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Llet the lootings continue. Nigeria is not a failed state. Good people, Great Nation.

By Caroline Duffield
BBC News, Lagos

A hospital in Nigeria has told the BBC it is overwhelmed by the number of corpses being bought to them by police.

The Chief Medical Director at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital in Enugu says his staff are being forced to carry out mass burials.

He says that another mass burial is planned to take place soon.

Nigeria's police have faced strong criticism from human rights groups for carrying out extrajudicial and arbitrary killings.

The BBC has visited the morgue and taken photographs. The images are disturbing.

They show piles of young men, lying on top of one another and strewn about on tables and floors.

In places the corpses are stacked four or five deep.

Records show 75 corpses were delivered to the morgue by police between June and 26 November this year.

The Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Dr Anthony Mbah, says his staff were forced to carry out a mass burial of between 70 and 80 bodies some weeks ago.

Officers killed

The BBC has established at least seven people were last seen alive in police custody.

They were arrested, accused of kidnapping, and paraded alive in the media in early September.

But their names appear in the morgue register - on 15 and 16 of September.

The Police Commissioner in Enugu State, Mohamed Zarewa, told the BBC he was unaware of the number of young men lying dead in the morgue.

He says his officers are forced to engage armed robbers in gunfights and that many police officers are also killed.

He insists that his police force operate within the law.

When asked about the seven men who disappeared in police custody, he told the BBC he was too busy to talk about it.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8400799.stm

poor is foolishness

Which way Nigeria? It is you same people who always condemn Adeboye and others like him for not speaking out against the corrupt system in Nigeria. Now that the country is blessed with an outspoken pastor who is not afraid to say what he feels; you still criticise him. Tell me what other alternatives have you got than to follow what your so called constitution stipulates?

Thanks Paddy Lo. These pictures are awesome.

abj

@ Becomrich Becompoor whatever you call yourself, it is absolutely  inhuman to post the pictures of someone's msfortune on the net. The poor individual you used for your illustration above would not be happy about this posting. I will advise you to remove the pictures if you don't want to face a litigation for substantial claim for damages. Or do you think you cannot be traced?

It appears we might not have the 6000mw promised by December 2009. Lets hope they will be able to acquire that level of electricity by 2015

THE Federal Government has failed to deliver on its planned target to generate 6000 Megawatts (MW) of electricity for the national grid by December 2009, even as the Ministry of Power bandies excuses over this failing, pleading gas supply inadequacy, sabotage, the Niger delta crises, etc.

At the time of filing this report, Dr. Lanre Babalola, the Minister of Power disclosed in an exclusive interview that about 3,500 MW of electricity was being generated from both Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) and Independent Power Plants (IPP) operated entities.

Dr. Babalola explained that his ministry had so far ramped up installed power generation capacity to 5300 MW, adding that figure should hit the 6000 MW target by December.

However, Sweet crude checks revealed that the increase in installed generation capacity has not necessarily translated to improved power supply as most house holds, commercial enterprises and industries nationwide still run on power generators.


At petrol stations in metropolises across the country such as Lagos, Abeokuta, Ibadan, Port Harcourt, Uyo, Warri, Abuja, Kano, Kaduna, Onitsha, Owerri, Aba both vehicles and customers with Jerry-cans compete for attention.

Further checks revealed that owing to the power supply inadequacies, customers purchasing fuel in Jerry-cans now out-number vehicular purchases.

While speaking on the government’s targeted 6000 MW power generation, Alhaji Mohammed Umar, a Kano based industrialist described it as bogus, adding that, ‘if you generate that amount of electricity and people don’t have electricity supply, then what have you achieved’?

“Government never runs out of excuses. I am sure that by December they will come up with another excuse why they could not achieve the target,” he said.

On the issue of gas supply, Alhaji Umar noted that government was well aware of the situation in the Niger Delta when it set the target.

“It is only an irresponsible leadership that would set an unrealizable target for itself. Why did government set a target when it knew it was not in control of a critical component such as gas supply? In more advanced countries, this is more than enough to cost a government its tenure. But not here, I bet you nothing will happen,” he noted.
Power ministry’s excuse:

While speaking with Sweet crude Dr. Babalola explained that two factors including demand and gas supply determines actual power generation on any given day.

He said the power supply situation has improved and that this was largely due to improvements in gas supply
“Towards the 6000 MW target, PHCN is repairing some of the generating plants units in Afam, Sapele, and Ughelli. In terms of machines available to highlight some of the issues in gas supply, we have about 5300 MW of capacity available. With those units being repaired and one of the IPPs being finished, we should be able to have the 6000 MW.

