₦airaland Forum

SmartyPants:
The landlords don't want to deal with you either.

Leave am make e dey jonse 😂😂😂😂

All these girls sha...

What kind of business or skill jobs are they into??

calabaman:
Mr Catapult.

Don't know about you, I'm in Nigeria

Not the United States.

May I ask if the parts to be assembled/manufactured are fabricated in Nigeria?

Fabricated ke 😭😭😭... With what machines, equipment or research??

I think imported parts, and then assembled in Nigeria

femi4:
Even old properties that were built when cement was 1k

Landlord will renovate,and also landlord go chop

larride:
E no go better for Zero Hag and Onana

Wtf is this ffs

😹😹😹

Bin Laden really destroyed this club

Multichoice Nigeria workers are always asking for salary increase due to the economic turmoil, and also cost of maintenance equipments keeps rising in the market.

Hence the increment.

I so much hate Night driving ... I rather park at work , and enter BRT or Danfo, if I'm running late home....

Good

There are many other politicians.

Where can we report thieving politicians to countries abroad??

Let them send them back or deny them visa to enjoy the hell they've created in Nigeria

Happening soon.

It is well with Us...

Keep lamenting.

On Mandate we shall all stand like gbegiri 😹

😭😹😭

Pessi fans wey dey always support am,go attack am now...😭😹😭

Almiron
Theiryjay
Obembet
Englishisamust

Truthseeker10:
How did your forefathers hear of God without any Christian missionaries?

How did Job, Abraham, Etc, hear of God?

Truthseeker10:
So your God is burning people who did not hear of him?

Everyone has heard of God.

Infact, thou art inexcusable o' Man

Truthseeker10:
Are you saying that the church cannot solve all the problems listed above?

The Church can if the Nation allows the church to

AbuTwins:
Where did Jesus say exactly all this to anyone?

John 3:16-18

3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

AbuTwins:
So why did God created sin?

God did not create Sin. His eyes are too holy to behold iniquity.

That was why the originator of Sin was cast out from heaven

nairalanda1:
1. I can remember some of my school mates from primary school even. And my parents can even recall primary , secondary and university mates even self.

2.That's a biographic summary, written by a third party. Who probably has....access to records. Think about it.

So builder of Lagos couldn't remember any of his classmates or there aren't any records of his?

fullnetwork:
Na person wey go school go remember him classmates nah.
In the first place, who were you referring to?

Builder of Lagos 😉

Notice how IBB was able to list his school mates, having been born in 1941...

How can a younger person then claim, he couldn't remember his classmates from school??

If dem born Una well, resume 🤔🫤

Reno O' Mockery and his fellow APC social media goons like Yarimo, Jonathan etc, did not see how to pin IBB on Obi, na to use irrelevant news try to deflect attention 😭😭😭

Jonathan:
It's only in this part of the world and other morally bankrupted societies filled with hypocrite Christians that you people dress anyhow, even in your churches. Go to east Africa, Ethiopia for example and see how Christians dress. Even the Arab Christians dress decently covering their body well and wearing veils regularly.
It's even in your Bible that women should cover their hair in the church and while praying, but how many of still obeys those laws today?

Where you keep this your monicker since??

The Federal Government has allocated N1.99bn to procure diesel for the electric power generators for the State House in 2025.

This comes amid delays in the FG’s solar power project initially slated to come on stream between December 2024 and January 2025.

Sunday PUNCH gathered that the FG disbursed N88.75m for diesel within the first half of 2024.

Checks by our correspondent on GovSpend, a civic tech platform that tracks and analyses the Federal Government’s spending, show four separate diesel payments totalling N88.75m between March 15 and May 20, 2024.

On March 15, 2024 two payments were made; N40.77m to Emmahaly Petroleum Company Limited for 30,000 litres of diesel supplied to the State House Clinic and Vice President’s Guest House fuel dump; and N12.46m to A.Y.M. Shafa Limited for 10 litres of diesel (as indicated in the record) supplied to the State House Medical Centre.

Subsequently, on May 20, 2024, another two payments went to the same A.Y.M. Shafa Limited for diesel supplied on March 14. The first, N26.23m was for 20,000 litres of diesel to the State House, while the second, N8.87m covered an additional 20,000 litres delivered the same day.

The 2025 budget proposal allocates N1.99bn for the State House’s diesel needs for plant and generator.


Official sources familiar with the developments project say the prolonged instability of the national grid, coupled with repeated collapses, rising diesel prices, and generator maintenance forced the State House to resort to alternative power.

The Senior officials who spoke to our correspondent on condition of anonymity say once operational, the 40MW solar power plant could slash the State House’s N6bn annual energy bill by at least N5bn.

The project was expected to be ready by December 2024 for the State House Medical Centre and the State House complex, including Dodan Barracks in Lagos, by January 2025.

While the construction of a 1.2MW solar plant had begun at the medical centre in October 2024, checks by Sunday PUNCH revealed no works at the State House as of February 2025.

An official with knowledge of the solar project said paying hefty bills for infrequent power and still running diesel-guzzling generators daily was no longer sustainable.

“It is difficult to sustain. We cannot continue like this. And so, to reduce the huge expenditure, we are switching to solar power.”

