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Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by agu3ice: 1:23pm On Jun 10, 2021
This country is a clown, i swear down. How will a country without electricity is selling electricity to other countries. I believe we are been ruled by demons without conscience. angry angry angry
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by Nobody: 1:28pm On Jun 10, 2021
IKota -6 days without electricity and you are sharing the little we have
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by April4th(m): 1:31pm On Jun 10, 2021
This country is a comic relief I swear. Imagine selling power to foreign nations, when you’re yet to enjoy stable power supply.
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by sisisioge: 1:38pm On Jun 10, 2021
We have idle electricity

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Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by GalaticHorde: 1:39pm On Jun 10, 2021
Unutilised power? undecided is this a joke? undecided
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by bukatyne(f): 1:43pm On Jun 10, 2021
Nigeria with its epileptic power supply has 'idle electricity' enough for four WA countries?

Step one to keeping your sanity in Nigeria:

Ignore any news about Nigeria.

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Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by planetx: 2:02pm On Jun 10, 2021
How can Nigeria have idle electricity with the erratic power supply nationwide. I just wish an energy expert can really enlighten us on how Nigeria can have idle electricity to sell to other countries while the country itself is in darkness because this has been going on for years it didn't just start under the Buhari's administration to those blaming Buhari.
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by planetx: 2:09pm On Jun 10, 2021
peniel465:


The issue with the Nigerian power sector is not generation but transmission and distribution. Electrical power engineering can roughly be categorised under generation, transmission (distribution) and Application..
So that's why you keep hearing so and so MW of energy was produced in a year but still, the average Nigerian does not see any improvement in his power supply.. So our issue here is transmission and distribution.. The excesses from the generation is what they intend to sell..
Note, I'm not supporting the Govt oo.. They have failed woefully..
But they are building a $570 million transmission line to those West African countries, so if distribution and transmission is the problem like I have been hearing why is that money not spent in Nigeria to build distribution and transmission capabilities. Or is the electricity going to be wirelessly transmitted to the four West African countries?
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by ELKHALIFAISIS(m): 2:11pm On Jun 10, 2021
Country that can't boast of 5 hrs steady power supplies is selling the small one they have to country far better than them.... buhari is an unfortunate fool
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by aikyg(m): 2:31pm On Jun 10, 2021
Nigeria's electricity problem is not with generation. Our problem is majorly transmission and distribution. The transmission and distribution infrastructure was built in the sixties and seventies. They are quite old and it will require a lot of money and a lot more discipline to bring it to par.

GIANTPLUSHUB:
Mheen! So, we even had surplus of electric yet several places are still in darkness shocked Nigeria is a funny country.

The kind of strange things happening in this country is a course to be studied.
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by ashawopikin(m): 2:32pm On Jun 10, 2021
GIANTPLUSHUB:
Mheen! So, we even had surplus of electric yet several places are still in darkness shocked Nigeria is a funny country.

The kind of strange things happening in this country is a course to be studied.
its pretty simple,we don't have enough infrastructure to manage electricity distribution
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by Sterlingsolutns: 2:35pm On Jun 10, 2021
Very good question. You see, the federal government has divested from distribution chain. In my area, IKEDC is a monopolist If they are happy with you, they will fix your feeder line, get you transformer and give you electricity pole. They are significantly undercapitalized, management ineptitude, decrepit infrastructures yet they want to capture the whole of Lagos mainland just like the the other brt operator whose almost all her Chinese yutong buses are dilapidated and are still dragging more route

You can not give what you don't have that is just the simple explanation and there is a need to infuse competition into the distribution chain just like the telecoms - If i don't like mtn, i switch to airtel or glo mobile. It is not rocket science


planetx:
But they are building a $570 million transmission line to those West African countries, so if distribution and transmission is the problem like I have been hearing why is that money not spent in Nigeria to build distribution and transmission capabilities. Or is the electricity going to be wirelessly transmitted to the four West African countries?
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by ithink7: 2:39pm On Jun 10, 2021
GIANTPLUSHUB:
Mheen! So, we even had surplus of electric yet several places are still in darkness shocked Nigeria is a funny country.

The kind of strange things happening in this country is a course to be studied.

We don’t have excess power, they want to build new plants to supply this axis and instead of supplying the electricity to Nigerians they call it unutilized as a cover up. It’s probably part of the agenda to open up Nigeria to Fulani invasion across west Africa.
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by Yusman316(m): 3:13pm On Jun 10, 2021
Some people will come to NL be forming educated and be calling anyone that disagree with their view on issues as illiterate, yet don't understand or know the simplest of things.
Those saying how can we be supplying others power while we are in darkness should know that the problem the Nigerian power sector is facing right now is that it can not successfully store the amount of electricity it generates. Meaning the moment it takes what it can, the remaining becomes waste since there is no adequate facilities to store it
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by chukxie(m): 3:20pm On Jun 10, 2021
99% of the respondents on this thread were overwhelmingly 'choked' by what they read. The truth is that for years Nigeria has been supplying electricity to Niger, Benin and I think, Togo. Without mincing words,leaders and policymakers in Nigeria are some of the most heartless and greedy bastards I've ever seen or read of. China is almost half the size of Africa, yet there's constant and affordable electricity supply in every cities, towns and villages. Common electricity we no get! Shame! Little wonder oyibo dey call us brainless monkeys!
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by chukxie(m): 3:26pm On Jun 10, 2021
Yusman316:
Some people will come to NL be forming educated and be calling anyone that disagree with their view on issues as illiterate, yet don't understand or know the simplest of things.
Those saying how can we be supplying others power while we are in darkness should know that the problem the Nigerian power sector is facing right now is that it can not successfully store the amount of electricity it generates. Meaning the moment it takes what it can, the remaining becomes waste since there is no adequate facilities to store it

