Quintopia:
Hope this good news gets to front page, because all the bad news gets there.

Where the good news? Cause they recorded 5kw for one single day, una dey call this trash good news.

Una no fit live better life till una go kpai if this is what y’all are out to celebrate.

Any mad man with a miserable life should quote me and say nonsense.

SeunDAssLicker:


Where the good news? Cause they recorded 5kw for one single day, una dey call this trash good news.

Una no fit live better life till una go kpai if this is what y’all are out to celebrate.

Any mad man with a miserable life should quote me and say nonsense.

My friend will you go and sit down. Mr Perfect. I'm sure if they elect you, you will produce 100,000 megawatts in one week. Loudmouthed buffoon. If there is improvement in power supply we should all keep quiet and not say anything. EVIL MIND.

You read my mind. I expected him to post the power generation of the countries he mentioned so that we can do a comparative analysis.

OriOko88:

You're just bleating like a goat,giving vague comparison here and there. Why not post the power generation of Pakistan and Bangladesh so we could see that they're also generating 5k megawatts capacity as Nigeria. They have almost d same size as Nigeria. Post their power generation now let's see. Ignoramus. The fool is saying the bigger d country the bigger the power problem. That means big countries like Russia,china and brazil too are experiencing power problems because of their big sizes. Ode ni bobo i sha. See idiotic comparison

That’s a lie. China did not ban imports up to 1990. Show us the evidence. We live in an info age. You can’t just fabricate a claim and vomit it on social media.

Quintopia:


Developing nations are not ''failed, failing countries''. THEY ARE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.

This misunderstanding of the world is why so many of you are drowning in inferiority complex, because you think being in development is ''failure''.

You talk of China in 1960. Are you prepared to do what China did to get where they are today?

Are you aware that China banned all imports for 3 decades or more up till the 1990s, forcing everyone but the very richest to go around in bicycles, and buy ONLY made in China goods, regardless of product quality?

When your daddy was driving that Peugeot 504 or Mercedes 280s in the 1980s, his Chinese counterpart was riding a bicycle to work.

And all this was enforced by a brutal one party dictatorship that murdered and jailed countless millions of opposition figures, in a brutal, repressive crackdown that remains till today, with no real freedoms or human rights.

ARE YOU READY TO GO THROUGH THAT IN NIGERIA TODAY in order to be industrialised and self sufficient in the next 20 to 30 years?

If you're not, then don't compare yourself with China.

You people only see the shiny bright lights of these countries, but you don't take the time and effort to learn what they actually did to attain their wealth.

The USA and Europe gained all their wealth by enslaving and looting the entire world population, destroying civilizations left, right and centre.

Do you wish to take that path? Oya go and invade your neighbours and seize their land and resources and kill their people.

That's what Britain and co did to be rich.

Don't just admire those countries. Study what they did to be rich and developed.

If you cannot replicate their evil, then don't feel inferior to them.

Quintopia:


STOP LYING. In previous years we were generating 3000+ megawatts at best, including during the rainy season. The current improvement is not just about ''rainy season'', but actual improvement in power generation and distribution capacity, surpassing 5,043 megawatts.

Check again in February next year if you'll still have the same perception.

Isoright

Kai! All of a sudden, power is improving.
I remembered the few months after Buhari resumed office in 2015, Omo!!
We were literally switching off our refrigerator then to allow it rest from the excess power. It was so much that we all thought that was the change Buhari was bringing.
Now, all of a sudden again, power is improving........ I won't say anything
My advice still remains
VOTE WISELY

AND STILL WE DON'T HAVE LIGHT, THEY ONLY BRING LIGHT LIKE LAST WEEK AND FIRST WEEK OF EVERY MONTH BECAUSE OF THE MONEY THEY WANT TO COLLECT.

LET THEM CONTINUE DECEIVING MASSES.

ENJOY KO ENJOY NI

That’s the handwork of Osibanjo clearly. He is a man full of ideas but wasn’t given any chance by the dead man in aso rock and old tired emilokan

OriOko88:
5k megawatt for 200milion people?? This is not worth celebrating atal. South Africa with just 50m people is generating over 28k megawatts,imagine. USA almost 150k megawatts! So whats worth celebrating in a temporarily stable and meagre 5k megawatt which will even trip off in few days time in d name of grid collapse. Some towns in akwa ibom and rivers have not had light for 3years but their govts are busy building ten lane roads and flyovers. No be juju b dat??

