Bevista:
I have to admit, this genuinely is one of the rare legacies of PGEJ. I have personally seen the place and it looks impressive.

GenbIoodykiller:
oya were passingshot the body language analyser come show us how body language take affect this one.
Buhari's body language doing wonders since the birth of the illiterate passingshot the body language analyser.
Chai Nigeria will regret the best president ever since 1960
Dr Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan
unfortunately he's too holy and upright for a doomed country like Nigeria.
by next 4 years we'll be counting the shamble body language economy the illiterate bastard Daura President implemented.
God bless Gej

emperorceaser:

Body Language KO bottom language NI
I miss GEJ

Ozin:
I miss GEJ....Fact!

likila:

buhari is like the prodigal son.
he is eating away all the wealth he inherited from President Goodluck Ebiebele Jonathan.

hinwazaka:
The level of infrastructural development was second to none under the meritorious service of the GEJ administration. Is it roads, they built 100's, is it the railway, they revamped the sector. What of power, a miracle was achieved. The Ebola virus, unfortunately knocked at our doorstep, they defeated it without breaking a sweat. In Agriculture, they ended a never ending indomitable fertilizer mafia. They were tested in the oil refineries puzzle, but like Alexander the great, he cut through the knot with just one stroke. This and many more monumental achievements make the TRANSFORMER GEJ the man to beat.
The new iron man, PMB, over to you. But if you fail or perform below the standards that we are already accustomed to because of the giant strides made by your predecessor. Then you can consider yourself a disgrace to your wife, children and entire household.

Well connected
WTC Abuja has been under development since 2010, on a lot spanning over six million square feet in the Central Business Area of the capital.
The location offers easy access to the city center and the airport, with a dual-carriage highway surrounding the site and a new light rail system currently under construction.

Can all those poorly educated folks up there see the highlighted part of the article in bold and shut up for good?

If you are so badly educated that you can not comprehend a simple article, then you will probably be too dumb to understand process of large project management that ordinarily should have made you known that start of planning stage alone of this project can not be later than 2008 (OBJ's tenure) , and can as well be much earlier by only God knows how many years.

It gets really annoying with these dimwits who flood here daily and talk rubbish whereas the ab.oki herbadasher with a transistor radio is better informed than they are.

This is silly!

Did GEJ tender any ? By the way, isn't GEJ supposed to also declare his asset at close of his tenure too as demanded by the law? When are they going to talk about that or is that not much more time bound that this their rabble rousing ?

Hmmm...

I wish Nigeria can have a sort of rotational secondment of group of our scientists and engineers to CERN and NASA on $1bn budget for next 15 years. Doing that will make Nigeria at par with India/China in human component of technological advancement. Marry it with a bold institutional framework, another 10 years will make us a second rate technological power.

Average age of PhDs in CERN is 25 years. It also has the highest concentration of Nobel price winners.

iamrealdeji:
who told you so? I only read stuffs that interest me,i grew up being exposed to Foreign entertainments,Foreign celebs,foreign news and affairs etc I started researching about things that concern Nigeria recently and I get really interested in our politics,im sure i'll know more about Nigerian tribes in the nearest future,but it's not my fault cos I know much about what I've been exposed to since childhood,and don't get me wrong,my mum used to tell me about Nigerian politics as a kid,but way more of foreign affairs

Issokay o!

But just curiously, were you raised in Nigeria?

iamrealdeji:
nope,i've only heard of Ben Murray Bruce,the silverbird proprietor oro is a language in Nigeria? Oron ppl? Ive never heard it

Oga, with this your quote above, please end the debate with her. You obviously don't know your own neighbourhood enough to engage on a debate about it.

iamrealdeji:
current? Not that,maybe I find out about foreign celebs more,but honestly,the Guy is not popular,if he was,I wouldn't need to dig into Ben Bruce profile before I know his equally famous brother,and also,maybe it's because I don't know much about south south people,i never even know those you mentioned are from south south,i used to think they're Igbos,we yorubas categorize those minority groups from that side as Igbos most times

You are so wrong ! Never generalize simply because you don't know much. That you stay among lowly exposes group does not make it true that the larger group does things same way. I have many youruba enough me that knew Isoko, Urhobo, Ijaw, "Calabar" (the common misnomer for Efik, Ibibio, Anang, Ekoi, Ejagham, Or on, and several other minorities along the SSE corridor) are different from "Igbo".

