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Arysexy:
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Supervising bricklayer, who funds NIPP and what is their scope of work?

U are an 1diot to dabble into a field u know nothing about.

Swiftboy:
You are a damn pessimist! Oliver twist. These are not mediocre projects...its been a while any government has done things for us. Wake up from propaganda. I believe this is the begining! Lets ask him to do better with our votes...we cant trust the new guys simply the tell us to. If we're crying we should see.

Swiftboy:
To say that corruption is only this administration is a big lie. People have been stealing our cash since! Now that there's freedom of information,we know then its Goodluck's fault. One thing that is not right about Goodluck's stand on corruption is that he'll not jail at all because corruption is not about money alone as is the case of you mentioned regarding contracts. My brother,the idea of not entrusting cash in people's hand is applaudable. You should consider that the lagos-ibadan express way was reawarded...you dont know the scam in these construction contracts. Contractors do leave project after the administration is over. Thats why we should let these project complete before so these man can come back to taste the jail he did not put people. After his immunity is over,we'll punish the offender. But truth is 4 years is not forever in a nation's life. Again its wrong to price contracts like commodities.little wonder these contractors are coming to make billions as donation. Lets not get angry yet. In fact lets vote him back into office...the time to punish this man has not come.

BraniacX:
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

JJphilips being served

bukatyne:
Do you have stats of people who died under the watch of OBJ, Buhari, Babangida?

Whose watch are you benchmarking these stats with?

I know they are humans and all precious but nobody except God has 100% control over death

It would be good both parties are objective during their campaigns and talks; it would help us all

If supporters of both parties can be objective, it actually lends credence to their points rather than GMB is evil or GEJ has done nothing Supporters should also learn how to keep quiet or point out when their candidate errs.

It is disgusting to read someone support something that is clearly wrong.

Peace to Nigeria

Swiftboy:
Dont be like Buhari that prefar to strenghten the naira and avoid debt thus councelled the cool things Shagari has paid for. You're ranting but you did not put our population into consideration. Basic fact is that our production may have grown at arithmetical progression but our population have grown by geometric progression. The implecation of self-reliance as a nation is that there will be employment as more people will go into the business such that the supply into the market will exceed or be sufficient enough for exportation. The same goes for vehicles...should our country be a dumping site for used cars when you can buy Nigerian made cars cheap? Just use train as you safe up for your own Nigerian made BMW when they start production or assembly. 4 years is not enough forget campaign talks. Inosons will be forever grateful for such policies. By the time all the auto companies realize just how fertile our economy is,they'll invest because Nigeria is the ideal hub for Aafrica or at least west Africa. In the long run,its for the benefit of the poor cos they're the ones that cant afford brand new cars. Think outside of the box.lol

BraniacX:
Then stop your rants and disgrace us, better yet start a thread titled, buhari's achievements in 2yrs..........now that'll be something

Arysexy:
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Thunder blaster that leprous finger u used to type these.

U must be one of d bricklayers that worked at ihovbor.

Do u know d scope of work of NIPP? Are u aware NIPP handle these projects for federal government?

Are u aware ihovbor power plant was sold to private investors last year 3rd quater? Who built it and who collected the money from d sales?

U supervise what? Are u a marubeni contractor staff? They area the contractor that built that plant and I know all their staff and every damn thing about that plant cos I am an insider. Foolish goat.

All these bricklayer wan claim supervisor. May amadioha bend ur neck there! Anofia

Arysexy:
God bless u bro.

Ihovbor power plant was added to d grid last year. Geregu was added too 450 MW, calabar is on board. Omotosho is running, sapele just got rehabilitated and will be adding 451 MW to d grid.The total installed capacity of all these gas powered plants are above 15MW But presently generating capacity is 4500MW Max. Why? Issues with gas pipeline vandalism. Ihovbor is running only two units out of 4 units. Ie 225MW . Same with other plants, running one or two out of 4 or 6 units. If gas supply is constant and they run all their units, believe me, light will not blink But that will be when the transmission infrastructure are upgraded to carry such high power.