They are Messrs Projects

OriOko88:
5k megawatt for 200milion people?? This is not worth celebrating atal. South Africa with just 50m people is generating over 28k megawatts,imagine. USA almost 150k megawatts! So whats worth celebrating in a temporarily stable and meagre 5k megawatt which will even trip off in few days time in d name of grid collapse. Some towns in akwa ibom and rivers have not had light for 3years but their govts are busy building ten lane roads and flyovers. No be juju b dat??

Always having reasons to fault good development. Negativity mindset.

backtovillage:
OP u will still collect USB cord for that your neck. Mayb in the East and North.

Nah oriamo cord I dey arrange for the yeye op

The power plants in Nigeria are under utilized, they can generate more energy if they want to eg the Nipp power plant in Olorunsogo has been shutdown for a while now due to low pressure of gas to propel their gas turbines and even when there is gas they don’t run all the gas turbines .

OriOko88:

You're just bleating like a goat,giving vague comparison here and there. Why not post the power generation of Pakistan and Bangladesh so we could see that they're also generating 5k megawatts capacity as Nigeria. They have almost d same size as Nigeria. Post their power generation now let's see. Ignoramus. The fool is saying the bigger d country the bigger the power problem. That means big countries like Russia,china and brazil too are experiencing power problems because of their big sizes. Ode ni bobo i sha. See idiotic comparison

You're arguing with an electronic rat, a blockhead APC agent. You get time

Uchek:
That’s a lie. China did not ban imports up to 1990. Show us the evidence. We live in an info age. You can’t just fabricate a claim and vomit it on social media.

Go and study history and quit embarrassing yourself. China closed its economy to the world right up till 1978 specifically, when she began a process of opening up to foreign commerce. This was not an instant transformation, but took place slowly throughout the 1980s, reaching its peak in the early 1990s.

https://www.jri.co.jp/english/periodical/rim/1999/RIMe199904threereforms/

Prior to this 'opening up', a combination of outright bans and extremely high import tariffs served to protect her economy from foreign imports, encouraging local industrialisation, such that by the 1980s, she had established a strong enough local industrial base to open up the economy to the multinationals and foreign competitors.

This is really the only true and fast way to develop a country, ie initial bans and high import tariffs to force local innovation and industrialisation, even at the risk of local discomfort and suffering.

The trouble with it is that it requires a brutal dictatorship to enforce, since democratic societies would never support a restriction of their freedoms, including the freedom to import everything they need in a 'free market'.

Djyucee1:
The power plants in Nigeria are under utilized, they can generate more energy if they want to eg the Nipp power plant in Olorunsogo has been shutdown for a while now due to low pressure of gas to propel their gas turbines and even when there is gas they don’t run all the gas turbines .

The idīot OP doesn't know that there is actually 6k MW of stranded capacity on top of the 5k MW he's come to nairaland to shout about.

That particularity is beyond his puny intellect and his pay grade as an electronic rodent.

Quintopia:
I KNEW BUHARI WOULD DELIVER ON ELECTRICITY BEFORE THE END OF HIS TENURE, LIKE HE PROMISED.

WELL DONE MR PRESIDENT.

WHAT WE AWAIT NOW IS TO HIT 6,000 TO 7,000 MEGAWATTS BEFORE THE END OF THIS ADMINISTRATION.

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The same format every 4 years.

After the elections, it will revert to total darkness.

Why is every good thing about governance in Nigeria always happening around election time? Politicians intermingle with the masses, power improves, contractors mobilized to sites, terrorists being tackled head long, etc and once the election is over, everything goes to status quo ante.

The good thing is that the politicians have mastered these gimmicks and the masses continue to fall for them. I don't know this man but he captured it succinctly:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfVZkjX7Zyg

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Enkidu70:


The idīot OP doesn't know that there is actually 6k MW of stranded capacity on top of the 5k MW he's come to nairaland to shout about.

That particularity is beyond his puny intellect and his pay grade as an electronic rodent.

If you didn't have the intellect of a toad, you would have seen where I typed that Nigeria had an installed generating capacity exceeding 13,000 megawatts, and that her problem was primarily distribution, which the Siemens deal is here to deal with.

Stupid, ignorant dunce.

