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i swear

[size=15pt]Electricity generation now at 4,242MW, highest ever –Nnaji ----> September,2011
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The Federal Government said on Monday that the country had attained an all-time-high power generation of 4,242.7 megawatts.

The Minister of Power, Prof. Barth Nnaji, announced this in Abuja even as his counterpart in the investment and trade ministry, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, also said the Federal Government had sealed a N240bn energy and housing deal with European investors.


Nnaji, who spoke at a stakeholders’ workshop on “Towards Stability in Power Sector”, held at State House Banquet Hall, Abuja, said the country had also reduced the incidence of system collapse in the power sector significantly.


[size=13pt]The power minister said, “On Friday, September 17, 2011, Nigeria attained the highest quantum of power ever. We achieved 3,982.7MW. This figure does not include the 260MW maintained as spinning reserve, which is used for system stability. I am glad to report that all the 3,982.7MW now produced in Nigeria goes into the national grid without difficulty. In other words, the attained generation is now 4,242.7MW.
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“Nigeria used to experience an average of four system collapse every month, that is, almost 50 system failures annually. Much as we have reduced the failures in the last one year, our goal is to reduce them to zero. I must add, however, that some of the failures are caused by factors beyond our control, like a sudden shortage of gas supply to a power generation facility.”


The former President Umaru Yar’Adua administration had failed to deliver on its promise of attaining a 6,000MW target in 2009. The highest the government achieved in August 2010 was 3,800 MW, the highest figure till then.


Nnaji said there were credible reports of a noticeable improvement in power supply in many parts of the country and that the country was expecting an additional 10MW from the Delta Power Station in Ughelli, Delta State, this month. He added that another 120MW will be added later this year, bringing the quantum of power being expected from the plant to 470MW.


“This improvement will still leave us with a shortfall of 430MW because the station’s installed capacity is 900MW. From its sister power station in Sapele, we are expecting an additional 100MW this year, raising supply from this station to 252MW. Still, there will be a shortfall of 768MW because the installed capacity of the station is 1,020MW.


“We have a programme to recover as soon as possible lost capacities at Egbin, Kainji and other places. The 760MW Kainji hydro station, built in 1968, has never been overhauled. But some of its units which are out of use are now undergoing rehabilitation. Coupled with the scheduled inauguration of some plants being built under the National Integrated Power Project, we are optimistic of achieving the target of 5,000MW this year and hit 6,000MW in 2012,” he said.

they said that 1.5 to 2 yrs

Nigerians are clowns and the naive nairalanders who are applauding this are ridiculous dont even visit naija 4 shiot

kingoflag: Hhahahaha Dude said "Low Self Esteem"

ROFLAMO

Probably thought it was a Nigerian Inter-tribal war going on in the Olympics. SMH

Low self esteem?! Wow. Now, I done heard it all.

YES LOW SELF ESTEEM- they were scared of the USA players it was pretty evident even before the game started they were talking bout how he US are better than them but will put up a fight- that's what they said to reporters.

Nigeria lost by 10 to Arg and 6 to France but 84 to USA,? MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL they were scared watched to many "NBA" basketball n let that get to their heads. Nigeria could have atleast lost by 10-20 points but 80+?

Iwatched all nigerian bball players for the last 6 yrs in yankee some since high school- they are better than how they played.

I HOPE THEY LEARNED THEIR LESSON USA are humans and do not win every game they play. USA been beaten before
D'TIGERS have the people and talent they did well in the tournament considering they were put together last minute.

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i like igbo people dey are like , iunno sooo gullible its disheartening majority believe in a nigeria to bad majority of nigerians dont.

no ethnic group or region will love you more than ur own region/ people. Its crazy to say you love a WHOLE ethnic group. even if the christian igalas are close to igbo way of living the other 50% of igalas who are indeed muslim and ALREADY hauanized like he,ll readily will choose sides like ALL MB tribes do.
igala muslims sometimes are even more northern than an hausa and readily speak hausa and muslim blah blah and push religious agenda.

attah of igala n traditional council

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[size=14pt]Do they look like they will favor igbo over hausa/fulani on the basis of what?[/size]

manchy7531:
i wonder what is it with all these Hausa and yoruba people.
last year it was OBJ and IBB
is the alliance crumblingsomebody tell me, pls i need to know.have the slave finally decide to take its rightful place and stop serving the masters

1)Ignorant IBB isnt hausa-

2)Makes no sense since the start of Nigeria the yorubas and Hausas have never been in an Alliance,
Was Awos running mate Hausa in any election? Have you ever seen any serious yoruba man as VP to an Hausaman and win election,with SW votes? NO

Have you ever seen SW vote for any person outside the SW- aside from GEJ(who barely) without rigging? NO!


