₦airaland Forum

Omi24:
As for me and my family we'll be managing our solar power till when Nigeria decides to get it right.

No doubt power is expensive we know and I believe people pay according to their consumption using prepaid meters. Make the power available, fix your tariff and watch if people will not pay and use it judiciously

LordReed:
Bro let's not sugar coat anything, there are powerful cabals invested in keeping things a certain way in this country because they are profiting heavily from the status quo. It's not a conspiracy theory, it's the reality. And it will take a strong-willed set of leaders to break this mind set or else no matter what plans are laid they'll never amount to anything.

helinues:
I already come up with a solution but not mature yet for online discussion.

Acting is better than mouth running

helinues:
I already come up with a solution but not mature yet for online discussion.

Acting is better than mouth running

chidiokay:
whst do mean you come up with solutions, the solution templates are long in market naw.

we are a population of over200m people, our national power capacity is below 5MW and in the generation mechanism we have more obsolete that modern mechanism in place

the next is our transmitting network and transformers ... even if their is power generated in excess they can't transmit it for long with packing off

these are the core problem, Fix them and light will be stable

poiZon:
1stly Nigerians don't need free power.
Nobody hit the streets protesting n demanding free electricity.

2. Before buhari Left, be signed new electric bill into law where states can generate, transmit n distribute power.
That law is ineffective today across the country, a serious country with intelligent leaders would have worked towards seeing that law becomes reality. Instead some states prefer spending monies on mass wedding, feeding of citizens after fasting, other numerous frivolity that zap funds out of state purse. Monies that supposed to be utilized for serious n vital projects like electric Generation.

R u aware the previous nnpc board looted 210 trillion naira which they can't account for it, it is in their audited edition.
210 trillion can kick start the liberation of states depending on TCN from transmitting power to their discos.
We have 36 states, 6 or 7 already have functional power plants, invest 2Trillion naira each to the remaining 29 states as loans on 0 percent interest, in 5yrs we will be self sufficient in power generation.

valentineuwakwe:
After the Siemens electricity contract sign during the COVID-19 era of 2020, we are yet to have improved power or megawatts above 10000watts......

This country tire me oo

ceejay80s:
imagine news from leadership news paper,
a press that put up on their Facebook page that a hr manager of a company stole a car and the news is not on their website, it was removed, and U call leadership newspaper credible?
bunch of crackers

SonOfWords:
Nairalanda1, e no go better for you!

nairalanda1:
So recently, Peter Obi made a comment that he was going to improve our power supply by 10000mw, which would take us up to 32000 mw...which should be enough for us to get light 24/7 (subject to the Siemens project working)...and the response was tinubu supporters making fun of Obi as a man without ideas, while Obi supporters praised their man as being wisdom incarnante.

Except that Obi did not tell us how he plans to do it.

Which essentially begs the question, how do we vote for a guy who promises us something, but does not tell us how to do it.

Which leads me back to Tinubu. IN 2023, tinubu said...if you vote me and I do not give you constant power supply, vote me out in 2027.

Naturally tinubu supporters were praising their man as being a tough minded leader, etc, etc....while Obi people are now calling in the receipts. Man has not done as promised so he should be kicked out.


Which leads me to my point.

Tinubu and obi never/have not told Nigerians how they intend to improve power supply.


The truth of the matter is, we have a plan, laid out by the experts, about power supply. A decent , strong plan....cost reflective tarrifs, ending power theft, and rolling out metering.

But neither tinubu nor obi, nor even atiku or any potential candidate would mention that because it does not win votes. (Sowore would probably announce a plan to give 24 hour light a day at N1 per kwh).


Nigerians , regardless of political party, like hearing populist language. If a leader came into office and started doing the things the experts have said we should do, he would be voted out. Or chased out. You will see the Fulani herdsmen marching with the Igbo farmer, the Yoruba trader marching with his Hausa counterpart, and there would be riots.


And the leader would be voted out.

