₦airaland Forum

There can be two grids in Nigeria with a local solar grid under the LGs


Take Ijesa with six local governments for instance, the whole place can be powered with 330MW during sun up and the installed capacity can be scaled up as demand increases

One 33kw mini plant without batteries can produce at least 165kwh of electricity per day and that can serve up to forty houses when the sun is shining.
The current cost of setting up a 33 Kw solar plant is around 15 million naira according to AI and it is crashing. If production of materials come to Nigeria it will further crash the ptice
Ten thousand units of this 33kw solar mini plant will easily power the whole of Ijesa land including homes and industries for a start
The local governments only need to spend money on prepaid meters and they can transfer the expense to the consumers
The mini plants will be provided by investors who are satisfied with one million naira a year on a fifteen million naira investment. They can even be satisfied with just five hundred thousand naira because they can not get as much returns on an investment in housing. It is important to use only small holder investors in this way because it will be less expensive for the consumers than plants that have to employ people full time

Then Ijesa land and the rest of Osun state can sort out themselves for solar downtime with batteries, hydro, wind as well as pumped hydro without using any fossil fuel at all.

The cost of ten thousand 33 kw solar system is in total 150 billion naira and you are going to get more than 100, 000 people in Ijesa land willing to invest meaning the government will need to screen them

This can be replicated in all local governments across the country with each local government also generating power for sun downtime according to their local resources. I think local governments should be the tier of government in charge

Above all, all universities should seek for sponsors of research into energy storage

Dshocker:
LWKMD... Bro do your research properly

If you just do a random sampling of university departments in the North whose staff list is online, you will see some with majority Yoruba. There is no doubt Yoruba outnumber Igbo in the North even if it is only Southern Yoruba because if Northern Yoruba on their land and in other lands are added then the Yoruba in the North will be up to fifteen times the population of Igbos in the North.
The narrative that Yoruba don't travel is simply wrong. Yoruba men don't do petty trading and that is why you don't see them in markets. They prefer to acquire skills and be sought after while they leave petty trading to their women. They only do trading on a big scale whenever they do it. Even in Yoruba land, the market is always filled with women. So don't use the absence of Yoruba men in non Yoruba markets to determine that the Yoruba don't travel because you can't even find them in the markets of their own cities doing petty trading. Among artisans, professionals, big business owners and etc is where you will find them

May his soul rest in perfect peace. He left a delible mark on the world. Condolences

flokii:
I wonder why my Yorubas people are like this.. Enugu person can't contest in Anambra yet noone is talking about it.
Why should Yorubas allow non-Yorubas gaslight us into surrendering our heritage and birthright in this British-made country called Nigeria.

Just look at this level of injustice on Yoruba nation.

You are also being given ten when your population and tax paid say you deserve 25 at the center and VAT and CIT are being taken from Yoruba land to feed other places not to talk of customs revenue and remember that it is also a thankless job. Other people indulge in activities like trading and farming that are not VATable and you have to bear the burden for everyone and if everyone is paying the tax they should pay then sharing formula still says the Yoruba will get less compared to their population

ottersberger:
Oga, do you live or have you lived in Lagos before?. Abi you just dey make noise from your village?. The population of Isolo/Oshodi is predorminantly Igbo.

There is no local government outside Igbo land talk less of a federal constituency where Igbo is up to half of the population resident there

codemaniacs:
Only reason there's poverty in the SE in 2026 is because in 1966 certain SE soldiers and leaders who had zero knowledge of economics could not forecast the oil boom that awaited the SE region and due to their superiority complex and mindset to always dominate non-SE people they ignorantly chose to destroy the regionalism that would have made every SE person filthy rich and stinky rich and start a civil war..

If oil is that huge, why is it forming thirteen percent of government revenue today? Even as the country is not yet collecting PIT? Oil is insignificant as a portion of Nigeria's GDP.

Kalulu44:
I don't get you, Lagos population including indigenes and non indigenes is over 20m. And I am telling you 60% or more make up the non indigenes. No other states in Nigeria can boast of that

Are you saying sixty percent are non Yoruba? Because actual Lagos indigenes are not up to forty percent of Lagos population. Ekiti will have more indigenes than Lagos.

