PureGoldh:
Nice one

Local man just dey wonder why we can't boast of 24hrs power supply

Local man should know that we have stable 24 hours electricity since 2015, when we followed Fashola’s advice to vote out PDP and Jonathan for APC and Buhari.
Or you are doubting the integrity of Buhari, Fashola and APC to deliver their campaign promises of five years ago

No wonder we no get light.

It is a small dam for Nigeria. Moreover, that river should be used for vegetation or transportation. We should invest in other forms of electricity.

micfoley:
Wonderful and educative piece. Thanks OP. The pics are breathtaking

But FG should at least help install the additional 4 turbines so that we can have access to more power.



Can't believe we have not installed them after all thes.e years

if the fed govt make mistake install d remaining 4 turbines d dam go explode. They prefer to stash and line their pockets. There was a country

Pimpmaride:
Nice

I don't understand how water is use to generate electricity


I can't seem to understand at all

Can someone please explain, how can a body of water generate electricity

To generate electricity, you spin an electricity generating turbine which is basically a large mass of wound copper wire sitting in the middle of a Large magnet. Spin the mass of copper in that magnetic field and you generate electric current.

Virtually all forms of power generation with the exception of Solar power is basically u getting a big electricity generating turbine to spin by harnessing the power of different things

For example

Nuclear power stations generate electricity by harnessing the heat energy generated from nuclear fission to generate electricity

With that being said a dam generates electricity by using water Moving through it to spin large electricity generating turbines at the base of the dam.

Even waste can be used to generate electricity.

Source of epileptic power supply

hakeem4:
only 8 out of the 12 are functional.

Maybe we should just tryout nuclear energy as another option for generating electricity

Yes bro, 8 were installed wen constructed, but only 5 were presently working, 3 of dem have been faulty and not repair. I've been to d site once around 2012 on exploring tour

Ezmans:
A good wind energy from nothern Nigerian can serve the whole nigeria

It is not sustainable

Pimpmaride:
Nice

I don't understand how water is use to generate electricity


I can't seem to understand at all

Can someone please explain, how can a body of water generate electricity

its no big deal..the pressure from the water flow is channeled through a turbine inlet, this causes the turbine to swirl or turn in a specified direction(maybe clockwise).. so the turbine itself is attached to an alternator through a shaft, which definitely moves the alternator and then generates the actual electricity..our household generating set works in same principle..it makes use of the combustion power(fuel) from the mechanical portion, to turn around the alternator attached to it at a specified high speed...

Reason why the 4 turbines are not yet installed could be attributed to corruption or kick backs from government

Pimpmaride:
Nice

I don't understand how water is use to generate electricity


I can't seem to understand at all

Can someone please explain, how can a body of water generate electricity

Put the water under pressure by gravity and narrowing the gateway, then let it turn the turbine and drive the alternator. Assuming, Nigerian communities are in order, there are communities that has river with enough potential to power there community. We are under utitilizing our resources as a nation.

hakeem4:
only 8 out of the 12 are functional.

Maybe we should just tryout nuclear energy as another option for generating electricity

I'm not sure you understand what you are saying? Nigeria government that can't handle dam will not be able to handle nuclear energy o. Beside that will handling to our wicked leaders such dangerous weapon....the guns they have they are using against citizens already

Rossikk:


85% Gowon? What rubbish.

Dude, 95% of the infrastructure in Nigeria today has nothing to do with Gowon. Go around the country and stop living in the past.

You'll have to drop your sentiment and read what I posted objectively!
The statement said 80-85% Money-Spinning public corporations. Now, I dare you to prove me wrong! State what and what is "around" and tell me in what capacity/ties they're an enduring legacy!

OLDESTWARRIBOY:
The site looks abandoned....smh
When other countries are already using other source of clean energy, Nigeria still dey use dam....and the light dem no dey seeam o

Chief, Dam also serves other purposes like providing water for irrigation, water works ( for drinking) impounding water for raising fish and other aquatic life as well as of course preventing massive flooding during return periods of rainfall.
Truth is many of the advanced countires you referred to still make use of Dam technology.
Without going too far, Egypt and Ethiopia are about going to war because of a dam Ehtiopia is contructing on the Nile.
So the issue here is are we utilizing our dam optimally?

This seems to be a historical monument that is begging for overhaul. When will the govt wake up & give the nation needed power?

