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I completely disagreement with this argument. Firstly, I am sure most Nigerians will be happy to pay for electricity of they have quality electricity with affordable tariffs. The current electrical infrastructure is inefficient and inadequate which means high operational cost...
Nigerians needs to generate large scale electricity via either solar or nuclear and watch the cost come down.

Why do we need foreigners to install and design 15MVA transformers. Are we that primitive? I'll understand 132kV - 400kV but 33kV? This is even more embarrassing considering Nigeria transmission/distribution network has very basic protection system and there's no strict regulation on customer minute loss.

This guy is being nuked by Efcc. Anyways, considering how sloppy EFCC have managed previous case I.e Yahaya hello I am not sure they'll make thr charges stick

I am worried about diabetes for whoever ate that food. The sugar to garri ratio looks unbalanced

Goodnewsforlife:
what about what happened in ebonyi?

Okay this conversation is going no where, but I am not surprised.

@seun I remember myself and few others warning you about the degrading quality of discussions as far back as 2007, yet nothing have changed.
You need to revamp the forum to appeal to more intellectuals.

Goodnewsforlife:
has obi ever condemn ipob before?

Makes no difference to me as he is not the president. Tinubu is the president and should deal swiftly with IPOB should they prove to be a nuisance. IPOB will be at the bottom of my priority if I was the president (due to limited respurces) as they are no where as deadly as boko haram and fulani herdsmen.

Goodnewsforlife:
what do u have to say about d awkuzu killing?

Guy, when obi was there he didn’t do anything reasonable.

https://dailypost.ng/2022/10/24/peter-obi-opens-up-on-awkuzu-sars-killings/

See what he said about the killings. You clearly have a vendetta against him and that's fair, but let's us all direct our anger at the federal government. What happened in Plateau shouldn't be happening at all.

Goodnewsforlife:
what do u have to say about d awkuzu killing?

Guy, when obi was there he didn’t do anything reasonable.

Any killing perpetrated by either IPOB or boko haram should all be condemn. However, my concern is your fixation on Igbos/ipob more than the crime going on all over the country.
Obi is not the president so your critism should be directed more towards Tinubu who has so far been disappointing.

Goodnewsforlife:
The same obi that can’t condemn ipob despite d fact they kill everytime

This guy is just an hypocrite who preys on unintelligent folks, he supports ipob (killers) with one hand n when he wants to b politically correct he condemns them

I don't understand this reasoning at all. Shouldn't he condemn the killing even if his critism is selective? I hate the false equivalence you lot parade on this forum.

Do you guys think before you talk at all?

This is just a political stunt as he has shown to be a weak leader - easily influenced by religious fanatics. He wrote that statement because SW is key to his ambition.

For that price it needs to be oil painted

Actually word fail me, so I'll pass on this one.

Any chinese company shut down should never be allowed to reopen again. No Nigerian will get away with this in China

I think it's better Nigeria get used to this virus and reopen the economy as there are no proper testing facilities, contact tracing and health care to manage this crisis.

Nigeria has a young demographic as the majority anyways so the impact will be less than European countries

The last pic looks like a hatch tz.

This looks tacky with the funky lights

A lot of Nigerian politician are so incompetent

commodore007:
I hope this does not lead to an external debt crisis in the future,since the 90s ,we have experienced a decline in our industrial output and our export performance has not been encouraging, as a continent Africa has the largest number of mineral resources, and africa also has a huge population as 70 % of her population is below the age of 40. But with all of these advantage most African nations still depend on loan and aid to survive or to even make a meaningful budget,The annual income of Google is more than the total income of all west African nations combined,if Nigeria is truly the giant of Africa then the hope of Africa is really bleak .we have develop our human capital,intellectually and our values has to be realigned,[b]The right values always creates value [/b]the previous Generation were Enslaved with chains,the next Generation should not be Enslaved with debts, it's time to think outside the box and to also live outside the box#God bless Nigeria#

Very aptly put, but I fear the window of change is becoming too narrow - Partly down to brain drain couple with the never ending assualt on intellectualism in Africa. I fear for the next generation in African and even more so for Blacks all over the world, as we'll keep being looked down on as long as Africa remains backward. Link and effect and all that.

This theory does not hold up and it'll be even more damning if it's true.

NaMeAboki:
Agreement was signed on transmission (i.e. improving grid network capacity); govt is currently mulling over doing also same to the distribution network (due to the apparent incompetency and failure of the DISCOs): Transmission and Distribution are two different things - pls let us not confuse issues.

Giving the contract to Siemens to manage both network will be a critical mistake in the long term.
The best solution is for Nigerian government to deregulate the power sector and encourage private independent connection providers.

US is slightly different but i know UK practices one of the most diversified network systems in the world.
In UK, National grid owns and manages the transmission lines while DNOs like UKPN, WPD, SSE, NPG etc. manages the distribution lines. Below them you have IDNO for downstream of distribution network and then BNO for internal building works.

The main advantage of this is a security of supplies as there are more competition and diversified network. In other words, if one network of one company fails other networks are able to provide alternative supplies.

TheEffective:


Seun and Lalasticlala will not learn. There are people on Nairaland since 2005. They need to be appreciated.

I think you'll find most of the old members are doing well for themselves and are in some cases richer than Seun.

Say no more.

bigstan11787:
This should be a rhetorical question

How is this a rhetorical question?

free2ryhme:
Instead of explosion, more likely an implosion at crush depth after a systems failure.