Son, I think you need to learn more about Nigeria than Americans you are watching on TV who don't know you and you have little ties with.

OP,

WTF is "Brazer" ?

Why you disgrace me like this? I know say you be onye-igbo, please it is "blazers" nor "brazer".

Then, that of " canvas" na another day talk.

Hey Op,

Tell us how your furl pump thing was fixed naa. We all can learn from your update.

kokoA:
What are those Monkeys in the 19th picture doing?

Playing suweh

drewxx88:
cool pic as a trained wildlifer I beg to differ yankari is highly rich in Flora and fauna But there is a bigger park in Nigeria That's more diverse than yankari It's larger too Gashaka Gumpti national park Serti Taraba state 6402 sq. kilometers the only one of It's kind don't think they can match yankari. for Elephants But they have the largest primate concentration in the country as Well as a species of chimpanzee Pantroglodyte vellorosus only found there in the whole world and that makes it unique also features the highest point in Nigeria the Chappal wadi mountains It's got transitory eco systems enabling it to have Flora and fauna found in rainforests ,montane and savanna ecosystems will still wanna visit yankari though extremely nice pictures..

Yes bro. Heard and read much about Gashaka-Gumti National Park, and was making plans to visit when Boko Haram madness worsened. I don't know how safe that area is right now, that's why I ditched the idea of visiting there.

Timbi:



You are really a slow learner or may a terrible student academically. It is wrong to correct an article not originally yours, if you have an issue with the article, follow the link provided and drop your comment simple!
And just in case your IQ is abysmally low, you need to step up a bit.

Reading your further comments, it is galring that it is a monumental waste of time to engage you further on this matter. Enjoy the bliss.

Timbi:

The source is there for you to verify. sources are provided because the original article isn't from you and it should be presented as it is rather than edited. I think you lack basic understanding of quoting articles that aren't yours. If you have carried out any academic research, you will understand this rule better.

Your ignorance is legendary. You were rightly corrected and you held on to ignorance.

1GW = 1000MW

Nigeria built her 1+GW power station since 1980s. That's Egbin power plant in Lagos with capacity of 1.22GW.

Learn!

ItsMeAboki:

Another major contributory factor is the seasonal rainy season which provide more water to the dams and therefore facilitate generation of hydroelectricity.

Error !

The hydrology cycle of dams does not peak with rainy season. As matter of fact, it peaks between August and October due to time taken for the water to travel its watershed course and mainflow from source areas to midstream areas where most of the dams are.

It takes the River Niger about 3 months to make its journey from its sources to Kainji.

@ tbaba and EnergyWA,

You guys are so so correct ! I'm pleased that truly knowledgeable people are still on Nairaland.

