Rissamenti:
We always talk about Europe and America as if they've ALWAYS had constant light from the get go, with no problems.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

They suffered their fair share of POWER CUTS and NO POWER ACCESS right up till the 196OS.

1960s is like yesterday, in terms of our world.

As stated by research:

''In the 19th and early 20th century, electricity was not part of the everyday life of many people, even in the industrialised Western world. The popular culture of the time accordingly often depicted it as a mysterious, quasi-magical force that can slay the living, revive the dead or otherwise bend the laws of nature.

With electricity ceasing to be a novelty and becoming a necessity of everyday life in the later half of the 20th century, it required particular attention by popular culture only when it stops flowing''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity

Another source confirms this, saying:

''The oldest American power lines date back to the 1880s, and most of today’s grid was built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 50-year life expectancy.''

https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/why-us-lose-power-storms/

So Nigeria is not going through what America or England did not go through in their development.

We shall succeed.

As of 2012, Nigeria generated approximately 4,000 - 5,000 megawatts of power for a population of 150 million people as compared with Africa's second-largest economy, South Africa, which generated 40,000 megawatts of power for a population of 62 million. An estimated 14 - 20 gigawatts of power is provided by private generators to make up for the shortfall. Nigeria has a theoretical capacity of more than 10,000-megawatt generation capacity using existing infrastructure but has never reached close to that potential.

KRSWon:


This is South Africa's electricity generation compared to Nigeria's:



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_energy_supply_crisis

Rissamenti:
We always talk about Europe and America as if they've ALWAYS had constant light from the get go, with no problems.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

They suffered their fair share of POWER CUTS and NO POWER ACCESS right up till the 196OS.

1960s is like yesterday, in terms of our world.

As stated by research:

''In the 19th and early 20th century, electricity was not part of the everyday life of many people, even in the industrialised Western world. The popular culture of the time accordingly often depicted it as a mysterious, quasi-magical force that can slay the living, revive the dead or otherwise bend the laws of nature.

With electricity ceasing to be a novelty and becoming a necessity of everyday life in the later half of the 20th century, it required particular attention by popular culture only when it stops flowing''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity

Another source confirms this, saying:

''The oldest American power lines date back to the 1880s, and most of today’s grid was built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 50-year life expectancy.''

https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/why-us-lose-power-storms/

So Nigeria is not going through what America or England did not go through in their development.

We WILL succeed.

WoundedLamb:
Hhmm... But these are two very different tracks. These countries were in existence before electricity was invented. They invented electricity at some point in their existence and some decades later, they came up with technologies to spread it all over the West. It's not as if it took them years to catch up with some pre-existing technology. We are not asking Nigeria to invent electricity or create anything, we are asking Nigeria to harness a technology that has been in existence long before the country was born. Please, let's not compare adoption with invention.

Just an opinion.

VaselineCrew:


You are such an enemy of the black race men

Always looking for excuses as to why Nigeria won’t develop.

Next you will say white people stole your technology and it was in Africa that science started, bla bla bla

Then when they ask you about separating Nigeria, a white mans creation, you will say that Nigeria is indivisible

Emmanuelcann:
Nigeria won't develop simply because of corruption!

Rissamenti:


You are the real enemy. I just gave valid reasons why Nigeria WILL develop, using the fact that the nations you worship went through the same challenges Nigeria, and other large developing nations, are facing, with regard to spreading power supply to all.



Bodyguard for white man, do you have a problem with THAT?

I still STAND by that fact. If you wanna go down that route, I can post the bare facts of human history, and where it all started. AFRICA.

Speech, Writing, Architecture, Medicine, Astronomy, Law, Religion. Seafaring.

AFRICA is where it all started, OK?



Because you'll be dumb to separate Nigeria MERELY because it was a ''white man's creation''.

Today, Nigeria serves the BLACK MAN by being the ONE black nation that can stand up to world powers today, and not cower like a Sierra Leone or Gambia, on fear of French military incursion to remove their president for stepping out of line.

NIGERIA, the GIANT OF AFRICA SNEEZES, and the entire world catches a cold.

From Twitter, to the online trending craze for Nigeran fufu and egusi, that has seen overnight MILLIONAIRES made of Nigerian restaurant owners abroad, as eager westerners queue up outside many Nigerian eateries to taste the 'new big thing'.

Or is it Nigerian music that has taken the entire world by storm?

Is it Nigerian movies? The other day I was in Jamaica and the people there knew the Nollywood stars more than me that they were asking.

Is it the size of the the Nigerian market, projected to become the world's THIRD largest after India and China by 2050, making her a world class magnet for international investment going forward?

A black country with giant firms like Innoson Motors, Dangote Group, Air Peace, Ibeto Cement, Zenith bank, Glo?

I mean you people have nO IDEA what you have as NIGERIANS.

Other blacks and Africans with insight look at you with admiration tied to ENVY.

I tell my foreign black friends that we have single individuals who own airlines in Nigeria, with fleets of commercial jets, and they recoil in shock.

Air Peace is the biggest airline in West Africa today. CEO, Allen Onyema.

How did it grow so big?

Simple. By operating in Nigeria. And doing a good job, meaning the huge Nigerian market gravitated towards his airline.

Onyema couldn't have done that if he was a Liberian, Gambian, or Burkinabe entrepreneur.

Those places lack the huge market to support the rise of conglomerates.

