₦airaland Forum

Bobloco:
Good 👍

There is no where the bill states that VAT should be increased now It is in future when things would have been much better.

I like their resolution.
This is the meat:


The meeting supports the continuation of the legislative process at the National Assembly that will culminate in the
eventual passage of the Tax Reform Bills.

Chegesnd:
Did you actually read the communique very well?

Yes.
Most significant:

The meeting supports the continuation of the legislative process at the National Assembly that will culminate in the
eventual passage of the Tax Reform Bills.

It is a done deal
Bala's face in the mud

What is this thing with Ikwerre everytime nah?

In the olden days,would-be Obas are trained in the arts of royalty but not anymore
Some Obas are even imported without them knowing the rudimentaries of the position.
Not putting additional chairs there was done on purpose,I suppose.
This Ilorin stooge emir is always finding a way of belittling people with this foolish trick everytime.
For what purpose does he do that?
Ego?

Ojuntana:
Shut up
Yaradua was wrong and it was proven
No be same Yaradua reverse sale of refineries?

Chronic Zombie knows more than Yaradua.

Ojuntana:
Zombie
What was the report of the committee
Or your own na just to do copy and paste
Obj built power plants while in office
How many have your gods built
It's too be making excuses and telling stories
Tell Tinubu to spend his own $16bn too on power let's see the result

lol
Chronic Zombie,so you know more than Yaradua .

Ojuntana:
Shut up
You're just a zombie making senseless comments
Which $16bn are you writing rubbish about
Do you know how many power plants OBJ built? Almost 10. How many have your APC built since they took office
You even think grid is like a cloth you make. Which one is grid of 60m?
Abeg just shut up

Even Umar Yaradua whom Obasanjo helped to become president confirmed that Obasanjo and his cohorts embezzled the money.

I bet you are an illiterate trader Where belle face na him you face
You are a chronic zombie indeed.

greatiyk4u:
Lolz
If you believe that story completely, the. You can believe anything in this life.

Which one is weight of power generated?

Even without him saying what he said,sane Nigerians already knew that our grid was made for when Nigeria's population was not up to 60 million.
It is an old analogue system that needed overhauling long ago and our leaders knew this too but instead of doing that,they embezzled the money.
$16 billion of those days is like almost $100 billion of today.

treesun:
The Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, has said the national grid would continue to collapse because it is “very old and dilapidated”.

Adelabu made this known during a budget defence session with the Senate Committee on Power on Monday.

The minister said the government was struggling to manage the national grid it inherited, stating that the facility suffered eight collapses in 2024 and not 12 as widely reported.

Adelabu said out of the eight incidents, three were partial collapses as a result of generation problems and five were full collapses.

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“We have been trying very hard to ensure that we manage the grid that was inherited.

“Unfortunately, it is still very old. It is dilapidated. And we are just managing it until we are able to fix it permanently.

“This is the focus of the Presidential Power Initiative, to ensure that the entire grid is revamped so that we won’t be having all this vandalism,” he said.

Speaking further, Adelabu said Nigeria’s power generation increased by 34 per cent in 2024.

The minister said his administration inherited an average generation capacity of 4,100 Megawatts in 2023 and raised it to 5,528 MW by the end of 2024.

He said, “I can tell you authoritatively that by the end of 2024, we had a peak generation of 5,528 MW of power from 4,100 MW of plants.

“And the reason for this is not far-fetched. We know that we added a new hydroelectric power dam, Zungeru, of 700 MW, and also there was a tremendous increase in the generation by other existing power generating companies, mainly hydro and thermal plants.”

He also said while the initial target was 6,000 MW, unforeseen challenges such as grid disturbances towards the end of the year prevented him from achieving it.

The minister, however, noted that the shortfall was minimal.

“This progress resulted from a combination of grid access expansion and growth in renewable energy initiatives, including solar, small hydro and wind energy projects,” he added.

According to Adelabu, the failure to fix the Shiroro-Kaduna-Mando line has placed undue pressure on the grid, resulting in frequent collapses.

He, however, said the federal government has been unable to repair the power transmission line in Northern Nigeria due to persistent insecurity in the region.

“The Kanduna-Shiroro-Mando line was one of the two major lines that transmit power to the north.

“The second one, which is the Ugwuaji-Makurdi line, was also vandalised, and we immediately rectified the line as the only source of power to the north.

“As I’m talking to you, we have not rectified the major line, which is the Shiroro-Mando-Kanduna line, which is why our grid is so fragile, because it’s only one line that is still supplying power to the north and is being burdened unnecessarily.

