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Jarus,

Abeg we must celebrate jare, it is rare for the truth to defeat evil in Nigeria, so, when it happens we must pop champagne.

@Bluetooth

You have to look hard to see where he is coming from. You know when someone has something to say but does not know how to get his point across, add a little bit of bad grammar and a lot of maps and you have BCR. We should actually commend him for his maps have greatly reduced, posts are actually made without maps nowadays. The new and improved BCR has relegated mappings for now, long may it continue.

If you look hard enough, you will see the sense in his posts, you will of course have to look past the written english, you might also have to rearrange some of the words, at the end sha, you will get the gist of his message.

Tinubu was his Godfather but he yari for him in an omoluabi way, Tinubu wanted to deal with him but with the reality on ground, he decided to be his mentor. We need to demand more from our leaders, unfortunately, the politics of our country is structured in a way that Tinubu seems genial when compared to others.

Jarus God will continue to bless you jare, there is a need to stay the course against both the public and private thieves in Nigeria. Renaissance professionals that can not think up a tenth of Sanusi's articles. Rogues writing fairy tales, we need the courts to expedite action on the remaining bank chiefs jare so that we can get our bailout money back, we need the money for infrastructure abeg.

It is better to have a small, well equipped and efficient airforce than an overbloated airforce with substandard equipment. I am sure we can get multi role equipment that are very good at fairly reasonable prices. We also need our armed forces to go into engineering and research, let them contribute to human knowledge as well.

Where dem oooooooooooooooo? Where are the anti-sanusi people, the only thing that pains me about Sanusi is that he bailed out those banks, he should have allowed them to fail ( I know it is a catch 22 situation).

Buhari is not weak o, the guy fought in the Civil war, dealt with the Chadian rebels and you guys are calling him weak. He was swept aside in the coup of 1985 because all of the GOCs were involved, put any strong man in ASO rock, if the GOCs are ready to deal with you, then nothing for you o.
Jonathan sought an undue advantage through that bill, he should have tried to arm twist his rivals in PDP. Inasmuch as I do not support illegal stuff, whatever Jonathan does to Atiku and IBB in order to defeat them is fair in my book, they have both (IBB and Atiku) done worse, apparently GEJ did not consult OBJ on the bill.

There is no defense for Pearl Harbor as there is no defense for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Americans could have dropped the bombs in the pacific ocean close to Japan to warn them of what they could do if they do not surrender.
Killing Civilians in any war can not be justified.

@excanny

It is not because it is in a vanquished territory, it is because oil is already being tapped and our leaders are lazy do nothings who can not see 10 seconds into the future. It is even good for the east that it is not being mined yet, let your peeps in the house fight for good derivation formula before anything is mined in your area, else, your money will be spent in Abuja

@netotse

Thanks for the link, I have downloaded it and I will read it. If OBJ added 4000, how come what we have now is 4000, we should have close to 6000MW I believe. One area we could get money from is to tax people appropriately and to stop giving customs exceptions to people, we import almost everything so the government should be making a hell of a lot off duties. We should also stop bailing out banks and textile industries, we can divert the money to power.
I do not think having power will significantly increase the quality of life as I believe the industrialists will now stop complaining about power but will complain about taxes or roads or something else because it pays them to import the finished products anyway (Chinese products will always be cheaper). I will take your word for it now and pray that the full privatisation of the power sector will yield the desired results, it is to the benefit of all if the project succeeds.

@jamale2112

If people can post, then their IQ can not be negative now. There is no bad belle jare, let the guy go and sit down.

@chyz

What makes PH airport congested? I believe the Enugu Airport should be upgraded sha as it nothing more than a cow shed now, a case should be made for the Owerri airport too as it is needs more upgrades than the Enugu one, but beyond the upgrade, there is a need to make industries spring up along that axis, the coal mines should be brought to life.

@Onlytruth

Please google his name and add fraud to it and you will see non Nigerians talking about him. My own point is very simple, I do not know physics o, but I know he is not the father of the internet and he did not design any microprocessor, neither is apple making use of his microprocessor design or whatever.

