₦airaland Forum

Raysleek:
Electricity in Nigeria is no more a right and a social a memory but a commodity that is now being sold by the govt to the highest bidder.. If this is true then it's a shame

Since when did electricity become a right?... Electricity is a commodity for sale, and any salesman or vendor will be more willing to sell to customers who are ready to pay more.

Meanwhile did you say "sold by the govt"? A lot of Nigerians are still stuck in this same welfarist bubble where they believe govt is responsible for even bad weather conditions. IKDC is a private company, do you blame govt when your MTN or Glo network fails to connect??

Quite a mature response from Festus. Typically in situations like this, most people jump into defensive mode irrationally and then totally deny their buddies. But he just said it as it is, "my friend is my friend, regardless of what wrong he may have done."

Hungry shameless women everywhere...

MasterSteps:
Nigerian Police Force - Ministry of Police Affairs
Customs - Ministry of Finance.

Police affairs didnt exist 2015 to 2019.

Customs under ministry of finance?... I had no clue about that

Gaddafithe2nd:
Police Force is not under Ministry of interior. They have their own ministry and a minister of police affairs.

Yeah that's correct. But I think it's just a recent development. if I'm right, there was no ministry of police affairs between 2015 & 2019, the police was under the interior ministry in the last tenure.

Are they siblings?

funmike83:
If in may ask , of what benefit is this ministry to the poor and to the nation as a whole? This is pure distraction and a way of embezzling money

The Interior Ministry oversees internal security in the country; it oversees the Nigerian Police Force, Immigration, Customs, Civil Defence, Prison Services, Fire Service etc.

Are you still wondering what role the ministry plays in the nation as a whole?

IGBOSON1:
And i can assure him the core northern muslim elite will not return the favour!

Naive elite like Nnia Nwodo are a huge part of our problem as Igbos!

I guess if he had rather said Igbos should kill northerners living in Igboland, that would automatically make him your hero and a part of the 'solution'?....

After the whole IPOB saga ended few years back with Kanu leaving the country, I actually thought 'sense' had returned to the millions of Ipobians who lost it then.

deji68:
Well. all the states in the the Niger Delta have their own allocation. i dont think he is going to administer all these states. There are lot of uncompleted project in the Niger Delta abandoned by this same ministy. like u said let wait an see how he goes about the JOb. Big allocation no mean nothing ooo there are some state that cannot account for their big allocation or revenue , Delta, even Lagos

Niger Delta states all have allocations but that's not the point here, the point is that as the ND minister, Akpabio with a budget less than 10% of what he played with as governor, will now be saddled with the responsibility of distributing projects across 9 states, as opposed to just one.

I agree with you on states like Delta, Bayelsa and even Lagos; Lagos might claim to have a large urban space and population, but I still think that excuse doesnt sell when one considers the massive revenue.

jcross19:
no! they are marketing their goods! like H.I.V, hepatitis B virur, syphilis, herpes and many more!

If they're marketing their goods, how is that the problem of men who claim to be morally upright?... Or do they force the goods down on you or on anyone else?

grandstar:
What will Festus Keyamo do when Akpabio begins to dish out highly inflated contracts?

Huh!? How is this question related to my post?

Anyway, Festus has no portfolio, he's only been granted the privilege of beairing the title 'honorable minister'.

deji68:
I like the guy , he will do a great job...but he is corrupt sha, like all of them

Akpabio was able to do some beautiful things in Akwa Ibom because of the sheer size of money that state had. Akwa Ibom can easily be said to be the richest state by far in Nigeria and when you consider the massive allocation the state gets vs what Akpabio actually did, you will realise he was that wonderful.

Meanwhile, the allocation of the ND ministry is nothing to write home about (less than 10%) compared to the funds which were at his disposal as governor. To compound matters, Niger delta covers 9 states. It would be interesting to see what he can do with little or no funds to play with.

The ladies twerking online, did they lament to anyone that they're looking for men to take them to mama?

