₦airaland Forum

ItsModella: All this lingo too much, gather boys make dem help you push am.

blink182: u don come again o, because person harass u, u wan kill e full family.

Billyonaire: I am Proud of myPresident. The entire analogy from the political perspective defines the very nucleus of Nigerians in every ramification. Press Freedom is not liberty, I notice that Nigerian politicians still believed in the old school mentality that you need to own a press outfit to be able to suave the ignorant populace, but with the internet, even a dog has a voice. Now with internet, even a house-boy now has opportunity to insult his master. In as much as I welcome freedom of speech, but I believe communist style regulatory framework has to be instituted to curb the excesses of online media. Online media is destroying our planet. Examples are Arab Spring, The recent mohammed-insult killings. We should be careful with our use of internet as a means of publication of political and religious views.

damula: Now# you have a freezer and your objective os to put a giraffe into the freezer. How do you go about these?

Kslib: ok!!! Since it's a cross bar,it means it is detachable.. So i'll remove the cross bar and pass....

Kslib: ok!!! Since it's a cross bar,it means it is detachable.. So i'll remove the cross bar and pass....

Kslib: The lorry was filled,that's why it was 2 inch longer than the cross bar... So all i have to do is to offload the load that made the lorry 2 inch longer than the cross bar and pass...

Classyzi: When my dad was interviewed, they asked him dis one- supposing u'r a master of a house nd u av night guards watching over ur house. It happened dat one of d guards came to u nd told u that he had a dream dat thieves came into ur house, burgled ur house nd threatened to kill u. How would u react to dis report?

deb: Fvck every low-level thinking material called ghanian. If you came to focus on the topic then stop telling us how better your girls fvcked more than our poultry chickens. Its an insult to compare you to our human being in Nigeria.

You are the same iiidiots who have never qualified for any Olympic Basket ball games EVER! yet got the audacity to yab @ Nigeria's loss to the best Basket Ball nation in the whole world.

My response is not about this thread only, its also about your hatred for Nigeria caused by your gross uncurable low-self esteem. I've been to Ghana for a friend's wedding and I know how your disposition changes to defensive mode immediately you realize that one is a Nigerian.

deb: Fellow Nigerians, will you please stop calling all these trash produced by Ghanians, Movies?

Ghanians have never produced a single Movie. If you know any movie they have produced that premiered in Cinemas all over the world including America could you please mention one?

We equally produce plenty of home videos in Nigeria, then iiidiotic-Ghanians began to copy us. However, despite the loads of home videos by Nigeria, we still produce a few World class movies shot on cine-cam, premiered across cinemas all over the world, sometimes featuring Hollyhood actors.

So, what the heck are theses fooolz called Ghanians now blabbing about? Let them produce just one near class movie now, then they will tell whoever cares to listen with their fvcked up ascent that "Ghana's gullible-hood is better than Nollyhood, Hollyhood and Bollyhood put together"
Such iiidiotic doggyy-style set of fooolz. You can keep barking

Ironi: These dim-wit Nigerians call the shiit you produce as movies? Frankly this site is full of morons who need some serious schooling. Little wonder your country is so fcked up and would remain so for a long time.

francini: The Ghanaian movies are usually inconsistent with their storyline(u can hardly deduce anything meaningful from them) and in the end they turnout pornographic. This movies should be BANNED in nigeria as dey don't potray or contribute to our culture and heritage also usually ɪ̣̝̇τ̩̩̥ can't be watched with ease, take a family scenario for instance.

Toktee: You are so pertetic for calling nigerians such names,do we ask ghana to supply us porn movies,what we are saying is that you people should stop exporting ur level of indecency to nigeria,all these movies show how indecency rule in ghana,if you are not happy about it just go hug transformer stop crying,slowpoke

powerfrank: spoilt ghanians

Delafruita: oga with comprehendable daftness and unlimited MB,.what was the request fashola made of GEJ?lemme answer for you.that lagos should be accorded special status.isnt that something that has been agitated for close to 10years?why should a state like bayelsa or ondo receive more allocation than lagos?rivers receives double what lagos receives as federal allocation.should that be so?why didnt jonathan address that issue?

thelastPope: Another ignorant kid on NL. Who needs who? Lagos need FG not the other way round. Fashola is the one asking for Mega city. I wish GEJ will shun him and take it somewhere else.

take dat: Presently most independent tank farms in Apapa dont have fuel.