@netotse

Nigerians have waited long enough for power, they can wait a little bit more if they know and trust that the government in power is committed to providing power at a rate they can afford (your private guys are not going to pump the money in immediately as well), if OBJ and Yar'Adua had budgeted 2 billion dollars per annum for power, we would have had 8,000MW added to what we had in 1999 (assuming 30 months completion as you alluded to).
My fears with privatisation is that the cost per unit for the average household will be too high for them to bear, the figure of $13billion dollars is heavily weighted towards the big companies not necessarily home users, when privatisation comes, the cost borne by companies to power their plants will reduce while those borne by households and SMEs will most likely double, please do not forget that petroleum subsidy too is about to be removed, they just nefa get the liver yet. Will there be a rise in the income of people when power is privatised? Will the cost of living reduce due to better power supply? Our Government is looking at solving the power problem without going deeper into the effects of the route they are taking. Can you please post a link to the roadmap so I can have a read?

@afam

You mean Phd, Emeagwali has overhyped himself Jare, even the great mathematician Chike Obi did not get this much praise.

@warrior

Who is a never do well, dont let me list my academic achievements o, the guy get masters mesef I get masters o. This is not a case of pulling him down, I have said somewhere that he is a brilliant man, but, he is not what he is portraying himself to be. The links below are that of the mother of the internet, please read and cry.
http://labs.oracle.com/people/mybio.php?uid=28941
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/2010/20100301corp.htm
http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/pulse/notable_alumni/radia_perlman_73_mother_of_the.shtml

@netotse


We can get to 20,000MW by adding the megawatts small small, say you target adding about 1000 to 2000 in the next couple of years, then add small again, I am not asking the government to add 16,000 MW at a go, that will be impossible. I can bet you that if the government delivers 4000MW today, most households will have power for about 12 hours a day.

On the transmission, we are not serious, my solution to transmission is very simple, imagine having a power plant that can supply 4000MW in lagos, build the transmission to supply lagos with the 4000MW and push excess to the national grid.
The transmission should supply local needs first before pushing it to the national grid, that way we save on transmission cost.

@warrior

Me, achievements ke, well managing to keep body and soul together in naija is an achievement sha. The issue is I am not claiming what I am not, I am just one small guy struggling to give myself a good life. Emeagwali is giving everyone of us a bad name by claiming to be what he is not.
I know a fair bit about the internet and I know for sure that he did not father anything there. The processor thing sef na lie, the guy wrote programs, he did not develop any microprocessor.

@Hauwa


Haba, we should be happy for someone claiming what he is not?

@warrior

The donita brown no be hin wife? Wetin she go talk now? Abeg help us ask her how her Genius of a husband could not get his Phd oooooooooooooooooo

@cecegorz

Please provide link on that apple claim, please do not provide all these interview or entertainment magazines o, I need a scientific proof o. Also can you provide link to those prizes.

netotse

@20,000MW, the PHCN is expected to make about 500 billion naira ( assuming 33% utilization at a cost of 10naira per kwh), will they spend 500 billion naira on salaries and to maintain one or two power plants?

@globalaid

Is it impossible to reform our society? Is it impossible to turn all these public companies around? How then can we become a great country when all the difficult jobs become impossible to us?

@netotse

I am all for Government funding the power sector, poor funding will definitely kill any sector, I am sure funds were allocated but mysteriously got swallowed somewhere along the line.

@Sky Blue

Is our Government making as much as it can make? We depend solely on Oil for foreign exchange, we have other sources of income that have not been tapped, let the Government look at ways of augmenting its income, one quick way is to stop bailing out failed banks, stop paying senators crazy money, cut the cost of running government, we are not americans who can sell bonds to china at will.

@Sky Blue, I believe that the power is being sold right?, if Government can sell at just above cost price, it will have enough money from money generated to pump back into the sector, patapata it adds an extra 1 billion dollars.
Please guys do not get me wrong, I am for privatization in areas where the cost of privatization will be spread out evenly or the service is a luxury (Telecoms and so on).

@Ezeuche,

I do not take Time's word for it, I have checked all the RFCs, I have checked all protocols that drive the Internet and I do not see him being a member of those who drafted the RFCs nor did he create any protocol, he is a brilliant man as I said ( afterall he programmed something), but he did not contribute anything to any internet.