Mambilla is another big project coming up. Hydro is expensive But cheap to run since water is free though We pay the country from which d water is sourced otherwise they divert their water for irrigation or other purpose.

GEJ must continue to complete these projects. We are close to having constant power supply

EMANY01:
how many megawatts did we have as installed capacity in 1999, how many did gej meet there, how much installed capacity do we have today?

For the last question,the answer is about 11500MW. I already mentioned why more than sixty percent of of installed generating capacity is still sitting pretty doing nothing.

Who will win will win (my existence is not tied either of candidates winning or loosing) e no reach to dey swear for people abeg.

Rexyl:
You mean the recent federal federal projects are of poor quality... No I disagree with you on that

You mean the projects are over priced... May be I should take quality time to investigate that, compare and contrast the amounts our so called progressives are spending on similar projects. ordinary, if we were to explore that, those claiming to be the progressive might likewise end up being criminals.

On variance in the costs of improving electricity in Nigeria compared to China, China already operates industrialised economy with patriotic and home-based professionals, Nigeria has continued to struggle to develop in hands of saboteurs. Had it been we were able to boast of competent professionals, by this time we couldn't have incurred more costs on what we should have provided.

MadCow1:
I don't see his achievements as anything worthy of mentioning.

I work in the oil and gas industry and have been fortunate to work directly with NNPC, DPR and NAPIMS and I have seen the issues caused by the Presidents inefficiency and corruption that comes from on high. What many Nigerians see as corruption is the 50 Naira bribe collected by the police at Checkpoints, what I see is when Contracts worth billions are given to incompetent aides of the President under the influence of NNPC and co.

If Jonathan had looked into the Brass LNG projects and the Samsung Heavy Duty yard in the South - South, that would easily have created over 25,000 jobs. But the corruption that has held those projects back have cost Nigeria Hundreds of Millions of Dollars without any progress made.

Most of the achievements of Jonathan are either projects that started before him and we're completed under his administration, poor quality over priced works or just too insignificant to be worthy of calling a federal project. Apart from the Second Niger Bridge, I can't see any project worth calling federal.

Most Nigerians are truly in the dark as to the corruption pit we currently find ourselves in. 20 Billion Dollars got missing under Diezani and she is still holding her office. 320 million plus were misappropriated under Stella and she gets fired without being charged to court. Alamiesigha that was Jonathan's former boss that cost the Federal Government millions of Naira to prosecute was granted a pardon by Jonathan and then he says he wants to fight corruption with technology. Lol.

Achievements are relative. How can China build 5000 megawatts with 5 Billion dollars and Nigeria build 800 megawatts with 20 billion be considered an achievement? How can Nigeria and Mexico take loans to build their trains.. Nigeria builds locomotives and Mexico builds speed trains..


Are we cursed as a people or just too lazy to care?

Forgive for not celebrating mediocrity.. I am well travelled and I have seen that we are too wealthy to be this useless.

Rexyl:
sincerely speaking electricity distribution and availability is improving far better that what we used to have before. Like in my place I used to rely on power bank to charge my phones almost everyday, but the situation has changed now. For the past two months I don't remember to charge the power bank because electricity is now available for at least 4 -7 hours per day. This is an improvement on its previous availability of 0 - less than 2 hours per day. I think that is an improvement, and with time it can increase and become more stable.

Zitoangels:
Bros, are you saying Goodluck built trans amadi gas plant??

great664:
What happen to WTC in US soil? Did they blame it on the President? Anuofia

EMANY01:
Most people do not realize that we have currently a total installed electricity generation capacity of 10,000 MW of which only about 4000 MW is online.
If the current challenges posed by gas supply,transmission lines are resolved, (and I know that work is going on at a furious pace) daily generation would reach about 11,000MW about three times current generation.
My worst Nightmare is that if Buhari wins,(God forbid ) most of the current work around building gas pipelines supplying the power stations and the transmission lines taking power from the stations are scheduled to be completed and commissioned within a year and half to two years at the current pace of work.They would be claiming credit for work already concluding before they were even elected/sworn in.

besttrader:
I know one thing for sure GEJ and OBJ are both failures, between 1999 - 2007 OBJ squandered $16 billion in his giagantic power projects that supposedly entered the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest power project any country could ever embark upon. To help you understand how daft all the folks who have ran this country are, I recently bumped into a news on CCTV about Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam, and I then checked it online.