1x2x3:
The price will be the same for Poor Buhari supporters and the rest. .

This price increase was already agreed and instituted far back as 2013/2014 when the power companies were unbundled and that was before PMB became president. During the privatisation, DISCOs proposed a very high price but the agreement with govt was that the price increase would be implemented in phases through the years; first phase was for 2015, second phase 2019, and Nigerians should brace up for more rounds of tariff increase cos the DISCOs are still agitating for what they term "cost-reflective electricity tariff". Except you want Bubu to cancel the agreement signed or reverse the privatisation deal (with severe legal consequences), there's not much he has to do with this.

toolovely:
Comparing GSM and power is a very poor analogy.
GSM has many operators which made the market competitive. Each had options of fixing their own prices thereby attracting customers.
But power has no such thing.
In South East for example, who's competing with eedc? They have the sole right to distribute power there. They can choose to distribute or not and you will still pay. You can give a company monopoly and expect same company to reduce price.
And what happens to the billions of dollars that have been spent in the past for power generation?

But this problem of monopoly is the reason the govt has to step in through NERC to regulate the prices. The DISCOs have been lamenting that low cost of power is the reason they aren't able to raise enough revenue to improve their services; if the DISCOs were left too fix prices, Nigerians would by now have been paying thrice the current cost.

Since these ministerial portfolios were assigned today, one thing has sure been revealed - Keyamo has a large number of deeply bitter haters.

AmazingELixir:
My brother you are completely wrong when you stated that generation and distribution is as easy as ABC , ofcourse all those who made similar statements all met with calamitous failures starting with Bola Ige of blessed memory and of recent Raji Fasola, their utterances came about because of their limited understanding of the intricacies and peculiarities of the power sector especially in Nigeria.

To even say the problems of Nigerian power sector isn't technical is quite debilitating to say the least, Financing and policy formulation the other components of the sector come about with sound technical inputs not from personnel managers but discipline technical resource persons.

Fashola is a brilliant and astute resource manager atleast his exploits while at the helm of affairs in Lagos says somuch, why then did he fail, forget all those crap about increase in the generation capacity in the country, I tell you this in good authority never in the history of power transmission in this country have we had the number of total grid failure in a calendar year as under Fashola's time.

Those guys you mentioned (i.e. Bola Ige, Prof Nebo, Liyel Imoke, Fashola etc.) all made the same erroneous assumption you are making now thinking that the power problem in Nigeria persists due to just a lack of managers with technical knowledge. Those guys were all correct when they said power generation and distribution isn't rocket science. But where they all failed is in their lack of appreciation of the fact that you need something totally different from just technical skill / knowledge to light up Nigeria.

Prof Nnaji understood the market to a good extent because he was a major player; but the same forces which kicked him out are the same forces which made all the other power ministers to fail; that force isn't technical illiteracy, rather it is political, commercial, legal and administrative.

Mekenz:
I understand the points you're trying to pass across, but still you're still far from the reality on ground, let me share one story with you. not long ago, I was called upon to checkmate a building that has cracks at all corners of it,waiting to collapse to issue my expertise knowledge on how best to salvage it,to avert total collapse. these said building was own by a barrister in us,he was around and overseas the building,always claiming ITK, giving orders on best materials to be used,just months down the line the building started developing those faults, I earlier mention. he was so helpless and has no option than to seek for professional service,also imaging yourself an engineer, and you gave a contractor a project, you will always detect whenever he or she is trying to cut corners,because it is your field. choosing and delegating people to their areas of interest,knowledge and expertise can never be over emphasize, even if the person doesn't do much because of the Nigeria factors issues that you raised, but he will perform far more than a novice in that particular field.

You still miss the point; finding a solution to a cracking problem is a purely technical problem which needs a foreman with technical skill/knowledge. But imagine the actual problems stopping the repair of the building are inability to obtain funds from the building owner, a persisting legal dispute between land owner and host community, activity of area boys and cultists in the neighbourhood harassing the builders, etc. With these kind of problems, if you hire the best civil engineer in the world (but who has no street skills, administrative abilities, legal doggedness etc) to oversee that project, how exactly do you think that crack can be fixed.

