₦airaland Forum

Its high time that the government cracks down on the nomadic lifestyle of the cattle people and put a permanent solution to it.

Basically nomadic grazing means cost-free living & feeding. Where it might have been possible in the pre-independence and in the pre-development period, it is no longer feasible in today's Nigeria.

The mayhem, maiming, murders and crimes caused by these cattle and their herdsmen is so heart breaking considering that the government has done little or nothing to bring these perpetrators to book and get them convicted.

Going forward, a crack team should be despatched across all states of the country to mount extensive surveillance on the movement of these cows while using Geotag locators, GIS & GPRS to ensure their livestock remain in a ranch. Failure to comply results in seizing the livestock and jailing the herdsmen.

Lastly, going forward, any businessman intending to go into the business of cattle rearing should be issued a licence and MUST register ALL staff. Getting a license means you must have a ranch, otherwise your cattle is seized permanently.

These guys need to be heavily regulated the same way banks, telcos and discos are regulated before the madness and mayhem will come to a conclusive end

LarryBeryl:
That handle is nowhere to be found on twitter.....

Maybe you searched with a misspelt name cos I just found the same handle via Twitter search

shellworker:
Point of correction:
Jagaban of Yoruba land.

The correct title is Jagaban Borgu.

Borgu is a town in Niger state and the title was conferred on Tinubu by the late Emir of Borgu who happened to be colleagues with Tinubu in the Senate during the truncated 3rd republic between 1990 & 1993.

shellworker:
Point of correction:
Jagaban of Yoruba land.

The correct title is Jagaban Borgu.

Borgu is a town in Niger state and the title was conferred on Tinubu by the late Emir of Borgu who happened to be colleagues with Tinubu in the Senate during the truncated 3rd republic between 1990 & 1993.

Simply because the partners refuse (out of ignorance) to check their zodiac compatibility.

If you check the Zodiac compatibility of your partner to be, you'll know if your union will remain strong or fall by the wayside in shambles

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Ha ha...we had all.

Post Partum Depression. RIP little one.

I really do hope this is treated for what it really is, a mental illness.

AZeD1:
1) Mr Usman worked in TCN before moving to ADB
2) MD of TCN is an administrative role not a technical one. The head of IMF is a Lawyer, the president of the World bank is a Medical doctor.

Learn to differentiate between technical and administrative roles.

Aptly put. I couldn't have said it any better

Guyman02:
The workers are protesting that an Accountant (Mr Usman Mohammed) who was a staff of AfDB should not be appointed to take over from a certified PhD Engineering practitioner (Dr. Abubakar Atiku) in such an important parastatal like TCN.
Can an Engineer be appointed to head National Hospital Abuja or UNTH?
Putting square pegs in round holes is one key reasons the country is dormant.

How come it was the engineers at the helm who ran it down for the past 100 years plus? Biko park one side.

SalamRushdie:
Another Buharistic type leadership based on all brawn and no brains , watch as this sensationalist will bring TCN to its knees in the coming weeks ..He suspended all purchases orders including genuine and critical ones needed in time to improve power supply ..A good leader will take his time and study the orders to know which is strategic to the timely success but a Buharist will show up tense the whole industry up by announcing a blanket suspension of orders which will in turn tense up creditors to TCN vendors and make things worse

You just want to talk right? See how you made no sense at all.

Smart Move.

N0.30k + N0.84k = N1.14k.

Where's the rest of the N72.86k coming from? NASS should avoid playing to the gallery and provide Nigerians with full disclosure.

Rest in Peace Gallant Soldier

The area this happened better be ready to burn fuel on gen for at least a year or two.

As you maim the utility officials, this blacklists the area as too violent and supply to such an area is cut off as there is no hope of collecting payments due to such barbaric acts.

Akowonjo, welcome to self generstion & self help.

http://punchng.com/governance-code-minister-frcn-boss-clash-adeboye-others/

Minister Enelamah is a Pastor of RCCG. Talk about showing his hand too early.

Wale Tinubu of Oando Oil, not Bola Ahmed Tinubu ex-LASG Governor.

Aburi001:
I was told NEPA was privatized and changed its name to PHCN by investors.