If you are saying sixty percent are non Yoruba then it is just speculation because electoral wins show Lagos is not less than seventy percent Yoruba and it may even be ninety percent because I have seen actual church member lists in Lagos where ninety percent are Yoruba and that is several RCCG churches. If you want to have a good estimate then sponsor a survey of public schools like two in every local government and take an actual census and publish it. It will give all of us something concrete to be quoting

Kalulu44:
You lied, honestly you lied. Is any of the states you mentioned above have up to 20m population. If not how do they have more mix tribe than Lagos.
60% or more out of that 20m population in Lagos are not indigenes.

I don't count Yoruba who have been there since the land was created as non indigenes. If you count them as non indigenes because of state boundaries then non indigenes will be up to ninety percent of the population

Kalulu44:
Mtcheew, he has entered leadership.
Do other states has what Lagos has in terms of infrastructure. Why is Tinubu and many Lagos elites refusing the other three states that has port from operating their own.

There are cities with busier ports than Lagos but with less population than Osogbo

If any state does what former Gov Ambode did in Lagos by compelling all companies to file PAYE returns regularly or be closed down then their igr will surpass their allocations immediately even as Tinubu is helping them collect VAT and CIT from their states and sending it to them as part of their allocation

Kalulu44:
When you say cosmopolitan, what's your meaning. Cus the last time I checked, Lagos though small in land mass, has the highest population, highest hotels, highest industries, has the biggest and busiest port same as airport, the entertainment center of the country, highest in transportation, highest in beaches and tourism.
All these brings billions of money to Lagos State which no other states including the oil producing states can bring.
I even forgot to mention it has the highest estates in the whole country

Cosmopolitan in this context means residents of different ethnic backgrounds. There is more mixture in Kaduna, Jos, Abuja, PH and etc than what is obtainable in Lagos but Lagos has more population.

Kalulu44:
When last have you ever seen any states in Nigeria aside Lagos been compare to other states in Africa in terms of richest state in Africa?
I await your answer

That is because of their leadership. If you have 5 million people in your state you should be doing better than many countries in west Africa if you have a visionary leadership. With no leadership, Lagos would be in the backwaters too

There is nothing an Engineering or Science graduate can not be trained for. Nigeria ranks sixth in the world among countries that benefit from outsourcing and is this company really big enough to employ five hundred highly skilled graduates at once?

Dshocker:
The igbos are the tribe with the most number of people that have explored Nigeria,followed by the Hausas.

The Yorubas barely move away from their region.

This narrative is false. If there are three million southerners in the North, the Yoruba will surpass one million and the remaining will be shared between Igbo and others. Even the last Jos killings still show Yoruba being killed. No Northern university that does not have Yoruba to be double Igbo in population etc etc. There are also still Yoruba in the North who are not southerners etc and if you add those ones, the gap will widen. Yoruba exist in PH by percentage more than we have Igbo in Lagos. The narrative is simply not factual

DeOTR:
I can't assume someone who spent 2 years in office (he was sick terminally sick more than half the time) is an honest man. You would have been singing a different song if he had spent 8 years, same way we would have thought buhari would have made a great president if he didn't win in 2015. Alh. Musa Yar'adua is a great person, but he didn't do anything spectacular in office.

The man publicly declared his assets and compelled his vice to do the same. Nobody else and certainly not Buhari was able to match that. It is clear he wanted to change the country and would not have refused to follow any advise that he believed is best for the nation and that is what is most important for progress. Not politicking. I was among those clamouring online for the government to seek peace with the Niger Delta militants rather than confrontation and soon after there was amnesty for them leading to an increase in oil production and etc. He didn't implement taxation becoming the main government revenue source though but I believe if he didn't die he would have done it because he would have listened to sincere advise overtime

SIGMATRON:
They are Lagosians of Igbo Ancestry. Some of them have never been to SE, what is the fuse about. They are Lagoasians born and raised in Lagos.

What people are saying is Igbos are probably not ten percent of the population but they were given ninety percent of the slots. There are Yoruba in Enugu that were there when Enugu was founded. The Enugu central mosque was built by a Yoruba man

ElevationD:
The LGA talked about has a very fair balance of Nigerians living there. It traverses Isolo, Ire-Akari, Ago/Okota, Mafoluku and Oshodi. It’s a very big local government area, with decent people. Religion is moderate and tribalism is moderate. It is one of the most peaceful local government areas in Lagos and it is quite developed. The last elections saw LP defeat APC - in Alimosho of all LGAs -, at the Presidential stage. It did not have to do with tribalism or religion, but the candidate. When it was the governorship, APC won. It did not have to do with the threat by touts, but the choice of the citizens.

