₦airaland Forum

seunmsg:
Apart from occasional times when the national grid has issues, most Nigerian households enjoy a minimum of 15-20 hours of electricity in urban areas. So, which blackouts are they talking about?

nairalanda1:
lol...It sounds like a lot of money

But

1.We need ten trillion yearly for the next ten years, at least, before we see power improve to 24 hours a day power
2.That's the money from those who actually pay, not those who bypass their meters, and steal power.
3.The majority of those who actually do pay...either underpay, or pay subsidised rate, with a minority paying band A or cost reflective rates.

One trillion eh? A gas powered station generating 5000 MW will cost 10 trillion naira.

Newspapers and media should put things in context. Just because na trillion does not mean it is enough.

Love800:
It depends on the appliances usage in your household.

uniquetechng:
Yet you remained silent while politicians loot over 50 trn annually to fund their luxury lifestyles, buy houses for their children abroad and stash billions of dollars in foreign banks for their unborn generations.

FreeStuffsNG:
Your own issue is ignorance.

You're confusing electricity generated from public supply with total electricity generated in a country. Go and study first so that you will understand how ignorant you sound when comparing SA's total electricity to fraction of total electricity generated in Nigeria represented by public supply.

anonimi:
Fashola to Nigerians: 'If You Want to Have Stable Electricity Supply, Vote PDP Out in 2015'

Jul 11, 2014.

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, while marking his 2,600 days in office at an elaborate ceremony held at the Blue Roof of the Lagos Television premises, has said voting out the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from power in next year’s general election is the only way the country can have stable electricity.

According to The Nation, Fashola said electricity crisis in the country is caused by lack of ideas and insincerity of purpose on the part of Federal Government.

"Yes I agree with you that it is possible to generate electricity and to make sure that everybody in this country has electricity, we have to do the right thing. But you know what, the only way that you and I will have electricity in this country will be to vote out the PDP.

https://thenationonlineng.net/only-way-to-have-stable-electricity-is-to-vote-out-pdp-says-fashola/#google_vignette

pendy79:
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Sunday evening boasted that he could provide uninterrupted power supply to Lagos residents between six and eight months.

Fashola spoke at the commissioning of 8.5 megawatts Lekki Independent Power Project (IPP), the fifth of such power projects in the last five years in the state.

The governor said the addition of the Lekki IPP was a testament to the fact that stable power does not require rocket science to achieve in the country.

While challenging power distribution companies in the state, Fashola said, “Let the Eko DISCOs sign a contract with me, giving part of their concessioning to the state government, in about six to eight months, there will be power in all homes in Lagos State,” Fashola said.

He added, “So, let no one say that he has no money to deliver power for the entire country. This is the limit to which the law allows us to do, but we have done this to make a statement that power can be generated. So, when they come with lies that power is impossible, you can tell them that we have power here; we make it possible”.

The project, courtesy of the state government, in partnership with Heritage Bank, is to serve Lagos State Water Corporations in Lekki Phase 1, Oniru, Victoria Island and Ikoyi, as well as over 25km of public lightening in the Lekki axis.

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/03/can-provide-stable-power-eight-months-fashola-boasts/

Adonispco:
Life truely is turn by turn.
Since September 2025 we dey enjoy a minimum of 15 hours of electricity supply on average daily here in Aba,Abia State.

Uratta feeder st Philip relief II Band B , prepaid meter freely distributed by Aba power but installed with an average arrears of N140000.
We are enjoying the electricity but we are paying for it painfully.

nairalanda1:
Well, that's what I was saying , old man.


10 trillion yearly for ten years will get us up to 32000mw...which is what we need for eveyrone on the grid.

Also, the Saffers and the descendants of the Pharoahs are paying cost reflective tarrifs, thats why they have power supply well well.

And it is not my rhetoric...it's what the experts have said.



Which is where the ten trillion naira yearly will come in, oga.

Like now, it costs ten trillion to build a 5000mw gas powered station. Ten trillion naira, not dollars US or hong kong, or aussie. or pounds sterling or australian



OKay let's see

1.Pwc says so.
2.Even the figures from the actual agency say so...most nigerians bypass their meters
3.The band B-E people are paying subsidised power, which is basically underpayment by a polite name
4.Power theft is common

Don;t deny it.




Including the 60% who bypass their meters?


Well, if you are not on band A, you are paying subsidsed electricity

If there was no subsidy, your power bill would be charged at N230 or more per kwh. That is not the truth.

If you call me a liar, I will be amused with you..

Murketeer:
My area only sees around 7 hours of light daily , and out of that 7 hours … 5 hours of light is at night.. when the whole world is asleep

Joe4real1988:
Come and see UAE/Dubai that once came for a loan from Nigeria. You are here defending nonsense. E no go better for u people

danietohbadt:
The points you have highlighted above are valid and I must confess that while they epitomise realism, this discourse, if taken to greater lengths would have been more interesting verbally, because it is quite broad and the crux of all issues regarding the power sector in Nigeria goes beyond the capacity of the Federal Government, and overshadowed by corruption and lack of foresight.

