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Looks like the kind of news we are interested in. Power is such an important part of a Nation's growth.

2nd Niger bridge again.

Ok I de hold up with the item in the signature, ask for your own now.

Caseless:
To get hold of a monkey you must act like it. Saraki never saw this coming.

Things like this makes me fear politics. Just misstep and your past sins will be revisited.

greaterlove:
This is the lamest excuse ever. What? The road in question is already existing but in a terrible condition. What the government of cross river wants to do is expand it and turn it into a super highway.
I have travelled on that road many times, the whole length right from calabar then to vandeikya in Benue state. The natural park is way off that road.
The people of cross river really have to unite and stand behind their governor on this one. He needs every support he can get.

Would it not be better that the road is constructed and he comes to commission it rather than come and take paparazzi pictures of a ground breaking ceremony without any ground being broken?

Na wa for Naija.

Aregbe is destroying his credibility with these actions of his, I hope he realizes that.

Solar firms full Lagos na even ado Ekiti set. Y go to uk

Malcomkelvin:
which dish did you use.... because my 60cm is just red with that tp.

Am not sure about 60cm dish. Even 90 is a struggle. I used a 1m dish coz of etv and co. Mine was red initially but I kept searching manually till it came out. Even then it did not show immediately. It only showed later on.

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Thanks for this. Was useful in the Match involving Nigeria.

wirinet:
The analysis was done using wrong parameters and premises. Nigeria own the basic raw materials for making petrol and petroleum products - Crude oil. 450,000 BPD was set aside to take care of domestic requirements, which is not subject to international market price. Nigeria OPEC quota is about 2.2millionBPD, our current production is put at about 2millionBPD, so nothing stops us from removing the 450,000BPD for local consumption. The actual cost of the 450,000BPD will just be exploration, drilling and transportation cost, which should not be more that $20 per barrel. Since we are unable to refine, nothing stops the government from contracting the refining of the refineries abroad and transporting the crude to the refineries and transporting the refined products back into the country.


In the alternative, nothing stops the Federal Government from putting the refineries in order. It is we the masses that makes excuses for government that government cannot run refineries. If we come together and demand that the refineries must work, the refineries will work.





That is where i disagree with you, deregulation does not lead to efficiency in an inefficient market. Yes, refining margins are very small, that is why i insist that the refining of petroleum products should not be left at the hands of the private sector - whether refining or marketing. Availability of cheap fuel must be a fundermental government responsibility as it affects every facet of our lives. Shell, BP, Total, etc can and should never be interested in refining, their expertise and interests lies with exploration and exploitation of crude not just in Nigeria but the world over. They are satisfied with the huge margins they make in the 40% they make from all sales of Nigerian oil. If Dangote refinery is ready he can negotiate with NNPC on how much he will buy crude oil, but he must never be subjected to international price since the crude is obtained locally. Besides that should not affect the 450,000 BPD that is meant for the Nigerian people.

Fuel can be cheap, Fuel is very cheap in UAE and most of the Arab countries. Nigerians cannot afford to buy petrol at N220/litre. The cost of transportation of people and goods would sky rocket, most homes burn about 4 litres a day in their generators to get a few hours of electricity. Most businesses from telecommunications to manufacturing to banking depends on diesel. The inflation would be unbearable. The pressure on the Naira would be tremendrous. Devaluation of the Naira would make nonsense of the N220 in no time, as we buyimport our fuel in Dollars. All these while minimum wage will still remain at N18,000.

If you feel we should be paying N220/litre for petrol, how much do you think the minimum wage in Nigeria should be? And how much do you think the various governments can afford?



I do not know about NESCO, but Ikeja Distribution Company is horrible. The power situation is horrible and they still have horrible practices like the old NEPA, like high bills, non supply of meters, carrying of ladders up and down, etc.

Like i said earlier critical industries like power and education should not be left in the control of the private sector. It is even a threat to National Security.

Thanks for your post I think you even presented my thoughts backed with more facts.

gohome:
It is hard. A refinery of 60000 barrel capacity will cost 3 billion dollars to build. It will cost more in Nigeria because of the cost of doing buisness in Nigeria is very high. Nigeria consumes 40 Million liters a day of PMS, we will need a 1.2 million bbl to satisfy our needs. Go figure. Have you looked at your income and budget? Where will the money come from? After completely satisfying our domestic consumption, then we can export.

Maybe I was not clear enough. I will rephrase. Grant licenses to companies that want to build refineries in Nigeria. One of the challenges I have heard is that until they are assured that they can sell their product at the prevailing market price they can not build refineries. So why not allow them build and give assurances that if they chose to sell to outside markets that they are free to.

Refineries do not have to be expensive. If u open up the market, 2 of us can come together and form an alliance and build a small capacity refinery as our power can carry and produce maybe 2 tankers a day and have a customer base of 2 or 3 petrol stations. Some other people do same while DPR monitors us strictly to ensure we comply with industry standard safety rules.