SenecaTheYonger:


Like a black man like you would have done any better if you had the power adn resources to colonize a continent.

Actually, you self-hating, ignorant donkey drowning in inferiority complex, black Africans DID 'colonize' the entire world in history, and DID bring civilization to many lands, rather than looting, enslaving and exploiting those lands.

Most recently was the civilizing influence of the Moors, black Africans from West Africa who brought leadership, learning and education to Europe during its 'Dark Ages', a 500 year intervention that led to the European Renaissance, which led to the Industrial revolution.

I know you have no clue of this history, but the Europeans do, as shown by the numerous statues in honour of the black Moors existing till date, and numerous family crests of modern aristocratic European families honouring their black Moorish forbears.

Moorish Crests in Europe:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=moorish+crests+black&sxsrf=ALeKk03uGaIjLA0LRGKOmT6CulL1ipHeUg:1595875631492&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwimqPuAjO7qAhUcRhUIHV0xCLoQ_AUoAXoECA0QAw&biw=1862&bih=975

Moorish Statues in Europe honouring their black civilizers:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=moorish+statues&hl=en&sxsrf=ALeKk03X4syMt0KZWAWFuchcaeKWWhd6XQ:1595876000295&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjaoemwje7qAhWpRBUIHZuFCkQQ_AUoAnoECA0QBA&biw=1862&bih=975

Citation:

''The Moors invaded Spain in 711 AD and African Muslims literally civilized the wild, white tribes. Recent scholarship now sheds new light on how Moorish advances in mathematics, astronomy, art, and philosophy helped propel Europe out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, it was ancient Africans that brought civilization to Spain and large parts of Europe and not the other way around.

The first civilization of Europe was established on the Greek island of Crete in 1700 BC and the Greeks were primarily civilized by the Black Africans of the Nile Valley. The Greeks then passed on this acquired culture to the Romans who ultimately lost it; thus, initiating the Dark Ages that lasted for five centuries. Civilization was once again reintroduced to Europe when another group of Black Africans, The Moors, brought the Dark Ages to an end.

When history is taught in the West, the period called the “Middle Ages” is generally referred to as the “Dark Ages,” and depicted as the period during which civilization in general, including the arts and sciences, laid somewhat idle. This was certainly true for Europeans, but not for Africans.

Renowned historian, Cheikh Anta Diop, explains how during the Middle Ages, the great empires of the world were Black empires, and the educational and cultural centers of the world were predominately African. Moreover, during that period, it was the Europeans who were the lawless barbarians.

After the collapse of the Roman Empire multitudes of white warring tribes from the Caucasus were pushed into Western Europe by the invading Huns. The Moors invaded Spanish shores in 711 AD and African Muslims literally civilized the wild, white tribes from the Caucus. The Moors eventually ruled over Spain, Portugal, North Africa and southern France for over seven hundred years.

Although generations of Spanish rulers have tried to expunge this era from the historical record, recent archaeology and scholarship now sheds new light on how Moorish advances in mathematics, astronomy, art, and philosophy helped propel Europe out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance.

One the most famous British historians, Basil Davidson, noted that during the eighth century there was no land “more admired by its neighbours, or more comfortable to live in, than a rich African civilization which took shape in Spain”.

The Moors were unquestionably Black and the 16th century English playwright William Shakespeare used the word Moor as a synonym for African.''

https://www.pambazuka.org/pan-africanism/history-how-african-muslims-%E2%80%9Ccivilized-spain%E2%80%9D#:~:text=Garikai%20Chengu&text=The%20Moors%20invaded%20Spain%20in,civilized%20the%20wild%2C%20white%20tribes.&text=Civilization%20was%20once%20again%20reintroduced,Dark%20Ages%20to%20an%20end.

You can't even develop your own country ruled by your own people, but expect other who conquered you to do it. Victim mentality.

Oh, Nigeria IS developing, far faster than it was under colonial inertia. No road led to your village before 1960. Just footpaths. Today you can drive there. No power plants existed before 1960. Your grandparents used ONLY palm oil lamps. No major hospitals or roads were in existence, and not a single university. Today we have 200 universities courtesy of black rule.

Without Nigerian independence you would be an illiterate village peasant just like your grandparents were under colonialism. At independence, illiteracy was 95% after 63 years of white rule. Meaning there was near-zero investment in education by the colonial thieves. Today that figure is down to 24% thanks to black rule, and investment in mass education.

