₦airaland Forum

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?

1 firm wants to take $9billion from Nigeria? As compensation for no service rendered? Such clowns!

suremanpatriot:
Encourage him ,water turned into steam drives a whole ship if u dont know. The tech is in America and india

Lol... something was used to turn that water to steam, and that thing is called the 'fuel'.

Charmingrascal:
I don't like people asking me "how was your night?" Even if my night was bad what would you do about it, can you change the night that has already passed? So why asking me how it was.

Lol.. If you aren't feeling fine, and someone asks "how are you?", do you also feel feel pissed? or if you just arrived from the most excruciatingly stressful journey on some Nigerian road and someone asks you "how was your trip?", do you also get angry?

cuteboy2:
You are right, it's a Nigerian English usage. It is OK if used among and between Nigerians because they understand the context. However, when you are in a multicultural setting, what is culturally acceptable among Nigerians might be very offensive to people from other cultures.

You need to be culturally sensitive and aware. That is the message OP was trying to pass across. There are many things we do here which is an absolute NO NO in other climes. In political circles, it is even worse and rather annoying. Think of things like "I stand on existing protocols ", "my Lords spiritual and temporal", etc. Very useless inanities

Lol... We are only humans , there's really no way I would step into a new country and be expected to understand all the cultural differences in speech; we're bound to make those inevitable mistakes. But once we acknowledge we can't know it all, then we can stop beating ourselves unnecessarily.

I once met an Algerian friend and his wife. The next time I saw the guy alone, I asked him "how are you doing?" he responded, and then I asked "hows Nadia" and he responds "why do you want to know how my wife is?"... I just laughed and explained myself. Something else that gets me laughing is how the phrase "are you alright?" is about the most common greeting in the UK. I keep wondering what a disaster it would be if a UK raised Nigerian child travels to Nigeria and ask an elder "are you alright?"

darling4real1:
I TRULY DON'T ANSWER THIS!!

*Do you know that asking a person “How was your night?” is wrong?*
Well, if you didn’t know it until today, get to know with the help of Edward E Onoriode who shared the update on his Facebook wall.
I felt it very necessary to spread the word and help people know about it too.

Here it is.... as posted by Edward E Onoriode.

I attended a IED (Improvise Explosive Device) fusion cell meeting with some US and British EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) experts yesterday to discuss all the IED incidences that had happened within the week across Somalia.

At the meeting hall, I saluted one of the British officers ‘Good morning sir’ and he responded back ‘good morning to you too’

My oversabi did not allow me to keep quiet so I went further with the Nigeria popular phrase ‘how was your night sir?’

Dude was shock. He looked at me in a weird way as if I’d said something out of the ordinary. Something that’s sacrilegious which is an abomination to his ears. After some sec, he said ‘how my night went is none of your business’!

I was awed in shock. Normally, I was expecting a simple ‘fine’ ‘Good’ ‘Splendid’ ‘ My night was great’ etc. But he didn’t say any of these but he told me ‘how my night went is none of your business’!
I felt embarrassed.

For minutes, I couldn’t mutter a word back to him. I just buried my head in shame.

All through the meeting, I was lost in thought and I couldn’t concentrate on the meeting minutes. I kept asking myself within, ‘was my question wrong?’ ‘have I said something that offended this man?’ ‘could it be that he had a bad night rest and he decided to transfer the aggression at me?’

After the meeting, I did a little Google search and I couldn’t believe the answers I got.

Ladies and gentlemen, did you know the phrase “How was your night ” In English Language means “How was last nights sex?” “How was your night shift duty?” “How was your health during the night hours?”

Whenever you ask this question in the morning to healthy people who are not in sick bed, you’re invariably inquiring about their sexual comfort/activities during the night or how their night shift went and it’s rude to ask such mostly if you’re not closely related to the person.
No wonder the British officer find my question condescending because he felt I was intruding in his private business since I’m not too familiar with him. But I asked that question with a sincere and innocent mind without any harm.
Basically, how was your night is normally asked to people who are receiving treatments in the hospital or people who are on night shift.

Nigeria has really messed me up. Now, I’d be more careful whenever I want to speak with these white folks because I never can tell when I’d say something that’s offensive and invasive again.
By the way, I need to un-learn so many English I’ve been proudly speaking, they’re wrong.
My happiness is that I know the appropriate question whenever I want to enquire how a person’s night went now and it should be;

“Did you have a good night sleep?” or
“Did you sleep well?

