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Nawa this life can be very unfair and brutal sometimes. After enduring so much pain, she still have up the ghost, rest on dear.

A nurse in my village was very good with this abortion stuff then. If you wan abort belle or perform any sexual related operation that lady was the GOTO person. Bouncers were even guiding her chemist shop then.

On traveling home in 2023 I was shocked to see her chemist shop very dilapidated, and a complete shadow of itself. I was even scared to ask her what happened.

On an aunt I was told that this lady couldn't get pregnant for decades, that she has married 3 different men, and still couldn't get pregnant. That she spent all her money on In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) which produced a baby boy, that since then anything abortion she no dey do again, and no money to replenish store again, worst of all the father of the said child still dumped her, ogbeni married her for the money, when money dried up he fled. Karma dey true true.

How I wish Nigeria's crude oil could just dry up, because it has been more of a curse than a blessing.

Drinkwater2026:
I make about 450k in a month and I have two side hustle which gives about 360k in a bad month..,..Don't rely on betting coz if u do , u are already a failure in life.

A man who depend on a game of chance can never amount to anything in life, don't say u are not told.

Lol!! guess you achieved all these in 1 year? you try oh!!!

Too much of everything is bad, be it eating indomie noodles be it reading posts like these shikena.

Ogbeni you are suffering from gambling addiction. From stop betting it ruins, to 200M by June with betting, to I"my stopping all forms of betting to 1M by December through betting all in a space of 2 weeks just dey play.

Iron condemn missile

My class mate whose dad was in US, wan kill us with this phone back then. His dad was the only person calling him, in midnight, but Ogbeni use the phone do necklace dey come school dey pepper us. Na Only him and the owner of the school get this phone for school then.

Mr I never said that, Bwala

Democracy also brought them to where they are today, everything has it pros and cons. Give or take I still prefer the democratic system of governance.

In several serious mental disorders (like psychosis):

A person believes their thoughts are normal.
They may think others are the problem, not them,

This lack of awareness is called “poor insight”
So to them, nothing feels “mad” everything is normal

@op you are clearly displaying these traits so far.

Hedonisco:
You're getting on my nerves with this irritating nonsense. Nobody cares about this your long grammar. Bottom line is that oil smeared characters like Wole Soyinka, Falana, and Abeboye openly protested against subsidy removal/deregulation by the Jonathan government and the subsequent increase in fuel price.

Why have they kept quiet now that their oily brother Tinubu removed subsidy, thus resulting in uncontrolled increases in fuel price? THAT is the issue. If you can't directly address that, then just keep shut and get lost.

Lo!! Ogbeni if you were close to that guy physically you don for tearam brain resetting slap by now oh!! not minding whether he will be stronger than you, men dey para seriously!!!

Dogalmighty17:
I am not a supporter of this government but I take issues with your post. We must remain objective in our criticisms. The government has no hand in the current increase in fuel prices. The downstream sector is deregulated. Government pays no subsidies and that's a good thing. The situation in the middle east has affected every country on earth. Some more than others.

Your post is misleading.

But the head of the current government protested when the previous government attempted to deregulate the downstream sector by removing subsidy. They even called subsidy a scam. They protested about killing corruption how far with corruption so far? According to unconfirmed reports former CBN governor Godwin Emefiele has returned 4TN to the Nigeria government.

Nothing like 3rd term, the man knows he has failed miserably on his 1st term, so he is working very hard to secure his second either by hook or crook.

Tinubu knows how to shut their mouths because they are easily influenced by money, tribal or religious sentiments. NLC don die natural death.

Good one, given the small size of Yenagoa, that place suppose look like small London. Local content is a game changer from Berger to Oxbow lake.

If there was Band A for residential areas in Yenagoa I would have moved there completely, yahoo boys no dey let me rest with weed and drugs Delta state, police burst our area almost on weekly basis.

This onlyfans porn stuff still baffles me till date. As I dey like this I go pay olosho just to watch live stream of he/she doing her olosho work. I will pay her and my dick go still tear bursar for nothing no be juju be that?

Dem loot COVID 19 palliatives meant for people, Na come veterinary for animals and pets you dey talk about? Senators are distributing torch lights, and cups of rice which won't still get to the people, Na cum those for pets? funny you.

nairalanda1:
You are kind of mixing your tomato with your tomato.