That is why whoever takes office, won't be allowed to improve power because Nigerians think that electricity should be free of charge.

When in reality, it is not possible.

Electricity costs money. If you won;t pay for it in cost reflective tarrif, you will pay for it in generator and inverter monies. That is what Band A taught us.

And on that Band A, the idea of tinubu was not original. India has a similar system, present for decades, that commercial and industrial properties would pay a cost reflective tarrif and the profits would be used to pay for subsidising the poor farmers and rural people

And after doing that, has power supply in India improved? (No.).

Infact India is planning to make everyone pay cost reflective tarrfs in five years time.


SO, if it didn't work in India, how e go work in NIgeria?

The only way we can get free power is to take massive loans totalling nearly 2/3rd of our budgets for the next ten or more years...and while it may give us enough light, it would also put us in heavy debt for it.


In 2025, Prof Barth Nnaji, who is definetly not a Tinubu supporter put it well



SAUCE : LEADERSHIP NEWSPAPER


I have been saying the above for years, but people here abuse me, so I may as well quote the actual expert, who is a qualified engineer, a former ministar of power, and an owner of a GENCO.

And he is not the first or the last to state that this needs to be done. PwC have said it, several experts have been saying it, a BBC report said it, and so forth.

Yet, Nigerians and their candidates choose to believe the fiction of corruption or some evil Western zionist overmind does not want to give us light.

It is easier to believe conspiracy theory fiction

Like NIgerians, like candidates.


Good afternoon.

I expcet to be abused and to be told about other countries that somehow magically give free power(the macs won't add that those countries pay for it with heavy taxes, or heavy debt).

voortrekker966:
Truth is no black African leader can do better than the other. I'm not a Tinubu supporter but he is not doing anything different from his predecessors. Yaradua is praised for reducing the price of petrol during his time but the highest corruption in subsidy happened under him.

I agree with you that Peter Obi may not be able to change anything in Nigeria's power situation. Not because he will not be able to do it but because of the reasons you stated. South Africa is battling the same thing; black people feel electricity should be free.

nairalanda1:
I have alternative sources that quoted Prof Nnaji.

Also, here is Prof saying the same thing in 2017, in the Guardian.

benardtotti:
1. First let me address this popular propaganda that opposition have used to try and de-market Bola Tinubu about power.
Tinubu gave a caveat in that very video that they use for propaganda but it's either our education system has gone totally to zero or people just choose to be funny , at the end of that video he said " unless I come to you and give adequate reasons why I couldn't deliver "
Please see link to that clip below :
https://youtube.com/shorts/LPkRq5ooGKM?si=CqdsWHo5S0fClYKZ

2. I agree with all you have said about power but Nigerians dont want to pay what developed countries pay for electricity

3. Of all the candidates tinubu still gets my vote as he has shown courage to try new reforms that even though looked harsh have begun to bear fruit .

Mrexcell:
I don't believe that same nigerians that spend heavily to fuel their gen sets daily and also install solar systems in their homes and places of work can't afford high electric tariffs just make the power available first to ordinary nigerians let's see if this ur theory is actually true.

gigabyte13:
Power generation in Nigeria is very very possible, we just have thieves and rogues at the helm of affairs.
Infact we have all it takes to generate 24hours power supply uninterrupted.
I lived in jebba, kwara state some years back, you will be shocked that , Nigeria can have uninterrupted power supply for a full week..
We used to off the fridge because of the freezing rate of the freezer.

Nigeria is so blessed with everything in this world but we have cursed leaders.
Once they attain power
They become cursed.

benardtotti:
1. First let me address this popular propaganda that opposition have used to try and de-market Bola Tinubu about power.
Tinubu gave a caveat in that very video that they use for propaganda but it's either our education system has gone totally to zero or people just choose to be funny , at the end of that video he said " unless I come to you and give adequate reasons why I couldn't deliver "
Please see link to that clip below :
https://youtube.com/shorts/LPkRq5ooGKM?si=CqdsWHo5S0fClYKZ

2. I agree with all you have said about power but Nigerians dont want to pay what developed countries pay for electricity

3. Of all the candidates tinubu still gets my vote as he has shown courage to try new reforms that even though looked harsh have begun to bear fruit .

wellmax:
Simple and straightforward. Thanks for sharing.