The dam costs the govt. of Ethiopia $4.8 billion and it has an Installed capacity of 6,000 MW, well it's being constructed at a record time of 6 years and it is the biggest hydroelectric project in Africa currently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ethiopian_Renaissance_Dam

If one extrapolates this to Nigeria, this project would be estimated to take 20 years and will never be completed. My point is all these past and present rulers are all failures. GEJ is the latest failure and has earned it real good. He had 6 years and should have corrected the power woes of Nigeria. I've critically looked at the power infrastructures we currently have and the privatization drive, we won't have stable power in the next 6 years, my earnest forecast, especially looking at the body language of politicians in Nigerians and how projects are being executed. Someone has to now accumulate the power expenditures under GEJ's 6 years to understand how much of a waste we have endured in this country, they run in billions of dollars.

For a country like Nigeria and all the wealth at its disposal, crude oil sales et al, we deserve a whole lot. It's like a rich friend sending $1 million to another friend in the US to get him an exotic car, his friend ships down a Honda Discussion Continues and tells his friend back in Nigeria to bear with him that it is the best he can with that amount. Just think about it!!

These politicians are all shitheads!!

anonimi:
You can start a thread for

- OBJ of eight years.

- IBB of eight years.

- Buhari of two years

- any of the 36 state governors of eight years

- any of the 774 LGA chairmen of eight years.

Deal

anonimi:
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Federal University Oye-Ekiti

Ikengawo:
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anonimi:
How effective has Obama being against the Taliban in Afghanistan with all the might of the US

anonimi:
https://connectnigeria.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/GEJ-Sambo-MIN-Car-2.jpg

Arysexy:
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Fool!

Ihovbor is 450MW and there are about 6 other power stations going on.

Ihovbor and geregu alone are 1000MW, talkless of trans amadi. Calabar, omotosho, etc

It's people like u that burst the gas pipelines to stop full capacity generation from these gas plants.

Arysexy:
Who ever said GEJ is not working, is a son of d devil.

I have toured Nigeria and seen this man's works.

Obasanjo embezzled power sector funds, only GEJ has made meaningful effort at revamping the comatose power sector. And this is a capital intensive projects.

Arysexy:
Ihovbor edo gas power plant

zeusdgrt:
I do sincerely tink dt a test shuld be done on some individuals before being allowed as a nairalander,APC supporters have always known to be of no brains like their intending looser candidate.[b]Do you knw that a country is not allowed to go to war with itself,which carries so many sanctions of war crimes to it.[/b]Jonathan knows this dt is why he has to involve international bodies and for international bodies to respond there must be a spread of the insurgency into other nations.That's the knowledge of an enlightened educationist with rule of law principles,if it was your cattle rearer Buhari he wuld hv bombed the country into two and divide the country cz an illiterate will alwys be foolish to intelligence. Kudos Mr President and Big up Our military

Bridgetown:
Guy non blame me jare, we should not politicize everything brother I am APC supporter but the truth is there is no where in the world fighting Islamic terrorist is easy. Some have taken over a country like Syria, Iraq, Somalia,Libya, Afghanistan, just to mention a few. This government tried by limiting them to a particular region for sometimes.

ayogabriel:
What took them this long to storm the place, they knew of there hideout all along, they had the drones, so why are they just doing all this? Lives would have been saved and properties would not have been lost. A government which is committed to protecting her people, will swing into action immediately. #something is fishy.

rayzzz:
Has Buhari Shot Himself In The Foot? by Chinedu Rylan

At some point it all looked like Gen. Buhari and his All Progressives Congress (APC) team would pose a deadly serious threat to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and wreck their chances of returning the incumbent President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to power come May 29. But all the early good works and concerted efforts to win the sympathy and support of the masses, and gain their votes have been undone, almost single-handedly by the party itself.