impetus:
Iran Makes This Declaration To Saudi Arabia: “We Will Cut Off Your Hand And Ignite The Flames Of War.” The Standoff Between Saudi Arabia And Iran Begins
Last time Iran tried to send an Iranian plane to land in Sana’a airport under the guise of “humanitarian aid” to Yemen, Saudi Arabia responded by bombing the airport in Sanaa to prevent it from landing just to make a point that Iran cannot ignore Saudi warnings that a blockade on Yemen is enforced.
Now this is happening all over again at a much larger scale and a more dangerous posture. Iran’s latest attempt is sending a humanitarian ship The Shahed cargo ship as a flotilla to break the Saudi-enforced blockade, which departed Iran on Monday and is currently in the Gulf of Aden.
Iran is mimicking the Gaza aid Flotilla, which caused world attention in Israel in 2010, and this new Iranian flotilla is accompanied by a direct threat from Iran “we [Iran] will cut off the hand that touches it”. And to ensure they make good on their threat, they are accompanying this ‘Flotilla’ with two warships, Alborz and the Bushehr proclaiming by such posture that Iran will break the blockade despite warnings by Saudi Arabia and the United States.
The U.S. advised Iran to reroute such humanitarian efforts and use a United Nations distribution hub in Djibouti, which is the normal avenue for such humanitarian assistance. It has then become obvious that Iran is attempting a standoff with Saudi Arabia and a showdown between the two nations can become imminent.
Iran is also including civilian foreign activists onboard in order to mimic the Gaza flotilla and escalate the condemnation of Saudi Arabia in case of civilian casualties. The state-run IRNA news agency quoted Iranian Admiral Hossein Azad as saying that the 34th naval group “is present in the Gulf of Aden and Bab al-Mandab strait and has been given the specific mission of protecting the humanitarian aid ship.”
Tehran says the warships are necessary in case Saudi-led coalition forces from their naval blockade intercepts the humanitarian cargo ship.
But unlike Israel, Saudi Arabia is not known to have restraint. Just hours before the ceasefire’s beginning in Yemen, Saudi-led coalition forces pounded the Yemeni capital Sanaa with a massive attack on weapons installations.
Despite Saudi resolve to crush the Houthi rebellion in Yemen, a senior Iranian commander has stressed that attacking the Iranian aid ship heading to Yemen will “ignite the flames of war” in the region.
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri made the remarks in an interview with Arabic-language news channel al-Alam on Tuesday.
http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2015/05/27/iran-makes-this-declaration-to-saudi-arabia-we-will-cut-off-your-hand-and-ignite-the-flames-of-war-the-standoff-between-saudi-arabia-and-iran-begins/
The war between this two great Arab nations would be a boost to peace in Isreal.

The bolded last paragraph ruined your story. First, Iran is Persia, not Arab. Second, delicate balance of power amidst the gulf nations and "ammenable" regimes are what have guaranteed peace for Israel so far. If the two major gulf powers happen to go to war (that's if that ever happens), it may affect balance of power and things may go awry from there for Israel.

zizazizu:

Thanks so much. I really appreciate this.
One final thought. Was it a Ford pump or from another product?

I once "served" in a Ford workshop here in Nigeria. Most of fuel pump issues we had were replaced with Toyota pumps. So I will advice you go with the camry pump.

Mind you, it was a Ford authorized garage I'm talking about o.

EMMAACHILE:

Your talk was on a Coal powered plant in Geregu not outputing even a single watts. Have you forgotten so soon.

Geregu is not a coal powered plant I still insist. Its a gas fired plant built by Siemens. I was there for about a week during the installation of some electrical items by Siemens.

For your info, there is no nearby coal deposit in Western Kogi. My friend, these areas are my neighborhood.

You may not be able to rule out coal power plant in Kogi because these are nearby coal deposits in Okaba hills there and Udi, in neighbouring Enugu.

VULCAN:
@homerac

You still haven't answered his vital question. What happens after ownership is transferred to Nigeria? When nepotism will come into play over who will run the facility. When HR decisions will be based on religious and tribal sentiments. What happens then?

Straighly, I'm only being rational and optimistic.

Rational that nobody will want to risk mismanagement of a nuclear plant, and IAEA monitors those things like hawks.Yes, they have the capacity to do that. So once there's the tiniest of a red flag, they shut it down operational wise. No sane militant will try compromise a nuclear plant, not even an insane one. They are highly secured by high level procedures, and have take a willful and dedicated group effort to sabotage one. Optimistic in the sense that I believe that we are better people when we are rightly inspired.

Then generally speaking, tribal and religious sentiments don't necessarily kill an organisation. Although, It may not be able to exploit it's maximum opportunities. But this is a subject for another day.

harveyspec:




apart from the bolded, the tone of your post is aggressive & also insulting

it's more of "listen, let me lecture you"

funnily,yours is almost like the man who is unaware that his son is in jail abroad but boosting that his son is a honest & uptight man, meanwhile his audience is aware of the truth

You are the man

Your son is Nigeria

You are funny. I will never let this degenerate beyond this point. Believe whatever you want to.

