was nursing an ambition to become the next Vice President and was only trying to impress the leadership of his party, the All Progressives Congress, by launching a verbal assault on the PDP.

The PDP said this while reacting to allegations by the state’s chapter of the APC and the governor that the federal task force were foot soldiers of the PDP ahead of the 2015 elections.

He said, “The Lagos state PDP has come out to swiftly deny the existence of the federal task force for the purpose of election. We maintain that the governor’s information on the innocent Nigerians is not only empty but laughable and has thus reduced the governor’s office to a “comic relief.”

“Fashola is currently agitated and restless in office because of his over ambition to be the Vice President of Nigeria, a wish now strongly threatened by an opposition group within the APC.

“The attempt to be relevant and be in the media for the stated inordinate ambition has influenced the governor’s recent contributions to national issues in a negative way. We therefore counsel the governor to pursue his political ambition without blackmailing the PDP or the Federal Government but to maintain the level of decorum worthy of the office.”

The Lagos PDP described its APC counterpart as the worst chapter of the APC stating that the chapter had turned out to be “disillusioned, unpopular and only prepared to heat up the polity.”

The party said the APC was only jittery because its time was almost up as Lagosians would vote out the APC next year.

“The domineering era of Lagos APC has come and gone in the state. We advise the chapter to get its information verified and cogent in order to desist from being a party of mockery,” the PDP said.
http://www.punchng.com/news/fashola-misleading-lagosians-about-federal-task-force-pdp/

datolee:
First of all, I must thank barcanista for presenting facts, My position has been, if you must campaign, please do so with facts and not some lies. (Please lets cut out insult and debate like matured people, we will have so much to learn, the only winner here is Nigerians who will become more enlighten and take our government to task)

I'm not here to defend the government, but lets go

1. Before talking about external debt, we must first talk about the revenue and expenditure under these government. We must know that Nigeria's expenditure has been increases on yearly bases, has revenue kept the same pace?

Lets talk about aggregate expenditure from 2004 (the one I could get my hands on)

2004 expenditure was 1.79 trillion

2005 = 1.799 trillion Naira

2006 = 1.876 trillion naira

2007 = 2.266 trillion naira

2008 = 2.492 trillion

2009 = 2.870 trillion

2010 = 4.608 trillion

2011 = 4.226 trillion

As a matter of fact the total expenditure on recurrent expenses was more than the total expenditure in 2007

http://www.slideshare.net/statisense/emperical-analysis-of-nigeria-budget

So my point is this, we have more commitment now than we had during Yaradua and Obj times yet the revenue haven't so much increased (I haven't the fact right now). So the increase in debt is because the government is faced with more expenses, GEJ expended in 2011 about 2 times the expenditure of OBJ in 2007.

By the way, from your post, I would think that GEJ have not done too bad in terms of external debt and here is my analysis

After paying off Nigeria's debt through the paris club whatever, OBJ still borrowed $3.3 billion

Since 2009 that GEJ has been in office, the FG has borrowed $2.42 billion (6.36 - 3.94)

2) When we talk about external reserve depletion, we must look at the value of the Naira! By refusing to devalue the Naira during the tennure of SLS as CBN governor, Nigeria has been using the external reserve to defend the naira... case in point http://www.nigeria-news-world.com/2013/09/i-will-defend-naira-with-reserves-sanusi.html#.VFxC7_mUf-E

As a matter of fact, using external reserve to defend the naira was the brainchild of SLS so much so that the external reserve started raising again once he was removed from the office https://www.nairaland.com/1847921/aftermath-sanusis-sack-foreign-reserve

Here is naira exchange to dollar history https://www.nairaland.com/498412/nigeria-exchange-rates-dollar-history

So let me recap my point

1) External debt increased because we have more expenditure and revenue haven't gone up plus the issue of theft of crude and output disruptions http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-31/nigeria-finance-ministry-says-revenue-gap-may-reach-12-billion.html

2) GEJ haven't done so bad with borrowing, infact, OBJ borrowed more than him

3) External reserve was deplated because SLS prefer defending the Naira with external reserve than devaluing the naira

I hope we will as usual, keep it a clean debate. Thanks

Thank you my brother....
Bacernista here comes your nemesis

Ajaofosoro:
And anoder religion has been preaching hatred in their house of worship.infact this followers of dis religion are known for propaganda and deception. But God in His mercy has been frustrating their evil plans as their leader in Nigeria was recently cought with $9.7million to buy arms and ammunition for Boko Haram

Are u not a fool?