But you have seen Mko win election with a northerner as VP, you have seen Obj win election with an Hausa Vp and at that, barely a mum out of North aside from "pass me the presidency after, dont give it to the southeast or ss rotation is between north and south".

Out of everyone in country, there is no one that is more political savvy and vocal about democracy than the SW and North.

every presidential elections that has taken place an has a Hausa contest has either a an igbo vp or SS 2nd in command.
Shagari, VP ekwueme
Bashir Tofa VP Sylvest Ugoh
Yaradua VP GEJ
Balewa VP Azikwe

Who is really boy boy? you cannot even count the same number of SWers as VP, TRUTH is Yoruba dont want to vote for any non yoruba- be it hausa or ibo or ijo, just how it is but we do see SS and SE have voted for boy boy positions all through out Nigeria history

Niger_d:
The Vast majority of Yorubas are selfish,

they hardly treats their own blood nice,  not to talk of other people,
[/b]while I was still a very young boy living in Ilorin,  I grew to know that I speak diff language within my household,  I discovered that the language i speaks @ Home differs from the one I speak with my friends,  @ School.
[b]and I was treated as an alien,
this is what they call me,

Omo Ibo,  Aje okuka ma mu omin,

[b]they call be Igbo boy,
[/b]even when I got a Job through Federal Govt Poverty Alleviation Programm,
I was Scorned and trash out and giving menial role,   
Thank God I survive it,

Yoruba's are not their brothers Keeper and I thank my God that I am not one of THEM,

LMFAO hahahah lmfao lol.  

This is hilarious- Youre not yoruba what do you expect them to call you?

One of the reaason I think comments on nairaland are a joke and the posters are not in touch with reality lol day dreamers of some sort

@ dayokanu the guy is doing wishful thinking. Best thing is ND republis that is his worst nightmare

Ur average yoruba doesn't want to include non yorubaland,too complicated any yoruba country a yoruba imagine IS yoruba speaking,the president yoruba, language in the courts yoruba too. I have family origins from other tribes but I'm a yoruba my parents are very yoruba aswell even my grannies who are not yoruba are very yorubanized to the point they became muslim, - just a taste of what a yoruba country would be

Obiagu1:
When it comes to dissolution of Nigeria.

Still doesnt makes sense. If the yoruba wanted edo  or "similar" ethnic groups to be in what ever Odua country they would have encouraged diversity among themselves. But they didnt, its clear yoruba people want yoruba speakers and people of yoruba origin or (atleast profess their yorubassness ). So I dont know the purpose of ur topic.

If there was a yoruba country what good would having edo fulani urhobo hausa,igala nupe ijaw do for the new country, if they aren't yorubanized?

though they share similar, boundaries, culture, monarchs etc they are not the same

To me the yoruba want neither- They can be friendly in Different countries Afterall there are yoruba communities in Benin republic and Togo as well as Ghana.

Obiagu1:
If that is the case, then the Yoruba will lose in any power game  
It's only Edo that the SW have meaningful border with. Poor Yorubas.  

What do you mean? you were the one who started the topic which is baseless. As far as Majority of yoruba are concerned what would politics have to do with anything?

Yorubas are in Kwara which isnt politically the same as the SW, Yorubas are in Kogi and related to Igarra- but still isnt politically aligned with the SW.

So what power game do you speak of? and who are the ones playing it?

PapaBrowne:
You guys are funny oh!! What has my point got to do with PDP. I am a supporter of GEJ doesn't make me supporter of PDP. FYI, I dislike PDP. Fashola and Oshiomole, both ACN governors are my best performers in the country, so pls don't attach me GEJ but not with PDP.

About political affinity, there is no way BINIs would want any connection with the west, neither would they want to connect singularly with the east .
Binis would go anywhere the south south would go and the reasons are plenty. Many groups in the south south are affiliated with and look up to Benin- Urhobo, Isoko, Agbor, Itsekiri's and the likes.
Since the south south of recent has begun aligning with the East politically, it is only natural for the BINIs to align where their south south brothers bend towards.
Our cultural affinity lies with the south south and we feel more comfortable in the south south. This is the general opinion of every Edo person I communicate with.

@alj harem

hmmm will GEJ be president for life? After he leaves Office who is to say that another man from Igaara or bini or itsekiri wont feel as though GEJ five years wasnt enough.