HammedSodiqq: This is another international conspiracy. What a contradiction, recall that recently US president declared that Nigeria is the fastest growing economy, and argued that our economy may dominate Europe in the nearest future. His speech triggered the US to move in with investment proposals. The US for instance has begun the process for the building of Six refineries, Bill Gate just moved in his company and charity organization, US has invested $2billion in Nigeria Agric Sector and are in the rested in developing Small and Medium Enterprise. http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/284-breaking-news/43606-us-injects-2bn-into-sme-development-in-nigeria
Don't be deceived, our economy has since picked up and we are growing geometrically

obowunmi: In regards to YOUWIN, not sure that I agree with you. Its an accurate program with optimistic and reachable goals. However, because the legitimate business climate in Nigeria is not supported by FAIR pro-business government policies. Even if these businesses are given 1million naira, I highly doubt that it will go far. The cost of doing business in Nigeria is high.

deletrue: Am very sure mojarity of nigerian are upside down. all those who are abusing jona are those who lack proper parental up bringing, specially Oluwaseun Osewa. If your parents actually worked hard to train you haters as normal nigerians, you hater will not be abnorma to this extentl.

jona is still the best president in the history of nigeria. atleast look at the power sector, there is general acceptance that there is improvement. You societal deviants, mention any past leader that has do that? am also very sure that more achievements will surface that will be generally accepted like that of power sector.

please jona, ignore majority of your haters. As usual, continue to develop thicker skin and continue your good works. Regard many of them as people who misfired becuase it is not business as usual.

dedeike: foolishness and Stupidity cannot appear in a better form. While I was away, you were on rampage like a mad dog attacking anyone who dared to ask you to offer a feeble rebuttal to the hard facts contained in my post.
Shamelessly, you even confessed to nursing a morbid fear for links and sources. You rather prefer to wallow in the bliss that ignorance offers you. Pathetic.

I understand your frustrations. It's not always easy for an empty mind to be on the receiving end of my posts. You have to cling onto diversionary insults, abuses and rabble rousing to hang on.
I will overcome the temptation to exchange tantrums with you. For your insults, I will offer a measured response with all civility, decency and proof.

First, you jumped out like a bolt out of the blue to denigrate the SWF. You even equated it with ECA. I excused your ignorance and tutored you accordingly on the clear distinctions between the duo. Rather than accept your initial show of ignorance and show remorse, you have been making all manner of U turns and logical sommersaults. The bottom line is that you have an axe to grind with the SWF. Now, I want to supply more links that will help you a undertake a private study of SWF and it's workings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sovereign_wealth_fund.asp
http://www.businessdayonline.com/NG/index.php/news/76-hot-topic/43555-fg-picks-management-team-for-sovereign-wealth-fund

As usual, you have a phobia for research and knowledge so you won't bother to read them up. Jmaine said it earlier that of if you want to hide anything from a Blackman, you put it in the books.
So the links are not exclusively for you but for those right thinking members of this forum who feel strongly about your inability to supply any tangible evidence in support of your lies.

Secondly, it was the height of illogical reasoning and s.tupidity to even contrive the thoughts that Jonathan should be vilified for reviving NIPP. nothing could be more ridiculous of you. Did you write that stuff? Are you for real? Just tell me you were intoxicated when you wrote that stuff because that is the only grounds upon which that thrash can be excused.

It is not in doubt that Obj started the NIPP projects. It is also not in doubt that he laid the legal framework for the power reforms through the power reforms Act 2005. However, it is a known fact all over Nigeria that the 10 NIPP power stations were abandoned and became bankrupt. Yar ADUA never bothered to continue the reforms and neither made alternative generation plans for the nation. Power fail to its lowest ebb of less than 2000 megawatts. The Elumelu committee revealed massive corruption by Obasanjo in the NIPP. Everything was grounded with some power plants uncompleted.
Jonathan came in and completed the power stations. He also refurbished abandoned ones resulting in the significant generation of 4,477 megawatts.
You begrudge Jonathan for reviving the abandoned power projects? You hate him for completing the uncompleted ones? You prefer he overlooks the NIPP projects upon which over 16 billion dollars have been committed to start up new ones? You want him to abandon the NIPP because it was started and abandoned by OBJ?

Truly, now I know we have WINCHES on Nairaland.

President Goodluck Jonathan signed a bill into law in May last year authorising the SWF, but powerful state governors originally blocked the fund, saying it was unconstitutional.

They later agreed to it going ahead, albeit with an initial limit of $1 billion, a fraction of the $7 billion savings that are in Nigeria's Excess Crude Account (ECA).

Okonjo-Iweala said she hoped by the end of the year the team would lay out plans for the $1 billion but did not say when investments would start.