@Papawhatever

Me ke, our educational system in naija no allow me contribute anything to anywhere o ( my family dey celebrate me sha o, I dey try no be small). The issue is I am not claiming that which I do not possess. One man that really really should be celebrated is Chinua Achebe, now that man is worth celebrating.

I do not trust the World Bank, their agenda is for everything under the sun to be privatised. I actually fail to see the activities that our Government is carrying out now, the Government can afford to fund the power sector if they will place more emphasis on other forms of revenue, we lose billions of dollars to bunkering, outright stealing, tax evasion, and have refused to mine other minerals we have because oil money is too sweet. Our Government is always ready to take the easy way out, we can not fund power oya privatize it, we can not fund police oya privatize it, education nko, we must privatize it, what the heck is the function of the Government when they are privatizing everything. The money sanusi used in bailing those useless banks out should have been spent on power.

@Mike

I know that those are corrupt organisations and there is a need to clean the augean stables there, what I am saying is that the privatization thing is a palliative, it is not the solution to our problems. Are we going to privatise NNPC, the Army, the Police and so on? I believe a Government that can fix the Police can also fix power without privatising it, what we need to do is vote in such a Government, I do concede that most of the people asking to lead us at this point in time do not have any idea of how to fix Nigeria, but, we need to look for people who will fix this country.

@netotse

How well run is PHCN, how well run is any utility company in Nigeria, there is a lot of waste in that organisation, I am sure that an efficient PHCN will not spend close to that amount for its operation. Prices have been going up, they just increased the prices recently, if it is 10 naira per kwh, let them sell it at that price or a little bit above it, let them look for creative ways of making money (I am sure there are other uses for their transmission lines than just carrying electricity), how are other countries able to do it? My fear with the privatization is not about availability, but the companies will charge as they like and our Government officials will look the other way. Beaf said something about Nigerians spending 13 billion dollars on power, that I am sure is heavily weighted towards the companies who can afford to pay about 60% less in the new dispensation, the common man will have to take the slack.
You say Government does not have enough money to fund the power drive? What do they use our money for? to pay Senators? is it not the same government giving customs exceptions to their friends, not collecting proper taxes from companies and chopping money anyhow? Our problem in Nigeria is that our Government officials love taking the easy way out, they are not ready to apply themselves to doing innovative things, let me ask, how much do you think the private companies will charge per Kwh?

Emeagwali is a brilliant man no doubt, he is very intelligent no question, the issue I have is the guy ascribing honours to himself. He did nothing for the internet, he has no peer reviewed articles and people are here celebrating him kai. I do not blame him sha, the society we live in celebrates frauds.

I know our Government is inefficient, but, how many of our public utilities are we going to privatise? I believe the clamour should not be for privatization but for a more efficient Government, the money saved from privatizing these sectors will only be swallowed. At present, I pay about 5K a month for power supply, now, there is going to be an increase in the cost of power by march next year, that means I will pay close to 10K for about 6 hours of light per day, when it is privatised, I will be paying close to 15K just for power, that is some people's salary ( I am not a heavy user of the power sef). I see the Government abdicating its responsibilities, the clamour for stable power supply will only lead to a heavy burden on the people except we do things the right way.

I partially derailed the Jarus post on Ribadu's charisma or lack of by raising an issue on the Power roadmap, I have opened this new topic for those who have the facts to present them so we can have a fruitful discussion (netotse and Beaf I am looking at you here). I am of the opinion that what we need is an efficient government that can run public utilities properly and not to privatise everything under the sun, netotse please set the ball rolling.

I am about to derail this thread small, apologies to Jarus. I see people saying that the power roadmap is a good one yet, people are not looking at what the cost of power will be when the sector is privatised abi what is the use of power when you can not afford it. On point, we need all the good men we can get to be involved in politics, Ribadu is one of the few good men and the shortcomings he might have with articulation can be remedied later. PDP ( GEJ, OBJ, IBB, Atiku, Gusau et al) has dragged this country back, we need to get rid of them.