₦airaland Forum

The problem with the power sector.


The main problem is that people are exiting the grid and if high consumers that pay a lot are not on the grid then it is a matter of time before power generation and distribution becomes unsustainable as economic activities. If there are not enough customers to pay for power generated then power generation will not continue. Restaurants, small businesses, hotels and even factories are now going off grid permanently and that is revenue loss for companies in the sector. In other countries, I don't think people are allowed to exit the grid. Whatever you generate as an entity must go to the grid after which it will be sold back to you.

Power generating companies are making claims that the FG is owing them and the FG is denying these claims and are not paying. The companies therefore have no money to pay gas suppliers. The system that the power companies must be paid for whatever they generate is not sustainable or it is counter productive. It is prone to fraud too.

What is now the solution?. If no other entities are investing, then government at all tiers must invest in power generation and it has to be hydro and solar because gas is expensive and there is no sufficient infrastructure for its evacuation to the point of use. The problem is that power generated must be paid for and there are not enough consumers because the heavy consumers are now off grid. Most of the power is therefore wasted and many consumers are also unmetered.

If you have money as an individual, use it to install solar or hydro for your community the same way it is in Aso rock. You are not likely to lose money. Geometric in Aba is gas fired. Redemption camp is independent and as bad as things are they are not losing money. You will make money especially if you are also in charge of the distribution. All government tiers must be involved in this. Solar panels are now being manufactured in the country and there are some potential for hydro as well as wind.

I will not say every consumer should be forced back to the grid as even Aso Rock may not agree but with aggressive investment in solar, hydro and wind, it can be possible to easily solve the problem. Even ten hours a day will be a big improvement. Solving the problem is just doing on a large scale for the community what individuals are already doing for themselves

What the FG can do for now is to temporarily raise tariffs to offset the debts to the GENCOs then aggressively begin to invest in power generation and the decentralization of the power grid so that tariffs can be much lower

In the 80s before the dichotomy of high income and low income countries started, Lagos was the most expensive city in the world and back then ordinary people could afford brand new cars but now the world has changed
The value of naira can be higher than the dollar by just redecimalising the naira as was done in Ghana with the cedis but it will not change the fact that the average Nigerian worker will not be able to afford an iphone and other expensive things.

A time is coming that things will return to as they were and workers across the world will be able to afford the same things. It however has nothing to do with the value of the currency

If Tinubu were not a clown, whatever was the reason that the DSS blocked El Rufai from becoming minister would have been enough to put El Rufai in prison.

He can lose elections because of that as security is most important

Tinubu is supporting state police but the more important step of sacking Ribadu is where he failed in. Those bandits are probably vigilantes sent to Kwara by NSA Mallam Nuhu Ribadu

Nigeria exports many things including farm produce, Nollywood and even manufactured products. What is important however is to earn forex and we have remittances. Oil is not very significant for Nigeria as a forex earner. It is only significant as a source of government revenue but last year it was around 45 percent and this year I don't think it will be more than twenty percent.

AlphaTaikun:
There was persecution of Jews in the Iberian Peninsula (Muslim Spain) back in the 1400s after the Spanish Military forces successfully pushed the Moors/Muslims who had colonized Spain for a whooping 781 years out of their Spanish homeland as of 1492. Some of the Jews who lived with the Muslims were expelled by the Spanish and some Jewshad to quickly convert to Catholicism and were known as the Maranos. Some Jewish folks in Spain had to hide their identify. Incidentally, it was the same 1492 that Christopher Columbus persuaded the Spanish authorities to let him and some of his men sail in boats to discover America. He finally arrived on the Island of Santo Domingo (Modern Dominican Republic) where they met Native Americans.

The rest is history.

I know that history but my point is if someone never identified as Jewish then it is wrong to brand them as Jewish after death. Will you accept someone to brand you as a Hausa man even if they found some Hausa DNA in you?. That is the issue. Then you can't use DNA to distinguish among people that lived among each other for centuries.

Christistruth00:
The Popo were the first wave of Yoruba on the Dahomey Coast the Ajase were the second Wave and how they got there had more to do with Alaafin's Oyo Army trying to save the Popo and the Eguns from the Dahomey slave Raids that were on the verge of shipping all Popoand Eguns off to Brazil

It was a resue mission that took the Oyo to Ajase and even all the way to Ghana

I believe you have a point. The Popo have been there since time immemorial while the Oyo were originally a Northern people. However Portuguese records don't show the Dahomey to have been prominent at the onset. They only talk about the Benin and the Oyo.