The answer to ‘ How was your night?’ Is actually ‘none of your business!’

I have checked our local languages. Even as literal translation goes, no Nigerian language asks ‘How was your night?’ I am checking because of this phrase, for those who know, was not in use in Nigeria as recent as 10 years ago.

As my Doctor friend said to me, it may have come from hospitals.
It’s common knowledge according to the doctor that sick people often have rough nights and most deaths occur at night. So a doctor’s question to the patient during morning ward rounds is usually ‘How was your night?’ If we exported hospital vocabulary to the streets, are we now to assume, we are all at death’s door?

The proper address for mornings is simply ‘good morning’ and if you want to spice it up by being overly friendly, you may add ‘hope you slept well?’ A person’s night is not our business.

If we are Igbo it’s either, ibolachi– have you woken up. Ututuoma- good morning.

If Yoruba, 'ę karo' – good morning. You can go further as Yorubas are won’t do by adding “se daada l'ę ji’ – hope you woke up well?

None of these our local greetings intrusively asks ‘How was your night?’ So, No! It is not African either.
Let us be well aware when we leave our lanes to go measuring that of others.
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*So now we know!*
*Don't go asking me or anyone else "How was my night anymore?*

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All I can say is that your friend Edward Onoriode is suffering from a social illness called "INFERIORITY COMPLEX", and since you also agree with him that "how was your night?" is a wrong question all because he met one unexposed Brit, then that means you unfortunately also suffer from the same inferiority complex. Actually, a lot of Nigerians have this same problem, I wouldn't know if it's a Nigerian thing, or if its a general black thing; but we tend to automatically assume the white man is right and we wrong, even in the most obviously meaningless things like this one. It's really sad that we look down on ourselves.

Different people from different countries and cultures have different manner of greetings, different idioms, idiolects, proverbs etc which may mean different things to people of other cultures. But one thing is sure, nothing of it is wrong, it's simply just the way my people say it. "How was your night" is a very common greeting in Nigeria, and there's nothing wrong about it; how could you the words/actions of one unexposed white man make you look down on yourself? You should have simply educated him that "how was your night" is a common greeting phrase in your part of the world and he would have been happy to learn that. The day we realise that Nigeria is one of the biggest English speaking countries in the world, maybe we will also realise that just as there's American English, Australian English etc, there's also Nigerian English.

Nigerians na wa! Just now just now, they've turned Sowore led revolution to Yoruba protest. Truly truly, when God wanted to stunt the development of man, all He did was create different languages.

NurseJay:
Now there are 2 things involved : If she wins, screw her boss n their job! If she looses, then she's screwed!

Screwed becaise she looses a probably 30k job which she definitely wouldn't even want to return to after the show?... With the fame she gets from Bbn, the popularity which is even being amplified by these reports, she will definitely not want to return to her old job.

Xano:
interesting. £30,000 is not a big deal? Like I wrote, you've not lived in UK. Inquire about their annual per after taxes. Search and find out what other professions with that level of annual pay, then research about those companies or organizations their policy on scandals

There is Big Brother UK, reality TV shows in UK, find out all who had done such like her under the sheets, what has become of them.

Yeah I stand by what I said, £30k isn't such a 'wow' salary as is being painted here; it's also quite common to see £30k jobs around especially for one who has a degree (I dont know if the girl in question has a degree though).. Meanwhile I'm not sure what the taxes you keep talking about has to do with this, the £30k job will also be taxed too....

As for the girl, she didnt have full frontal sex with anybody, as far as we know, she simply made out with her man under the sheets and trust Nigerians to call that 'sex'. But the fact is, not even as little as a single nipple slip has been sighted by anyone. By all western world standards, she has taken absolutely no negative hit to her reputation (except of course to Nigerians). Prove me wrong by kindly providing a single example of a UK reality show participant who has been crucified by UK society simply because they made out with a partner secretely?... I would love to know who/where/when/how that happened.