“When we are done, it will crash the cost of power for State House from N6bn annually to less than 20 per cent of that amount. It should power all our appliances from 7 am to 7 pm. In about one month, we intend to install some of the components at the Forest car park and the one at the banquet hall.


“This is not a new problem. It is unreasonable to have left the State House all these years without a stable, low-cost power option. So, we are making this switch because Mr. President approved it. We have commenced work, and that is what you saw at the Medical Centre.

“We are doing it in the form of a car park to avoid distorting the aesthetics of the State House because solar panels occupy land. So, we are constructing solar roof canopies over the car parks, and cables will be channelled to a battery plant so that we can conserve energy,” said the source.

Last November, impeccable sources told our correspondent that the plant would generate about 7MW in real-time output, with a peak capacity of 40MW.

He said, “We got the approval to procure and install 7MW/40MW photovoltaic power and battery storage systems at the State House, Dodan Barracks and State House Medical Centre due to the unstable power supply from the national grid and the high cost of maintenance and fueling of the generators that consumes over N6bn each year.

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“Too much money is being spent on generator maintenance and diesel. So, we are going solar. There will be zero cost in the first 15 years because the contractor installing it will maintain it for that period. NEPA [mains] and generators will only be used during the rainy season when the sunlight intensity and energy storage are less.

“So, next month (December), the Medical Centre will have reached its peak because that’s where the project started from. The main work will be at the State House itself. The car park will be roofed with solar panels,” said one the source.

In an earlier interview with Sunday PUNCH, The Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee, Dr. Dike Obalum, explained that the Medical Centre was prioritised to ensure reliable power for sensitive equipment and prevent damage from power fluctuations.

“We are building a solar plant at this medical centre; we intend to generate 1.2 MegaWatt. The 1.2MW capacity will help us to become a bit independent of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company.

“AEDC will only provide support power supply, and we will have our solar farm to support our processes.

“This will not only give us a regular power supply to ensure that we have uninterrupted service to our patients, but it will also preserve our equipment and machines from the vagaries of fluctuating power supply from other sources,” Obalum explained.

He added that the panels would be integrated with car park canopies to make efficient use of space.

However, he did not disclose the project’s cost, stating, “The State House Medical Centre is purely a service centre and does not handle the financial aspects of any project.”

As of this report, senior officials in the State House Administration were not available to react to queries on the matter.

The Federal Capital Territory (Abuja) has suffered blackouts as the national grid collapsed more than 10 times in 2024. The Transmission Company of Nigeria attributed it to a “partial disturbance of the system” but did not explain further.


Grid failures are not strange in one of Africa’s largest economies, whose power sector still suffers gross underinvestment, says the Special Adviser to the President on Energy, Olu Verheijen.

Despite an installed capacity of about 13,000MW, Nigeria’s power grid transmits only 4000MW due to ageing infrastructure, the Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, told State House Correspondents at a briefing on October 28.

However, that amount is grossly inadequate for over 200 million citizens, leaving many areas without reliable electricity as individuals and government entities struggle to pay mounting power bills.

In a last-ditch effort to balance its books last February, the AEDC issued a 10-day notice to 86 government agencies, including the State House, demanding payment of a combined debt of N47.1bn to avoid disconnection.

AEDC claimed the State House owed around N923m in unpaid electricity bills.

But the State House disputed this, saying the actual outstanding debt was N342.35m, as confirmed in a letter from AEDC to the State House Permanent Secretary dated February 14, 2024. President Bola Tinubu later directed immediate payment of the N342.35m debt to AEDC.

In addition to weak infrastructure, Nigeria’s power grid has also been a target of sabotage. In October, armed groups damaged the Shiroro-Kaduna transmission line, cutting electricity supply to 17 northern states.

Following the incident, repair crews could not access the site due to security concerns. Repairs began only after President Bola Tinubu directed the National Security Adviser to work with the Army and Air Force to deploy adequate security personnel, including aerial cover, to protect the engineers fixing the damaged transmission line.


https://punchng.com/state-house-earmarks-n1-9bn-for-diesel-as-solar-power-plant-delays/

Mrexcell:
This is what u see when hardened criminals are running ur economy don't be surprised if the real figure they actually spent is not even up to $2b.

Yeah bro .. it might not be up to o...

However because of Foolishness of grabbing power by turns, some people whitewashed the sepulchre through religious antics, and so doing have plunged the nation into economic instability ever since.

May God help Nigeria

Myrepublic:
The moment dey can't continue, exchange rate will double up. Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun power

Make e no go jump to N3000 per 1$, where the bullion van will be released wherever it is to shore up the defense 😭

DeLaRue:
Nothing new.

Every country steps in to support their currency.

So why has the naira not dropped to like 700 per $1?

What I don't understand is Buhari spent $10Billion to keep Naira at $448/$450 by the end of 2022.

However, $8 Billion of Tinubu's subsidy cannot move the naira to at least $1000??

🤔🫤

ChiefJusticeFuc:
Like the Onitsha fake drug merchants that Obi represents and carries their cross ?

Obi never supports illegal and fake drug merchants.

I know that's one of the update on your WhatsApp group, but dead the narrative. It doesn't work on me.