Advanced Knowledge in the olden days

The meaning of civilization is living in cities. It is as simple as that. A culture that live in cities will automatically be advanced even if they have no written script. Without a written script, they will still have learned people among them that rank as Professors.
For example, among the Yoruba many people even today have professorial seats in universities across the world based on traditional knowledge. Anybody in Yoruba land who is an Araba Awo ranks as a professor. An Oba Iseegun of any town ranks as a Professor. The person has distilled knowledge more valuable than a PhD in Pharmacy Professor Lamidi Fakeye became a Professor because of his skill as an Agbegilere or wood carver. He went to only primary school but was among the best artists on Earth that work in wood during his life time. People like Araba Yemi Elebu ibon never went to school at all and learnt to read and write at home but is of the rank of a Professor easily.

There are other fields like textile making, health care and etc with people that rank as Professors. There are surgeons, opticians and etc that are purely traditional and that learnt their skills via apprenticeship.

Having a script that will lead to publishing in journals and having better records helps but even without it, there will still be people in any culture with cities that will rank as Professors

HardMirror:
abeg. Spare me. You are the ignorant person here. Make research on slavery by arabs then come back and tell me about your so called transatlantic slavery which is all you know

What concerns a west African with slavery by Arabs?. Look, most of you don't know that in the past you can visit any market anywhere in the world and buy slaves. If you needed European slaves as a west African, you could go to Europe and buy some or buy from the Turks.

Christistruth00:
If you understand what happened from the beginning you would never have said this

Over 300 Wars were fought against the slave Traders

The Dahomey Coast was under the Yoruba Popos before the Portuguese whom they had previously traded with started demanding to have a say in the kingdoms Govt
The Yoruba Popos and others around said never that cannot happen , you cannot dictate to us


Do you know what the Portuguese slave traders did they gave the Dahomey Rulers who were a very small kingdom at the time but who were ready to do their bidding European Firearms, Military Training , Mercenaries and Military advisors to help them to fight against and to defeat the African Tribes that put the slave Traders in their place on top of that Dahomey were now raiding those same Tribes that said no to the Portuguese for slaves on an industrial scale previously unknown and previously unnecessary so as to supply slaves to their Portuguese benefactors and backers

The Kingdom of Dahomey was built almost entirely on the back of Slavery

The Dahomey king who rose to power and insisted he wanted nothing to do with the slave Trade , the Portuguese helped his half brother to murder him within 3 years and they help his brother to get to the Throne so they could continue with their lucrative slave trade


In Lagos the Portuguese helped Kosoko to chase his uncle who wanted to end the slave Trade off the Throne and out of Town

And that was how Europeans the Portuguese especially operated all along the Coast of West Africa even in Guinea Bissau , once any ruler didn't want to do Business with them that Rulers own was finished , they would pump his Rivals for the Throne with Military equipment, Military Training,Funds until the African Ruler opposing them was forced to change his mind or run away

The other side was that because the Portuguese had now made the slave trading Tribes so powerful other Tribes who didn't want to get involved were now forced to defend themselves from the slavers with Firearms and who sold those Firearms it was the same Portuguese that had created the problem in the first place and what did the Portuguese want for those Firearms ? More Slaves !

Brazil their colony was built almost entirely by slave labour !!

The Portuguese didn't really deal with the Popo. They dealt with the Oyo Ajase (Porto Novo) was a military post of the Oyo and the Aare ona Kakanfo was stationed there. The Portuguese could only exist in that area at the behest of the Oyo. The Dahomey paid tribute to the Oyo and they had their capital razed down on the few occasions they didn't pay. The guns the Portuguese brought were useless against Oyo calvary and the Oyo never used guns until the nineteenth century. They ignored guns. There was a time the chief negotiator between the Dahomeians and the Alaafin was a Portuguese working for the King of Dahomey. Dahomey later became independent of Oyo around the same time Ilorin and Abeokuta became independent and it was not because of Portuguese help but because Oyo declined. Oyo declined and Ijaiye was set up as a bulwark against Dahomey incursions. Dahomey never grew bigger than being able to raid Abeokuta and it's environs for slaves before they fell under the French in the 1890s. They were never under the Portuguese

CodeTemplar:
It takes a bona-fide fool to mix up urbanisation and industrialization. Ride on.

If the british didnt do anything, how come we copied their standard and system in electricity, medicare, education, politics, and many more?