The account contained $20 billion in 2007 but fell to $3 billion after a presidential election last year, despite five years of high oil prices. It has since risen to $7 billion.

mkmyers45: Pure energy is the true god..

karl max: since u are familiar with the elumelu probe and agree with him that there was nothing on ground!.now GEJ took over and lunches his POWER ROAD MAP when he took over and here are what he has achieved so far just less than 2yrs of his administration
President Goodluck Jonathan, no sooner than he came into office last May, conducted a review of the Power Sector Reform and the National Integrated Power
Projects (NIPP). Dr. Jonathan consequently launched the Road Map for the Power Sector Reform on August 26, 2010, to fast-track the implementation of the EPSR Act of 2005. The Road Map seeks, among other things, to strengthen policies and institutions to grapple effectively with the challenges of the power sector reform, including that of efficient private sector investment and management, and of effective government regulation of the sector. For the first time, the country now has a far-reaching and realistic plan for the reform of the power sector, identifying requirements to achieve stable power supply in the entire value chain from gas to generation, to transmission and distribution. The Road Map has set a definitive plan with timelines for medium and long terms goals. Nigeria’s telecommunications sector in which telephone lines rose from under 400, 000 to over 80 million in less than 10 years is a testimony of the
potential of reform to replace scarcity with abundance.
 
The power sector has, under President Jonathan, enjoyed unprecedented government attention. The administration, as soon as it came into being, set up the Presidential Action Committee on Power (PACP) which meets every Tuesday, with the president himself chairing and the Vice President serving as Alternate Chair. The PACP sets policy and grants expedited approvals for critical decisions for the implementation of the power sector reform. The Jonathan administration also set up, shortly after it was inaugurated, the Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP) as the implementation arm of the PACP; the PTFP supervises the day-to-day implementation of steps to restore confidence in and reform the power sector. Considerable and sustainable successes have been recorded on both the reform and service delivery fronts.

Indices of Progress in Creating a Private-Sector-Led Power Industry
i. New, experienced and credible Commissioners of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) have been sworn in and have commenced work on a Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO), which will be attractive to investors, to ensure the commercial viability of the market and, of course, be fair to consumers, especially the urban poor and rural dwellers. 

ii. The Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading (NBET) Plc has been incorporated. It will purchase electricity generated in the country on behalf of the distribution companies until they mature by attaining credit worthiness. This is to ensure there will be no stranded electricity in the country or economic losses to the stakeholders.

iii. Independent Power Producers are being contracted by the Bulk Trader to generate an additional 6, 000 megawatts by 2014, almost 3, 000 megawatts of which will be available by 2013. 

iv. A World Bank Partial Risk Guarantee (through the Federal Ministry of
Finance) for the Bulk Trader to protect investments in generation plants against
political and other risks and further boost investor confidence is being finalised.

v. Investor confidence is growing. For instance, as many as 331 companies across the globe have expressed interest in investing in the state-owned eleven distribution and six generation companies slated for privatization this year. (It is not altogether surprising that so many firms, including some of the world's most respected ones, have shown interest in Nigeria’s power sector. In October 2010, a highly successful Presidential Retreat for power sector investors was held at the State House, Abuja. Among participants were Siemens of Germany, Rolls Royce of the United Kingdom, General Electric of the United States, Goldman Sachs of the United States, JP Morgan of the United States, Marubeni of Japan, Standard Bank of South Africa, Esser of India, ABB of Sweden and Switzerland, etc.  Before Expressions of Interest (EoIs) were called for the seventeen state-owned power enterprises, eminently successful road shows were held in London, New York, Dubai, Johannesburg and Lagos to apprise the business community of immense investment opportunities created by the ongoing power sector reform. Nigeria has, of course, always provided an excellent return on investments. Immediately the telecoms sector was liberalised, for instance, Nigeria became the cash cow for major GSM operators. Buoyed by the experience of these companies, Bharti Telecoms of India only a few months ago invested billions of dollars to acquire the majority stake in the Nigerian operations of Zain. If the liberalisation of the Nigerian telecoms market could bring tremendous good to both investors and the Nigerian people since the early 2000s, the opening up of the electricity sector will cause a revolution because, among other reasons, power is a much bigger sector than telecoms the world over. In other words, the ongoing power sector reform will cause a major employment escalation with electricity workers enjoying salaries and conditions of service comparable to those of their colleagues working in the telecommunications sector.)

vi. Payment of N57 billion arrears of monetized benefits to PHCN workers owed since 2003 when the Federal Government adopted the policy of monetization of benefits to public officers.   

vii. The government’s determination to address the workers’ concerns and rights by ensuring the prompt payment of benefits to PHCN employees once government’s stake in the distribution and generation companies is diluted.

viii. The government’s decision to reserve a reasonable percentage of shares in the distribution and generation companies for PHCN employees so that they can become part owners of the firms.
 
