₦airaland Forum

9jatriot:
Band A only promises 20 hours per day, yet since the price increase, many people are now trying to ensure they are not in band A despite crying for 24hrs power like in 'saner climates' all these years.

One thing I have noticed about us Nigerians is that we brag a lot particularly when a service or product is not yet available. If you were to do a market survey before introducing a product or service into the market, a lot of folks will tell you that the product you want to introduce is what they have been waiting for in years, then when you follow their mouth and invest in it, then you will start hearing stories. A lot of businesses have suffered that fate in Nigeria.

So, how does this compare to the hike in electricity? It is because, before now, many folks used to say we pay for darkness but they are ready to pay any amount as long as they have constant power. The keyword here is that they are ready to pay any amount. Since the increase in price for those in Band A, we have been inundated with cries even by those who by the different band definitions do not even qualify for any band not to talk of being in Band A.

Some folks who have some level of constant power are even saying they should remove them from band A, which implies that they do not want power of up to 20 hours again. I find this very funny.

The same thing with fuel subsidy removal. Before the removal, almost all the analysts and call in on TV and Radio programs made successive governments look stupid for paying subsidy payments in trillions and advocated for the removal of subsidy. When all the major candidates all said they would remove the subsidy, each supporter hailed their candidate for it. Yet as soon as the subsidy was removed, the same folks who used to brag that they had the money and were ready to pay whatever amount suddenly turned activists against the removal.

Nigerians like to brag themselves into trouble and then start crying later.

Did you see the other thread where three countries including Nigeria were listed with their electricity tariff alongside their minimum wages? The new tariff is a form of extortion by FG on the behalf of DISCOS.
A typical household with 20 hours of electricity a day, with conservative power use is expected to use 4 units per day. That's 30k per month! How much is minimum wage again? Do you now see that the prices of goods and services in Nigeria is not in reality with people's income. This will continue to encourage corruption among Nigerians

DesChyko:
Sighs.


I'm concerned about how it will be for the next generation, which my kids will be part of. Not myself anymore.

The same thing I said yesterday among my colleagues.

Jeon:
Like

Garrison
Palm oil
Rice
Onions
Spag
Melon



Those are the only items I know about.

Garri is actually going up

Rexymania:
Peter Obi is really playing his cards well

Juliusganduje:
Obi, wherever you go is where we Nigerians will go. Any party or candidate you choose is the choice of Nigerians. We dey your back gidigba

If only Obi's supporters can start behaving like people with common sense and stop seeing everyone as enemies, he might gain additional supporters. His supporters are his number one obstacles.

Bendeco2020:
Obi the rock

Obi is smarter than their papa

Typical example

WesternPanzer:
See the Yoruba man up there capping rubbish.

You will think he is being patriotic but his only annoyance is because its an Airline owned by their eternal nemesis. The IGBO.

If this airline was owned by say OTEDOLA, the child brain fellow Helinues will not be saying all this crap.

His only anger is that an Igbo man will become super wealthy.

As long as an Igbo man is involved, the wicked human doesn't mind promoting foreign airlines in a subtle manner all but to spite the Easterners.

But these are same fools promoting buy naija to sustain the naira

Lol. The way kids reason always amuse adults

djon78:
When glo slashed the prices of GSM in 2003- 2004 when MTN and Econet were reaping Nigerians off Nigerians with line as much as 35000 Naira

Glo slashed there Sim to 2000 Naira

Every Nigerian benefitted

Even MTN had no option to slash there own or loose there market share

Someone saying that Air Peace should consult others must be smoking pipe


Ain't done anywhere in business world

Why is Air Peace now crying when other airlines operators are pricing them out of market due to the war Air Peace itself started? The media couldn't even mention its fares

CountinBlessins:
We really need to learn to be patriotic and favour our Nigerian companies and goods . If you like patronize these foreign companies for over 20.yeaes they don't respect you or see you more than just a Nigerian. They will favour and respect their own citizens more than you.

Learn to patronize and support Nigerian companies

The dubious, misleading, manipulated report couldn't even quote Air Peace airfares just like it quoted others both old and new fares. These Air Peace and the media outlet are honest with the public. The news looks like a sponsored news.

CountinBlessins:
Man you are very unintelligent. You talk so much nonsense all the time. Ordinarily I would chuck it up to very poor quality education but your pattern of behavior shows an extremely low IQ individual who is garrulous and not very bright .

