Politics › Re: Police Commissioner Gabriel Achong Leaves Akwa Ibom State by omenka(m): 8:10pm On Apr 09, 2015 |
All these strange sources these days ehn. I'm not sure I can believe any story coming from them honestly. |
Politics › Re: Oba Of Lagos Sends Igbo Packing, Orders The Close Down Of Idumota Market. by omenka(m): 8:07pm On Apr 09, 2015 |
EroticAngelina: APC sucks!! apc- all problems continues!  Oh, so there are indeed problems.... Good to know. PDP- people distributing poverty. |
Politics › Re: Photos Of Pastor Chris Oyakhilome And His Pastors Undergoing Fitness Training by omenka(m): 7:58pm On Apr 09, 2015 |
When is Jonathan going to show us more pictures of himself and his wife working out in the gym  |
Politics › Re: Does Government Providing Electricity Automatically Equate to Job Creation? by omenka(m): 4:15pm On Apr 09, 2015 |
mikolo80: 24HRS DIVIDED BY 7= 3.SOMETHING 3.SOMETHING TIMES 450 IS...... PLS APOLOGISE IF YOU HAVE ANY HONOUR ONCE YOU'VE WORKED THAT OUT NO WODER MY MUMSIE INSITED ON ME SHOWING THE WORKINGS INSTEAD OF WURUWUR TO THE ANSWER  OMG. You are right. Should have been 90*15, and not 450*15. |
Politics › Re: Does Government Providing Electricity Automatically Equate to Job Creation? by omenka(m): 3:52pm On Apr 09, 2015 |
esere826: uhmmm interesting. If I get you correctly I'm not aware that each household would have multiple transmission wires from different providers running into the same meter from which the users card of choice can be programmed to select the lines that should be used.
Is this a statement of fact or a proposal? Something the equivalent of "co-location" in the telecoms can be used to eliminate the cumbersome nature of this. Once the will is there, it can be done. The technology is readily available. |
Politics › Re: Does Government Providing Electricity Automatically Equate to Job Creation? by omenka(m): 3:44pm On Apr 09, 2015 |
mikolo80: NA WA O WHICH SCHOOL YOU GO YOU BETTER GO ASK FOR REFUND 15 TIMES 90= A LITTLE UNDER 1500 NAIRA AND YES IT IS STILL EXPENSIVE See as you mumu reach?? If N450 = full tank (5 litres) and you need to run the full tank 3 times (15 litres) to cover 24 hours (since 5 litres takes you 7 hours [even at that you still arrive at 21 hours] ). It then means you would need 450*15 naira to run the gen for a whole day. That gives you N6,750. Oya, you go ask for a refund from whatever school you attended. |
Politics › Re: Does Government Providing Electricity Automatically Equate to Job Creation? by omenka(m): 3:26pm On Apr 09, 2015 |
esere826: I do like your approach However do consider that telecoms is not same as electricity generation and distribution whereas the consumer can easily switch from one telecom provider to the next thus sort of minimizing provider monopoly its not same for electricity per se. You're not going say, "hey guys switch me from company x power supplier to company y" it does not work like that unfortunately because of the infrastructure that facilitates central power distribution And who says you can't switch?? The gencos and transcos would have their dedicated infrastructures (transformers and power lines) just as you have the various telecoms service providers with their respective masts and fibre optic cables. Then they also would have their various metre cards (which are sim cards for telecoms). The metres would be the equivalent of phones (one can switch the cards just as one can switch sims) and you can purchase units from whichever service provider you desire just as we purchase recharge cards. You can paint the rest of the picture from there There you have it. It is not rocket science. That is deregulation for you. |
Politics › Re: Lagos Governorship: Eight Parties Endorse Agbaje... Vanguard by omenka(m): 3:13pm On Apr 09, 2015 |
Waste of time.
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Politics › Re: BREAKING NEWS: Fayose Moves Property From Govt House As Olugbemi's Security Aide by omenka(m): 3:12pm On Apr 09, 2015 |
Op, wey your source??
Meanwhile...
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Politics › Re: Does Government Providing Electricity Automatically Equate to Job Creation? by omenka(m): 12:50pm On Apr 09, 2015 |
esere826: Good debate I probably need to set the context but that might be too long and complex.
In summary, I'm saying something like this: If you guys say to the government "just give us power and don't worry about jobs" and then the government does get private monopolistic investors/coys in that do provide constant power but at astronomical prices plus taxes you'll end up in almost the same situation as with the cost of your personal power generation.
