predictor1:
I didn't insult you. I stated what goes on in my district in Ibadan truthfully. Calling me a liar when you don't have access to a contrary information concerning what I said shows you off as childish and quite unworthy.

To be frank it's even worse than I stated it. The last time I bought power units was December and it was #1000!!! I use a freezer and a washing machine at home and I've not exhausted the units. That tells you how bad it is.
So a GDP per Capita of $4300 is not way ahead of a GDP per Capita of $2300? For a country with a bigger population than Nigeria. I thought you were using population as an excuse. Some of you can be so impossible.
So what? It only proves Nigeria has problems which have made it hard to govern. Hence it's poor state. Nigeria is not doing well. Simple. Only idiots look for excuses to wave away their shortcomings. So because Indonesia became independent only 15 years before Nigeria and because they're majorly Muslims is the reason Nigeria should be far behind. If everyone has this your defeatist mentality, then we will all believe Nigeria can not be saved.

If what you are using for Indonesia's growth is the fact that it got independence in 1945, then factor in the fact that Nigeria is not only an oil giant but also a gas giant.

But Indonesia is oil and gas rich! She exports nearly 10 billion dollars of gas to China every year!

She exports coal worth around 20 billion dollars a year. She exports flat sheet steel as well.

15 years difference in terms of gaining independence is substantial. Plus you must factor in the element of Dutch colonial development of the territory, which was the complete opposite in Nigeria with the British looters.

So Nigeria started from Ground Zero in 1960.

Indonesia has been developing for much longer than 1960. Their first university was built in 1849!

That’s more than 100 years before Nigeria’s first university.

We’re not their mate today, because the Dutch built up the country, even as they were looting it.

Tellmeastory:

Belgium and Germany would be starving today were it not for the African resources they looted from the continent at gunpoint.
Australia, New Zealand, are simply relocated western capital enriched by looting Africa and the Southern Hemisphere.
So this whole nonsense about “brains”. Uzbekistan, Albania, and Tajikistan did not loot and rape half the Earth, so they remain poor, even though they are whites.
So they don’t have brains?

It’s about ruthless greed, not brains.

Yes o, they were starving before they began to colonize African in the 19th century. In fact, before 19th century, Somalia was the most developed country in the world. Are you happy now?? Can you mention a single African country that is complaining that all its resources such as gold, silver, crude oil, diamond, copper, iron ore, etc, have been looted by the whites?? Let's say they "looted" 10%, what are we doing with the remaining 90%? We're still exporting it to them in raw materials and then turn back to import it from them in finished goods in form of vehicles, airplanes, tractors, refined fuels, smart phones, electronics, industrial machinery, etc.
What are we doing with the massive gold and other solid mineral deposits scattered across Nigeria? We're waiting for the same white people to come and help us develop them as if angels came down from heaven to teach them. Ordinary agriculture, we're depending on small Ukraine to supply wheat to the whole of Africa.

Exousiang01:

My sincere apologies sir.
Have a good day.....
Go and continue playing with sand

"When a man stands on The road arguing with a mad man, soon people begin to think he is also mad" - Prof Chinua Achebe.

Apologies Sir!
Have a nice day.
Go & play with your mates in kindergarten.

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
George Bernard Shaw

meum:

Population isn’t an excuse. Start from a section & work your way up with a plan. If 230 million people can’t have 24 hours light then start with 5-10million & 230 million would be achieved in no distant time.

So we should give 10 million people light while 220 million people will be in darkness! Is that what you're saying? Most likely, those that will be supplied light would be the rich! So the poor should remain in darkness while the rich live in affluence! Oga think this your rubbish well. The more the populatiogn, the more megawatts you need to produce and with the current practice of nigerians not wanting to pay for what they consume, how can power generation grow?

Misterone:
So we should give 10 million people light while 220 million people will be in darkness! Is that what you're saying? Most likely, those that will be supplied light would be the rich! So the poor should remain in darkness while the rich live in affluence! Oga think this your rubbish well. The more the populatiogn, the more megawatts you need to produce and with the current practice of nigerians not wanting to pay for what they consume, how can power generation grow?

It isn’t rubbish.
Do you know that there are some places currently in darkness as I’m typing this?

Do you know that there are some places in this country that enjoy 24 hours power based on arrangement with phcn? You don’t know that.

Do you know that some states can build independent power plants & generate enough power for their use while selling the rest to the national grid? You don’t know that too.

I bet you don’t also know that prepaid metering can solve the issue of refusing to pay for what is consumed. If you don’t recharge you won’t have light. Simple.

The light won’t be for the rich like you stated. A zone by zone arrangement until all zones are covered with whatever arrangement the states & the federal government have.

meum:

It isn’t rubbish.
Do you know that there are some places currently in darkness as I’m typing this?

Do you know that there are some places in this country that enjoy 24 hours power based on arrangement with phcn? You don’t know that.

Do you know that some states can build independent power plants & generate enough power for their use while selling the rest to the national grid? You don’t know that too.

I bet you don’t also know that prepaid metering can solve the issue of refusing to pay for what is consumed. If you don’t recharge you won’t have light. Simple.

The light won’t be for the rich like you stated. A zone by zone arrangement until all zones are covered with whatever arrangement the states & the federal government have.

Oga power generation, transmission and distribution is now in the concurrent list. That means states can legislate on it.
And stop deviating from what you postulated, that is power should be given to just one section of the country while the other parts remain in darkness. The arrangement we have now is ok. Any state that feels like, can generate, transmit and distribute if they so which to do so.

Misterone:
Oga power generation, transmission and distribution is now in the concurrent list. That means states can legislate on it.
And stop deviating from what you postulated, that is power should be given to just one section of the country while the other parts remain in darkness. The arrangement we have now is ok. Any state that feels like, can generate, transmit and distribute if they so which to do so.

Oga we are saying the same thing. If states can generate, transmit & distribute and State A decides to do that, isn’t that a section of the country with 24 hours of power? Does it mean that 240 million people will have the 24 hours power?

If I were a governor in my state, I would have expanded my state’s IPP to generate enough power for my people let me see if you wouldn’t be in darkness or ‘enjoying’ the epileptic power that PHCN is known for.

Tellmeastory:


LIAR.

very rude of you to tag me a liar.
If the light condition in your area is good, fine. But I'm giving the situation report on where I live. If you have doubts you should come and investigate

meum:

Oga we are saying the same thing. If states can generate, transmit & distribute and State A decides to do that, isn’t that a section of the country with 24 hours of power? Does it mean that 240 million people will have the 24 hours power?

If I were a governor in my state, I would have expanded my state’s IPP to generate enough power for my people let me see if you wouldn’t be in darkness or ‘enjoying’ the epileptic power that PHCN is known for.

Then talk to your state governor to do his part. The idea of the FG doing everything while the state governors lavish their money on frivolities is wrong

Misterone:
Then talk to your state governor to do his part. The idea of the FG doing everything while the state governors lavish their money on frivolities is wrong

My state governors (past & present) have embarked on federal government projects & I keep wondering why the FG allows another tier of government to embark on projects they should undertake. I don’t know if your state governors(past & present) have too or they spend everything on frivolities like you stated.

Most times the FG ends up not reimbursing the states. That said the states can only assist the FG on the issue of electricity not to take full responsibility. It has always been a FG thing hence the creation of a separate ministry of power to look into that sector.

“ The Federal Ministry of Power is the policy making arm of the Federal Government with the responsibility for the provision of power in the country...”

source: https://power.gov.ng/
Federal Ministry of Power website.