I'm out. Ciai!

harveyspec:


I am not of the opinion that nuclear plants are unsafe, I don't need lectures on fail-safe's. I'm an automation control specialist

no matter how unlikely the event of a meltdown is, should it happen, nigeria is not ready to manage it

remember the BP oil spill, it made news headline, such events don't occur all the time at least on that magnitude but it did

So when it happens in Nigeria regardless of how long it takes, the damage is my concern!!

learn to pass points across without insulting folks, no one knows it all

We are all here to learn

Oga, why the aggression naa? Pls show me where I insulted you in my response and I will apologise.

Pls show me.

harveyspec:

you aren't getting the point, Nigeria has no maintenance culture, you brought up the BOOT in defense to the post you quoted to prove that it's out of Nigeria's hand i.e that Russia will build & operate & transfer
But the question is after it is transferred, can Nigeria maintain the facility?
if the refinery couldn't be maintained after the transfer, what makes the nuclear plant any differ?
You couldn't handle that which was less complex, how then will you be able to handle that which is complex
The preventive & maintenance policy for refinery could not be followed, how will that of a nuclear plant be any different
@the bolded, the reason you aren't hearing is becos of corruption & coverup
So trust me, when there is an abuse in management process of the nuclear waste, same thing will happen you won't hear, you will only get to hear if its a major one
I work in the Niger delta region, there are loads of spills in varying levels on a weekly basis, but do you get to hear them? The answer is NO
Am speaking based on facts, what I see with my eyes.
speaking of supervision, radioactive materials (source) for xray were brought to our site & kept in our office meanwhile there is a bunker meant for such. Management took that decision & kept mum about it
People were passing to & for without knowing there radioactive material was there!!
@the bold, yet you corrected the fellow by saying scientist don't run plants but technicians but here again you listed scientists as one of those that run plants. What an irony!!!
@the bolded, pls these have never been a factor, it has always been becos of corruption
There is a federal government project currently going on in the Niger delta region, they have spent 5yrs now with nothing to show for it, billions have been sunk in & they are nowhere near mechanical completion, just because certain individuals are getting a cut
We can argue on & on, the point is not until a good maintenance culture & a robust emergency rescue plan is put in place. Nigeria shouldn't go nuclear

You know the difference between our positions? You see a half empty glass while I see it half full. Simple!

If you work in ND and see spills and use radio active materials, then you must be an oil worker. So I'm going to end my position here with the story of Du Point.

Most of us know the American giant, Du Point. It makes a lot of defence products including explosives. At the early years, the accident rate in their factory was terrible and usually with fatalities. So the management took a decision to make senior management staff become resident within the factory premises with their family. Thenceforth, accident rate dropped drastically and it became one of the safest industries in the US.

Summary of my tale is that risks has capacity to change human attitudes towards safety. If India, Pakistan, China and Russia haven't melted down from nuclear accidents, then we won't melt down either.

Lastly, a major error in your view is that nuclear plants are still unsafe like what you have in the cold war era. That's very incorrect, as matter of fact more people have died from kitchen smoke and trip hazards than nuclear accidents since Chernobyl. Those plants come with several fail-safes that make it very remotely unlikely to fail during normal operation.

Dollyak:

Did you see the spec? Anyways, we need to understand the comparative value for money, whether we can get a better option for similar price. You seem pretty sold on the idea already, without any effort to divulge further. There are many questions that needs to be asked before blindly engaging in that project.

No madam, the spec is not included in the news piece.

I have learnt that mega power projects don't come cheap at all because there are many indirect components in it. Usually, those things inflate costs up to 200% or mor sometimes.

But this does not in any way mean that there shouldn't be revaluation of the project if need be.

princejayboss:



Am an industrial physicist (nuclear physicist) blessed to have touched nuclear rods in different nuclear facilities around the world .


