₦airaland Forum

Osariemen12:
No one expected him to be this slow. Unfortunately, he is. All he knows is local politics.

I don't think he's slow, this is naked self interest.

Walezy2020:
One of the reason we have high unemployment rate increased is because our population increased but most industries we had then had fold up

The population has more than quadrupled since that time.

There is no economic system in the history of mankind that could handle such an absurd population growth.

Osariemen12:
The man is slow in thinking.


Nigeria never had it this bad. Who believed we would miss Buhari on a day like this?

I really didn't expect Tinubu to be worse than Buhari and yet somehow he is.

Franking:
Forensic audit will explain who took most of the money.....forget story, thief them plenty. Including you wey dey read. No cap.

Auditors lie all the time when it is a simple company, how much worse when a whole country can persecute you for telling the truth?

Basic123:
God and have a sincere knowledge seeking conversation with non partisan pundits among your kinsmen people like NOI or Soludo.

America has one of the largest crude oil deposit in the whole world and one of the largest oil refinery and at the same timr of thr largest oil importers.

This is a free market,the fact that a country is producing something doesnt mean Whoever wants to import cant import.Its a free market,the consumer go for whichever they like and the government also make money from importation.

The "free market" has been a disaster for African nations. It has not, nor will it ever, work in our favor.

The western world writes rules that benefit it, forces those rules on the rest of humanity and then penalizes anyone who dares to exercise economic freedom. Just as Cuba or Iran about thole so-called "free market".

And wisdom is better than stupidity.

Child marriage is pure stupidity.

Stephen0mozzy:
If you see where some buka for dey prepare food eh, you go start dey cook by force. Some of them are so nonchalant about it.

The first question you should ask is "where are they getting their water from?",

COMPAQ:
This is fake news!!! I flew at MMIA 2 weeks ago and there was very fast, free internet. It was like 60MBps.

Was it Glo or MTN? I've used free wifi in Nigerian airports but I'm pretty sure it was Glo.

laivwire:
Imagine landing in a country where your sim isn't registered and you can't even connect with the people who are supposed to pick you up. Many times I have had to beg and borrow a strangers phone just to connect with others in the airport awaiting my arrival.

The moment you land in Nigeria, you get a feeling of the hardship once they open the doors of that plane. From the heat to the dysfunctional carousel to the "wetin you bring come" crew despite billions going down yearly. May God help us

But to be fair, some personnel have really improved their professionalism especially customs and when departing.

They've definitely slowed down on the begging at the airport and you can see that they're working to improve MMIA but not having free wifi in 2026 is archaic.

What happened to Glo? Did they not used to provide that service?

michoim:
How do you mean a typical African monopolist? Are you forced to buy shares? Baseless bias

She's right on recognizing his monopoly power in certain sectors.

That doesn't come about by chance or even by providing superior service.

FatimaAbubakar:
A typical African monopolist.

Just another self serving capitalist.

Not at allunique to Africa.

JuanDeDios:
Well, the road is important, but since we already have roads on that corridor but no rails, the rail is more important. When resources are scarce, you have to allocate them based on order of importance.

With the way the traffic is in Lagos (as well as the terrible driving) they need to provide other modes of transport, especially rail.

More roads only incentivizes car travel.

Wadoboy:
Rivers na Capital city na


Don't even go there, else you will be amputated or Amupitan

Did you forget when you made your initial comment?

PigTormentor:
This is what should have happened to Trump. Oh well.

Trump has 34 felony convictions. He should be in prison but the American judiciary is inherently corrupt.

nairalanda1:
1.Because they are not making enough income to buy meters for everyone .

2.And anyway, 68% of metered consumers do bypass their meters, according to the appropriate regulator...so even if everyone was metered, it won't do much

3.Let's not forget that even if everyone was metered, and no one bypassed, and all paid, only Band A users, who account for 20% of consumers, pay a cost reflective tarrif. Everyone else doesn't. And subsidy money which should cover for the resulting losses are so inadequate, and do not even cover the resulting loss, and the government isn;t helping either.

Even the people willing to pay for meters end up frustrated.

nairalanda1:
Well, however a company or utility is run, you cannot charge below cost, and claim you are helping people...because unfortunately, it costs money to provide electricity, and as such power has to be sold at a profit so that the utility company can expand and build and upgrade infrastrucuture.

KInd of sad, but it is what it is. Lord knows i wish it was otherwise.

A lot of countries in Asia and tte ME treat public utilities as a public necessity and don't look to make money from such services.

They may even subsidize such utilities but to treat them as something that must make a profit is dangerous.

nairalanda1:
It also works. The trick is...privatization has to be accompanied by allowing the companies to charge a cost reflective tarrifs.



SO, how did that work for the telcos?

Look, you are running away from the real problem...cost reflective tarrifs. That;s why NEPA did not work under government and is not working as a private concern. Cost reflective tarrifs.

Telcos are not constrained by geography. That's a bad comparison.