Like I said before, the problems plaguing the progress in Nigeria's power sector are far from technical issues that just need a technically competent person to fix. If you have a glimpse of the political, legal, commercial, financial and even spiritual issues (like Prof. Nebo admitted in frustration) which plague the power sector in Nigeria, you will acknowledge my earlier statement that Nigeria's power problems are absolutely not technical.

cc: AmazingELixir

FarahAideed:
Lies my friend ...Power Generation as at today is a miserly 2600 MWs and under Jonathan it was 3800 MW .. please leave propaganda and face facts ..Buhari has not even added single MW to the grid since he came

Since 1999 till date, Nigeria's power generation has always fluctuated between 2000 - 4000mw; it was the same under OBJ, Yaradua, GEJ and PMB, no single improvement. So I wonder how people keep deluding themselves due to political sentiments saying it was better under president A or B. Live data is available from the NERC website.

AmazingELixir:


These people will never learn...why da bleep will this government keep designating the post of the power ministry to non engineers with little or no technical know-how to understand and manage such specialised position.

This is the very reason I do not take these visionless professional bodies seriously, where they are supposed to embark on aggressive advocacy they wouldn't all they are interested in is fighting for executive positions so they can embezzle collected dues and also use the platform to rein in contracts for their personal establishments. COREN & NSE comes to mind.

Fashola for all his successes as the governor of Lagos state failed woefully in this ministry because it's a case of square peg lost in a bottomless round shaft.

In the recent history the only appointee that understood the ministry and came up with a comprehensive blueprint to improve the comatose Nigerian power sector was Prof. Barth Nnaji, ofcourse he was on course to achieve that before the Nigerian factor crept in, his greed and personal interests blinded him to the set objective, which lead to his sack...only for that administration to bring in a near completely inept business man in the person of Prof. Chinedu Nebo and then the vicious circle continued.

Mekenz:
I wonder what a barrister is doing in a power sector, of course he will fail woefully, seriously assignments and positions should be delegated to your area of interest or study, how can you explain a barrister becoming a minister of works, whereas engineers are there, what a misplaced priority.

Nigeria's power problem isn't technical, it is purely administrative; I wonder why a lot of people still hold this extremely simplistic analogy that "power isn't working cos an engineer isn't minister"

From the technical point of view, power generation and distribution is as easy as ABC, it's one of the simplest problems mankind has solved and forgotten for over 100 years. That Nigeria doesn't have power today isn't because we lack the technical know-how, rather it is an administrative and leadership problem.

If you place the greatest professor of engineering the world has ever known as Nigeria's power minister, if he lacks the political will, administrative prowess, discipline, tenacity, street smartness, 'Nigerian wuruwuru smartness' and leadership abilities to bulldoze the cabals that have kept us in darkness, he will not be able to achieve anything.

aolawale025:
What a strange way to run a government. No wonder things aren't working

Nothing strange about meeting requests going through the desk of the CoS; that's actually the way it's done all over the world wherr things work.

I swear, the beg beg in Nigeria is just sickening. From door men to cleaners to security men to police to drivers to agberos.

"...let them come to THE overseas... "

Jonathanians need serious help...

The nigga should be allowed to defend himself against the allegations. I dont know him but if he truly committed the crime as alleged, he sounds too intelligent to allow himself be compromised by a simple IP trace. I believe we haven't heard the last of this story.

I think it would be really fcked up if Chief Obi joins the bandwagon to disown him now.

FreelanceRebel:
Do your proper research in Zaria police stations and from the local people. It's with patience people are living with them, they do whatever they like.
The Shiites had undermined the Govt for too long, taken over public property without permission.

I wouldnt doubt that they may cause some trouble (misdemeanors) here and there, but it probably has always been on a microscopic scale, which is why no one ever hears of it outside the zones they reside.