You think that the next 3 years (which will blow by fast), will actually suffice non ijaw tribes in the SS?

Middle belt are still clamoring for another presidency despite the fact- they produced about 3 of the presidents in Nigeria history.

If in 2015 Oshiomole (or fashola) vs Orji (or chime) vs David mark (or babangida aliyu) who you cannot guarantee the SS will all vote the same.

My mother is really half yoruba- but call her anything other than yoruba she feels disrespected, both my parents actually, Ive seen it.

ekt_bear:
Superiority? I have not said anything about superiority or tribalism in this thread.

I have just found this thread hilarious because the end result was the opposite of the OP's intention.

Join me in my laughter

I mean bros no one can speak for all  edos or all yorubas- because I know some yorubas like my mother who see edos as non yoruba not even related, but my dad who is more familiar with edo's calls them "mixed"

I know Igarra people who speak yoruba at home to their children and have the  names like "Gbenga Balogun"- and have have no problem being addressed as a yoruba, depends.

So I dont like the topic of Edo as a whole, within Edo they have their own disagreements with eachother.

^^^ I think its BS. tho

ekt_bear:
I have read somewhere also that when the Nupes defeated the Oyo Empire (I guess circa 1400s or so? perhaps earlier? no doubt someone will correct me) they replaced the ruling dynasty with one of their own guys.

So if the current Alaafin is a descendant of that same dynasty, then his distant ancestors may very well be Nupe, for all we know.

Who knows what other intermixing happened.

Yoruba aren't really some sort of pure "race" imo (not that any group on earth is.) We've interacted with our neighbors, traded with them, enslaved them, been enslaved by them, had migrants enter our land, etc.

But racial/ethnic purity isn't really important to me personally anyways.

theres one  hausa story about yoruba and the last hausa kingdom of Gobirawa I dont know if its true seems to hausaish for my liking honestly.


Relationship of Gobirawa with Yorubas: According to Sarkin Gobir Abdulhamid, the relationship between them and Yorubas dated back to the period of Bawa Jan Gwarzo who gave out his daughter for marriage to a Yoruba man during the Jihad movement. He said when Jan Gwarzo advanced to Yoruba land with the mission to conquer the west, the Yoruba opted for truce rather than to engage him in a war and submitted themselves to him. As a result of that cordial relationship between them ensued and they requested him to give them one his daughters for marriage which he did. In accordance with Hausa culture which Gobirawa practice, there is always a traditional joke between cousins, as such, Gobirawa regard the Yoruba as cousins because they believed that Yoruba were begotten by the  daughter of Bawa Jan Gwarzo.

hmm sea port in south east- is there any sea in the SE real question no joking.

ekt_bear:
Itsekiri are basically a mix of probably Ijebu Yoruba, Edo folk, Igala, Urhobo, Isoko.

At least this is the sense I get from what I've read about them in the past.

But their language is basically a dialect of Yoruba. . .

ekt_bear:
Itsekiri are basically a mix of probably Ijebu Yoruba, Edo folk, Igala, Urhobo, Isoko.

At least this is the sense I get from what I've read about them in the past.

But their language is basically a dialect of Yoruba. . .

yea, thats not exclusive to only Itsekiri. I mean there are many yorubas towns states people who are a mix or what ever from different ethnicities but are still yoruba/ yorubanized.

Which is why many yoruba call them yoruba anyway, we dont have such thing as" mixed "

will oshodis say they are not yoruba, but nupe? lol, will Oba of Lagos say he is bini and not yoruba?

anyway back to topic i cannot say who is closer BUT the edos mainly igarra in my family married into,have balogun,ojo, akerele typical yoruba names, didnt know they werent really that yoruba till recently.

and even if you ask them their origin they'll still say "edo similar to yoruba" or something like that. but they are probably yorubanized anyway

so. . . .

ACM10:
I can't agree more with you
My problem is with yoruba supremacist who wants to re-write history and attribute vain glory to the yorubas.
We all know that binis are great civilization that may pre-date oduduwa and nri.
But yorubas are fond of re-writing history and creating the position of senior partners for themselves.
When we know that prior to british colonization, yorubas are loose confederation that are constantly at war with each other, which makes them easier to be conquered by foreign forces.

WE- dont know anything. you are not yoruba or bini so you cannot argue for either group. If bini says igbo-anambra originated in benin - via chima, who am i to say otherwise, im not bini and im not igbo. so why do you want to argue the history of yorubas n binis for themselves you are neither.

ACM10:
Guy shatap dia!
Find a clever way to twist it
I exposed your dirrty inconsistent asss

you sound like a 5 yr old.