“Two things at any point in time will determine what you generate, number one is the demand that I just explained and the other one is gas supply. Gas supply has actually improved as we have seen over the past several months that it is a pure constraint in power production in Nigeria.

We expect that production will vary from base load which is when demand is low especially at night. Anything from about 4000 MW during the day, that is why we want to ensure that we have at least 6000 MW to be able to cope with the demand when it is needed,” he pointed out.

“What determines actual generation is gas. It’s just like your car, what determines the distance it covers is the amount of fuel in it. If you have a full tank you can cover more mileage. What we have seen so far is that if gas supply improves, and we expect more to be available before the end of the year.

With the Niger Delta issue then, most of the gas supply pipelines were badly affected and one of the major plants, that is the one operated by Chevron was out for a long time but they are fixing that now and that alone accounts for about 2000 mmscf per day or 800 MW of electricity generation per day,” he volunteered.

Additional Power underway:
Even though the government may not have achieved the targeted 6000 MW power generation in December, indications are that beyond that date Nigerians may begin to enjoy some measure of respite especially when ongoing construction work on independent power plants achieve completion.

Sweet crude checks revealed that the Shell operated Afam integrated gas and power projects which consists of the 650 MW Afam VI power plant and the Okoloma gas plant both located in Rivers state may be ready for commissioning in December.

It was gathered that the Afam power plant’s advanced design enables it to consume 30 per cent less gas per MW than older plants.

This process generates lower carbon emissions, provides sustainable and efficient power and shall increase Nigeria’s power supply by about 20 per cent and account for upwards of another 20 per cent of Nigeria’s domestic gas supply when fully operational.

Similarly, other power plants being constructed under the aegis of the Nigeria Independent Power Projects (NIPP) appear set to come on stream from the end of the first quarter of 2010, beginning with the Sapele power plant.

“I think the first plant to come on stream if I am not mistaken will be Sapele. Basically, it is a phased completion programme so you find that before this time next year, we will have additional megawatts added to the national grid.

“If you go to Alaoji, Sapele, Olorunshogo formally known as Papalanto you actually find that the work is progressing and we are confident that by the beginning of next year, by first quarter next year or thereabout, some of those plants would be coming on stream,” the minister of power disclosed.

Concerns persist:
Despite indications improvement in power generation may be underway, there are widespread concerns that the problems besetting the sector also include critical elements such as gas pricing, electricity tariff, the available infrastructure for power transmission and distribution as well as the need to create an atmosphere conducive for private sector participation.

Dr. Babalola noted that the Nigerian power sector has peculiar challenges, adding that while the ideal is to attract private sector investment, ce3rtain things required to be put in place before this can happen.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/12/01/6000mw-fg-fails-to-deliver/

Abj

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Why are you people blaming the Police? The madness of some Naija motorists is unbelievable. See the video below

[flash=535,325]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/_oqeox9C2sk[/flash]

Who says the man is sick? I just saw him in a Gym, Watch this video

[flash=535,325]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/R7iVGpOMq00[/flash]

Abuja Taxi Drivers
[flash=535,325]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/w4dlGdwiW-Y[/flash]

African Proposed Silicon Valley in Abuja
[flash=535,325]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/W9YhjWUN3ss[/flash]

Let the Public Relation Machinery commence

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@paroh frey
Apparently your mental incapability and irrational thinking is getting to a stage where you should be permanently sectioned for your own good.

a government by proxy can't be right for a country of 150 million people. The pastor is right; if other pastors could be saying the same, Nigeria could have been a better society.

Paroh_frey:
[size=18pt]only fools will beleive this bunch of lies.[/size]

For God's sake, if you are so numb skull and don't understand what is going on, why don't you shut up?

who is in charge of Nigeria now?

My advice is that Jonathan should be careful of where he drinks tea, if you know what I mean.

Politically, are we sitting on a keg of gun powder? Forcing him to resign would be downright unconstitutional and potentially dangerous. Obasanjo had created a monstrous situation that will undo Nigeria as we know it.

Stepping down will create a political imbroglio, so they say. Northerners don't want anything short of eight years in office, So can't you see that the possibility of Goodluck assuming office of the president would constitute an impediment to that ambition?

@Yme
You are probably mistaking me for someone else. My user name has always been jaybee2412. There is another Nairalander known as jaybee though

Our own Abuja will be better than Dubai in ten years, trust me.

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