Ago/Okota keeps expanding with road infrastructures and people who own houses/businesses are of different tribes. One cannot explicitly say a particular tribe is dominant. But it is incontrovertible that it is Yoruba land, with Obas, Baales and Chiefs. Chieftancy titles in those areas are not restricted to our Yoruba citizens only, as others hold Chieftancy titles there too, well respected and peaceful.

When it comes to elections, the ruling party has not always been the dominant party there. It does not have to do with the tribes, but with the people, who seem to go the individual way. Everyone in Ago/Okota, Isolo, Ire-akari, seems to know everyone. They are independent and are very unbiased when it comes to their candidates. That’s why you can see that the area is not an APC dominated area, even though APC wants the area under its absolute control. It may not be so. But the people are happy with their representatives.

I agree with the analysis but not with the earlier statement that Igbos are the majority there as if other Nigerians are barred from settling in the area. None Igbo southerners who are not Yoruba outnumber Igbos in Lagos

tobby98:
They won the one of 2015 too. Tony Nwulu from Imo State who moved a bill for the "Not Too Young To Run"

Still not back to back. Why they win at all in my opinion is because they are more politically active while the other people's attitude is more lackadaisical. There are over 300 ethnic groups in Nigeria and all of them are in Lagos. There is no way Igbos will form a majority in any Lagos constituency.

Kalulu44:
What's the meaning of all what you wrote now? We're talking of Lagos and you're talking of SW. What happened can only happen in Lagos and never in any other SW state. Why bcus, Lagos is almost for all (I don't want to say no man's land).
And talking about oil or no oil, no states in Nigerian including with their oil is richer than Lagos.

PH, Kaduna, Abuja, Jos should be more or as cosmopolitan as Lagos. Lagos only has population more than them. I believe even Enugu, Onitsha, Awka are very cosmopolitan if not moreso than Ibadan but Ibadan is far more populated. So Lagos is not the most cosmopolitan in the country

keemsleek:
Igbo dominant there. Na my area most yoruba there don't come out to vote they are busy staying in door or shop. Apc lost during presidential election at there. It was then the yorubavlearnt they messed up and they came out heavily during governorship election and the population of igbo doubled during the election. I love the igbo for that....

You are saying two opposite things. Igbos are dominant and Yoruba lost because they don't come out to vote. We can only say they are dominant if they win all the time, if not, then they are not dominant. Can you say majority of buildings in the place are owned by Igbos? That can not be possible. There are Yoruba there and there are other Nigerians there as well.

keemsleek:
Nobody should get angry. They dominate the area but the way it's going that will be the last time it would happen.

No. If they dominate, why have they not being winning elections back to back in the place? Igbos don't dominate anywhere in Yoruba land

Well anybody is free to contest anywhere in Nigeria. It is the Yoruba who don't contest in PH, Awka, Onitsha etc in the old East where they have substantial numbers.
The injustice is that the SE should have only eighty percent of the Reps seat that Lagos have going by the population as confirmed by the NIN, voter registration and etc but Lagos is given less than half of what should be theirs by right and they are still expected to share that with the Igbos. That is the only problem I see here. Outside that, if you vote someone and he is doing what you don't want, then vote him out or recall him.

Nigeria can't change. It has to be disbanded and after being disbanded, non Yoruba who have the citizenship will still be contesting elections in Lagos and the rest of Yoruba land.

Why minimum wage needs to be high and enforced on all employers

Minimum wage is the most important wage in the economy. Not CEO's wage or Manager's wage but minimum wage because it is an utility for fighting poverty

It needs to be high because it should be able to bear deductions including personal income tax, pension contributions and etc. There is no need to exempt minimum wage workers from income tax because it will mean a large percentage of workers will be out of the personal income tax net and this will cause a huge dent on government revenue.
What it will cause if it is high is that prices will rise slightly because of high production costs caused by higher wages. Take a bakery or water factory for instance, if you force them to pay the minimum wage that is high in a country like Nigeria then their products can increase in price by say five percent to ten percent but it will also drop immediately if you make something like power cheap for them through solar. If wages are high and all workers also have pension funds then the workers will be more secure financially. They will be growing in networth and they should be able to borrow against their pension assets if it is solely for investment in profitable companies.