Negro_Ntns:
I am from a noble Igbo family that was chosen to become a royal family when the Igbos began to have kings in imitation of their neighbors; the Igala, and the Bini.

Look at the above.  It is documented that Igbo majority and entry into Kingship and civilization was facilitated by non-igbos.

This is what I believe cause - there is not much that binis igalas urhobos and even efiks do that is actually igbo. iT SEEMS that the igbo have imitated those other tribes.

even in dress the red igbo hat is for muslim, igala muslims most likely introduced it to igbo-

ACM10:

hmmm

I never knew I was debating with a flip-flopper who would rather take any position that advances his arguement

im not an oduduwa meaning i dont subscribe to everything SOME yorubas believe. i am a yoruba tho and not all yorubas beilieve oduduwa or bini connection,or sudan connection or arabia,or even ife. im not historian- i dont even care.

all i kno is theres no big problem between binis n yorubas aside from that point of history. as far as im concerned being yoruba is cultural, ive met people with bini, igarra names who say they are yorubas simply because thats how they are raised ive met igaras binis with yoruba last names who call themselves edo and not yoruba.

it varies from person to person. my point is why are igbo so adamant about creating friction. i've read that igbo in anambra originate from bini- who am i to dispute it?

ACM10:
Ol boy
u can twist it for all u want.
I'm not talking about oduduwa-like folklores or ambiguous claims. I'm talking about recorded/concrete history

I dont know what you dont understand about

1)Bini history claims Oba of Lagos is bini
2)Bini history claims that Bini soldiers intermarried with Ondo, Ekiti and Lagos.

Bini historians-

Alternatively, the Benin believe that he was a prince that was banished by his father, the "Ogiso" of Benin. His name, they claim, is derived from "Idoduwa", meaning "fortune's path", symbolizing the painful exile from his ancestral home. In support of this view, they claim, Oduduwa's grandson Oranmiyan later returned to Benin to rule the Empire around 1,100 AD.


You are the one who said Bini know their history and are well documented.

Because I show you the connect that bini believe is to be yoruba relation- you want to say now that its folklore, even though you said Bini history is well recorded.

So are you saying the bini historians are incorrect or something?

hes a clown

ACM10:
Ol boy
u can twist it for all u want.
I'm not talking about oduduwa-like folklores or ambiguous claims. I'm talking about recorded/concrete history

YOURE THE ONE WHO SAID:

ACM10:
Edo people are proud people with rich tradition. Their history is one of the well-documented in Nigeria. In 16th century(more than 500yrs ago) a certain Oba of Bini was the 1st to learn and speak a major European(Portugese) language. That was when yorubas and my tribe Igbos are still in the bush. Their sophistication is unparalleled in ancient West African history. Therefore I can never subscribe to the notion that Edos don't know their history.

Im saying ok Binis recorded that the "so called bini soldiers were impreganting women in Ekiti Ondo and Lagos and Bini historians count  Oba of Lagos as a bini monarch from burial practices,dress,Cultural line etc."

How do you not get any similar or related than that? Thats Bini history!

You said Bini history is well recorded.

ACM10:
Since it is a hearsay story and there is no concrete evidence of cultural and linguistic similarities between the two tribes. Then it is a folklore

how is that bini,Isan,igarra afemai or yoruba peoples problem. Majority of them dont care who is related to them or similar- they know their OWN individual histories and are sticking to it. so why are igbo people like urself and the original [/b]poster making a big deal out of something that doesnt concern you?

Before you said [b]"Nobody knows and keeps history in Nigeria more than Edos. They are in complete grasp of their history. It's the yorubas that are trying to muddle things up by their sheer domination of information media."

and Im telling you that Binis have said that Yorubas descended from them. so what is ur beef? what is folklore about bini history saying yoruba are similar to bini because yorubas descended from bini?

ACM10:
Then why bombard me with folklores similar to oduduwa folklore?

I didnt see Oduduwa in what I said or folk tales. I simply said Edos- Bini in particular have said that yorubas have descended from them, and yorubas have also said Edo Bini particular have descended from them.

lol Im not an oduduwa and I dont believe in Oduduwa, so I dont know where that came from.

afam4eva:
@sbeezy
So Ife and Modakeke are not related since they killed each other? What a logic.

makes no sense. Ife and Modakeke have crisis between themselves similar to ezzio and ezillo - similar to hausas from different quaters clashing in bauchi or kano. Even fulanis borroro and other non migrants fula clash between themselves.