I can see what Nigerians need is just information and awareness....... Ignorance is really on the high side.... Am pleased we are thinking future though I have fear of the northern brothers and what their uneducated mind can lead them into in regards to this proposed facilities

Good to meet you bro!

Well, that's part of social risk we have to consider sir. But did that stop us from flying airplanes from Aminu Kano Airport ? Kaduna refinery still hasn't been bombed either, what about tons of food and meat coming down south hourly? If none of these things have been compromiaed, then it will take longer effort and bigger planning and dexterity to compromise a modern nuclear plant with its multi fail-safe designs.

So I would live with the risk. After all, INDIA too has a lot of mad terrorists tying to harm her. Ditto Pakistan. Test they all operate nuclear plants. So wetin come be our own problem?

uc97:

Bros where is ur town so that it will be located there since u are so much in love with nuclear power. Forget the issue of cooling system, it will be provided. I think ur people will honor u in no small way.

Ah! Chairmo! I honestly wish I can be convinced you have such authority and/influence to make that your suggestion happen, then I would have followed it up with all info you requested with promise of 50acres of land donated to you freely by my community in recognition of such gestures , plus other added honoraria.

ApexTitan:
@homerac7 are there any nuclear power plants in Africa? Just curious to know how the rest of the continent is meeting it's power needs.

Yes sir! South Africa has nuclear plants. Congo DR has an old nuclear plant which I'm not sure of the state. I'm not sure about Egypt, but I will go through my library and confirm to you later. As matter of dact, Nigeria Energy Commission has a research nuclear power plant in Kaduna (?) which has been working for years.

princejayboss:

I like to know you friend .... Am pleased to find few brains like you

Oh! I'm pleased my posts was found so appealing sir.

Regards.

ApexTitan:
@homerac7 are there any nuclear power plants in Africa? Just curious to know how the rest of the continent is meeting it's power needs.

Yes sir! South Africa has nuclear plants. Congo DR has an old nuclear plant which I'm not sure of the state. I'm not sure about Egypt, but I will go through my library and confirm to you later. As matter of dact, Nigeria Energy Commission has a research nuclear power plant in Kaduna (?) which has been working for years.

MINISTER2000:
I'm not disposed to hydro power only, that is I hv been saying other sources. Germany is tapping frm solar n others r tapping frm wind. why can't we consider other options; must we mortgage our lives for disaster waiiting to happen.

Oga, cost of set-up per MW is cheaper with nuclear compared to solar. Solar is very costly and has limitations due to constrain of sun-hours. You must have backup system which is highly inefficient and vastly costly too; be it mechanical storage system or chemical (battery). Those countries you are mentioning (UK & Germany) are the richest in Europe, so stop comparing their choices with Nigeria's.

Same with wind farms. They are capital intensive. Do you know how tall is a typical 10MW single unit of wind tower/turbine is? It is between 80 and 120m tall, that's like 40stories building with its base usually of about 40feet across! Germany and UK are installing hundreds of those silent giants on floating platforms anchored to seabeds on their coastlines offshore. That's a multi-billion dollar project , yet only a rich country can at yet afford such "luxury".

Nigeria and every other third world country have no business with solar and wind mega projects, its not best use of our lean and scarce resources when we have alternatives of thermal, hydro and nuclear.

harveyspec:

Mr knowledge!! what happens if the "stipulated period" elapses, can Nigeria still maintain it?
Before you answer, remember our refineries were BOOT too
Mr knowledge, you would have replaced the scientist with technicians besides there is no way a nuclear power station will run without a scientist in its employs
Why spend that much to build something that carries much risk, it's not as though its establishment is a complete solution to our power problems
We haven't been able to maintain our roads, our gas plants, our power plants, our refineries, even traffic light or street light yet we want to go nuclear
with our penchant for cutting corners, how do you think the nuclear waster will be disposed?
we have abundant gas reserve, why not focus on Gas plant construction/power station
Can't more hydro stations be built

What happens with T in the BOOT is not my decision. It is a public project which is normally influenced by lot of unmeasurable factors.

