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olatade:
No power supply at home, no power supply in another country.

It feels like darkness is attached to Nigeria everywhere.

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/

Omoawoke:
The greatest enemy of the black man is the black man

South Africans blacks are the worst set of blacks to exist in the history of blacks..

Same people that were treated like animals in their own country by minority whites while other black countries stood for them, they are filled with so much hate and look for the slightest opportunity to embarrass, show hatred and violence to other black Africans

anonimi:
Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?

In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;

or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority?
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The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.

Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/10/12/neo-black-problem-must-blacks-be-ruled-by-whites-in-order-to-prosper/

nairalanda1:
In a sane country, when you owe nepa bills , they cut your lights

In Nigeria, when you owe bills, you steal the power and chase nepa officials who come to disconnect you with cutlass and gun. Of course the big men and women ignore

And then we wonder why we don't have light.



When you don't pay for the power that you use on the grounds that it is expensive the sector won't have enough money to improfe things

I'm all for government paying for improved power, but it would cost 20 trillion naira annually for the next ten years to get there. Are you ready to support the borrowing needed to get there and are you ready to pay the high bills that would result?

Jakarta:
Going by your logic since people borrow airtime without bothering to pay back, should telecom companies see that as an excuse for other paying customers to suffer the consequences of bad debts?

anonimi:
Is that how you give your goods and services to people who don’t pay you, instead of using every possible means to get them to pay you

How does giving people goods and services without paying help to progress as a society?

ogashman:
Nigeria always representing.

U think SA is Nigeria where you do hanging?

treesun:
https://www.thecable.ng/south-africa-cuts-power-supply-to-nigerian-high-commission-over-unpaid-bills/


Nasiphi Moya

treesun:
https://www.thecable.ng/south-africa-cuts-power-supply-to-nigerian-high-commission-over-unpaid-bills/


Nasiphi Moya

treesun:
https://www.thecable.ng/south-africa-cuts-power-supply-to-nigerian-high-commission-over-unpaid-bills/


Nasiphi Moya

nairalanda1:
In a sane country, when you owe nepa bills , they cut your lights

In Nigeria, when you owe bills, you steal the power and chase nepa officials who come to disconnect you with cutlass and gun. Of course the big men and women ignore

And then we wonder why we don't have light.



When you don't pay for the power that you use on the grounds that it is expensive the sector won't have enough money to improfe things

I'm all for government paying for improved power, but it would cost 20 trillion naira annually for the next ten years to get there. Are you ready to support the borrowing needed to get there and are you ready to pay the high bills that would result?

budaatum:
Actually, this your logic is exactly what any business will do, unless they don't want to remain in business!

If I sell you gari and you don't pay, I will definitely increase my price of my gari I sell to others to recoup my loss so I can have enough money to go buy more gari to sell. Because, if I don't, my days as a gari seller will soon end, and because my gari selling is not a charity!

I will even make my paying customers pay for the gari I lost through theft, and that lost through my own incompetence too, and to pay the exorbitant interest I took to buy the gari in the first place, and all the money I paid bandits in police uniform when I was transporting it.

Someone has to pay for you stealing my gari and not paying, and for my loss and for my profit on top, and there is no reason it must be me. And na business!

Please let me know if you will not do the same.

Jakarta:
There is no any sane country in the world where everybody pay their bills on time, that's a lazy lie. Making paying customers suffer for a company's inefficiency doesn't make sense one bit. Going by your logic since people borrow airtime without bothering to pay back, should telecom companies see that as an excuse for other paying customers to suffer the consequences of bad debts?

People will pay for what they see and use, and if they fail to do so, then disconnection is sure. A transformer can't be faulty for almost a month and as customers we bear the brunt or fixing it, then a week later a distribution company will slap us with bills without deducting the cost from of fixing the said transformer, that is stealing, unfair and will always be resisted.

As a distribution company if you don't have money to provide the needed structure for your business to run smoothly then you quit and let those that can do it, not transferring your basic responsibilities to consumers all in the name of bad debts, consumers not paying bills on time, not having money, those are lame excuses.

nairalanda1:
1. They are selling darkness because people are not paying a cost reflective tarrif, therefore they cannot make a profit to fix things

2. Aba where people pay close to cost reflective tarrifs? That's why they have light

Good evening

Jakarta:
Yes you can do all this no qualms, but should the paying customers bear the responsibility of building your garri shop, buying the basins and others things to sell your garri for you, even after increasing the cost of your garri? If yes, then that is not a business, but an extortion scheme and it is doomed to fail because those paying customers will soon find a way to exploit you too, ....