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/

gigabyte13:
Power generation in Nigeria is very very possible, we just have thieves and rogues at the helm of affairs.
Infact we have all it takes to generate 24hours power supply uninterrupted.
I lived in jebba, kwara state some years back, you will be shocked that , Nigeria can have uninterrupted power supply for a full week..
We used to off the fridge because of the freezing rate of the freezer.

Nigeria is so blessed with everything in this world but we have cursed leaders.
Once they attain power
They become cursed.

nairalanda1:
So recently, Peter Obi made a comment that he was going to improve our power supply by 10000mw, which would take us up to 32000 mw...which should be enough for us to get light 24/7 (subject to the Siemens project working)...and the response was tinubu supporters making fun of Obi as a man without ideas, while Obi supporters praised their man as being wisdom incarnante.

Except that Obi did not tell us how he plans to do it.

Which essentially begs the question, how do we vote for a guy who promises us something, but does not tell us how to do it.

Which leads me back to Tinubu. IN 2023, tinubu said...if you vote me and I do not give you constant power supply, vote me out in 2027.

Naturally tinubu supporters were praising their man as being a tough minded leader, etc, etc....while Obi people are now calling in the receipts. Man has not done as promised so he should be kicked out.


Which leads me to my point.

Tinubu and obi never/have not told Nigerians how they intend to improve power supply.


The truth of the matter is, we have a plan, laid out by the experts, about power supply. A decent , strong plan....cost reflective tarrifs, ending power theft, and rolling out metering.

But neither tinubu nor obi, nor even atiku or any potential candidate would mention that because it does not win votes. (Sowore would probably announce a plan to give 24 hour light a day at N1 per kwh).


Nigerians , regardless of political party, like hearing populist language. If a leader came into office and started doing the things the experts have said we should do, he would be voted out. Or chased out. You will see the Fulani herdsmen marching with the Igbo farmer, the Yoruba trader marching with his Hausa counterpart, and there would be riots.


And the leader would be voted out.

That is why whoever takes office, won't be allowed to improve power because Nigerians think that electricity should be free of charge.

When in reality, it is not possible.

Electricity costs money. If you won;t pay for it in cost reflective tarrif, you will pay for it in generator and inverter monies. That is what Band A taught us.

And on that Band A, the idea of tinubu was not original. India has a similar system, present for decades, that commercial and industrial properties would pay a cost reflective tarrif and the profits would be used to pay for subsidising the poor farmers and rural people

And after doing that, has power supply in India improved? (No.).

Infact India is planning to make everyone pay cost reflective tarrfs in five years time.


SO, if it didn't work in India, how e go work in NIgeria?

The only way we can get free power is to take massive loans totalling nearly 2/3rd of our budgets for the next ten or more years...and while it may give us enough light, it would also put us in heavy debt for it.


In 2025, Prof Barth Nnaji, who is definetly not a Tinubu supporter put it well



SAUCE : LEADERSHIP NEWSPAPER


I have been saying the above for years, but people here abuse me, so I may as well quote the actual expert, who is a qualified engineer, a former ministar of power, and an owner of a GENCO.

And he is not the first or the last to state that this needs to be done. PwC have said it, several experts have been saying it, a BBC report said it, and so forth.

Yet, Nigerians and their candidates choose to believe the fiction of corruption or some evil Western zionist overmind does not want to give us light.

It is easier to believe conspiracy theory fiction

Like NIgerians, like candidates.


Good afternoon.

I expcet to be abused and to be told about other countries that somehow magically give free power(the macs won't add that those countries pay for it with heavy taxes, or heavy debt).