Your refinery is not on same risk level with a nuclear plant, so what influences decision with one night not be same with other. I expect you to remind me again if Nigeria fell to Ebola virus when it got into the country.

Nuclear waste for every nuclear plant in the world is under direct supervision of IAEA. So calm down and tame your ignorance. I'm sure you don't know that oil companies here in Nigeria have been using nuclear materials for their operation since forever, yet I'm yet to hear of any disaster so far.

Technicians maintain power plants. I'm sure the nomenclature "technician" is hurting your ego somewhere. Note that what you call a technical is sometimes a PhD holder in quantum physics or engineering. It is simply the role he/she plays in the setup that matters. Plants runs with complement of several professional skills including accountants, tradesmen, technicians, scientists, administrators and lot more.

We are building more gas plants, but we can't lay enough gas gathering facilities as required for constraint of fund and time. Also is the risk factor of sabotage of these facilities. But nuclear plant does away with need for such expensive and extensive feed stock facilities.

Mind you, nuclear power is green energy. While gas is nonrenewable.

MINISTER2000:
What I meant is we can have more of hydropower dams to increase our power generation. pls sir, why r developed nations considering a move frm nuclear plants?

No sir! We can't go about building dams everywhere. Mind you, I don't in any way mean that we have "enough" dams in Nigeria or Africa yet, but there's limit to how much power we can practically depend on dams for. Yes they look beautiful and support agriculture, but they are highly environmentally destructive, particularly in their downstream communities.


Developed nations are shutting down SOME of their nuclear power plants because of age, mainly. Every plant has a lifetime. When an equipment or plant approaches its lifetime, reliability reduces and cost of operation rises. Based on several technical, risk, economic, social and environmental analysis, the equipment or plant may be given a life extension (retrofitting) or wound down (obsolescence).

Note that UK and Germany are shutting down because they are investing more in offshore wind generation power systems, while Japan is constrained because of seismic risks. So everybody makes such decisions bases on individual's peculiar risks and conditions. So what's necessary for Germany/US might not be for Nigeria/China/SA/Indonesia/Brazil

MINISTER2000:
it is chaeper. jst hv a look at the cost n what is being produced.

No river in West Africa can give you such hydro capacity sir! Closest you can get is the Grand Inga dam project on the Congo in Congo DR.

You can chose to build 100,000MW nuclear power plant is anywhere in Nigeria (in you can raise the fund required), but you can't build any MW above what the river sources around you can provide for hydro power. Even having the water flow does not mean the topology will give you favourable location.

So China building 3 Gorges dam on the Yanges does not mean Nigeria, or West Africa has a "Yanges" to build her own.

MINISTER2000:
China
Location Sandouping, Yiling ,
Hubei
Coordinates 30°49′23″N
111°00′12″E / 
30.82306°N
111.00333°E
Purpose Power, flood control,
navigation
Status Operational
Construction began December 14, 1994
Opening date 2008
Construction cost ¥ 180 billion (US
$26 billion)
Owner(s) China Yangtze Power
(subsidiary of China
Three Gorges
Corporation )
Dam and spillways
Type of dam Gravity dam
Impounds Yangtze River
Height 181 m (594 ft)
Length 2,335 m (7,661 ft)
Width (crest) 40 m (131 ft)
Width (base) 115 m (377 ft)
Spillway capacity 116,000 m 3 /s
(4,100,000 cu ft/s)
Reservoir
Creates Three Gorges Reservoir
Total capacity 39.3 km 3
(31,900,000 acre·ft )
Catchment area 1,000,000 km 2
(390,000 sq mi)
Surface area 1,084 km 2 (419 sq mi)
[1]
Max. length 600 km (370 mi) [2]
Normal elevation 175 m (574 ft)
Power station
Commission date 2003–2012
Type Conventional
Hydraulic head Rated: 80.6 m (264 ft)
Maximum: 113 m (371 ft)
[1]
Power generation
Nameplate capacity 22,500 MW
Capacity factor 45%
Annual generation 98.8 TWh (356 PJ )
(2014)
Turbines 32 × 700 MW
2 × 50 MW Fr

Sorry, I don't get you.

gbl01:



My brother, its wise to understand people before you talk rather than pouring out insult. I sure won't speak to you in same Manner because you sound childish.


