₦airaland Forum

Missy B:
BB . . . .I want the best You can offer and I want it sharp sharp.
E get as E deh do me, right now.

AjanleKoko:
who be the FNSE? The babe or her mom?

Wallie:
lol, female engineers are not as common but I have two in my family! One has her bachelors and masters in electrical engineering, and another masters in engineering management. The other switched fields to a medical line after her first bachelors in EE.

AjanleKoko:
^^
Were your folks in the engineering profession?
My wife's an engineer, her older sister's an engineer, her younger brother is an engineer. Primarily because their dad is an engineer as well.

My own folks were arty types though. We did manage to produce a PhD in physio, and an engineer (me). The rest of my siblings went the arty route as well.

webgenius:
I was pleasantly surprised to get a mail from Starcomms telling me of the expiration of my package in a few days time. I have previously complained several times to customer care of thev reason why we could not have this kind of service just like one could check the balance on one's phone by *225#. I am happy to note that one could now check one's status and remaining days on the network.
If we don't ask or complain, we would get nothing. I have even started asking them to give us Total broadband(8-10Mbps), who knows one day it would just happen

Dis Guy:
oxymoron

you said the law is already in place, then went on to say govt is fixing the price of electricity at below generation rates

so govt make law for private investor then fix price at a loss to same investors = oxymoron

Dis Guy:
For an extremely capital intensive and complex case liek the PHCN, you will need to have it on gorund working and expandable before you can actually privatise these things-- no matter how rare and valuable a 1904 car is; a car enthusiast wont necessarily be rushing for it in africa it it has no engine or repairable suspension!!!

Private sector wont just rush in for a moribund trouble infrastructure like our current PHCN when the laws are not clear on who owns what or what is actually for sale, distribution, generation or transmissions

freeman07:
netotse
@netotse,
r u trying to say i got my transcripts in an illegal way??
If you are serious about your interview, you will get a copy of your transcripts mahn.
I got Unilag to send my transcripts to an educational consulting firm, there i got the copy. Statement of result doesnt hold enuff water. Its printed on a plain paper with just LAG letterhead. Transcripts are printed on a special paper.
Waleprizu, the choice is yoursss,

lolliba:
Electrical/Electronic Engineers in the House: I already have two years experience in the power engineering sector in Nigeria and need your candid advice.

Please assist me in making a decision on these two MSc courses abroad.


I want to study a course that is relevant to the industry and guarantees easy job acquisition abroad after graduation.

I have two admissions and want to make the right choice.

1. MASc in Power Engineering at Ryerson university- Canada

Course Content:
The Power Systems Engineering and Controls undertakes research in the area of electric motor drives, solid state converters, uninterruptible power supplies, power system protection, electronic ballasts, control systems, robotics, artificial intelligence, nonlinear control, sytem modeling, and pattern recognition.



2. MSc in Power Engineering with Business at University of Strathclyde- UK

This course is skewed towards industrial application as it covers areas such as :
Power Electronics and Control of Electrical Machines
Electricity Markets and System Economics
• Instrumentation and Condition Monitoring
Elective Classes (two of the following)
• Regulation in Network Industries
• Computer Technology and Modern Programming Concepts
• Power Systems Analysis and Operation
• Protection Systems
Semester 2
Compulsory Classes
• Case Study Assignment
• Advanced Power Systems Analysis and Design
• Advanced Power System Protection
• High Voltage Technology
Elective Classes
• Power Systems Electromagnetic Compatibility
• Computer Control System Methods
• Wind Power Technology



Please, also consider job availibility in UK & Canada when helping me make this decision.

Your urgent reply will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Kobojunkie:
Any data backing up your N10 per unit production claim? @Netotse

Wallie:
My guess is that you were not applying for an entry level position because only seasoned engineers get exposed to writing proposals.


lol @ jomo-ing. Autocad is only needed when designing a new part especially if you’re worried about fitting issues. Visio is probably more than enough for your drawings.

Autocad is a very cool program especially if you’re trying to build prototype. I need to learn to use it again someday but I remembered it was hell when I had to use it in school!

Take a look at this! Autocad + 3D printing = any prototype.

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Links banking crisis, collapse of real sector to power chaos

A new report prepared for the Central Bank and the Committee of Bankers has offered a comprehensive insight into the hapless state of Nigeria’s public power sector which has become a drainpipe into which more than one Ntrillion has been sunk, and is now in a worse shape than it was ten years ago.

The report was prepared by Rupert de Borchgrave, special advisor from the CBN, Andrew Alli, CEO of African Finance Corporation, Onche Ugbade, Chief Strategy Officer of First Bank, and assisted by private consultants.

The report which has since been handed over to the Jonathan administration, also seeks, for the first time, to establish a linkage between the power sector mess and the failure of the real sector and the banking sector crisis.According to the report, a copy of which has been obtained by BusinessDay, “total on-grid generating capacity in Nigeria is 2,500 MW, of which only 500 MW is being generated by PHCN, with the remainder coming from AES, AGIP and Shell. Total private diesel generation by firms and individuals is estimated at 5000-6000 MW.”BusinessDay analysts say, globally, it costs about $1m to deliver one MW of power, except in Nigeria where the cost can be ten times more in the case where power is delivered at all, and the report blamed PHCN’s failure on mismanagement, poor quality service delivery, excessive spending to oil corruption, and the convoluted procurement processes; all of which have left the power sector technically bankrupt.