Disco or whatever u called them did not distribute any meter to its customers instead selling them out at exorbitant price and also store them in their warehouse

OkCornel:


But Fashola said Nigeria’s power problem is not rocket science. He was the minister of power for four years and no tangible improvement in power transmission which is the missing link in the chain. Fashola flopped spectacularly.

Tinubu also told Nigerians in 2014 that the only way to get steady power supply was to vote out Jonathan…but going by current realities and hindsight, everyone knows that’s a barefaced lie.

Linus. This Linus want to continue to deceive Nigerians.

Shuu, everybody on this thread are fighting @quintopia, though if we read what at quintopia writes it makes sense in one way all the other, I took my time to read his comments, but beyond that I think our problem is our leaders, in few weeks we will be 62 and in many ways we have not gotten it right, if to be honest we gained independence before Ghana, but it's crazy to believe Ghana have stable power supply than us, Ghana don't even have the resources we have, Ghana make use of hydro, thermal and even gas for generation of power, but here our sole focus is hydro, I believe if we get good leaders though we can't be USA in a day but at least we will see significant improvement....I hope who will election in 2023 will be the right person for us, though I am atikulated

Quintopia:


ABEG SHUT UP. Power supply takes a long while to get right for a huge population like Nigeria.

South Africa has been building power infrastructure since the 1800s while Nigeria's first power plant, Kainji dam, was commissioned only in 1964 after independence, since all the British colonisers did was loot.

If they elect you, you will encounter the same difficulties of previous leaders.

Na dust you dey yarn

Hitsport16:
Shuu, everybody on this thread are fighting @quintopia, though if we read what at quintopia writes it makes sense in one way all the other, I took my time to read his comments, but beyond that I think our problem is our leaders, in few weeks we will be 62 and in many ways we have not gotten it right, if to be honest we gained independence before Ghana, but it's crazy to believe Ghana have stable power supply than us, Ghana don't even have the resources we have, Ghana make use of hydro, thermal and even gas for generation of power, but here our sole focus is hydro, I believe if we get good leaders though we can't be USA in a day but at least we will see significant improvement....I hope who will election in 2023 will be the right person for us, though I am atikulated

It is a MYTH that Ghana ''doesn't have the resources we have''. Here's a little secret: Proportionate to her size and population, Ghana is more richly endowed with resources than Nigeria.

Ghana is a country of just 25 million people - the population of one state in Nigeria.

Yet she is the 2nd largest gold exporter in Africa after South Africa, the largest exporter of cocoa in Africa, and an oil and gas exporter of note on the continent.

There's no reason why Ghana should not be fully developed with abundant power supply, cheap food, top class infrastructure and more. But instead what we see is Ghana running to the IMF to bail her out of her economic collapse, as inflation and hunger run riot in the country.

I can't remember when last Nigeria approached the IMF for a bailout loan. Must have been in the 1980s or something.

When Siemens is coming

India 48000MW
Pakistan 24000MW
United state 1,143,757MW

Nigeria my country 5043MW

Quintopia:
Why Nigeria is Experiencing Improved Supply of Electricity



https://nairametrics.com/2022/09/04/nigerians-are-experiencing-improved-power-supply-as-generation-reaches-a-record-high-since-august-2022/

Forget this long story.
The reason is the amcon takeover of Discos. Those Discos used to reject power and do a lot of load shedding.
Now that they're out of the window with those their shenanigans, power supply had improved

Invest4growth:
When Siemens is coming

SIEMENS ARE ALREADY HERE. It was the 'covid pandemic' that delayed their work, as the contract was signed in early 2020 just before the 'pandemic', which stopped all work and shipments worldwide for nearly 2 years. Now the contract execution is back on full steam, and it is really just a question of time before Nigeria witnesses an explosive and stunning improvement in power supply.

And when that happens in the next 2 to 3 years under a new administration, Nigerians should remember to commend the Buhari administration for initiating it.

jeyem:
India 48000MW
Pakistan 24000MW
United state 1,143,757MW

Nigeria my country 5043MW

This doesn't tell the whole story and amounts to a misrepresentation of facts.

Nigeria's installed generating capacity is over 13,000 megawatts. Our problem is not generation, but poor distribution capacity caused by an antiquated grid, and that is now being fixed with the Siemens deal.

Egypt had the exact same problem we do, and Siemens was called in, and they fixed it in 5 years, leading to Egypt now generating and distributing around 20,000 mw.