Indices of Improvement in Service Delivery and Projections for the Future

i. Design and implementation of extensive rehabilitation, replacement and maintenance of assets across the fuel-to-power, generation, transmission and distribution chain of the power sector.

 ii. Conception and planning of 700 KV Super Grid to boost the capacity of the national grid to handle increase in generated power beyond the next decade, enabling Nigeria to be one of the first countries in the world to be on the cutting edge of power transmission technology.

 iii. Initiation of gas-to-power projects to address current and future demand from power generation plants. The launch of a Gas Revolution programme in March, 2011, by President Jonathan underscores this focus.

 iv. Fast-tracking delivery from NIPP facilities: One of the projects, at Olorunsogo, now contributes 113 megawatts to the national grid. 690 megawatts will be produced by December 2011 and an additional 1,000 megawatts will be available by the end of 2012. On the whole, the NIPP will generate a total of 4770 megawatts by December 2013.

 v. 6, 000 megawatts will be generated before the end of 2014 by IPPs like Dangote,
Lafarge, Notore, SuperTex, Wemco, Geometric Power, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Total Fina, Hudson Power, AGIP, Negris, and Mabon Energy.

vi. A superior management system of power supply is now in place. As a result, system collapses are now a rarity. The nation has experienced only two system failures this year, a sharp contrast to the past when we experienced system collapse three or four times every month.

 vii. Prevention of wild fluctuations in power supply: supply has been stabilized at 4, 000 megawatts peak availability, the highest ever in our national history. A whopping 1,000 megawatts has been added to power supply since President Jonathan assumed office less than a year ago.

 viii. Installation of about 3, 000 distribution transformers and associated power equipment and accessories nationwide.

 ix. Many Nigerians are enjoying more hours of power supply because of the
rehabilitation and recovery of existing generation plants.

x. More households and businesses will benefit from the increased generation and enjoy increased hours of electricity as deficiencies in the distribution and transmission networks are progressively eliminated through the refurbishment and upgrading of facilities and a general modernization programme. (Ironically, the ongoing comprehensive rehabilitation programme has caused a number of areas to be without electricity for several hours and sometimes for days and weeks; power supply to these areas has to be interrupted for the rehabilitation to go on. PHCN Management has just been directed to explain what is going on to the public and apologise to the people so affected for the inconveniences caused by the disruptions.)


xi. The power sector will be expanded to drive GDP growth so that Nigeria will generate more than the irreducible 40,000 megawatts needed to make the nation become one of the world’s twenty largest economies by 2020.

 Conclusion

The Road Map for the Power Sector Reform provides light at the end of the tunnel. The Road Map is bringing to an end five decades of underinvestment and inefficiency in Nigeria’s power sector. Ten billion dollars worth of investment is expected in the sector annually for the next decade. (Apart from companies like Esser of India which has since last October pledged to invest $2 billion in the next few years in our nation’s power sector, there are firms from Europe which have pledged to invest up to $20 billion in Nigeria in the next couple of years if Nigeria sustains its present reform pace.) Currently, 70 percent of power supply in Nigeria comes from state-owned power plants, but with the ongoing reform 70 percent of power supply will come from the private sector in the next three to four years. As our experience with telecommunications has demonstrated eloquently, Nigerians will soon begin to take regular supply of quality power for granted. The provision of critical infrastructure like electricity is the foundation needed for Nigeria’s economic takeoff. Truly, Nigeria is a miracle waiting to happen. And I hope when he commissions the transmission and generation plants that are been built accross the nation before his tenure expires which he started and completed would you take back ur words?

destinedtee: Considering the marital responsibilities of a woman especially that of taking care of the kids and home generally.Which job do you think will suit her most so she can as well perform her matrimonial obligations.

uzomagic: Bros, you are seriously on point.

@Jp PHILIPS, face the issues raised in dedeinke's Comment and stop beating about the bush.i have read all your comments and his. He floored you squarely.
Of particular importance to me is the fact the so called power stations started working under Jonathan. You have not disproved this fact. You also equated SWF with ECA and he taught you the difference. He gave us links in support of his argument, you provided none apart from insults. Be serious bro.

uzomagic: Bros, you are seriously on point.

@Jp PHILIPS, face the issues raised in dedeinke's Comment and stop beating about the bush.i have read all your comments and his. He floored you squarely.
Of particular importance to me is the fact the so called power stations started working under Jonathan. You have not disproved this fact. You also equated SWF with ECA and he taught you the difference. He gave us links in support of his argument, you provided none apart from insults. Be serious bro.

karl max: stop beating around the bush and issue ur own rebuttal to what he wrote and also provide links like he did and stop cluthching on straws like the others

Pataki: @ jp philips,

As highly intellectual your post to dendeike is, unfortunately, you are wasting your time on a gross squalid reeetard as dedeike.

I have long since known that boy is an utter disgrace to the law profession he claims to have studied.