The authors of the report said the power network in Nigeria “suffers from unstable transmission and distribution, overloaded transformers, obsolete equipment and poor planning; all of these under the management of staff who are poorly trained and poorly motivated, with little interest in seeing improvements, but with a major interest in maintaining the status quo. Not surprisingly, PHCN does not have a credible programme of repair, maintenance and overhaul in place.In a blistering critique of the NIPP projects on which the government is placing hopes of improved power, the report said: “Generating capacity from the realizable NIPP projects (most of which are unlikely to come on stream before 2011) is estimated at circa 4,800 MW. None of these projects are near completion and the delivery dates keep shifting.”

In the absence of any radical reform of the sector, it said more than half this capacity will be lost from gas supply shortage and power losses over the collapsing transmission and distribution networks. Establishing a correlation between the power sector failure and banking sector crisis, the authors posited that “the banking sector crisis was largely caused by the inability of the real economy to absorb credit, thereby forcing banks to lend their freshly raised capital post-consolidation to the capital market, real estate and hydrocarbon sectors.”

“The inability of the banks to lend to the real economy is due to high overheads in the service sector resulting from the high cost of substitute energy, and the non-viability of manufacturing in the absence of constant power supply.”In addition, the report said the banking sector itself also suffers directly from high operating overheads resulting from the high cost of substitute energy, leading to high cost, income ratios, wide net interest margins, and lending rates in excess of 20 per cent.

The document’s authors argue that the long term economic growth and viability of the economy including the banking and financial sectors require falls in lending rates and the operating expenses of lenders and borrowers, neither of which is possible without fixing the power supply debacle.

EVANS4GOD:
Barth Nnaji Now Special Adviser on Power
, Head Presidential Task Force on Power •FG to spend N45.77bn on electricity subsidy
From Kunle Aderinokun and Sufuyan Ojeifo in Abuja, 06.22.2010

In line with his promise to strengthen the administrative structure to drive reform in the power sector, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday named a former Minister of Science and Technology, Prof. Barth Nnaji, as his Special Adviser on Power.
The Federal Government has also budgeted N45.77 billion for electricity subsidy in the 2010 fiscal year, Accountant General of the Federation, Mr. Ibrahim Dankwambo, said yesterday.

Nnaji is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering of the Universities of Massachusetts and Pittsburgh in the United States .
By his appointment, Nnaji will now head the Presidential Task Force on Power, which is saddled with the responsibility of developing and driving the action plan for the attainment of steady power supply in the country.
Jonathan had during his Presidential Media Chat on Sunday hinted that the appointment of the Special Adviser on Power would be announced yesterday.

He said so while responding to questions on the progress of reform in the power sector, which the Federal Government under the late President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua set out to achieve.
A statement issued yesterday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ima Niboro, said Nnaji is expected to work with other members of the Presidential Task Force on Power “to evolve workable strategies for rapid improvement of power generation, transmission and distribution in the country.”

He said members of the task force, which would report directly to the President and the Presidential Action Committee on Power, include the Permanent Secretary (Ministry of Power); Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC); Managing Director, Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN); Managing Director, Niger-Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC); and Director General, Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP).
Other members of the task force, according to him, are the Director-General Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE); Accountant-General of the Federation; Chief Executive, Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC); Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of two power distribution companies; CEOs of two generating companies; Director of Power in the Ministry of Power and the Senior Special Assistant to the President (Special Projects.)

According to the statement, “The newly-appointed Special Adviser will also work with seven Special Assistants who will oversee the monitoring of performance and progress on specific power sector issues in the areas of generation, transmission, distribution, fuel-to-power, the National Integrated Power Project, BPE, regulatory issues and other transition enablers, and labour issues.”
Jonathan had during the media chat hinted that the Federal Government might opt for privatization to bolster power generation and distribution.

According to him, “We believe that generation must be completely privatized. No matter what, if you bring government to continue to generate, you would never get anywhere.
“Distribution must be completely privatized because there have been some leakages through one way or the other. Government can concentrate on just transmission and; even that transmission government can still give it out to consultants at a particular arrangement.”
He said that for now, government was trying to see if some of the transmission and generation projects that were on-going could be completed soon.

Dankwambo, who spoke to select-journalists in Abuja, however said that the dream of uninterrupted power supply may not be realised any time soon as the Federal Government did not possess the requisite financial resources to develop the energy sector.
The private sector that would have supported efforts of the government by investing in the sector, he expalined, were not encouraged due to heavy subsidisation by the later .
Going forward, Dankwambo therefore advised the Federal Government to immediately deregulate the energy sector, so as to drastically improve electricity supply in the country.

He said with the long history of power price determination and its attendant adverse effect on the overall socio-economic development of the nation and its people, only full deregulation of the sector will create the needed incentives for potential investments required to turn around the sector.
“If the energy sector is not deregulated, the truth is that only the Federal Government will be able to invest because the necessary incentives to attract and encourage private sectors' investments are not there”, the AGF said.

Dankwambo decried the current arrangement where the cost per unit of power is N22 for government to purchase and thereafter sell for only N6. He insisted that such arrangement amounted to wastage of scare resources that would have been channeled into other productive areas of development.
“The current situation is unsustainable because government cannot afford to continue buying power from independent producers at N22 only to sell at N6 to the public, thereby incurring a huge loss of N16 per unit cost.

“This is definitely an abnormality that should not be allowed to continue in the overall interest of Nigeria ’s socio-economic development and growth,” he added.

Dis Guy:
isnt this like making Jim Ovia the Special Adviser on Banking and Financial Services

_{and what is happening to Prof's power plant it was scheduled for 2008}