And then everyone gets upset with the government
So, what really matters is deliberate policies and actions to achieve specific and inter related results A rough example is that the government could have a guidance that the price of energy should ordinarily not be more than 20% of the average earning power of Nigerians It would be foolhardy for Government to deregulate (privatise) and then regulate prices as well. What I believe is, with sincerity, the success in the telecoms sector can be replicated in the power sector. As long as there isn't monopoly, competition would naturally take care of the cost of services provided. There is no way one can argue for running businesses on generators in preference to sustenance of businesses on public power supply. |
Politics › Re: Breaking News- “akpabio Stops Buhari’s Visit” by omenka(m): 11:37am On Apr 09, 2015 |
dustmalik: Your source is unknown, therefore it can't be trusted. |
Politics › Re: Does Government Providing Electricity Automatically Equate to Job Creation? by omenka(m): 9:25am On Apr 09, 2015 |
esere826: Electricity is not an issue the cost of power relative to our earning and expenditure is the issue
If petrol costs N1 per liter, and regular government generated electricity costs N10,000 per hour won't you rather use your generator? your argument is terribly flawed. You are just quoting arbitrary figures to support your stand. If you say the bolded, then one could easily assume the reverse of course, thereby rendering your point useless. Now, look at this: For the regular "I pass my neighbor" generator, a full tank which is about 5 litres would cost N450 (assuming an average cost of N90 per litre). A full tank runs for 7hours on average. If it is operated for 24 hours, it means one would require about 15 litres, bringing the cost of running it for that long to N6,750!! Multiply this by 30 and you get a whooping N202,500!! If one were to slash this figure in half to reflect that these businesses run on an average of 12hours a day, you'd still get N101,250! Now, compare that to what is charged on average by electricity regulators for such small businesses that run on such generators and you'd see what a colossal loss of income and savings businesses suffer. These are monies that could be reinvested into expansion of businesses which then translates into hiring more hands (employment). Your argument really doesn't hold water. |
Politics › Re: Okonjo-iweala Listed Among 50 Greatest World Leaders by omenka(m): 7:35am On Apr 09, 2015 |
Princecalm: Their opinion though. Don't think she will fall among Nigeria's first 20 Not even the first 50. |
Politics › Re: Okonjo-iweala Listed Among 50 Greatest World Leaders by omenka(m): 7:33am On Apr 09, 2015*. Modified: 7:53am On Apr 09, 2015 |
Where is that disgruntled gargoyle called Edwin Clerk to come condemn these guys and ask them to mind their business  I believe this one is in order for him. Smh. |
Politics › Re: Nwuche Leaves PDP, May Declare For APC Today by omenka(op): 7:29am On Apr 09, 2015 |
MzJackBaueress: Am I supposed to be happy about this? 
Its high time APC leaders put a restriction on how these PDP members defect. Its becoming like a joke to me. They would do that, but I believe it would come after the governorship elections. I now see their wisdom in keeping the gates open.  |
Politics › Re: Nwuche Leaves PDP, May Declare For APC Today by omenka(op): 7:27am On Apr 09, 2015 |
Mynd44: Dear PDP members,
Stay in your party and grow it. Do what the APC did. That's if you dare They can not. Not only because they no longer have state powers to execute their devious plans, but they simply don't have the brains to take them there. They were more interested in promoting and patronising thugs, gun runners, and drug dealers. Just take a roll call of PDP as it stands today, who do you think the party could prop itself up on when they've lost people like Obj, IBB, Atiku, Kwankwaso et al; Jonathan? Mark? Kashamu? FFK? Okupe? Bode George?? I don't see PDP surviving 5months after the governorships. |
Politics › Nwuche Leaves PDP, May Declare For APC Today by omenka(op): 7:17am On Apr 09, 2015 |
By Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja

Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Chibudom Nwuche, has resigned his membership of the party.
In a letter dated March 29, and addressed to the National Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, Nwuche said he “had watched with dismay the party’s descent into cabalism and god-fatherism as certain individuals became practical owners of the party’s structures and ensured that many persons with capacity and integrity had no opportunity to serve and remained shut out of governance.”
He blamed PDP leaders for not being able to stand up in defence of the truth and in support of the representational democracy, adding that his decision to quit the party was made a long time but was delayed in order to allow conclusion of the presidential poll.
Nwuche further recalled with sadness that “most respected pioneer leaders and founding fathers of the party such as former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Chief Barnabas Gemade amongst others who were natural rallying points for the party were marginalised and have since left the party on account of these injustices” Nwuche further noted that he has “been a serial victim of this injustice in our party where my peoples’ wish to have me represent them at the senate has been frustrated twice in spite of my enormous popularity in my senatorial zone and my state as a whole, and even after winning the primaries.”
As part of the move for a possible realignment, THISDAY gathered that the former Deputy Speaker’s kinsmen are billed to meet with him today at his country home in Ochigba town, Ahoda Local Government in Rivers State to persuade him to consider joining forces with the All Progressives Congress (APC). www.thisdaylive.com/articles/nwuche-leaves-pdp-may-declare-for-apc-today/206290/
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Politics › Re: Oba Of Lagos Lock Up Idumota Traders Shop,orders Them 2Go To Ambode's Rally-pics by omenka(m): 6:54am On Apr 09, 2015 |
onyebuchiokafor: I don't believe this,, It could be another setup to bring AMBODE down... BESIDES this shouldn't be AMBODE'S business,, he wasn't the one who ordered the lock down.. so he shouldn't be at fault, rather it should be the OBA....Xo lets vote for a good governance this Saturday....