The withstand pressure of a typical submarine is a lot higher than what is required to cause what you just said. Even more so for the said location.

Not wishing to be the eternal pessimist, I feel that in the terms of the original post, nothing concrete can be or will be achieved. The history of the human race shows that we have always, not just in the 21st Century, been better at destroying our world about us than sustaining it. Yes the human mind and heart is capable of wonderful things, beauty, emotion, art, music, literature, architecture, technological innovation. But the dark side of human nature always seems to prevail in the long run. A beautiful artifact that took decades to complete can be destroyed in a microsecond - and as we are seeing, often is. Other things of beauty are ephemeral with no lasting effect.

Humans are avaricious, they consume and store more than they need. In terms of feeding themselves, they slaughter 3,000 animals every second: sentient beings that share this planet with us. We waste and pollute the earth, and deplete its water reserves in order to spend 40 kilos of protein to create 1 kilo of beef. And do we care, deep down? Yes we wail and gnash our teeth about this, and all the other issues that we perhaps genuinely hold dear: the environment, population growth, poverty, refugees, ethnic and racial hatred. What do we REALLY do about it?

The Nations that promised money to the United Nations to care for refugees, did not deliver on their pledges. So we see all the evils of conflict, poverty and mass migration arriving on our comfortable Western doorsteps, and once again we wail and gnash our teeth. But pretty soon we return to such much more vital concerns such as how big a TV screen we want to buy with borrowed money, or the latest mobile phone or other gadget.

I was born and raised a capitalist, and I suppose I still am. But the search for eternal economic growth: growth that MUST exceed population growth, otherwise we are going backwards, whatever that means, growth that must fuel financial and commodity exchanges, so that a few of the world's population can retire gracefully on index-linked pensions while deprived people in other parts of the world work as slaves to make that happen - this I now realise is not the capitalism I signed up for. It is a capitalism that is ripping humanity apart.

And then there is the fatal flaw in the human gene: greed, envy, hostility. Instead of sharing resources, we go to war in one form or another to grab more than we need, leaving the other guy with nothing. We entrust our futures to professional politicians out of apathy: they limit our democratic choices to the point when we no longer see the point in voting. If, of course we live in a country that has a meaningful voting system. And the politicians rule us, they govern us, they steal the money from our pockets, they take us to war, our sons die for them or for some jingoistic call to patriotism broadcast by venal and corrupt leaders.

The world of humans is stifling in corruption: petty corruption to the corruption that goes to the very top. And it is not only in the brutal world of African or Middle Eastern dictators. Recent months and years have shown that we in the Western world are just as bad.

Some have said that it only takes one good person to change the world. I say the opposite: it only takes 1 evil person to dominate and subdue 1,000 - no, millions - of good people. In the "civilised" world this is achieved through the narcotic of apathy and the stimulation of consumerist greed. Elsewhere it is achieved with bombs and bullets and gas and torture chamber. In which we are complicit, wittingly or unwittingly.

It is telling that right now, we are talking of colonising other planets. Perhaps because we know deep down that this one is fVcked?

This has Carlos slim saga written all over it

It does look like a colossal mess. A referendum organised under dubious pretences, that will be boycotted by masses of the people, and held under an already hostile environment could never be regarded as democratically legitimate. The whole thing would have been pointless, and the Spanish government could go on ignoring it, which probably isn't sustainable in the long run, but they could have done that anyway. Going in with massively heavy handed police tactics to stop a pointless vote is a moronic tactic, and isn't going to help anything.

That is a decent ride. 911 is a better value still.

claremont:
My mentor, Jeremy Corbyn (UK Labour Party leader) sitting on the floor of a train because there were no available seats.

That picture of Jeremy is really misleading, at least the intention was.

Rick9:
Nnamdi KANU never should have set up a Biafra Secret Service, that's the height of treason. I am not an IPOB but as a Student of Political Philosophy, its right for any group to seek for independence.
But setting up a Para military organization in a sovereign country was totally a wrong move.

Who ever was advising him surely didn't have his best interest at heart. Really stupid move beyond believe. Seems his ego was his biggest enemy.
If you are going to campaign for secession it has to be within the law or at the very least according to international law.

My biggest worry above all for Nigerians is that the executive branch seems pretty weak to stand up to the President. Presidents generally are power hungry and they will always overreach their executive power, which is why you need other branch of power to be able to stand up to president.

Second and most important worry has to be Nigerians (nairaland) attitudes to this abuse of power. Those who sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither and it would always backfire in the long run. Where will it end?

chivic:
In the past once there is rumour of attack on a northerner in the south,or someone makes a derogatory comment that is passived as inflammatory or derogating to Islam or even in some extreme case when isreal is said to be attacking one of the Arab countries then their is great tension in the north as sometimes it results to killing of innocent individual,destroying of businesses and burning down of worship places.
However,even with the reported case on line that ipob or some miscreant are searching for hausas,a counter report in the north to remain calm by one or two groups is highly commendable. If the north where acting like this is the past,a lot of things would have been better off in this country and a lot of innocent blood shedding would have been averted .

I must confess that I have never seen the north acting with such maturity.This act is capable of fostering the unity of our great nation.

This b.s sounds like a comment from a defeated soul. Shouldn't this be the normal response?

Can we please populate this thread with pictures and updates? This thread is too quiet for my liking.