...and by the way, I live and work in the UK so I know what I'm talking about.

abiolert:
not all soldiers are fit

Soldier man may actually be fit, but it appears the Corper is 'fitter'

Xano:
Interesting post

You've not lived in any of UK countries to write this.
It appears you do not know what is called Image rights.
What publicity do you think she would get? In Uk, companies take their image serious. There is not Nigeria.
£30,000 annual pay with subsequent years of promotion is at risk.
Some posts(write-ups) here are ignorant of the truth.

Haha... your write-up is actually a perfect example of one that is distant from reality.... Image rights? How exactly does what she did even affect her personal image, let alone the image rights of a potential employer?

That she makes out with a love interest UNDER THE SHEETS in a reality TV show and you think she would be ostracized from decent society because of that? Not even a single nipple was flashed or seen by anyone and you think anyone in the UK has a problem with her morality?... You think the UK is Nigeria?... The UK where people are comfortable participating in TV game shows like Nakedd Attraction?... Have you ever watched the UK Big brother and other UK reality TV dating shows?

Like you rightly pointed out, this is the UK, not Nigeria where we are all bizarrely hypocritical moral judges. In the UK, a £30k job isn't a big deal (even uneducated artisans could earn that much), and no company (not even religious organisations) would blink an eye over her trending gossip on BBN. Besides, her very participation in BBN and even her headlines on the UK SUN is even a boost to her future career which would obviously be in the entertainment industry (she would definitely not want to even go back to her police job).

shogsman:
Do you currently make 15m a year

I don't see how that's relevant to the truth in what I said earlier. In the UK, whilst a £30k job may be 'reasonable', it cant really be termed an amazing job which one should lose sleep over. A lot of even uneducated people earn that much in the UK (we aren't talking of Nigeria). I don't know who the Khafi is, but I assume she may even be educated.

CodeTemplar:
Drug dealing attracts death sentence there so no need for all those theories.

Those guys are being pushed off those buildings by the policemen; I can bet my left balls in that.

NOBODY commits suicide because of the fear of death sentence.

Puna don suffer... work is work.

Dshocker:
Khafi was not wise....She had a good job and decided to risk it by thinking she could win the ungodly show,which even the said winning prize wasn't worth it compared to her job.

what's so good about an olokpa job of probably less than £30k?... Whether she's sacked or not, the chances of her even wanting to go back to her old job after the show are less than 5%. With face even being on The Sun UK and other UK tabloids, she's already got the popularity she needs to break into the entertainment industry in the UK and if she's willing to put in the work, she could be earning her old yearly pay in a month.

Nigerians are funny creatures. Too many busybodies out here saying she was stupid for putting her job on risk. Sometimes I just wonder if its the terrible unemployment crisis in Nigeria that's causing the poverty mentality that has plagued the responses on this thread. The khafi girl is probably a Brit citizen, even if she loses her meagre £30k olokpa work, she will instantly get something else, something even better on her return.

Meanwhile na fvck she fvck, she no kill person. Even if she doesnt get sacked, I completely doubt she will even want to go back to her old job after the fame she gets from BBN, she may not even want to return to the UK. And if she chooses to return here, her face being on the frontpage of The SUN and UK METRO means she already has the publicity needed to break into the more lucrative entertainment industry and never have to go back to her old olokpa job.

CodeTemplar:
that's stupidity. Both of them lost at least a hand each plus I can see the intestine of one outside.
God. Why not come and hustle legit in Naija?

afroniger:
When will Nigerians stop this foolishness/international embarrassment?? Indonesia has probably executed more Nigerians than any other country, yet Nigerians still want to die there. Tufiakwa. I will rather be soaking my garri in Nigeria than this crap.

There's been several stories like this of Nigerians jumping off high rise buildings in Malysia, Indonesia and some other suspicious countries but this makes absolutely no sense and I wonder why no one else smells a rat in all these bizarre stories.

Even illegal Nigerian migrants in decent places like the UK, US etc are never this desperate to evade immigration police. How can a sane human jump off a 30 storey building all because he wants to remain in a shithole country like Indonesia or Malaysia? Even if he were with drugs and was running away from drug enforcement, not even the fear of a death sentence would make any sane human to willingly jump 30 storeys.

My theory is simple, all these guys are kicked off those buildings by murderous xenophobic policemen. Thank God this one survived, maybe he will be able to tell us the story of what truly happened; but that's if the police dont come around to finish him off.