AMBODE for CHANGE in LAGOS 2015...
APC,, CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You don't even need to say much. It is coming from "hope for Nigeria". We all know their antecedents. Same goes to GuardianNewsUSA. People spreading false news and propaganda on behalf of PDP. They are simply the media arm of TAN. |
Politics › Re: Oba Of Lagos Lock Up Idumota Traders Shop,orders Them 2Go To Ambode's Rally-pics by omenka(m): 6:49am On Apr 09, 2015 |
Oooops: Seun Lalasticlala Ishilove
mods...
Front page please...
this is an issue for deliberation seriously... Front Page from "hope for Nigeria"?? Do you have any idea who those guys are  |
Politics › Re: BREAKING NEWS: President Jonathan’s Aide Oronto Douglas Dies by omenka(m): 6:45am On Apr 09, 2015 |
Too bad. Hope he finds eternal rest wherever he goes from here. |
Politics › Re: President Jonathan’s Aide Oronto Douglas Dies by omenka(m): 6:43am On Apr 09, 2015 |
Eyaa. May his soul rest in peace. |
Politics › Re: Video: Jimi Agbaje Threatens Nigerians by omenka(m): 6:40am On Apr 09, 2015 |
Olisa Metuh would never see this. |
Politics › Re: Nuhu Ribadu Dumped 2 Days To Poll by omenka(m): 6:12am On Apr 09, 2015 |
Ribadu still has my respect any day any time. You don't see a Nigerian honest and dedicated to his duties enough to reject a $15million bribe everyday.
Good man he is. Hope Buhari can find a spot for him. |
Politics › Re: Obasanjo And Atiku Pictured Together Laughing And Playing by omenka(m): 5:50am On Apr 09, 2015 |
Lalasticlala these are quite old naw. Give us latest stuff jor.  |
Politics › Re: APC To Ratify Buhari’s Ministerial List - Punch by omenka(m): 5:47am On Apr 09, 2015 |
Avoiding the pitfalls that lead to the demise of the Killer Party. Lovely.  |
Politics › Re: We Are Taking Appropriate Action On Akiolu – DSS. by omenka(m): 5:42am On Apr 09, 2015 |
Mrylin Ogar right now would be much more concerned about searching for a favourable country to seek asylum than bothering herself with the Oba's pronouncement. The noose is fast tightening around her neck and she knows it. |
Politics › Re: Ohanaeze Drags Oba Akiolu To Human Rights Commission - Vanguard by omenka(m): 5:39am On Apr 09, 2015 |
2mch:
 The 48hrs is up?  Oh, I thought they would send Amadioha to strike him. Didn't know their plan was to take him to the human rights commission. Smh. Indeed the Oba shouldn't have made such a statement, but if you ask me, the fixation on the matter isn't as much because the Igbos feel threatened, it is all for the political gains. We've had notable people from the SE and SS make similar remarks in the past (though not as blunt as the Obas) yet no one lifted a voice in rebuke. Talk about hypocrisy run amok. |
Politics › Re: Buhari Set To Sack IGP Abba by omenka(m): 5:30am On Apr 09, 2015 |
He should be dismissed so he'd have no pension or gratuity. Then he should be probed and anything he acquired illegally returned to the treasury or asset management corporation as the case may be.
This man overstepped his boundary when he tear gassed federal law makers trying to gain entry into their own offices. Then he put the icing on the cake when he refused to recognise the speaker as the speaker and went so far as to withdraw his security. He imperilled our democracy. |
Politics › Re: Ayiri Emami & Tinubu Pictured Together Alighting From A Private Jet by omenka(m): 5:22am On Apr 09, 2015 |
Thugnificent: Tinubu is gradually becoming a political godfather. You must be a learner. |
Politics › Re: Ayiri Emami & Tinubu Pictured Together Alighting From A Private Jet by omenka(m): 5:18am On Apr 09, 2015 |
Smh.
Same guy just a few weeks ago...
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Politics › Re: Patience Jonathan Sacks EFCC, Allocates Anti-graft Agency’s Office To Her ADC by omenka(m): 10:40pm On Apr 08, 2015 |
Yet someone wants me to think "Jonathan is a hero". The stench of corruption around the first family could knock out a whale miles away. |
Politics › Re: Civil War Would Have Been Shorter If Ojukwu Had Acted Like Jonathan - Danjuma by omenka(m): 10:36pm On Apr 08, 2015 |
Have been wondering.... Has the General retracted his statements regarding the hate campaigns by people from the Niger Delta yet?? Has the ultimatum issued by the militants elapsed yet?? Have they bombed his business interests in the Niger Delta yet  Just curious. |