Before the British, there were professionals of all sorts in Yoruba land at least. Other places have now caught up. My two grandfathers were headmasters starting from the 1930s. You can't be living in cities and be running about naked and the Yoruba lived in cities. The British met cities in Yoruba land and built them in other places.
All regions gained independence before 1960 and were already running their affairs by themselves. There was free and compulsory education in the west starting from 1955

Why is Jewish identity passed from mother to child?

This rule does not exist in the Torah. It obviously came from the Ashkenazi Jews who were Europeans. The Mizraim or Arab Jews are the majority in Israel now but Israeli law still recognizes this rule that did not exist in ancient Jewish society in Palestine.

The Ashkenazi operate like Christians while the Arab Jews operated like Muslims. They even practiced polygamy.

It must be noted that Europe was a caste society and they are only different from India in that there were no outcasts and no intercaste marriage related violence but the society was nonetheless stratified into castes. Jewishness qualify as an European caste. There are also peasants who can't leave the land, soldiers and priests and then nobility. People marry within their castes and if a noble man marries from a lower caste then the children can not inherit his title. The children are not nobility. It is also the origin of the one drop rule that was carried into the USA. If your mother is a slave you are a slave even if you are 99 percent white. What led to the one drop rule was also what led to the passing down of Jewish identity from mother to child. In other parts of the world, all children of the same father rank the same, regardless of the origin or status of their mothers.

Most men from other cultures who marry Jewish women would not agree that all their children belong to the Jewish community and even many people with Jewish mothers will also not agree with the classification.

Oduduwa and Christ

The Greek equivalent of ODuduwa is Christ. Someone pointed this out to me many years ago here on nairaland. In Yoruba thought, everything, everyone and every situation has an odu. An ODU can be said to be a bundle of information or identity. In Igala for instance it simply means name. Igala is a Yoruboid language. Igala would say Eun che ODU e? to mean what is your name?
Oduduwa means the Odu that created iwa. The ODU that created being or existence. It is therefore very hilarious when some other language groups allocate meanings to Oduduwa to mean something in their language. The word or name does not mean anything in any other language.
I can create another word say Oduduja and it will mean the ODU that created ija or conflict. That ODU would be Osa meji while Oduduwa is Ofun meji. That is how it is.

The story goes that Odu itself was advised to offer the ebo of Ofun meji by his Awos so that thenceforth no action of his would be able to be faulted by anybody. He offered this ebo and it was accepted and from that day nothing he did could be faulted by anybody and he got added to his name Oduduwa, Olodumare and etc.

That ebo whenever it is offered, can only be offered by Babalawos who are advanced in age and without blemish on their careers on behalf of the community. They are the Christs of their community and that is why the word Christ is the Greek equivalent of Oduduwa according to what someone pointed out to me years ago

The lesson here is that anybody whose any action can not be faulted by anybody rank as Oduduwa, Olodumare or God.

All slave trade should be condemned and not only the transatlantic one. The Ottoman empire sold more European slaves than the number of Africans transported across the Atlantic and that trade has not been condemned. White people continued to be slaves in the Ottoman empire even after slavery was banned in Africa, Europe and America.

Who benefitted from the transatlantic slave trade?
The buyers and sellers
For the first few centuries the main sellers were the Oyo that controlled the slave coast also known as the Bight of Benin. Also other groups on that coast such as the Akan. It went on in trickles for the first few centuries but there was a surge in the nineteenth century. When it was a trickle the cargo was mainly Muslims from the North of west Africa eg Hausa and Fulani while the Yoruba crossed mainly as free men but when there was a surge, the majority of the cargo was Yoruba. Majority of the cargo from even Calabar were Yoruba then followed by Igbo. West Africans crossed voluntarily and they also went back and forth. I can mention several. They include mainly Yoruba and Angolans and you have Yoruba culture entrenched all over the Americas today because millions of them crossed as free men and became slave owners in the Americas. Many of their descendants are white today but they know they are descended from Yoruba or Angolans as the case may be. I read on Quora that the first slave owner in the USA was a black man. That would be a Yoruba man or an Angolan. Therefore who should now pay reparations? And to who?. Are the sellers in Africa exempted from paying reparations? Then how much should be paid to the native Indians whose population in the fifteenth century would have surpassed the Chinese population?

yemre:
If you toe that path, you would end up having 30 states in SW, 32 in NW and 8 in SE. Do you think that can work?

Any group that wañts a state should be given a state is the right approach while states should not by any means have equal representation at the center. That was what was agreed upon at independence. States should be able to merge up if they want and no ethnic group is too small to have a state.