What do you mean by consult with foreign airlines ? Did they consult with Nigerian aviation minister or sector before tripling and quadrupling their ticket prices ?

Stop always confirming our suspicion that you are very unintelligent and learn to be silent when faced with topics your handicapped IQ cant handle .

Learn to think like a patriot and not be always so hateful and negative.
Keep your stupidity focused on your family and not this nation.

We all want a better Nigeria

He actually made sense. If you believed that Air Peace didn't have business consulting others before splashing Airfares, why crying now that others are doing the same to them? Most of you siding with Air Peace wouldn't believe that you're sounding like hypocrites

richiemcgold:
During OBJ's era, this same El Rufai was banned by the same Nigeria senate from holding any political office in the country. So, this is not the first time El Rufai will be facing controversy.

All I know is that Tinubu betrayed Elrufai.

derecho:
Some being sponsored are going for prostitution o.
Ask those governors to budget just 2Billion for education (even Arabic education to get them employment in Saudi Arabia) they'd never.
They prefer to waste it annually.

If Governors down South decide to be stupid like them, they'd start shouting marginalization.

Your govs down south are useless, trust me. Palliatives, they wouldn't distribute, they would sit on it. Pilgrimages, they wouldn't sponsor or subsidies. Using thugs to collect multiple taxes, borrowing recklessly without tangible projects to show for it.

See how they were fighting just to wear hijab in private schools.

Unless you are not informed, there is no fight or struggle to wear hijabs in the north, be it public or private schools. It is only south west Muslims you can intimidate and persecute over the use of hijabs

Okoroawusa:
I notice that it's becoming a common practice by supermarkets in Lagos these days.
Recently I saw a product displayed for 1,950 only for the price to be 2,300 at the cashier's point.
The problem is not the money but the glaring dishonesty

But customers should be able to say no and return such items now

stagger:
They will keep approving more.

A retired Israeli Lt Gen once said that countries condemning Israel openly secretly send their diplomats and military attaches to Israel seeking advice on how to deal with their own domestic insurgencies.

If you know, you know.

No, they can't deal with their people this way, never! Killing children and women, elderly people and harmless youth who had nothing to do with Hamas in thousands! Reducing every building to ashes! Israel and Palestine are two different nations and one is annihilating the other only because she can.
Which country would seek advice from a terrorists nation trying to exterminate a whole race just to conquer and steal their land?

GanagiBitrus:
Of course. All of us have been conditioned one way or the other since birth, & that's the standard we use to judge things.

Exactly. We were already used to women doing sport almost nakedly and we have been conditioned to think that that's the best standard.

Jostoman:
Can you imaging in a Country that have president. YARADUA can never do this kind of a thing.

APC is full of wicked people

In fact, Yaradua would have given you more soldiers to murder in cold blood to quench your thirst for blood.

Ogbuu101:
The problem is that the typical Yoruba Muslim and Hausa Fulani mooslem brand everyone in the SS as Igbo.
Their real problem with those people is religion.

Yoruba Muslims are your own problem when Nigerian soldiers do chase your parents into the busy for about one month now

Afrobasic:
Islam is one of the worst things that has happened to humanity

Feel so sorry for those women. Forced to wear hijab even to the gym all in the name of some imaginary god.

See hatred from the bottom of the heart of human being!

GanagiBitrus:
Some things don't just jell.

Imagine using chain on a goat & rope on a dog.

It would look weird and odd only because you have been conditioned to certain ways since birth

Inspirer1:
those who struggle to pay bills are mostly students who have to pay tuition fee AND bills.
You rarely see couples or even singles (who are working only) struggling to pay bills. You can enquire and confirm.

Laughing. How many workers earning or making above 100k monthly in Nigeria as at today?

talk2hb1:
That's the problem when you give authority to Idiots, they will always justifies their stupidity with unreasonable stupidity.
Every reasonable and forward thinking nations are pushing for cheaper power supplies to their populace, while someone somewhere is reverse thinking.

Income is stagnant, expenses keeps shooting up. Absurd phenomenon happening here!

That's how they will be encouraging corruption because citizens will be cutting corners to survive the hardship

Lol. Now, he is punishing us abi wetin? Just watch out for massive energy theft in gated houses

100% sure that he was killed by terrorists IDF

CodeTemplar:
I supported petrol and education subsidy to remain but endorse power subsidy to go. Immediately petrol subsidy made way May 2023, power subsidy miraculously started to pick up, not neccessarily due to improved supply but overestimation of usage by DISCOs. Lets power be used used for the most pressing needs like water pumping, press ironing, lighting, and maybe few other neccessary uses. Cheap electricity should be for productive uses and not for staying on tv allday watching african magic or bypassing it to run printing press.