Few weeks ago, it was safe to say that the winner of the February 14 Presidential election was anyone’s guess, bearing in mind that the two frontrunners in the elections were – and still are – neck-and-neck in terms of the number of core supporters they have been able to amass. Both, however, would have – and may still be – banking on the support of millions of undecided eligible Nigerian voters whose minds were yet to be made up on who to support and who not to support. Unfortunately, it now seems that the bulk of those erstwhile undecided voters are moving further away from the Progressives, if online sentiments and those in the streets are anything to go by.

I’ve come across several previously undecided voters, both online and offline, who are now almost certain that they will camp under the Umbrella. I went ahead to require of them what informed their decisions and almost all of them were united in their rationales for settling for the PDP. Assuming that I queried 50 persons about their reasons for shifting to the PDP, 45 of them told me that the APC and Muhammadu Buhari have played into the arms of the PDP.

Now, how has the APC and Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) played into the hands of the People's Democratic Party?

The PDP in their campaign trails and in their online push for reelection have never failed to remind us of how intolerant of any form of opposition, ideological or otherwise, GMB has been. They went as far back as his 1983-85 military regime where he put a host of opposing voices behind bars to buttress their point. One would have expected that the general, as a seasoned and elite politician that he is, would in response guard his utterances and be more watchful of what he says or does in the public and to the media, but the reverse has so far been the case.

In a protest letter recently channeled through the legal director of the APC Presidential Campaign Organization, Chukwuma-Machukwu Ume (SAN), General Buhari threatened to file a lawsuit against the federal government-owned Nigerian Television Authority and the privately owned African Independent Television for what he described as “hate documentaries” against him that were aired in the tail end last month by the stations, unless they retract them and issue a formal apology. Such threats and disposition by an aspiring office holder (or even a serving office holder) are rather uncalled for in a democratic setting. The world over, leaders and politicians are scrutinized and castigated by the media on a daily basis and it’s seen as part of their obligations as watchdogs in the society.

If world leaders should file a lawsuit for every alleged calumny or supposed act of “hate” they've been subjected to, then the mountain of lawsuits that would be filed by the likes of Barack Obama, David Cameron, Vladimir Putin or even our very own Goodluck Jonathan will take several generations of humanity to tackle. These leaders are lampooned on a daily basis yet you rarely hear them threatening to sue anyone for it. His own case shouldn't be any different. So my advice to the General is that the sooner he develops a thick skin to withstand all the media "assault," the better for him, because he will be receiving a truckload of it should he eventually win.

In like manner, the leadership of the APC is doing their presidential and vice presidential aspirants and their image as a whole no good by backing out of a series of debates organized by different corporate bodies and organizations within the country in the run-up to the Valentine’s Day polls. Their no-show at the Nigerian Elections Debate Group (NEDG)’s Vice Presidential debates and their anticipated no-show at the presidential debates to be organized by the trio of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), Arise News and ChannelsTV do nothing to gainsay the allegation leveled against them by the People’s Democratic Party of being fight shy of a public face-off in which they will have to tackle tough questions and defend their manifestos and party agenda before Nigerians.

Though the APC has come out to deny this allegation and have done their best to repudiate the "dodging theory" of the PDP by citing perceived bias on the part of the organizers of the debates as their reason for backing out, the average and neutral Nigerian on the streets is not buying it. The rebuttal has done very little to convince neutrals who are beginning to toe the PDP’s line. My advice to them is that they should vet their options and come up with a positive decision in time, before the election sets in.

For the sake of time and space, I will stop at these. These and many more PR missteps and political miscalculations have conspired to put the party in a precarious position and rob them of the people's goodwill which they once owned. In an election that will likely be decided by the undecided voters, the APC are fast losing speed and direction. Concerted efforts must be made to repair what has already been damaged and put their push for the country's top job back on track, else they run the risk of losing by a wide margin at the poll.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/02/has-buhari-shot-himself-foot