Discos and gencos cannot buy transformers, electric poles, wires, meters, etc...because they do not get enough investment, which happens because many potential investors don't want to put money into a company that is bound to lose money because government is setting prices for most consumers.

Giving your analogy stealing shouldn't be a crime or a bad thing if people could give excuses that they stole due to the fact that they have no money or what to eat?

Would your wife be able to cook for you if you gave her no cooking money, or if you prevented her from eating the food she cooked for the family , and instead went hungry?

What if I gave same wife 20k, and she still refused to cook simply because other men are giving their wives 60k - 70k to cook? Does such an example makes sense to you?

The disco, and they would do it when everyone...is paying a cost reflective tarrif. It is because most nigerians are not paying cost reflective tarrifs...and at least 20-30% are not even paying for the electricty they use, or severely underpaying...that you have to buy all that.

Again did you ever buy generators, diesel, and antenna and wires for your GSM company? Again you did not because every Nigerian pays a cost reflective tarrif to the gsm companies, and unlike electricity where one can bypass meters, you can't use a phone without paying at all.

So those who are ready to do it will do it, and and recoup their investment by not paying bills to these Discos, the cost of what they spent will be deducted from their bills. Should that be too hard for an adult to comprehend?

Lastly I didn't buy Diesels, and antennas for telecom companies because they stood firm on their responsibilities in providing the network infrastructure that would ease acquisition of cost reflect tarrifs paying customers. Not crying like babies over paying tarrifs. Even these telecoms companies had various tariffs plans for customers who are being charged based on their tarrifs plans, that's called innovation which Discos lack.
Stop manufacturing endless excuses for failure, it's a sign of stagnation and not taking responsibilities for actions.

nairalanda1:
Well, if you invest in a company or a thing, you expect to see return on investment.

From the way you are talking you seem to think that investment is free money, and that people who invest are not supposed to see any returns but to just dash people money

That's not how real life works.

The rest of your commentary was just special pleading and rhetorics.

Ok, a customer that invested in buying transformers, electric poles, wires, meters which ordinarily should be provided by DisCos shouldn't expect back their capital let alone their return on investment, but the Discos should expect to see returns on their own investment. Can you see how selfish and self centred you are?

Can you please tell me the primary duties of DisCos?

I ask you again whose duty is it to provide transformers, electric poles, wires, and meters, is it Discos or their customers? The way some of you think is baffling I must say.

nairalanda1:
In other words, you want them to pay a cost reflective tarrif, either you make them pay N1500 for the N1500 Loaf, or you make them pay N700 for the lower quality loaf that costs that much.

SImple and short

But then again, at the end of the day, everyone is paying a cost reflective tarrif.



Precisely. The problem with electricity is whether na Band A or Band E, the cost of producing one kwh of power is N200 and above. Unlike my loaf example, there is no such thing as lower quality of electricity and higher quality of electricity (note that I am not referring to supply..but to the product itself). So, either all consumers pay above N200 or we forget about power.

FOr GSM, we all paid the same high prices, even when service was bad in most places (pre-2006, service was bad in the cities, even worse in the villages..)...and that meant enough profit to pay for the improved telecoms service you have today. Compared to 1988 when to make international calls, unless you were very rich, ye had to go to a phone exchange



Yes, because of my previous analogy. DIscos are making profit from one out of five consumers, and they lose money from the rest. It's so bad that they are even sacking workers to make ends meet...so they can';t afford anything including bringing meters. GENCOS are even worse...they sometimes literally don't have much left after they drop something for the gas suppliers and producers.

Like I said, did you buy antenna for GSM companies? You get my point now.


LOL, if you go to court, you will get the explanation I have just given you

Nothing is free. I went to a private school, despite living next to a government school that charged very cheap fees, almost free of charge. At one point the fees at the private school were five times that of the government school (lol..my parents were not rich, na side hustle dem dey do to pay those fees). Yet at the private school , I did not have to buy books or textbooks or make desk and chair. All the kids at the government school had to do that.

Better accept reality. COst reflective tarrifs na the way.

Can you calmly read what you wrote? Nothing is free but you want to collect cost reflective tariffs from areas where you did not sow a penny. Of what use are u as a distribution company if you can't provide measures for adequate distribution of the electricity you are being supplied?