However what I want is a division of the country

Parachoko:
Someone on nairaland was claiming state police will never happen in Nigeria. The person underestimate how serious Tinubu is on this issue

I wish LG police can also be created

Ideally any government tier should be able to have a security department and private security companies should be able to bear high calibre weapons. An estate should be able to employ well armed security. That is just common sense

nairalanda1:
State police won't work in Nigeria.

No state has the resources to fund state police when even the government is struggling to find money for Nigeria police.

If you want a working state police, you need funds for jails , stations, communications equipment, forensic services, extensive records system, more judges , more lawyers for prosecution service, more detention facilities for juvenile prisoners , drones, armoured cars, helicopters, training facilities and I mean modern training facilities, not secandary school type buildings, all that would cost more money than Lagos spends and has in a year for one state.

I know I would be abused and called all sorts of names, but I also ask anyone reading this to watch police body cam videos on YouTube, and ask yourself if your state can provide the kind of stuff that local American city police has.

If we are setting up state police only to have them be blown away by bandits and armed thugs that have military grade weapons , then what is the use of state police.? To send more young men and women to Gehenna for nothing?

Let's not let APC deceive us with state police talk. As it stands e no go work. Not today, not tomorrow.

I haven't even mentioned the issues with tribalism, religion issues and politicians misusing them self

But if Nigeria breaks up, policing will work in each new country?. Say what you are afraid of which is that state police can be used to break up the country but what are you benefitting from the unity of the country?

CLOUDRepublic:
You still can compare solar to hydroelectricity or Gas-fired electricity

Why? There are now hotels with ten ACs that run on solar. Some factories now run on solar.

yemre:
It's not going to be by population because under normal circumstances, the population is supposed to be a plus. You get to generate more IGR as a state and when you add that to the allocation from Abuja, it will be enough to bring about development to your people.

Meanwhile, bringing each region to an equal number of states brings about some regional equity. Remember we're very sentimental in this country. Besides, creation of states brings about thousands of employment opportunities, both direct and indirect, among other things.

So you think a region of 19 million people like the SE should have equality with SW of 55 million and NW of 60 million? That kind of equality, I don't support it

quickly:
Nigeria cannot afford more states,

Even if u create 100 states some people will still clamour for more so they can find means to steal money

More states more senators more houses of reps.

Those ppl get their money on time no delay . The highest paid senators in the world doing nothing.

States should be on demand. That was the agreement at independence. A state of twenty million can exist alongside one of 500k. That is how it should be. It totally does not make sense to say 500k people are not enough to be a sovereign nation not to talk of state!

yemre:
Let each region get at least, two extra states. Then, three for South East because they had five before and any region already having more than 6 should have 1 instead to make it uniform.

Why do you think it should be uniform when some states have ten times the population of another state? Some zones have three times the population of another zone. So where is the fairness in the equality you are asking for?

Igbos don't know what they are enjoying in Nigeria. Anioma does not have the population of Ife Ijesa senatorial district. I doubt if they have Ijesa population but are now going to have three senators, ministers, federal university and etc.

gidgiddy:
If Igbos did not vote Tinubu in 2023 when things were better, do you think its in 2027 when things are worse that they will suddenly want to vote him?

If things were good you still wouldn't vote a Yoruba. However without Tinubu's new revenue, no state would be able to pay salaries talkless of do projects. No state apart from Lagos and Rivers and maybe Enugu now would be able to pay salaries

I hope her health is restored. I wish her all the best.

Princedapace:
I said in most of the states baba. There are countless states in Nigeria that u will rarely see yorubas sef.. So, this is not even an argument, everyone knows this. So, chill.

You forget as Igbos have what they indulge in, Yorubas also have and they go about the country to ply their trade. Hausas also have. Therefore the average Nigerian city will contain more Hausa and more Yoruba than Igbo. For example there is no Northern university where Yoruba do not massively outnumber Igbos. This will also be true for high schools and primary schools

What more windfall than selling crude oil above the budget benchmark?
What is good for the country is for oil revenue to crash and become less than ten percent of revenue. There is money in the country but the government is refusing to collect it. Check all the frivolous importations we involve in running into tens of billions of dollars

Princedapace:
nah, hausas are always second non indigenes o. Igbos are everywhere in extreme high number. The major problem is that most Igbos actually dont like to vote. Those 5 percent, 4 percent, when they sum them up in every state, u cna imagine what that is..
Now, they compete very well in over 20 states in Nigeria, then dominate completely in south south and south east. That is a massive number. Those guys are big. Igbos are actually too much. What decieved many is the boundary demarcations o. Igbos full Kongi, Benue, Calabar, Rivers, etc. So,Well, they lost a war which affected all these stuff. But on a norm, igbos most likely the most populated indegenes in Nigeria o. These guys full every state. U don even enter Akwa Ibom? lol, these guys creep in everywhere even outside Nigeria, they are too much in many countries, even countries u cant imagine.

