₦airaland Forum

9jakohai:
Well, the reason why prices are going up in fuel and gas is because we no longer have the dollars to subsidize fuel and gas.

Yes, prices did not go up during GEJ's time....because oil was above $100, meaning we had the kudi to keep fuel prices low, and defend the naira adequately. Now oil is hovering around $50. A year ago it was $28. A year ago we also had to remove subsidy, so prices went up.And we had to restrict dollar outflows...or else naira would have reached $1 to N1500 by now.

If you want to enjoy ''good life''.....pray for oil to go back to $100 and above.

asokoromadam:
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StOla:
I voted for buhari primarily on the promise to fight corruption. My disappointment with him is that he is too soft and slow about it, even when others think him to be tyrannical about it. By now our prisons should have been overflowing with convicts while government should be planning on building bigger prisons as there is no limit to the wonderful ability of Nigerians to abuse the financial trust their position in government conveys, either as political office holders or a civil servant in a government ministry or agency.

Whether power falls to 0MW or 250MW, it does not erase the installed capacity of the country. If the resources used to generate power becomes unobtainable, generation would fall but does it erase the fact that we now have over 5000MW installed capacity in this regime?
So a 1day shutdown to 0MW is nothing awkward, even a total power sector strike results to the same 0MW, but does not erase the installed capacity.

Even the 4000MW version 2.0 attained by Jonathan in November 2014, by February 2015 it was announced that over 2800MW was lost and only 1100+MW was available. Whether that administration returned to generating full installed capacity of 4000MW by May 2015, is unknown.

So anything can affect the generation below installed çcapacity, any vandal can sabotage the supply of the necessary resources, even reduced rainfall can result to a drop. but no generation can exceed installed capacity. This government would show us its report card at the end of 4yrs, then we would know who was a failure.

You keep on mentioning inauguration by last regime, did jonathan not complete any project inaugurated by previous regimes, yet you give him the credit?
A certain project inaugurated bt the OBJ regime was recently commissioned in the Buhari regime but apologists of the GEJ wasted administration were giving credit to GEJ saying Buhari couldn't have done it in 1yr, meanwhile it was even OBJ that kickstarted it.

The trend seems to be, what is Buhari doing, his ministers are lazy, he should have done this or done that, bla bla bla. But when the Buhari regime commissions any project, we hear the same people say it couldn't have been inaugurated by the short time Buhari regime.

So if we are this knowledgeable about the timeline required to bring about development, why are we pretending to be daft and requesting for a Japanese development in 1+ years.

StOla:
The information was all over the news when it was attained this year.

The government does its work and reveals same to the people, they lament that it's media government, now you're lamenting that no public parade was held despite being in the news then.

Or did GEJ remain as president till this year? Has Buhari not spent 1.5yrs in power?

So you even know that power plants are not built overnight, yet you lament endlessly over lack of electricity as if the previous regime planned for you to enjoy stable electricity.

You know the 2015 budget was already passed by GEJ, did Fashola decline to implement what was left of it when he resumed in September?

I repeat, if you do not have electricity, that is what the GEJ regime consider you to be entitled to. Buhari has only ran his 1st budget in an economic recession and you want eldorado?

Stop wailing if you already know the task is uphill. Buhari did not cause your problems but he will solve it to the shame of those charlatans you hold in high esteem.

StOla:
The Buhari regime added to the grid, that's why it was noteworthy.

Or is it the spirits of Aso Rock that added the increase in generation?

StOla:
Tell me how many megawatts of electricity the GEJ regime added.

I know for a FACT that the OBJ regime celebrated 4000MW of electricity towards the end of 2006. I was surprised to see that the GEJ regime also celebrated the same 4000MW of electricity towards end of 2014.

It felt like a de javu. Who is deceiving who between the previous 4000MW and the GEJ version 2.0?

The current government has also announced that for the 1st time in the history of Nigeria, we have surpassed 5000MW installed capacity.

Let us see what they would attain in 4years even with crude oil selling below $50 per barrel.

One advice I would give to the Buhari regime is to make sure that the notorious and perennial power contractor, Sir Emeka Offor is made persona non grata as regards any future power contracts. He got loads of these contracts under OBJ, he also got same under GEJ, and we repeated 4000MW twice between 2006 and 2014, instead of moving forward.

StOla:
Give him an economy that earns oil revenue at $100+ per barrel which was what the government he was criticizing earned in 4/5years, then see if necessary infrastructure for generation, transmission and distribution cannot be actualised in 6months.

GEJ was a failure, Fashola spoke the truth, we kicked GEJ out for his failure so stop sulking like a baby.

Infrastructure is built with funds not on credit.

omonnakoda:
And how is it the work of an Engineer? Why is a Teacher good enough in Germany, a lawyer in France,
A graduate of international relations in Japan and an economics graduate in the UK

Are we to believe these countries are short of engineers

StOla:
Yes they have failed, else your round pegs would have solved all the problems. So let us see what square pegs would achieve in 1.5yrs.

They must perform a miracle or magic to satisfy your irrational expectation of overnight success.

omonnakoda:
Where did I blame Jonathan? You feel you have to be rude and insolent to make things interesting

StOla:
Give the government time. We all know that no case has been successfully prosecuted yet. The judicial system is a mess and cases would stall if the defendants grease the palms of the right judges.

Jide Omokore was reputed to have returned some money, despite that, he was recently charged to court. So you see such monies are still untouchable for now.

The Buhari campaign made promises we all hoped could be achieved, but promises have to be fulfilled with funds.

We are broke as a nation, it is not Buhari's fault, but it is his responsibility to get us out.

omonnakoda:
To be fair I am not a Fashola supporter and I am not saying whether he has done well or not but his being a lawyer does not disqualify him ant it is important to debunk that illiterate notion. In the top economies of the world the Energy Ministers are very commonly lawyers .In fact if you want to be a minister then you stand a better chance if you do not have a science or technology degree

Oblang:
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Justdulla:
hmmmn shortibanjo..keep insulting you leaders,am sure theres one primaru 5 kid already insulting you now.

Justdulla:
Please always read in detail before commenting Osibanjo said they did not meet any road project on ground. Most of the roads that Jonathans government wanted to invest in were just in paper and memorandum of understanding. Contractors had not moved to site and mobilization was not paid because dasuki was busy Fighting boko haram GALLANTLY ... Jonathan wanted tp many roads but the election just took his mind off it and he invested in Stomach Infrastructure. at least he invested in something. I just pray Fashola fixes the roads sha especially from kogi towards the South eastern/South South part of Nigeria cos those roads na real eyesore.

ps3o:
I will offer u 22k.

DeoGratias1:
Location pls

Kieldgreat:
Chief, where is is picture let's see.

Mercì