₦airaland Forum

princemaths:
I didn't need to look far for your usual gaslighting and lies. Electricity bill is more expensive in Nigeria than Ghana. Even China and Singapore.

Greenfusion:
Nigeria's electric market is overrated, Nigerians are just being exploited. How does it make sense to the brain that some people would be supplied power less than 10 hours a day and would pay less, and another class would have access to same power for upto 18 hours a daily for an extraneous amount.....its doesn't make sense to me, it only means that they cannot even sustain the promised 18 to 24 hours, meaning they cannot even supply the whole country power,hence, to be smart and make money they tag some nigerians as unable to pay for power and tag some other ables to py just to me money for themselves.....what a country n govt

ReacherSaidNoth:
Shut your smelly mouth. How much is the minimum wage in your hellish country? What is the unemployment rate?

You're an absolute idiot.

nairalanda1:
Only for band A which I should remind you form less than 20 percent of consumers here.

Most pay below 100 per kWh. And 40 percent don't even pay anything for power at all.

You might want to call yourself a liar.

nairalanda1:
Not surprised.....the fact is after years of thinking power was cheap, we are waking up to the cold reality.

I'll leave this post i made earlier

Reading is your problem


",the people complaining are postpaid "

Prepaid user won't cry for disconnection as by default if they can't pay. They will be disconnected .

Blind ronu apc supporter




The fact is, if we want power, we got to pay for it at high prices. But most of us don't want to because we won't be able to afford the prices needed to kick start the sector.

nairalanda1:
You really should not let the fact that petrol is expensive bother you so much.

After all, I don't let the fact that a Ferrari and Porsche are out of my reach financially annoy me too much. It is how it is.

XY23:
You're insanely clever. One thing kept popping up in this article: "estimated billing". You're obviously as mischievous as Tinubu. Pay pay pay, but no regards for operational standards or transparency. In the countries you referenced, is estimated billing the core of their revenue base? What's the instrument of determining who pays what, on each band?

sonnie10:
If you can't pay, go back to the East.

Bizibi:
exactly we need a nuclear power plant.....

nairalanda1:
Well, for a market where many don't even pay for power and a minority pay actual market price ( and that minority inlcides a good percentage of the very rich)...so much for exploitation

Ijaya123:
Nigerians are quite funny. Before they were complaining of paying for darkness. Give us light and we are ready to pay for it, that was the chorus.

So why the complaint now?



Abia state now have 24 hours power supply and it’s free of charge.

You might want to relocate there.

lexy2014:
who are the "we" and how were the "we" subsidizing consumption and idleness?

what is wrong if people buy two litres to watch BBN and telemundo series?

what were you using your 2litres to watch?

is it what people used their two litres to watch that previously prevented the use of power for production?

will the power for production be used for free?

CodeTemplarr:
Great news in some ways. Before we were subsidising consumption and idleness.
People could afford to buy two litres to watch BBNAIJA and Telemundo series. Now it is strictly on a need basis. This will allow the use of power for more of production.

CodeTemplarr:
It will drive production cost up but also free up some energy for producers. It is positive and negative

Winnin009:
Una no go kill person for here. Na to just open mouth wah! We never fit maintain roads and basic infrastructure; you dey talk of nuclear power plant.

How una wan begin maintain am?

ceejayluv:
They should meter them. Estimated billing should be illegal in my opinion. no meter, no power should be the attitude.

Winnin009:
More like no meter; free power! That would force the DISCOs to send meters across board. Fashola actually put out such law when he was minister for power but nigerians don't read the news nor know their rights.

Estimated billing has been made illegal since the past administration. We're a people that're used to being oppressed and begging same oppressors for a break. If nepa go areas where there are no meters and want to cut light; rather than band together and ask for prepaid meters, they start beggin the same NEPA that's in the wrong.

BadBradley:
there re already dedicated energy lines for manufacturers and it hasn't helped one bit.

So majority of the population unable to afford energy tarrifs cannot free up energy for manufacturing. That's the dumbest crap that ever graces this platform

And I wonder why the government keep hiring low grade stooges to defend the indefensible

Bizibi:
you think say na government go maintain am or na the investor go build and maintain. Why do you think ppp initiative exists......most of our projects are ppp.

femi4:
What are you even writing? Have they metered all the pending applications in their office. Your claim can only be reasonable if all who applied for meter are settled

nairalanda1:
Not surprised.....the fact is after years of thinking power was cheap, we are waking up to the cold reality.

I'll leave this post i made earlier




The fact is, if we want power, we got to pay for it at high prices. But most of us don't want to because we won't be able to afford the prices needed to kick start the sector.

A305:
There is an alternative which is solar power. My best guess is those requesting disconnection intends to go the solar route because fuel is expensive as well.

It will only cost them inverter, battery and solar panel fee. Sun is free and it will remain free and inexhaustible.

If Nigeria was a functional country, we would have at least one NUCLEAR POWER plant.

How?

Sign a deal with Russian so they help us build it for free, Grant them license to run the operation of the power plant commercially till they recoup their money plus profit and hand over the power plant to Federal Government.

Ghana is thinking in that direction now. While us giant of Africa by GDP can't think in that direction.

nairalanda1:
You really should not let the fact that petrol is expensive bother you so much.

After all, I don't let the fact that a Ferrari and Porsche are out of my reach financially annoy me too much. It is how it is.

sonnie10:
If you can't pay, go back to the East.

mbos:
so at your age you cannot differentiate between what you Want and what you Need///

Greenfusion:
But do u know if they have the capacity to supply the whole country, it easier to make more money supplying more persons at a cheaper rate...( The turn over effect would make them make more money) But the reality is that they don't even have enough power to sell out.