One quick point against urs. Ajaokuta steel company was built and managed by Russia, it was booming, employed over 150,000 people. Today, its managed by Indians, its completely dead and the workforce is less than 3000. They're struggling to resuscitate it nevertheless, but the rot is massive.


So when the Nuclear plants are transferred to Nigerians, 30years after what will happen? Think about the future before you defend the indefensible.

I apologise if I was insultive.

But you need to know that Ajaokuta is a special case of cold war power play, so its problems are complicated. You probably don't know that the US advised us against it after Late JFK initially promised Nigeria a steel plant. Rather, we were advised to import higher grade ores from Brazil rather than processing lower grade ores we have at uneconomical costs. But Russia gave us alternative, that alternative is what we are battling with today.

Then I'm not aware of the contract model for Ajaokuta, but this nuclear one is expressly indicated as BOOT. So unless you are sure Ajaokuta was BOOT too, then I see no basis of comparison at all sir.

GogetterMD:
Issues
1- is it just a Nigerian situation or why are all contracts in Nigeria overly inflated? $20billion USD for just 4800 MW of electricity?
2- I am afraid for Maintenance culture here. Nigerians can know how to vandalize and steal anything, electricity cables, transformer parts, blow up gas pipelines etc. Their ignorance won't make them realise the importance of staying away from a nuclear power plant. Even Japan is shutting down all her nuclear reactors after the calamity that came last decade

Aaaargh! Too much ignorance here !

gbl01:
Nigeria is known for lack if maintenance strategy, how will they maintain this facility? Consisting the risk posed by it to the society

Read again, it is a BOOT arrangement, meaning it will be built , owned, operated by the Russians before being transferred to Nigeria after a stipulated period.

PRYCE:
I just hope our scientists would be able to maintain those fragile reactors else it'll be a case of Jobs created but leased to foreign Vultures!

Scientists don't maintain plants, technicians[b][/b] do.

GogetterMD:
Issues
1- is it just a Nigerian situation or why are all contracts in Nigeria overly inflated? $20billion USD for just 4800 MW of electricity?
2- I am afraid for Maintenance culture here. Nigerians can know how to vandalize and steal anything, electricity cables, transformer parts, blow up gas pipelines etc. Their ignorance won't make them realise the importance of staying away from a nuclear power plant. Even Japan is shutting down all her nuclear reactors after the calamity that came last decade

1. I'm not sure of average rate at the moment, but nuclear plants are the costliest to set up among the popular energy plants. They don't come cheap. Consolation is that they produce the cheapest electricity of the lot.

2. Japan is shutting down because of its environmental risk profile I.e it is in an earthquake prone region, while Nigeria has a better environmental risk profile in that respect.

Other nations shutting down have better energy mix and older nuclear reactors/plants. Ours is new and based on newer and safer technology too.

vanunu:
Buhari should stop this ruffplay, when other countries ara moving away from nuclear power, he wants to build one. He should site it in daura.

It would have been a good thing for people of Daura, but nuclear plants are sited near large fresh water source for (tertiary) cooling of reactors. So that's why it is in Kogi (rivers Niger and Benue) and Akwa Ibom (Qua Oboe river).

Jorussia:
Igali should just go and sit down jare,$20b for less than 5000mw of electricity?I know that when pmb settles down in office, this will be one of the power projects that will be scrapped.

No he will carry on with the national policy on energy mix and nuclear power generation. It is part of our national development programmes.

Jorussia:
This is not a project from PmB,it is actually from GEJ.Igali is just trying to show himself.