If you feel you don't have money to invest in infrastructure to sustain your business, it is better you quit, instead of stealing from customers and crying fowl, because the the customers will in turn steal heavily from you.

See you changing goal post you don jump from bread go school. You are ready to collect cost reflective tariffs, but don't want to provide cost reflective service, no be juju be that?

Does the duty of providing poles, transformers, wires, metres rest on customers or distribution companies? When your parents enrolled you in a private school were they responsible for sourcing and providing teachers for the school even after paying your school fees?

Given my estimate we won't be paying electricity bills for the next 7 - 9 months. You can't dump your responsibility on others and cry for cost reflective tariffs. You reap where you sow it is as simple as that.

The success in the telecom sector in Nigeria today was fuelled by innovation, competition , and heavy investing by telecom companies, not sitting and crying all day that the reason we are failing is because our customers are not paying this or that tariffs. Not surprised though because there will always be excuses for failure.

nairalanda1:
Band A customers form 20% of total consumers...meaning one in five nigerians pay cost reflective tarrifs. That means that in theory, only 20% of consumers pay enough to make a profit per consumer, but the remaining 80% don't...so any profit made from the 20% is cancelled out by the 80% that don't pay cost reflective tarrifs

It's like you owning a business selling bread. To make a profit you sell a loaf for N1500...YET ..only 20% of your customers pay that price, the rest pay N700 or less. Would your business make a profit if only 20% are paying the actual price you need to make a profit? No way.

That not business man like on your part I must say. What happens to focusing more on customers that are buying my loaf at #1500?
Why not try to lure those paying ₦700 for my bread to increase their pay to ₦1500 or better still make a lower quality bread for them thereby cutting my cost of production? Madigan/Akpu biscuit vs bread a perfect example

Band C,D,E already experiencing the lower version with erratic power supply.

Don't you think with time if those paying 1500 find out that others are paying 700 for same bread, they themselves will resort to paying 700 too, how then will such a business survive?

In my street we bought everything from transformer to meter. For 2 months now, we are not paying light bills even though our meters are reading, fortunately for us we are using post paid meters which doesn't need units to function.

It will remain like so until the money spent on on performing the duties of BEDC is recovered. Let them take us to court we are fully prepared, Dem no born any BEDC staffs well to go close to our transformer to disconnect it.

nairalanda1:
The problem arises from a lack of a cost reflective tarrif...which causes all the other problems you have listed here.

Nothing wrong with the investors (AEDC investor was a reputable company even, for example, and a foreign company self)...once government sets prices, issues will result.

LIke the metering issue. SInce discos are subject to price controls, their profits as it were are not enough to pay for metering, so the government had to step in...to fix its mess by paying for meters...but as you know, the cost of doing that is high, even for gofment...so metering is not universal.

Cost reflective tarrifs is just an excuse for failure. There are band A users who bought transformers themselves, bought poles, wires, meters, and still pay distribution companies staffs to install these things, yet they still pay cost reflective tarrifs, what do you have to say about that? Do you think if these distribution companies invest in their infrastructures more people won't pay cost reflective tarrifs?

Talk is cheap give this one an appointment tomorrow and the next thing you"ll hear is: I never said that, I was quoted out of context.

Lovelink1991:
Maybe you have your own verification platform and you were shocked pained that AI didn't pick your own that is why you are weeing on yourself in a broad daylight. You should be the one to go and ask AI as you were disappointed because I have no reason of asking him that even as I wasn't disappointed. Who the cap fit make he wear am

Small pikin talk, I'm not ready to play in the mud with kids, bye bye.

Lovelink1991:
Nobody is dragging the age with you, if you have anybody who is older than him or you are older than him pls simply present your age certificate or the person's age certificate because this man presented his age letter of his birth which he has been keeping. If you know anybody that is older than him kindly project it forward.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onN3VRgHDj4?si=4Z4VFfYN2ZeqCrOE

Drag age? Ogbeni Na wa for you, oh. You posted an AI response on the oldest man in the world, I said, ask same AI how it was verified and who verified it, you begin foam for mouth. Why not start what you ended, you dey fear to ask the same AI question or I dey fear AI response?

Oga lawyer you've done your very best, Oya commot body make she face the music.