In Osun here, non Yoruba are less than five percent. They are like three percent and I have met someone from Nassarawa, another from Cross River, Igala, Igede, Hausas and Igbos. There are states in Yoruba land with many Ebira because they border Kogi state. There is no way towns like Suleja, Bida and Minna will not have three times more Yoruba than Igbo. So it is a wrong claim to make that Igbos are always second highest in all states. They will be second highest in some states no doubt

Princedapace:
Hahaha, u are funny. Igbos have the numbers, even more than yorubas. They are the second highest non indegines in every damn state in Nigeria aside the core indigenes. They are the highest in their region and south south.
No ethnic group comes close. Forget ur mumu census. The only problem is elections arent free and fair. So, non indegenes are intimidated and even systematic failure. u think those figures u see from INEC are real? hahahaha
Two things happen here: Most igbos stay out of voting, like they dont vote. Two, there are systematic rigging put in place such as frustrate them from obtaining voters card, delaying the process in their region, etc. But if it is numbers, omo, nothing comes close aside maybe northerners. Igbos are major non indigenes in all the 36 states and Abuja o. In south east and south south, they out number everyone else. How do u defeat such ethnic group based on numbers? Na only rigging and manipulation dey worry Nigeria.

Igbos actually are not the highest in number of non indigenes in all states. It depends on the state in question. Go to any central market in Yoruba land and it is filled with Hausa selling foodstuffs and their other wares. In Yoruba land, Hausa and Igbo population will be close and I think Hausa is more. In any case, non indigenes in any state don't have significant population. Their total will be less than five percent. In Osun here, non Yoruba are less than three percent of the population

PastorAIO:
as in the source. Where did you get them?

I am the author of all. It is the traditional way odus of IFA are created. It is just that it has stopped for decades.

PastorAIO:
Ogbo Ato! My brother what is the provenance of these odu ifa.

Edumare bless and protect you. Asę.

Ogbo Ato awure Iworiwofun. What do you mean by provenance?

gidgiddy:
It depends on two things.

1. Will the elections be credible?

2. Will the North vote for him?


One thing I can tell any Tinubu supporter is that us Igbos are going to vote massively against Tinubu. So if the North doesn't vote Tinubu, he is gone

Of course, if the elections are rigged, none of this will matter

Better fight for disintegration. What is North? There are many ethnic groups in the North. In an ethnic voting, Igbo and Hausa Fulani alone don't have the numbers to determine how the election will go.
Yoruba and Hausa Fulani? Yes but not Igbo and Hausa Fulani.
As an onlooker, I am interested to see if a Fulani Igbo alliance can remove this Presidency and I think it is not possible but I hope Nigeria will breakup before then

Kushites:
ACCORDING TO AI CHATGPT CALCULATIONS, THE WEST OWES AFRICA $5,000 TRILLION IN REPARATIONS FOR ITS HISTORICAL PLUNDER OVER THE LAST 500 YEARS.

This amounts to $400,000 owed to EACH AND EVERY AFRICAN ALIVE, INCLUDING BABIES.

BRITAIN OWES NIGERIA $50 TRILLION ACCORDING TO AI CALCULATIONS.

OYO EMPIRE DOES NOT OWE BRITAIN 1 KOBO.

BENIN KINGDOM DOES NOT OWE AMERICA 1 KOBO.

THEY OWE YOU, BECAUSE THEY RAPED YOUR LAND.

THAT IS WHY YOUR CONTINENT IS POOR.

$5,000 TRILLION WAS STOLEN FROM YOU.

GO AND REQUEST AN ITEMISED CALCULATION ON ChatGPT.

The information is not hidden.

YOU ARE IN THE DAYS OF AI.

SO GO AND LEARN, BECAUSE YOU KNOW NOTHING, TALKING NONSENSE ABOUT ''OYO EMPIRE''.

Ask Chatgot how much Rome is owing England, how much the Ottoman Turks are owing Arabs and Eastern Europe. Ask how much Spain is owing before you come to west Africa to ask how much the empires in Africa are owing those they colonized in west Africa.
Meanwhile Britain is struggling and in huge debts and it is actually funny for anyone to expect money to be paid them by Britain!

Then above all, ask Chatgpt how much the rest of the world is owing Britain for benefitting from the industrial revolution that started in their country!