We now have 3 different entities namely Generation, Transmission and Distribution Companies.

Over #200 billion is budgeted for Power/Energy this year alone by the Bubu administration. Since the sector has been privatized, why is the Federal Government spending huge amount of money on a sector already privatized?

Abi na me no go school to know the meaning of PRIVATIZATION ni?

It's just like the Federal Government spending money on the Telecommunications industry. Providing upgradation to MTN, GLO, Etisalat etc systems.

Since OBJ era, we are still struggling to achieve 6,000MW of Electricity while South Africa could boast of 40,000MW.

Shame on all our past and present leaders.

For 11 DISCOs sold, government through BPE still controls 40% of each DISCO
For 6 GENCOs sold, government through BPE still controls 20% of each GENCO.

In other words, the government owes a responsibility to ensure that it keeps to its own side of the bargain by contributing its quota towards the success of the Privatisation program. So far, it has also fallen short of doing this.

Not ALL power infrastructure owned by the government was privatised, hence why there are agencies like NIPP (National Integrated Power Project - http://www.nipptransactions.com/) that ownership of all other infrastructure was vested in. NIPP still continues to receive huge sums of funding from the Federal government basically to improve infrastructural assets for the power industry. Recall the pole mounted HVDS 50kVa transformers installed in your areas?

These are NIPP projects and power plants such as Geregu II and many others are developed, owned by the FG.

Mynd44:
4,000MW smack in the middle of the dry season?

It is either this is false or something else is at play we dont know about.
But then, Nigerian media; they leave out the important parts

The dry season bit affects only hydro fired plants which at the moment constitutes less than 15% of generation in the country. 85% of plants are gas fired.

Rick9:
A south African once tweeted.

My President is the worst in the world
How can we have light for just 23 Hours,
How can we be in darkness for 1 whole Hour.

@Topic so why can't they fix the gas issues instead of making noise about it ?

Fixing this simply means no caps on tariffs or one that takes into the realities of the market.

SmartMugu:
I smell lies. "Gas shortage" was blamed last year, now we are starting a new year and same "Gas Shortage" is being blamed.

If "Gas Shortage" has been the historical problem, doesn't it make sense to rather talk about measures to resolve it than to continue blaming "Gas Shortage" everytime?
Where does Ghana, South Africa etc get gas from and their populace dont hear of "Gas Shortage" everytime? Mars?

When losses are declared, someone must be at the benefiting end, and it's definitely not the average Nigerian. So, who's benefiting from these losses if not the elite politicians and their cronies?

Take a look at this analysis and understand why it is easier for Ghana to have constant supply:

Progressively Expensive (Electricity Company of Ghana)
N1,292.53 - Cost of 50 kWh (Electricity Company of Ghana) N25.81/kWh
N4,062.04 - Cost of 100 kWh (Electricity Company of Ghana) N40.62/kWh
N9,409.31 - Cost of 200 kWh (Electricity Company of Ghana) N47.05/kWh

http://www.ecgonline.info/index.php/customer-care/services/tariff.html

Pay As You Go
N1,065.00 - Cost of 50 kWh (Ikeja Electric, Lagos) N21.30/kWh
N2,130.00 - Cost of 100 kWh (Ikeja Electric, Lagos) N21.30/kWh
N4,260.00 - Cost of 200 kWh (Ikeja Electric, Lagos) N21.30/kWh

What this analysis shows us is a cost reflective tariff in Ghana which means cost of all inputs are paid for by the tariff with no need for subsidies. In other words, Ghana's electricity industry pays for itself. In the case of Nigeria (which has the cheapest electricity tariffs in the world), the tariffs cannot adequately pay for the value provided by the whole chain from generation - transmission - distribution, hence leading to shortages. To cut the story short, tariffs set in Nigeria in 2015 (at N198/$1) are not enough to pay for the value created in the industry at the current rate of $309/$1 meaning that gas companies (who sell gas in $$) find it profitable to sell their products internationally where they get full payment than to the Power industry that cannot pay for its products.