If you had a working brain in your tiny dumb, self-hating, colonised head, you would thank God everyday for the independence and BLACK RULE that allowed you to become educated and even know what it means to ''develop'', you ignorant little donkey.

Rossikk:


Actually, you self-hating, ignorant donkey drowning in inferiority complex, black Africans DID 'colonize' the entire world in history, and DID bring civilization to many lands, rather than looting, enslaving and exploiting those lands.

Most recently was the civilizing influence of the Moors, black Africans from West Africa who brought leadership, learning and education to Europe during its 'Dark Ages', a 500 year intervention that led to the European Renaissance, which led to the Industrial revolution.

I know you have no clue of this history, being an unread dunce, but the Europeans do, as shown by the numerous statues in honour of the black Moors existing till date, and numerous family crests of modern aristocratic European families honouring their black Moorish forbears.

Moorish Crests in Europe:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=moorish+crests+black&sxsrf=ALeKk03uGaIjLA0LRGKOmT6CulL1ipHeUg:1595875631492&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwimqPuAjO7qAhUcRhUIHV0xCLoQ_AUoAXoECA0QAw&biw=1862&bih=975

Moorish Statues in Europe honouring their black civilizers:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=moorish+statues&hl=en&sxsrf=ALeKk03X4syMt0KZWAWFuchcaeKWWhd6XQ:1595876000295&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjaoemwje7qAhWpRBUIHZuFCkQQ_AUoAnoECA0QBA&biw=1862&bih=975

Citation:

''The Moors invaded Spain in 711 AD and African Muslims literally civilized the wild, white tribes. Recent scholarship now sheds new light on how Moorish advances in mathematics, astronomy, art, and philosophy helped propel Europe out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, it was ancient Africans that brought civilization to Spain and large parts of Europe and not the other way around.

The first civilization of Europe was established on the Greek island of Crete in 1700 BC and the Greeks were primarily civilized by the Black Africans of the Nile Valley. The Greeks then passed on this acquired culture to the Romans who ultimately lost it; thus, initiating the Dark Ages that lasted for five centuries. Civilization was once again reintroduced to Europe when another group of Black Africans, The Moors, brought the Dark Ages to an end.

When history is taught in the West, the period called the “Middle Ages” is generally referred to as the “Dark Ages,” and depicted as the period during which civilization in general, including the arts and sciences, laid somewhat idle. This was certainly true for Europeans, but not for Africans.

Renowned historian, Cheikh Anta Diop, explains how during the Middle Ages, the great empires of the world were Black empires, and the educational and cultural centers of the world were predominately African. Moreover, during that period, it was the Europeans who were the lawless barbarians.

After the collapse of the Roman Empire multitudes of white warring tribes from the Caucasus were pushed into Western Europe by the invading Huns. The Moors invaded Spanish shores in 711 AD and African Muslims literally civilized the wild, white tribes from the Caucus. The Moors eventually ruled over Spain, Portugal, North Africa and southern France for over seven hundred years.

Although generations of Spanish rulers have tried to expunge this era from the historical record, recent archaeology and scholarship now sheds new light on how Moorish advances in mathematics, astronomy, art, and philosophy helped propel Europe out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance.

One the most famous British historians, Basil Davidson, noted that during the eighth century there was no land “more admired by its neighbours, or more comfortable to live in, than a rich African civilization which took shape in Spain”.

The Moors were unquestionably Black and the 16th century English playwright William Shakespeare used the word Moor as a synonym for African.''

https://www.pambazuka.org/pan-africanism/history-how-african-muslims-%E2%80%9Ccivilized-spain%E2%80%9D#:~:text=Garikai%20Chengu&text=The%20Moors%20invaded%20Spain%20in,civilized%20the%20wild%2C%20white%20tribes.&text=Civilization%20was%20once%20again%20reintroduced,Dark%20Ages%20to%20an%20end.



Oh, Nigeria IS developing, far faster than it was under colonial inertia. No road led to your village before 1960. Just footpaths. Today you can drive there. No power plants existed before 1960. Your grandparents used ONLY palm oil lamps. No major hospitals or roads were in existence, and not a single university. Today we have 200 universities courtesy of black rule.

Without Nigerian independence you would be an illiterate village peasant just like your grandparents were under colonialism. At independence, illiteracy was 95% after 63 years of white rule. Meaning there was near zero investment in education by the colonial thieves. Today that figure is down to 24% thanks to black rule, and investment in mass education.