Jakarta:
A DisCo core responsibility is distributing power to our homes,

Jakarta:
Talking about cost reflective tariffs, Band A users are already paying way over cost reflective tariffs, yet they don't have power, and still perform the duties of DisCos.

nairalanda1:
You are essentially arguing for the right to free power.

Nothing is free

nairalanda1:
You are essentially arguing for the right to free power.

Nothing is free

Jakarta:
What is the primary duty of a DisCo?

GOATandYAMtheory:
Your phada! How Hoebi take pass me? because he was chosen to rule by a group of emotional people? God abeg oo 🤣🤣🙏🏾

Dbegining:
You wey your people no dey emotional, why you never rule them, you know, just to show say you pass Obi?

MrPOTUS:
Why can't they distribute or sell prepaid meters to everyone so everybody will pay reflective bills?

You think they don't prefer people using estimated bill where they perfectly sell their darkness

budaatum:
Jakarta, with no insult intended, I strongly advice you don't go into, business it very much sounds to me like your intention would nit be to secure your capital and earn an income, but to do charity!

I mean, who else do you expect to "bear the responsibility of building your garri shop, buying the basins and others things to sell your garri for you" if not customers?

As for me, when thieves enter my shop and steal everything, I will increase the cost of my gari to extort you customer to cover my loss. If you no want buy, please go elsewhere!


Dude, you are very wrong! A discos core responsibility (and mine for selling gari) is to earn a profit from distributing electricity (and my gari) to cover all my costs and earn a decent profit so I can pay my investors.


It is you who think you "already paying way over cost reflective tariffs". Disco gari selling me don't give a flying fük about your tariffs or even if you have electricity or eat gari in Band Z. All I care about is my profit. And if you can not pay for my gari in the tariff that profits me, please feel free to remain in the dark, because I definitely did not wake up very early this morning so you can have light to eat my gari in your band!

budaatum:
The primary duty of a DisCo and gari selling me is to make a profit! It is definitely not so you have light or don't starve!

Jakarta:
every business goal is to secure their capital and make profits, that comes after service delivery.

Jakarta:
A DisCo will only make profit when it performs it's duty of service delivery (distributing power to our homes), a happy customer will always return and buy more.

Jakarta:
MTN will not transfer the duty of erecting and maintaining a network mast because customer some customers borrowed data and airtime and refuse to pay, rather they will transfer the service cost to paying customers, but first provide the service to those paying customers this shouldn't be too hard to understand.

Jakarta:
Then don't cry foul when people try to collect your garri for free. So no talk of not paying cost reflective tariffs and all that. You can't plant okra, and want to harvest yam.

budaatum:
Wrong! I made my business plan that showed my profit way before I invest a kobo, and that's why I got the loan to open disco.

Bank will not lend me money if my business plan did not show I will make that profit, and without the loan, no disco and no service to deliver!


I think you forget that I have a monopoly on you. Or can you go and buy electricity from another disco?

Yes, though, I should supply you with what I sell so I can charge you for it, because I can not exactly charge you for gari you never bought since I'm not a highway robber!


You see the bold? That's exactly what we are trying to tell you.

MTN will indeed transfer the duty cost of erecting and maintaining a network mast to provide you the service as best they can so paying customers can buy it and pay and cover the cost I incur including that of "some customers who borrowed data and airtime and refused to pay".

Or do you seriously think NTN will pay for those customers who borrowed data and airtime and refused to pay?

Jakarta, will you cover the cost of those who refuse to pay you if you be MTN?

budaatum:
Cry foul, why? Cry go make me profit?

You must have you not heard of the bird that learnt to fly without perching because the hunter has learnt to shoot without missing.

When people try to collect my gari without paying, I will go to babalwo to get juju and will hire security guard to stop them! Make dem try am!

Jakarta:
But they are crying foul, and complaining already.

budaatum:
I think you are beginning to understand small small.

Even when I sell you gari, I don't weigh the gari with scales and only show you the top of my tin so you can not see that I have stuffed the inside with paper, so why do you think I will not be a crook when I sell you electricity? Is it perhaps because you think I want to go to heaven?

Selling you meter will reduce my profit because you will only then pay for what you use and it will be harder for me to rob you with my estimated bills. That profit is my heaven on this earth. I will negotiate hell with God or satan when I die!