What's hindering the power authorities from storing the excess electricity they generate? Isn't it the duty of the govt to figure out a way to store excess electricity? Can't our leaders borrow a leaf from other countries on how to successfully store excess electricity? Our leaders are EVIL! Simple!
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by Yusman316(m): 3:44pm On Jun 10, 2021
chukxie:


What's hindering the power authorities from storing the excess electricity they generate? Isn't it the duty of the govt to figure out a way to store excess electricity? Can't our leaders borrow a leaf from other countries on how to successfully store excess electricity? Our leaders are EVIL! Simple!
Actually it takes infrastructures which we don't have to do that
At the moment our generation capacity is more than our storage capacity
And don't forget that the companies that does the generation, storage and distribution are not the same
It's just like producing some crops taking it to the market and not getting a buyer
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by muyeski21(m): 3:49pm On Jun 10, 2021
Le124:




https://punchng.com/four-wafrican-countries-to-buy-nigerias-idle-electricity/


Imagine not being able to satisfy ur citizen and now thinking of supplying other nation. We are doomed as a nation .
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by chukxie(m): 4:01pm On Jun 10, 2021
Yusman316:

Actually it takes infrastructures which we don't have to do that
At the moment our generation capacity is more than our storage capacity
And don't forget that the companies that does the generation, storage and distribution are not the same
It's just like producing some crops taking it to the market and not getting a buyer

My brother, I commend you for your response. YOU don try! Thing is whatever is beleaguering our nation's abysmal electricity supply can be fixed. Electricity supply is the bedrock of every developed country. If the Nigerian government prioritizes electricity generation, distribution and storage, the days of "Up NEPA" would cease! How does China, a country almost half the size of Africa generates solar power in the far-flung province of Xinjiang, stores it, and distributes it to other far off provinces and cities? Nigeria is a joke.

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Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by kunzzy4me(m): 4:13pm On Jun 10, 2021
melaniaup:
This Government from my side have being awarded honorary degree in lying


This country can never get better ...
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by MrBONE2(m): 4:15pm On Jun 10, 2021
WiszyFraud:
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Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by middlemedia: 4:31pm On Jun 10, 2021
tobtap:
Na joke be dis... How can you sell power we no need... When no part of Nigeria get 24hrs electricity... Omo... Dis leaders are clueless.. Quota system elites will destroy dis nation undecided
not clueless, wicked and heartless, all they care about is their pocket, looking for means to generate revenues directly to their pockets, they give no fu^ks about the next citizen. This act has been going on for 61 years and it will continue, no one will be selfless enough to sacrifice his gains for the good of your nation, everyone thinks same way, hopeless situation.

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Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by xrenzy(m): 5:04pm On Jun 10, 2021
Le124:




https://punchng.com/four-wafrican-countries-to-buy-nigerias-idle-electricity/
the most useless speech ever to this sule and government that's an achievement
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by akinademayowa(m): 5:16pm On Jun 10, 2021
I'm just trying to imagine why this govt will be talking of idle electricity when all the power supply we have is obviously not enough for one state talk less of a country of over 200million people. Maybe these people are actually thinking in their minds that we're already enjoying a stable electricity of 20hrs per day, like maybe what they have on paper. It's well o
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by habsydiamond(m): 5:26pm On Jun 10, 2021
If u are not hearing up Nepa where u are living in this country then u must have come out from one advanced country...
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by funshint(m): 5:57pm On Jun 10, 2021
I just feel like slapping somebody. You can't ensure constant and regular electricity in your own country yet you're attending to the needs of other countries. Abeg who did this to us?!
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by funshint(m): 5:59pm On Jun 10, 2021
Yusman316:

Actually it takes infrastructures which we don't have to do that
At the moment our generation capacity is more than our storage capacity
And don't forget that the companies that does the generation, storage and distribution are not the same
It's just like producing some crops taking it to the market and not getting a buyer
Beautiful nonsense angry
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by otokx(m): 6:21pm On Jun 10, 2021
What he is trying to say is that some places in the north will be having free power supply whereas they refused to give Afam and other places in the south that generate the power free electricity.
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by generalwo(m): 6:47pm On Jun 10, 2021
Le124:




https://punchng.com/four-wafrican-countries-to-buy-nigerias-idle-electricity/
.... Wallai e no go better for anybody wen dey deliberately make Nigerians suffer...... So we get surplus electricity and them dey share light 3hrs every day like say na akara them dey put for small pikin hand..... E no go better for anybody wen no want Nigeria to better pass as e dey
Re: Four West African Countries To Buy Nigeria’s Idle Electricity by peniel465(m): 7:00pm On Jun 10, 2021
planetx:
But they are building a $570 million transmission line to those West African countries, so if distribution and transmission is the problem like I have been hearing why is that money not spent in Nigeria to build distribution and transmission capabilities. Or is the electricity going to be wirelessly transmitted to the four West African countries?

That's the corruption my brother.. Truth is the Govt knows what to do, but for some reason they chose to turn a blind eye.. Our transmitting and distribution systems need a total overhaul.. Many of the facilities are in a poor state and are overloaded.. God wud save us bros.

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