If you had a working brain in your tiny dumb, self-hating head, you would thank God everyday for the independence and BLACK RULE that allowed you to become educated and even know what it means to ''develop'', you ignorant little donkey.

Lol loLAnd this took you 48 hrs to type. Lol, imagine the damage I did to your small brain that made you type an epistle. Lol, sry, but didn't read any of that. Hope you recover though.

SenecaTheYonger:


Lol loLAnd this took you 48 hrs to type.

Do you think I'm a jobless failure like you with nothing to do but come on NL to spew his inferiority complex and self-hatred?

Lol, imagine the damage I did to your small brain that made you type an epistle. Lol, sry, but didn't read any of that. Hope you recover though.

Don't bother reading it as you couldn't possibly understand a single word or argument, being an unread donkey. This was for OTHERS who read your insolent response and need to be educated.

Rossikk:


Do you think I'm a jobless failure like you with nothing to do but come on NL to spew his inferiority complex and self-hatred?



Don't bother reading it as you couldn't possibly understand a single word or argument, being an unread donkey. This was for OTHERS who read your insolent response and need to be educated.

Lol,what a loser. Get a life man. Imagine getting played like a football online

SenecaTheYonger:


Lol, what a loser. Get a life man. Imagine getting played like a football online

It's YOU getting 'played' by someone who knows more than you do. You can fake laughter as much as you want, but if you come in here making racist statements against blacks and Africans, I will bury you with facts and figures disproving your garbage.

THIS book may help cure your self hate, if you can afford it:

Ok. seethe harder, _faggot

Rossikk:


It's Me getting 'played'

SenecaTheYonger:
Ok. seethe harder, _faggot

Rather a fagg.ot than a maggot.

Rossikk:


Rather a fagg.ot than a maggot.

Muuuu

Sofistcatdmoron:
We are still living in the Glory of many years past
No new developments

Sometimes it seems as if military did better.

If civilian government inter to do this project, project like this and third mainland bridge would have been abandon project.

Rossikk:


Actually, you self-hating, ignorant donkey drowning in inferiority complex, black Africans DID 'colonize' the entire world in history, and DID bring civilization to many lands, rather than looting, enslaving and exploiting those lands.

Most recently was the civilizing influence of the Moors, black Africans from West Africa who brought leadership, learning and education to Europe during its 'Dark Ages', a 500 year intervention that led to the European Renaissance, which led to the Industrial revolution.

I know you have no clue of this history, but the Europeans do, as shown by the numerous statues in honour of the black Moors existing till date, and numerous family crests of modern aristocratic European families honouring their black Moorish forbears.

Moorish Crests in Europe:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=moorish+crests+black&sxsrf=ALeKk03uGaIjLA0LRGKOmT6CulL1ipHeUg:1595875631492&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwimqPuAjO7qAhUcRhUIHV0xCLoQ_AUoAXoECA0QAw&biw=1862&bih=975

Moorish Statues in Europe honouring their black civilizers:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=moorish+statues&hl=en&sxsrf=ALeKk03X4syMt0KZWAWFuchcaeKWWhd6XQ:1595876000295&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjaoemwje7qAhWpRBUIHZuFCkQQ_AUoAnoECA0QBA&biw=1862&bih=975

Citation:

''The Moors invaded Spain in 711 AD and African Muslims literally civilized the wild, white tribes. Recent scholarship now sheds new light on how Moorish advances in mathematics, astronomy, art, and philosophy helped propel Europe out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, it was ancient Africans that brought civilization to Spain and large parts of Europe and not the other way around.

The first civilization of Europe was established on the Greek island of Crete in 1700 BC and the Greeks were primarily civilized by the Black Africans of the Nile Valley. The Greeks then passed on this acquired culture to the Romans who ultimately lost it; thus, initiating the Dark Ages that lasted for five centuries. Civilization was once again reintroduced to Europe when another group of Black Africans, The Moors, brought the Dark Ages to an end.

When history is taught in the West, the period called the “Middle Ages” is generally referred to as the “Dark Ages,” and depicted as the period during which civilization in general, including the arts and sciences, laid somewhat idle. This was certainly true for Europeans, but not for Africans.

Renowned historian, Cheikh Anta Diop, explains how during the Middle Ages, the great empires of the world were Black empires, and the educational and cultural centers of the world were predominately African. Moreover, during that period, it was the Europeans who were the lawless barbarians.