Did you see how the new tariff is said to be higher than tariff in USA? A country with 30k as minimum wage! This is how Nigerian government is encouraging corruption because people have to survive by all means. Do you get it?

helinues:
Talk about your area

You can't give any area 20 hours a day for a whole month from paltry 5000 megawatts that is being generated to serve over 200 million people. Unless you're talking about IPP.

Donaldoni:
The issues are different.

The elite still gain MORE from the subsidies.

Somebody will just sit down somewhere and make an empty claim and get paid. The masses gain little.

It's better to take the subsidy away. It will surprise you that the trillions paid as electricity subsidy should not be more than some hundred billions in actual fact.

Laughing real hard here
All these subsidies that they are removing so that masses wouldn't benefit anything directly from the government, whose pockets does it ends up now? No be the same elites that you're shouting? 100% of it is now ending up in their pockets.

Tinubu removed subsidies, gave govs double of their usual allocations and palliatives, govs sat on everything. So bad that Tinubu himself was begging them to do little for the masses. Lol.

They have now turned governance to masses versus elites. They're inflicting hardships on masses, putting more people into poverty, eroding middle class and still selling us dummy that they are fighting elites on behalf of the masses. Meanwhile, masses are still the ones bearing the brunt.

Whatever Tinubu removes from the masses, elites will always have their own share through the back door. Look at how NA padded the 2024 budget and Tinubu still signed it! They added 3 trillion naira and you're being told that elites are being punished

helinues:
I actually don't have issue with the increase in electricity tariff but the wrong grouping of Areas to wrong Band.

If areas are grouped base on the duration of electricity they received in a week, the new tariff won't have much effects with whatever Band group

Above is the rate for no of hours to consume 1 unit for those who are in Band A which I think is still fair enough

There is nothing like wrong grouping, no area in Nigeria enjoy 20 hours of electricity per day for a month non stop with this frequent national grid collapses. On top of that, 5000 megawatts for population that's around 250 million people. How can any area be said to be enjoying 20 hours of electricity a day, everyday?

Donaldoni:
There is NO free lunch in life.

Subsidy can kill Nigeria.

With no subsidy on virtually all aspects of our life in Nigeria, what improvements have you seen somewhere else with all these trillions of naira coming to Tinubu's administration?
They're taking N100, N50, N300 subsidy per masses away from them but busy buying SUV worth 130 million naira for each lawmaker and budgeting 180 million naira per one streetlight/borehole. You think any right thinking Nigerian should support this kind of misplacement of priorities?

You're sustaining nothing.
And those areas that are exempted from this new N225 tariff will suffer terrible blackouts in the coming months because Discos will direct 90% of their power to the band A with N225 per unit to make money and leave like 10% power for other bands with N66 per unit

fourboys:
Christians don endure too much

From who?
Israel is not even a Christian nation, I don't understand this association by force

Israel has only one God, and that's USA

zionstaar75:
this write up is a bloody lie and only ignorant people will believe it. First you can never use the same number of units in a month. It's practically impossible. I know because I've been using prepaid meter for 12 years and I've never used the same units twice. Secondly if u don't have light your meter will not read so you can't be using the units when there's no light. Common sense has become scarce on nairaland I now use the platform only once or twice a week

I believed that you're the one who failed to employ common sense here. You might not use the same units every month but there is what we call average consumption.

Lanretoye:
Those who no Dey for the band A na them Dey complain,una go cry another man cry tire.
Some of them don’t even get up to 2hrs daily,them carry tariff hike for head without thinking about how they have been paying for those in band A.

And you believe that band A dey get light for 20 hours?

PressMyButton:
PDP sold NEPA to incompetent individuals while Government keeps paying subsidy to support their operations. Such can only happen in Nigeria where we keep giving money to buyers of public assests. They are only interested in collecting subsidies to futher enrinch themselves, for so long, Government has been paying subsidy for darkness. Kudos to the President for gradually putting a stop to the fraud.

So, it was all fraud all along but you're still saying Kudos to Tinubu for shifting that scam to the poor citizens. Is it not his responsibility to protect the citizens?