By retreating into your little ethnicities, which by the way are EUROPEAN creations, since before colonialism there was nothing like an ''Igbo man'', or '''Yoruba man'', ie language-based ethnic identity, it s YOU that is succumbing to the tribalism the whites invented to divide you.

awujale231:
The first step to restoring black pride is the break up of Nigeria!

VaselineCrew:


You are such an enemy of the black race men

Always looking for excuses as to why Nigeria won’t develop.

Next you will say white people stole your technology and it was in Africa that science started, bla bla bla

Then when they ask you about separating Nigeria, a white mans creation, you will say that Nigeria is indivisible

Beancounter93:
Basic reason why we don't have power in Nigeria is simple...we are not ready to pay the money we need to have constant power.

Also, when 40% of your customers are using your product for free....and the rest are mostly paying below the production price of power., where does one expect the power companies to get money to pay for upgrades and so on.

Grace001:


That bold is a lie , seems like you’re an apprentice to lie Muhammad ... At least for once be fair to the masses, in most rural area It’s the CDAs that will contribute money to buy transform, electricity cable and poles, even pay contractors for electrification. Yet masses still pay for darkness( crazy estimated bills)

In a small country like benin republic,Togo , government make sure that EVERY house have a meter (Not free), so you pay for what you use. There is NO WAY you can use government electricity without a meter it’s simple as that.

Nigerians government should do the right thing by making that every household that want power must have a meter, so they pay for what they use. But because of the corrupt system they have refused to make meters available and you’re there saying rubbish that it’s the people’s fault.

Enemy of the masses

Let the government do the right thing, with time you will see that the masses will comply.

Beancounter93:



And in response....I refer you to the image below...from the PWC report on power.

And I don't appreciate being called a liar. I thought this was a discussion, not an abuse shouting match.

Rissamenti:
We always talk about Europe and America as if they've ALWAYS had constant light from the get go, with no problems.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

They suffered their fair share of POWER CUTS and NO POWER ACCESS right up till the 196OS.

1960s is like yesterday, in terms of our world.

As stated by research:

''In the 19th and early 20th century, electricity was not part of the everyday life of many people, even in the industrialised Western world. The popular culture of the time accordingly often depicted it as a mysterious, quasi-magical force that can slay the living, revive the dead or otherwise bend the laws of nature.

With electricity ceasing to be a novelty and becoming a necessity of everyday life in the later half of the 20th century, it required particular attention by popular culture only when it stops flowing''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity

Another source confirms this, saying:

''The oldest American power lines date back to the 1880s, and most of today’s grid was built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 50-year life expectancy.''

https://www.popsci.com/story/environment/why-us-lose-power-storms/

So Nigeria is not going through what America or England did not go through in their development.

It took them over 80 years from knowing how to generate power to providing full access.

We WILL succeed.

WoundedLamb:
Hhmm... But these are two very different tracks. These countries were in existence before electricity was invented. They invented electricity at some point in their existence and some decades later, they came up with technologies to spread it all over the West. It's not as if it took them years to catch up with some pre-existing technology. We are not asking Nigeria to invent electricity or create anything, we are asking Nigeria to harness a technology that has been in existence long before the country was born. Please, let's not compare adoption with invention.

Just an opinion.

Beancounter93:
Basic reason why we don't have power in Nigeria is simple...we are not ready to pay the money we need to have constant power.

Also, when 40% of your customers are using your product for free....and the rest are mostly paying below the production price of power., where does one expect the power companies to get money to pay for upgrades and so on.

Powersurge:


This is nor sequitur! The primary problem with revenue generation is the inefficiency in collection. The power companies prefer to ignore power saboteurs and transfer their burdens to other paying consumers

When I was staying a particular city. Only about 4 houses were paying bills in the whole street of about 24 houses. The rest bypassed or hung wires. Power officials have seen it several times. They would warn them and go. The menace continues, while those of us paying were getting increasing bills. If the power companies have sued just 3 persons in that street and they paid damages in hundreds of thousands, nobody would dare it again. Landlords would make it explicitly clear for their tenants the consequences..

careytommy37:
Did South Korea also have electricity pre-1950?
So how come South Korea is able to provide 100% electric power to all her citizens.
Continue giving excuses for failure.

Grace001:



I apologize for that, don’t be offended...

My point is, every human have the tendency to be a deviance if there is no stringent system in place to checkmate us.

If Benin republic and Togo government are irresponsible like Nigerian government and they refuse to provide meters for every house that want government electricity do you think Togolese and Beninesse won’t do worse ?

Government should do the right thing first by provide basis amenities, make meter available to every house that want power so both parties won’t feel cheated and anyone who try to beat the system will be use as a scapegoat by law.

With time it will become a norm that you must get a meter before you can use power in your home.

It’s just like parents who refuse to be responsible to the needs of their wards yet that parent want their wards to be law and abiding to their rules as parents. Kole work

Beancounter93:


South Korea is also an industrailaised country, and their revenue is heavily dependent on their ability to keep their industries working

So they kind of have no choice (in addition to it being a sign of good governance).

Nigeria really does not need 24/7 power to get money...so long as the oil flows, money flows in. It is a peril of being a resource dependent naiton.

Also, every South Korean pays his or her power bill. On time. You don't pay, you get cut off. Nigerians...government and people...on the other hand...