After the collapse of the Roman Empire multitudes of white warring tribes from the Caucasus were pushed into Western Europe by the invading Huns. The Moors invaded Spanish shores in 711 AD and African Muslims literally civilized the wild, white tribes from the Caucus. The Moors eventually ruled over Spain, Portugal, North Africa and southern France for over seven hundred years.

Although generations of Spanish rulers have tried to expunge this era from the historical record, recent archaeology and scholarship now sheds new light on how Moorish advances in mathematics, astronomy, art, and philosophy helped propel Europe out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance.

One the most famous British historians, Basil Davidson, noted that during the eighth century there was no land “more admired by its neighbours, or more comfortable to live in, than a rich African civilization which took shape in Spain”.

The Moors were unquestionably Black and the 16th century English playwright William Shakespeare used the word Moor as a synonym for African.''

https://www.pambazuka.org/pan-africanism/history-how-african-muslims-%E2%80%9Ccivilized-spain%E2%80%9D#:~:text=Garikai%20Chengu&text=The%20Moors%20invaded%20Spain%20in,civilized%20the%20wild%2C%20white%20tribes.&text=Civilization%20was%20once%20again%20reintroduced,Dark%20Ages%20to%20an%20end.



Oh, Nigeria IS developing, far faster than it was under colonial inertia. No road led to your village before 1960. Just footpaths. Today you can drive there. No power plants existed before 1960. Your grandparents used ONLY palm oil lamps. No major hospitals or roads were in existence, and not a single university. Today we have 200 universities courtesy of black rule.

Without Nigerian independence you would be an illiterate village peasant just like your grandparents were under colonialism. At independence, illiteracy was 95% after 63 years of white rule. Meaning there was near-zero investment in education by the colonial thieves. Today that figure is down to 24% thanks to black rule, and investment in mass education.

If you had a working brain in your tiny dumb, self-hating, colonised head, you would thank God everyday for the independence and BLACK RULE that allowed you to become educated and even know what it means to ''develop'', you ignorant little donkey.

I see you're still here on Nairaland after all these years peddling your misinformation. The Moors were neither "black Africans", nor were they West Africans. They did enslave West Africans and many West Africans were slaves in the Iberian Caliphate ruled by Moorish invaders (till today, Berbers in Mauritania still retain black African slaves). The Moors were a loose-knit Berber group, native to the Maghreb region of Africa who were Islamized/Arabized by Arab invasions and acculturation, and they became subjects of the Arab Umayyad Caliphate who would conquer parts of the Iberian Peninsula. The Umayyads conquered the Iberian Peninsula using Moors as their footsoldiers. But the Moors would later assume independent control of an independent Emirate after the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads. To claim the Moors were black or West Africans (who were actual colonial and slave victims of Moors) is profoundly ignorant.

The notion that the Moors brought learning and education to " wild, white tribes" of Europe is also nonsensical and laughable. The Iberian peninsula and Sicily (also conquered by Moors) were historic civilizations with thousands of years of civilized history and old subjects of the Romans. Their citizens were literate and skilled in the the knowledge and arts of the time. The Moors brought their own influence (which borrowed heavily from Arab culture) which can be seen in historic arts and architecture in the region today, but that doesn't mean the natives of those areas didn't have their own well-formed culture.

There's so much other misinformed guff there, I don't even want to waste more of my time debunking them. Maybe you should pay a little less attention to Afrocentrist revisionist charlatans and kooks.

salamudeen:
Hmm. Kainji dam is under Borgu LGA of Niger state... Bros the land mass alone in Borgu is more than 2 to 3 states combined in the east...

Those that have visited can testify..


There are places inside borgu emirate that would take you 4 - 6 hours to get to..


Bosses I wonder why companies and investors are not coming here maybe it's due to location and distance..



Light 24/7. But their head set touch atimes


Peace is guaranteed

An army barrack with 2 battalions...


An Air Force base where our amiable first female fighter jet pilot is... I even saw her yesterday in town.....


See guys Borgu is so large that even some people in the state don't even know how large it is...


Ask me anything about kainji dam and Borgu... Am at your service because I stay and live there...

I would love to visit. Can we arrange a visit?

bkvikes:

I would love to visit. Can we arrange a visit?

Anytime anyday

08148289789

Mind you our hotel no reach 2 star ooo