In all fairness, I must say I find it rather suspicious that their sworn enemies (Sunnis) are always the ones trying to preach to the world that they (Shiites) are troublemakers, mutineers, extremists and terrorists.

The greatest irony of all however still remains that these same Sunnis who were even vocally against the proscription of groups like Bokoharam, and who are currently vehemently rejecting the proscription of murderous herdsmen bandits are now the same people that really want bystanders to believe that their call for the proscription of Shiites in Nigeria is with genuine intent? Like I said before, it makes no logical sense.

CAPSLOCKED:
CCTV.... IN ALL HOTELS AND HOTEL ROOMS BECAUSE 2 PEOPLE'S BUSINESS NOW BELONG TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. WHAT A FOOL'S STATEMENT.

If the hotel had functional CCTVs at the entrance, in the reception, in corridors etc, it would have been very easy to identify the killer.

The statement says CCTV cameras should be installed in hotels, it did not say cameras should be placed in hotel rooms to expose your "2 PEOPLE'S BUSINESS". The person who made the statement is clearly not the fool here; you even had to type in red capital letters to boldy expose your poor eye sight to the world.

Charmingrascal:
So violence has been in his blood for a long a time.




He will stay in detention for a long time.
Some hypocritical Christians are bashing El rufai, calling him a Jihadist with sharia agenda but see nothing wrong in El Zakyzaky's extremism because it is Buhari that is the President.


Hatred for Buhari has blinded their eyes and they can't say the truth.



Zakyzaky is an extremist

I keep hearing that this man is a terrorist, the man is violent, the man is an extremist, the man is this and that, but when I check our history, his biggest antagonists happen to be mainly Sunni Muslims who we all know have a historical religious prejudice against whatever El Zakyzaky stands for.

A review of our local Nigerian history with regards violent extremism also confirms that the Shiites have never been responsible for any acts of public disorder. Rather it happens to just be that about all the acts of extremism related violence and public disorder have been perpetrated by Sunni based groups, yet these people want us to believe we should be more worried about Shiites?... That's rather illogical.

For such a resourceful chap with so much achieved in the entrepreneurial field in such a short time, why do I just feel there could be something wrong with this story?... And for someone alleged to have such IT prowess, how come it simply took an IP trace to capture him?... There's something fishy about this story; why do I feel the Obi guy himself is also a victim of the same fraud and a frame up?

The guy should be allowed to defend himself. I believe there's more to this.

Ayemileto:
Me sef i tire ooo.


The calculated 6bn as the amount they should have earned by the end of the 20yrs (2030), then go ahead to add 3bn interest.


Tge owners of that firm are thieves.

Nothing was built, nothing was supplied, no service whatsoever was rendered, but the clowns want Nigeria to pay $9billion to them because they have willing accomplices in a british court... How does a british court even have jurisdiction over the Nigerian govt?

The most unfortunate thing about this is that for some silly political inclinations and prejudices, there are actually Nigerians here even proposing that the govt pays up quickly, an amount which almost trumps our annual national budget.

Tetehjewels:
So this one was not by Fulani herdsmen afterall. I did say that so many crimes now will be carried out in a way as to shift the blame on Fulani herdsmen when they never committed it. I remember people shouting Fulani herdsmen were responsible for this one but see the outcome finally.

Nigerians we need to stop tagging everything as a fulani herdsman crime because that is stupidity. Crimes of this nature have been up and running even before we began shouting fulani herdsmen yen yen yen and they still are happening. Did all the southern robbers and kidnappers and killers suddenly retire and leave it all to Fulani herdsmen?

But you really cant completely push aside the fact that 1 out of every 2 high profile fatal crime in Nigeria these days is perpetrated by these unchecked fulani bandits.

2 reverend fathers were kidnapped and killed within a short space of time in enugu, sparking a loud outrage. The first crime was perpetrated by fulani herdsmen bandits, the second by southern bandits.

What kind of stupid firm expects Nigeria to pay it $9bn or even $6bn for no job done?