“It is still the insecurity that has not led us to fix the Shiroro-Kanduna-Mando line.

“We tried to fix it but our engineers were chased by terrorists and bandits with heavy weapons, it was like a civil war, that’s how bad it is.

“We handed it over to the security agencies, they have not even fixed it. So these are the summaries of our activities. And we are proud to say that we almost met all our targets for 2024,” he said.

This is just as he stated that the Federal Government has released about N12.7bn to offer meters in army barracks across the country.

Similarly, he expressed hope that 2025 will be a better year for Nigeria, promising that all existing issues in the sector would be addressed.

In his remarks, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Power, Eyinnaya Abaribe, questioned the government’s continuous funding of power distribution companies (discos), even as he called for a review of their contracts and possible government reclamation if the inefficiencies persisted.

https://punchng.com/national-grid-old-dilapidated-power-minister/

You all just know that now?

The inability of previous govts to prosecute Obasanjo whose govt swallowed $16 billion dollars that would have been used to resuscitate the grid is one of the greatest ills meted to the Nigeria as a nation.
When Nigeria was so rich,when they should have overhauled most of our infrastructures,they were on a steal Nigeria blind spree.

Will that very old grid carry the weight of the power being generated?

cr7lomo:
U think okoya can lace the shoes of Arthur Eze or sir cletus ibeto .... okoya still de live on old glory .... so shameful that he is being compared to zenco of yesterday 🤣😂🤣😂

Arthur Eze of Orantos cannot even compare himself with Okoya talkless of Cletus Ibeto who is broke.
Most real Igbo billionaires have become millionaires or 'thousandnaires' due to their nzogbu nzogbu mentality.

Treasure17:
Mention them with your full chest of e sure for you.

I will name 6 Yorubas that are Bloomberg and Forbes confirmed dollar billionaires and name more than 100 that are multiple naira billionaires with verified proofs of their businesses/websites.
I will do that if you can post just 40 Igbo confirmed naira billionaires with verified proofs of their businesses/websites.
I know you don't have any dollar billionaire,so I won't stress you on what you don't have.

I don't think a sensible Hausa/Fulani will oppose growth and efficiency.

The aviation industry has continually nosedive because of this parochial thought.
Did Southerners oppose the splitting of the law school?
Did we fret when you were taking the capital to the North?

All this foolishness shows why Nigeria has been sliding downwards especially when Hausa/Fulani are at the helm of affairs.
They don't think about the growth of Nigeria and Nigerians but themselves alone.

Where has this stupidity taken them?
More poverty.
More insecurity.
More negativities...

If they don't want the growth of Nigeria then
Arewa nation
Biafra
Yoruba nation
would be a better option.

presido11:
Is North a tribe?

But you are always referring to them as the
"North" and some of them cunningly refer to North as if it is a tribe.

Due to the strait condition Nigeria is,the appointees can come from one place if the president believes that those people will make success of his administration.
The first question you should have asked yourself is.....who were the people in those positions before he put his trusted people?

Should he leave those people there and get the same result Buhari got at the end of 8 years?

Would you blame Hausa,Fulani,Igbo or any other tribe if the president fails at the end of his tenure?Is it not Yoruba you will blame?

President has about more than 1000 positions to fill according to the power given to Nigerian President,he has only filled up the ones that can make a success of his govt with his kinsmen whom he believes can make a positive difference at this very trying time for Nigeria.

If I were Tinubu,I would do the same thing because,I am sorry to say this, his kinsmen have been proven to be the best administrators even during regionalism,even when they were not in govt in those days with Hausa/Fulani and Igbo political romance that lasted till 2015 (Obasanjo was still a product of this romance).
Till date,they have shown their potency both in Nigeria and abroad.


Pls,let Tinubu and his people get the accolades or otherwise of his govt.He has left more than 800 positions for other tribes out of more than 1000.
.
Example of the president's kinsmen prowess in administration is the image below.

kettykin:
How on earth can the president, chief judge, IG of police, chief of Army staff, chief of Staff, central bank governor, minister for finance, minister of petroleum, minister for internal affairs all come from one tribe. I don't really blame you people because Nigeria is eternally cursed and finished. No part of this world does this evil malevolence happen. This is pure high crass demonic and satanic nepotism. And the so called pastors from yoruba Land are not speaking out against it. Tufiakwa. Buhari did not do 1 % of this high crass demonic ethnic bias this is satanic and demonic. Tufiakwa.

They can come from one place if the president believes that those people will make success of his administration.
The first question you should have asked yourself is.....who were the people in those positions before he put his trusted people?