If we have 40,000MW capacity but cost reflective tariffs are not introduced to the industry or as an alternative, tariffs subsidized (very inefficient & abuse prone) by the government, there will still be issues in the Power sector.

progress69:
Mr man, look Bush. I don't pay bills. It's paid by the defence ministry. And never in your wildest imagination think the privatization can't be reversed or revised. This discos are useless thieves and incompetent clowns. If I hear u breath if they start shouting increments of terrific again, I will break your nose.

If DISCOs are thieves & clowns, you are uncouth. Ministry of Defence my foot. You & your ilk owe DISCOs some of the highest debts accumulated over several years of energy theft.

ernieboy:
not true, the govt as represented by the power minister has the power to define policies and set regulations, it also has the power to mete out appropriate sanctions to bodies that violate its regulations.

That's what NERC does actually

macaranta:
Bless you, this issue of high losses is actually mostly from the consumer side.. Bypassed meters, so called no collection zones for fear of life,clusters that are grossly underbilled you see someone in one room different industrial appliances he has no business using in an R2 tariff, yet they all want constant power.. Newsflash energy isn't free.. Pay for what you use. Shikena

I beg to differ. The highest losses (Technical) occur between ingoing and outcomer measuring devices & conductors from Transmission Substations. Some of these losses are as high as 40%+

progress69:
We should go back to PHCN. Simple. All this excuses are very silly ones. The truth is that this discos were sold to family and friends, political associates and the likes, instead of competent firms who are experienced. Some of the owners of these discos are actually major importers of Generators and petroleum products.

Totally untrue. Such comments were woven in beer parlours

AZeD1:
They are rejecting it because the can't afford to pay for it.
As of now, the Minister of Power is a more or less a ceremonial post because there's really nothing the power minister can do to the gencos and discos since they are private entities.

The article clearly indicates that the DISCOs are being supplied beyond their MYTO quota. What this translates to is that a DISCO that based its revenue on 200MW is now being supplied in excess of 200MW while the revenue from the same quantum of energy (200MW) isn't guaranteed considering that commercial losses (customers not paying their bills, connivance of DISCO staff & energy theives e.t.c) in such areas could be as high as 40%.

Effectively, where a DISCO is unable to meet its invoice obligations to TCN based on its fixed revenue stream based on a caped MYTO, it then would make sense that they reject extra energy "pushed" to them as their consumers will not pay for it yet, TCN will still bill them.

Its a rather convoluted industry.

hungryboy:
Oga no be for igboland nah,
Even for Yoruba and Hausaland,
No be wheelbarrow pusher or labourer dem dey give Chieftaincy titles nah

No mind the guy, im just wan talk.

Convict. If I were the FG, I will have the EFCC manning all points of entry to pick him up and have him re-tried.

venai:
whoever advised our president on the second Niger bridge did a good job. That is one of the ways to win the sourth eastern support. Watch and see how my people would start licking Buhari's ass once the work commences.

I will prefer to look at it from the angle that the FG already said that the plan is to complete all outstanding road works.

Every Nigerian should enjoy being a Nigerian because there's a government not because of who they voted for.

mysticjack95:
not actually 5% bro......*not more than 5%*.....that means 0.001% is still included
they'll give u something but it can't b more than 5%

Ha ha ha...I never thought of it from that angle you know. I'll take a bet that the 5% will be the expected sum for anyone willing to risk their lives. 1% isn't much fun for the risk involved.

DavidEsq:
Chai! But why are u wailing like dis na? U just ha to read the Act, then all the heat u are blowing wee jus cool down na. Why are u doing dis to ur brain na? At best, the EFCC Act shld be amended if dem no wan use eye c the FOIA. Is ur bele sweeting u now?

You don't have to be condenscending to hold a discussion.

DavidEsq:
Huh? Shey na so u take dey teach or explain ur view abi? And u are blaming our educational system for being crass. Chai

If only you took the time to read up about the policy, you wouldn't exhibit your ignorance. Be blowing crassness upandan. I know your type...

DavidEsq:
I do not think there is a need to pass any Bill into law, to give effect to this policy. The Freedom of Information Act, 2011 clearly provides protect for whistle blowers, although it is narrow or obscure; what needs to be done is to amend the Act to reflect this policy. This Kemi sef ehn, are u really a dullard?

The policy covers specifics you're asking for pending when the bill is ammended.