czarina:
About time! Carpenter wen no get chair for house.

ednut1:
the dams we use are on the river niger , if those cointries set up thier own dams too. Our dams don cast. So are mandated to sell to dem

NwaliE01:
We dey generate power give other countries, then come home dey use generators even for Aso villa.
Are we under spell or something?

sparog:
Stupid people at the helm of affairs

Minjim:
Debt: FG may cut power supply to Benin, Niger and Togo.


Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari has joined operators in the power sector to call on international customers who receive electricity from Nigeria to either pay their bills or be disconnected.

Nigeria sells power to the Republics of Togo, Niger and Benin, and classifies the West African countries as international customers.

Officials at the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, told our correspondent in Abuja on Tuesday that the international customers, who pay for the power they receive from Nigeria in dollars, owed the country, a development that had increased the financial indebtedness to the power generation companies.

This was confirmed by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, who, however, revealed that Buhari was working hard to ensure that the electricity debts by the country’s neighbours were cleared.

Fashola stated that he had also directed the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company to go ahead and collect its money from the international customers.

He noted that the government had issued letters to the countries involved, adding that Nigeria would disconnect those who fail to comply as endorsed by Buhari.

The minister said, “We issued disconnection notices and that is why I’m asking the NBET to go and collect your money because we have duties, obligations and international agreements with them as brother and sister nations. But that does not mean they will not pay us if they are defaulting. So, we have issued letters to them to pay their bills, and from time to time, they pay.

“There was a time one head of state came to visit President Buhari and little did I know that the real reason he came was to come and tell him that the (power) sector had issued a notice of disconnection to his country. And you may be interested to know that President Buhari simply told him to go and pay, otherwise we will disconnect you because we are also paying at home.”

Fashola also stated that he recently received the minister of power from Niger and both of them discussed issues bordering on the payment of electricity bills to Nigeria.

He said, “International customers, yes we have delays in payment and I think that’s a fair thing to say. Our international customers are government agencies and governments of Niger, Togo and the Republic of Benin. So, it takes some time and even on our own side, we know what it takes to get approvals, to process things and so on.

“You may be aware that the minister of power for Niger Republic was here to see me on Thursday or Friday, and these were some of the issues we had to discuss. And we also discussed the need for them to transfer the rights under their old agreement, which they made with the PHCN to NBET. So from time to time, we get the monies from international customers and we pay the power generation companies.”


http://punchng.com/debt-fg-may-cut-power-supply-to-benin-niger-togo/

bareal:


They are kúkú not stupid... More dollars for them to syphon.

I will rather call them wicked!

Moorish:
Those countries have lower installed capacities I believe

Probably 500MW each or less

I am not condoning it but 1500MW would not fix Nigeria’s power issues, although it will go a long way

Nbote:
Charity is supposed to begin at home but here no way... See like doing things abnormally.. Imagine a country dat suffers from epileptic power supply but yet supplying international consumers.

OsuMustGo:
May?


USELESS fools.

We wey get the thing no dey see am use...



Fashola is a morọn.

ednut1:
the dams we use are on the river niger , if those cointries set up thier own dams too. Our dams don cast. So are mandated to sell to dem

Nbote:
Charity is supposed to begin at home but here no way... See like doing things abnormally.. Imagine a country dat suffers from epileptic power supply but yet supplying international consumers.

ghostfacekillar:
Nigeria self. Y Me. How did I end up here.. So we are giving people light while we stay in darkness.. God will punish britz

Minjim:
Debt: FG may cut power supply to Benin, Niger and Togo.


Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari has joined operators in the power sector to call on international customers who receive electricity from Nigeria to either pay their bills or be disconnected.

Nigeria sells power to the Republics of Togo, Niger and Benin, and classifies the West African countries as international customers.

Officials at the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, told our correspondent in Abuja on Tuesday that the international customers, who pay for the power they receive from Nigeria in dollars, owed the country, a development that had increased the financial indebtedness to the power generation companies.

This was confirmed by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, who, however, revealed that Buhari was working hard to ensure that the electricity debts by the country’s neighbours were cleared.

Fashola stated that he had also directed the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company to go ahead and collect its money from the international customers.

He noted that the government had issued letters to the countries involved, adding that Nigeria would disconnect those who fail to comply as endorsed by Buhari.

The minister said, “We issued disconnection notices and that is why I’m asking the NBET to go and collect your money because we have duties, obligations and international agreements with them as brother and sister nations. But that does not mean they will not pay us if they are defaulting. So, we have issued letters to them to pay their bills, and from time to time, they pay.

“There was a time one head of state came to visit President Buhari and little did I know that the real reason he came was to come and tell him that the (power) sector had issued a notice of disconnection to his country. And you may be interested to know that President Buhari simply told him to go and pay, otherwise we will disconnect you because we are also paying at home.”

Fashola also stated that he recently received the minister of power from Niger and both of them discussed issues bordering on the payment of electricity bills to Nigeria.

He said, “International customers, yes we have delays in payment and I think that’s a fair thing to say. Our international customers are government agencies and governments of Niger, Togo and the Republic of Benin. So, it takes some time and even on our own side, we know what it takes to get approvals, to process things and so on.

“You may be aware that the minister of power for Niger Republic was here to see me on Thursday or Friday, and these were some of the issues we had to discuss. And we also discussed the need for them to transfer the rights under their old agreement, which they made with the PHCN to NBET. So from time to time, we get the monies from international customers and we pay the power generation companies.”


http://punchng.com/debt-fg-may-cut-power-supply-to-benin-niger-togo/

KangaIye:

What about Togo that the River Niger doesn't pass through her country, why can't they just cut them off if they refuse to pay, can they try that nonsense with Ghana Sebi can too generate her own power from the Volta we should stop this Big brother thing we are doing please its not working again our population has increased greatly to the extent that the power generating is not even enough not to say we are supplying other nations and they will be owning us.

KangaIye:

What about Togo that the River Niger doesn't pass through her country, why can't they just cut them off if they refuse to pay, can they try that nonsense with Ghana Sebi can too generate her own power from the Volta we should stop this Big brother thing we are doing please its not working again our population has increased greatly to the extent that the power generating is not even enough not to say we are supplying other nations and they will be owning us.

eleojo23:
How can we even be supplying electricity to these countries when we don't have enough to use here?

Our leaders are silly