Should he leave those people there and get the same result Buhari got at the end of 8 years?

Would you blame Hausa,Fulani,Igbo or any other tribe if the president fails at the end of his tenure?Is it not Yoruba you will blame?

President has about more than 1000 positions to fill according to the power given to Nigerian President,he has only filled up the ones that can make a success of his govt with his kinsmen whom he believes can make a positive difference at this very trying time for Nigeria.

If I were Tinubu,I would do the same thing because,I am sorry to say this, his kinsmen have been proven to be the best administrators even during regionalism,even when they were not in govt in those days with Hausa/Fulani and Igbo political romance that lasted till 2015 (Obasanjo was still a product of this romance).
Till date,they have shown their potency both in Nigeria and abroad.


Pls,let Tinubu and his people get the accolades or otherwise of his govt.He has left more than 800 positions for other tribes out of more than 1000.

Eriokanmi:
No light in many parts of Lagos. Some areas were restored this evening. The TCN also affirmed this issue, in Lagos

They have even taken the light.

It is a surprise because there is light everywhere here unlike the other grid collapse that darkness reigns.
Can there be light when national grid collapses?
Power should go regional.
You cannot tie everyone down.

Believeintruth:
Oga go and rest jare. Your plan has failed.

lol
This one is gone.
Sorry,sir

It is a surprise because there is light everywhere here unlike the other ones that darkness reigns.
Can there be light when national grid collapses?
Power should go regional.
You cannot tie everyone down with this nonsense now.

Believeintruth:
you are really a clown you want to use Gemini AI that simply aggregates search data as a repository of knowledge. Bros try get sense naaaaa, Gemini is not a repository of knowledge it only uses search data related to the topic.

Let us see your own date,sir.
Abi you no get date,you just want to roll?

Use your head small nah.
Government is 1 and half years.
Ministers were picked 3 -4 months later.
It then took a few months before the project was awarded.
It is not even up to 1 year that the project was awarded
How is it 2 years,sir?
Abi you are just in love with senseless argument?

iwaeda:
Check punchng.com.

Ok but there is light in Ogudu and its environs now.

Some other moniker just said there is light in Delta.
Is there no light in your place?

There is light.It is a fake news...

Wolexyoshi:
The Grid is not use to stable power supply, that's why the thing dey collapse anyhow.

We can eat our cake at the same time have it.

Truly speaking, it's been so long I bought fuel to Power my generator - IJEDE IKORODU, LAGOS.

POWER SUPPLY IS BETTER THAN THE WAY IT USE TO BE, WE MUST BE HONEST.

May Nigeria be great again.

That grid is old....analogue.
With too much power,it collapses.
Every region should produce its own power.
It is probably a fake news.

iwaeda:
National Grid Collapsed Again.

https://x.com/NigeriaStories/status/1878068540479078418

Says Nigeria stories?

Omoawoke:
But why always Yoruba? Why always us?

Just because God blessed and continues to bless us because we have always been up there without trumping our chests.

When I read the history of Nigeria,Yoruba have always been the people every tribe wants to beat their achievements.
Just like we are first in almost everything now,we have always been the leading light of not only Nigeria but Africa and the black race.
It is a blessing from God and we should not poke it into the eyes of the other tribes except as a deterrence.Each tribe is good in its God given field.

Believeintruth:
Hold on can you give us the financial statistics this project has brought so far. Also give us the data on the jobs it has created.

Even if you start a bungalow project,it would provide jobs for more than 10 people talkless of a project of this magnitude.
Use your head small nah

Believeintruth:
Oga next time when you want to spread lies, don't go and use Wikipedia after you have edited the information there.

The President himself has not used 2 years.He has just used 1 and half years and the project was started after Imagine became the Works Minister.
It was started in March 2024,less than a year.


If you have another date different from mine,please post it .
Less than a year,HiTech has done what has not been done in Nigeria before.I believe,moving at this space,the project will be finished in 2030.

lexy2014:
from the video, what is the "yo-man job" the contractors are doing?

They have gotten up to Lagos Ogun border under a year,that is laudable.

lexy2014:
did you watch the video?

Yes and I think that the contractors are doing a yo-man job.

GetSenseNow:
Fast how?

2years and they've only done 47km out of more than 700, is that your definition of speed?

Read,una no go read.
It was started in March 2024.Not even up to a year and they have reached Lagos Ogun border.
Those doing the road are a bomb.
It would be finished in the first quarter of 2031 with the speed being projected.

So fast?