No sir. It is a national policy inducted under late president UMYA

BuddahMonk:
I hope Geregu is not close to Igboland because we will not allow that to happen in Akwa Ibom State also.
When the want to site WMD they will locate close to Igboland.

Geregu is in Kogi state in Ebira (?) land. Calm down, it is a national asset. Stop reasoning like boko haram.

heatflux:
Nuclear?? No problem. Hope they have also planned how to dispose the nuclear toxic waste too? If not..... those chosen sites.....hmmm

Read it again and see IAEA being involved. Building nuclear plants is not like buying Tiger or Elepaq generators. There are stringent statutory requirements and operational procedures to meet.

MINISTER2000:
$20b to generate jst 4.8MW is outrageous and a complete rip off! why can't we have more hydropower dams which r cheaper, safer n hv more advantages. Nuclear plant is a disaster in wainting n that is why even developed nations r some hw considering other options.

Hydro dams have their strong points, but they are not exactly environmental friendly and are highly susceptible to hydrological cycle and plenty of community related issues both upstream and downstream. Moreover, you need energy mix to improve your general reliability.

givan:
Please this project shouldn't be sited anywhere 1000 nautical miles away from the east. Itu isn't a good choice. Mr Buhari please site your Nuclear project either around the Saraha states or 1000 nautical mile into the Atlantic.
#LessonsFromJapan
#ProudlyAnambay

I pray and hope (and would lobby if I'm in such prime position)that one of the next sets planned will be sited between Imo river and Anambra river courses. You don't know what you are wishing away. Pls aclm down and atop reasoning like Boko Haram.

owobokiri:
This is costly compared to the cost of biulding such elsewhere. . By the time we are through with biulding power stations in this country, we would have spent over 100 billion dollars to generate 4000 megawatts of power.

Many things go under project capital cost sir. You can't be sure until you see the breakdown. Most times, associated infrastructure, consultancy/supervision, and logistics make such costs swell especially in low developed environment like ours.

AgreatMan:
I hate nuclear plants, nigeria is too reckless for such ventures.
we shd emulate our sister, president merkel of West Ger-ma-ni who is decommissioning all her nuclear plants.
btw, $20B for 5000mw and we have to till 2035. These russians must be high on vodka that is mixed with ondo ogogoro.

It is natural reaction to "hate" new ideas. Please calm down and adapt to change sir. Lol

Comparing Nigeria energy policy to Germany's is like comparing a poor man that has family of 12 and earning #18k minimum wage with Osun State ( :p ) and idle house wife to a senior manager in Schlumberger with a senior bank manager wife and two kids on choices of food: one has better options than the other.

agaugust:


Egbon mi, me no dey show face for de , tori wipe mio mo kilo maa shele pelu new presido. Awon eniyan so wipe GMB fe ra F-16, gbogbo defence contract ti o wa ni pipeline ni won ma review, won maa da gbogbo nka ruu, so mi o tii mo nkan ti mo maa so ni ni mo se dake jeje o !

Thanks bros mi ! Na gode so sai !

Bros, I hail.

I feel you, but some of us ti a mo baba titun yii no fear. Baba yen ko kin gba rubbish rara. Ti o ba tie review awon kini yen, je ki okan e bale wipe na better deal ni o ma se. O ready lati nawo ati lati ja.

Mo ro wipe isokuso ti awon kan maa nso nibe yen lo put e off ni.

Take care o

agaugust:

Actually from Cape Town to Cairo, NO air force has ISTAR power to compare with NAF ATR-42 Surveyor, no close rival !
Egypt and Algeria only have older 1980s Beechcraft for ISTAR, Egypt has E-2 Hawkeye for AWACS, it cannot do real ATR-42`s job.
ALL AFRICA bows to NAF ATR-42 surveyor....mighty surveyor with 407 km radar range , Nigeria is in the big league of world super powers !
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Dan uwa na, you no dey show again for that naa? Kilosele? Mo notice wipe o dabi wipe iwo ati awon kan fe ma tango every time. Na wetin sele be dat abi other reasons ?

Well, mo miss contributions e gan o.