Unfortunately, work won't permit me to reply you appropriately at the moment, as my response could end up being an epistle. But, in due course, I will.

Till then.

FreeStuffsNG:
And you are in Band D and E and know the 'truth '?
Many of you are so dishonest in your feedback that it beggars belief to think of what you really want aside bad for every one.

I know folks in that band and know they pay far less and recieve electricity for certain period of the day and it's constant. I equally know people who protested being moved to band A because they don’t want 24 hour
electricity.

Come to my area in Lagos and see what Nigerians are going through..

An area that could boost of up to 20 hours power supply daily presently is not sure of seeing 10 hours of power supply monthly..

Funny thing is this mess started when Adelabu became the minister.

Electricity supply has remarkably improved so much that it's now 24 hour constant for weeks!

Stop this unpatriotic act of running down the country to satisfy your itchy ears for bad news. When government does well, you will not die if you acknowledge it.

seunmsg:
Apart from occasional times when the national grid has issues, most Nigerian households enjoy a minimum of 15-20 hours of electricity in urban areas. So, which blackouts are they talking about?

nairalanda1:
If you were running a business where only 20% of people pay the price you set that would enable you remain solvent, and the rest underpay or do not pay at all, and government subsidy payments are not coming in for those on subsidised prices, you go call that profitable?

You don't know the seriousness of the problem. 1.2 trillion is not going to fix power. Especially since most of that income is going for salaries and debts, very limited amount for actual fixing of power.

10-15 trillion or more is what this country power sector needs on a yearly basis. Before it makes sense.

FreeStuffsNG:
And you are in Band D and E and know the 'truth '?
Many of you are so dishonest in your feedback that it beggars belief to think of what you really want aside bad for every one.

I know folks in that band and know they pay far less and recieve electricity for certain period of the day and it's constant. I equally know people who protested being moved to band A because they don’t want 24 hour electricity.

Electricity supply has remarkably improved so much that it's now 24 hour constant for weeks!

Stop this unpatriotic act of running down the country to satisfy your itchy ears for bad news. When government does well, you will not die if you acknowledge it.

tollyboy5:
Bro i'm in band B. Let normal people express their frustration and stop jumping on all topics to defend the government because you feel tinubu is yoruba.
Tinubu is a lagosian like i am an i no see light work! of what benefit is that to me?
At least 70% of lagos area should get good electricity. Since they sold EKEDP and renamed them last year our light has been so poor!!!!

tollyboy5:
I've called nepa several times and was told we're in band B. Yet no light! wetin bedis? band so we that we can pay heavy and get almost nothing in return.

FreeStuffsNG:
You're in band B and you're still struggling to comprehend or admit the truth and you think what you are doing is normal? Just because you hate the President you are lying or being mischievous?

If you want 20hrs plus light, move to Band A area and stop sounding ignorant.

My point is clear that if you are in Band B, C, D, E, you have less hours of light and in turn pay less! Which part of thus reality is too complex for you to comprehend and admit?

I also stated the fact that some people in Band B,C,D,E don't even want Band A because they can't afford it. They want to stay on a band below Band A that they can afford. It is their right too because they don’t want to be in debt.

Also, I stated clearly that consumers on Band A have been enjoying almost 24 hrs uninterrupted electricity supply even since Buhari era and you are still in denial of this fact.

Again I repeat, you will not die if you say the truth nah.

Instead of running down government and sounding abnormal, just move to Band A area to enjoy long hours of electricity supply at premium price. Government has privatized electricity and subsidy on electricity is being gradually phased out.

As I type here, even for Band A users, it is still far cheaper to use public electricity supply than running diesel or petrol generators daily!

It is not good to be poor and still not be truthful nah. Haba

anonimi:
1. Are you getting your power supply from Aba Geometric Power Plant


2. How much would it cost you to have the same amount of power through i better pass my neighbour generator

Adonispco:
Yes I do get mine from geometric power plant.

I think it will be more expensive using I pass my neighbor generator cos of petrol price.

seunmsg:
Apart from occasional times when the national grid has issues, most Nigerian households enjoy a minimum of 15-20 hours of electricity in urban areas. So, which blackouts are they talking about?

nairalanda1:
Any quote for that fifty trillion naira, old man?

Plus can you tell me when I kept quiet about corruption and stealing, old man

Plus, our budget exceeded 50 trillion only this year. It's near nigh impossible therefore for politicans to have been stealing fifty trillion naira annually even over the last 20 years. Salaries and wages won't have been paid at all, and there would have been no new road projects and debt would be above 400 trillion naira by now. And the country would have been in ruins , worse than somalia and Afghanistan combined. Politicans steal, but not that much.

Infact our budget last year was 30 trillion naira..how can a politician steal 50 trillion of that? Is it imaginary money or what?

When you disagree....

uniquetechng:
I actually didn't want to type because I don't have the time to.

210trn was confirmed missing and the people who looted the said funds are still walking freely, we are not even talking about funds looted by past and present governors, ministers, senators e.t.c.

yesloaded:
estimated billings is fraud

distribution companies will never give you the right estimate because there's no way they can give you an exact consumption.