I can be in Abuja or Uyo and use any one of four different telcos.

I cannot choose my power company, it's a monopoly.

Other countries are also finding out how disastrous it is to farm out public infrastructure to private entities. The UK is having to renationalize its rail system and there's serious discussion regarding public water because of all the harm being caused by privatization.

France and Germany have also been forced to acknowledge their own failures regarding privatization.

ttmax09:
I'm on Band B, I just got 2 hours of light this morning since Monday midnight, the light had issues, we can't go 2 weeks without the light having issues, I recharged 5 thousand since Dec, and still have like 17 units this morning when the light was restored this morning when I went to check. When the light doesn't have issues, I get maximum 4hours, meanwhile the next street in front of mine are on Band A and they rarely take their light, so the issue is the privatisation, Gov should take over all the Discos and resell to fresh people who have funds to invest in infrastructure and also sell of TCN completely and make sure every house hold is using prepaid, then finally a strong law put in place to deter energy theft, I.E those who bypass meters and watch how everything falls into place.

Privatizing public utilities usually ends in failure in the long term.

The solution is to learn from this bad experiment, not to repeat it.

nairalanda1:
All the above is because government brought in price controls on privatisation, which meant that as at 2019, power companies were losing N30 whenever they sold power (Moghalu stated that the cost refelctive tarrif then was N58, PwC put it at N80, actual price being charged was N20-30 per unit).

Result is power companies, despite being private, cannot set their prices, unless government allows them, and as such cannot raise enough money to make improvements, and attract more investment. Infact, as regards distribution, three investors have been forced out or pulled out.

Government is even the reason why the thing is bad. When they were in charge they essentially sold electricity at low prices, and also did nothing about power theft. Hence low money, meaning nothing significant for upgrades, plus governors connecting people to the grid over the decades who were not paying...the wreck that was handed over to discos and gencos.

Privatizing public utilities has been exposed as a failed policy the world over.

You can never have proper competition when it comes to utilities, there will always be geographic constraints. You are essentially granting monopolies to entities that have zero insentive to do right by their customers.

It's as stupid as privatizing your military.

nairalanda1:
Cold reason for possible inflation of the bills? Most people are not paying or are not paying enough. So, bills are inflated for consumers who do pay.

(Also, the 'inflated bills' commentary is code for 'electric power should be free of charge'. Let's not lie).

Metering does not solve the billing problem. As at last year, 68% of metered consumers bypass their meters.

You fix that problem by installing suitable meters.

Instead the power companies will frustrate customers who ask for new meters, why is that?

Wadoboy:
Cross River n Akwa Ibom is the hotbed of cultist in the South South na.

So be careful outchea

More than Rivers or Delta?

How is that even possible?

Does this idiot know what the "E" stands for?

E-transmission with no electricity?

Lol. Mumu talk.

This man says a lot and much of it is absolute nonsense.

QuinQQ:
Well, many societal norms and practices can be considered "foolish" and "backwards", doesn't prevent them being the practices that obtain and what we have to work with.

To get visa for your foreign child to bring the child into your country on the basis that you are a citizen, it is easier for a mother not married to the child's father than for a father not married to the child's mother.
See the definition of bastard below

That word is archaic and the definition is rooted in foolishness.

We have DNA testing, we can readily identify paternity. Civilized societies understand that.

eazzzy1:
Anybody can do this regardless of race. This sounds amusing to some guys because some of you have an unwarranted high expectations about women.

It’s a numbers game, the more women you ask for knacks, the more women you would sleep with. This guy won’t show you the ones that rejected his advances.

If 1 in 20 girls agree to this arrangement and you talk to 1000 girls, you would have gotten 50 girls. This is how the mind of a player works. Some girls want what you want, you are just not asking and closed mouths don’t get fed.

The truth.

iichidodo:
Not a fan of elrufai but this is total b.s. Tapping of cellphones is the skillsets of secret government organisations of second or first world countries not private individuals of the likes of elrufai....So if we should believe this then it goes to say that Elrufai is as powerful as CIA, FBI, Mossad never mind DSS..

It's not as high tech as you make it seem. Chinese criminal gangs have been doing it and the Israelis have been selling the technology to crooked governments the world over, including Nigeria.

It's amazing tte number of Boko Haram supporters who don't live in the country.

QuinQQ:
All over the world the default position is that the children stay with the mother even when they marry and divorce, how much more when they're not married at all. Even embassies won't recognize them for immigration purposes if you are not married to their mother. Society makes it a big deal when a man is not married to his child's mother.

That's only backwards societies that still think that way.

A birth certificate has both parents listed. Children will need the consent of both parents to travel.

It's a foolish custom to spend so much on marriage. Marriage should entail the courts only, if it lasts ten years then you can celebrate lavishly if you so wish but to celebrate before you've done anything is backwards.

Flangelo12:
What problems are you solving?

How to relieve gullible people of their resources.

Partly A, partly B and partly D.

Lagos is clean?

By what metric?