In a place like the UK, minimum wage is so high that a fresh medical is not paid more than 150 percent of the national minimum wage and that is how it should be

Minimum wage needs to be enforced on all employers and not only on all employers that have a minimum threshold of number of employees and when this happens will be when the government will be the one fighting for higher wages simply because personal income tax would have become their main source of revenue.

If you are big enough to employ anybody then you are actually big enough to pay whatever the minimum wage is that is agreed upon by law in your political constituency. It is the price of what you are selling that you will adjust. High minimum wage stimulates consumption which stimulates production which increases the GDP.

If a good flat for a family here in Ilesa Nigeria is less than three hundred dollars a year then it can be so in any part of the world and if it is so then the income of a family don't need to be more than ten times that and that is the income of two people

The income of two workers in Nigeria don't need to be more than three thousand dollars a year meaning one worker on the average will be ok with two thousand dollars a year and they will provide for 2.5 people. Under such circumstances one trillion dollars GDP will be too large for a population of 220 million people.

West Africa is malaria's stronghold and Nigeria is half of West Africa. I have had it two times in the past few months.

The problem is MTN is the only telecomms company in Nigeria part owned by the Nigerian masses. Let them try a hostile take over instead.

Borno should be part of Chad and this is provocation enough to take the land.

They head customary courts and can actually send people to prison in many parts of Nigeria

Then they are the traditional custodians of land. Many of them have with them still the protection agreement they signed with Britain
It is like asking if the British monarchy still relevant to Britain and the answer is Yes

Samirana360:
If they had succeeded maybe by now the country 4 don good

No military government will reduce oil revenue to less than fifteen percent. They don't do tax. How would they have solved the problem of the government using 96 percent of revenue to service debts?

Educationalserv:
Obi feeling Funky due to 2 million Christian votes in the North vs 12m Muslim North votes
the 2023 election was a religious contest and has noting to with Obi track record of performance
obi vote in the North ( Christians in the North where mandated in the North to vote for a Christian candidate ) and peter obi was the only Christian.
total is 2m
4m votes from his Ibo ethnic group ( ethnicity + religion ) 6m votes
100k came from end SAR crew .

2027 No more Christian North church mandated votes or obligation

2 million to 12 million is not correct. The NW is the most Muslim in the North and because of Kaduna and some Christians in Kano the NW will be like eighty percent Muslim or 85. Half of Kaduna alone is more than ten percent of NW. Then NC is majority Christian with Benue and Plateau like 100 percent and others around 50/50. NE is like 60/40 in favour of Muslims. NW is like double of NE in population but not up to double of NC. Therefore added together Muslims can't be up to 70 percent of the mix. They dominate only because the Christians have been suppressed. If you use ethnicity then Yoruba with 3 to 4 senators are second to Hausas who have at least 18. Others will not necessarily align with the Fulani this time and there are many reasons among which are they have had enough time and the Lakurawa terrorists are Fulani

However Tinubu has freed you from oil dependence and if not for him allocation to states would be one third of what they currently are. It is the perfect time to break up the country as it has been reset to what it was before the military ventured into politics. Oil is now reduced to an insignificant percentage of federal revenue

Kog45:
Fact,Igbos in the North and South West did extremely well for Obi,now left for Kwankwaso to up his game or else 2023 will repeat itself

Southerners in the North are between 1.5 to 3 percent of the population. They are around or less than 3 million and most would be children. I know this because I sampled the population of Osun and I know non Yoruba are around two percent. Some Northern states will be less than one percent Southerners because they are largely rural. Out of 2 to 3 million Southerners in the North, Igbos will be at most one million including kids. So their effect during elections is negligible.

DeOTR:
Apart from the amnesty program (it was the right thing to do, and this is a no-brainer), the rest are not achievements. There's nothing special about the man, we should stop hyping rubbish.
The only grace he had was he died in his 3rd year in office.

So there is nothing special about sincerity and honesty? If you need to know, that is the starting point of good success, of ending well. Can you bring anything to berth without honesty? You can't even successfully do a PhD without honesty. A honest person can make mistakes but will not voluntarily choose the wrong thing to do as might do someone that is not honest. A honest person can fail but it will be sincere failure that they can't be blamed for. Honesty is most important and President Yaradua ranks number one of all of them