All those illegal refineries are already doing it. How do they do it. It can be remodelled and setup.properly

baralatie:
now if go for the option that the govt should take charge
1.to restart the refineries to production!
a.you will need at least 2 years of re- investment into those four refineries before they can come back online.guess how much it will cost.
b.you literarily have to SACK EVERYBODY and employ new skilled operatives to run and manage these facilities
c. don't forget the workers mentality when it COMES TO GOVT OWEND PROOERTIES,THEFT,VANDALISATION AND I DONT CARE ATTITUDE.
2.govt will still need to build extra two refineries. under 6 years concurrent toy before they can meet local demand and begin to export.

Maybe I was not clear enough. I will rephrase. Grant licenses to companies that want to build refineries in Nigeria. One of the challenges I have heard is that until they are assured that they can sell their product at the prevailing market price they can not build refineries. So why not allow them build and give assurances that if they chose to sell to outside markets that they are free to.

Refineries do not have to be expensive. If u open up the market, 2 of us can come together and form an alliance and build a small capacity refinery as our power can carry and produce maybe 2 tankers a day and have a customer base of 2 or 3 petrol stations. Some other people do same while DPR monitors us strictly to ensure we comply with industry standard safety rules.

All those illegal refineries are already doing it. How do they do it. It can be remodelled and setup.properly.

baralatie:
what do think affects the purchasing power of people?
let me say and assume that i understand that you don't want a cut throat price regime of capitalist businessmen.
1.this can be achieved by making oil refinery a free entry and free exit license.
2.you can controlled through a neutral body that monitors the price regime for end products excluding over head of whoever wants to do business.
3.encourage production and export of your refined products,

What stops Nigeria from selling only refined products or at least more refined product than crude. Let private individuals build refineries and start exporting the product. Is that also too hard?

baralatie:
my answer has always been let there be free entry into the running,building of refineries and the only stumbling block is NnPC and subsidy.as long as they control products( corruption will remain).

Good build more refineries. In short force the markerters to build refineries. When you have refineries and the purchasing power of the naira becomes high people will not care about the price.

gohome:
Nigeria can no longer afford to pay subsidy on petroleum products full stop. Corruption or no corruption we do not have the money to pay. You have to let it sink in your head. We have an infrastructural decay that will take 200 billion dollars to fix, you have annual 'deficit' budget of less than 20 billion dollars of which 40 percent is used to fund lazy states and you want to continue to spend 25% of your the remaining budget to subsidize PMS?

Hope the apology below helps

You are the head of your house, and you have an annual budget of 100 naira. Rent in a dilapidated house is 20 Naira. School fees is 20 Naira. Transportation to work and school is 30 Naira. Fueling your generator is 30 Naira. Let say you want to start up a new business to increase your income and as such you need to save 20 Naira. You also need to move from your present apartment because the ceiling leaks water any time it rains, which will require you save an extra 10 Naira. You took a loan from the bank, and the monthly deduction is 10 Naira. You have relations that cannot run their family and they have come asking for money because the landlord is about to evict them from the house. In the middle of all these, Something happened and your annual budget is reduced to 50 Naira. Will you keep paying for fuel to light up your house while you cannot pay rent and your kids can not go to school?

Before you critic always put yourself in a leadership position and provide practical solution and stops the too much talk

Y u choose the option of insulting me in passing ur message beats me.

If u have read all my dialogue with bara, I have always said corruption not subsidy removal is our (Nigerian) problem. Corruption shot up d value from 350billion in 1yr to 1.1T. It is those mysteries that must first be unravelled. Then we can decide and know the exact amount we are removing.
I supported deregulation in 1999, which to my mind is another name for subsidy removal but btw then and now no gained in the whole process. Simply frees up more money for politicians to steal. That is the issue Oga.

If subsidy removal is the only solution to scarcity why is diesel scarce to the extent that businesses were shutting down? Diesel is not subsidised and I believe u know that.

baralatie:
hahahahahahaha!

if I show this you expo answer to one queens college final year student.wahala go dey for her economics result o!

OK. You have tried desperately to take us from the crust of our discuss. My first post says subsidy is not the issue in Nigeria at the moment, corruption is. I have said this at least 4 times.

Bringing the issue of government refineries vs private refineries is a different topic entirety. Pls stay on topic and teach ur students to do same.

baralatie:
w.a.e.c economics,paper
1a.list the advantages and disadvantages of govt owned firms(20 marks(.

Advantages (sane countries though)
The govt owned firm is able to run their firms efficiently at lower cost with the best brains with the best resources, already existing R& resources by using their universities.
They are also able to exempt themselves from tax making their products cheaper for the masses.

Singapore runs refineries and they do not have crude at all. I insist subsidy is not the problem, corruption is. To remove or not to remove, we must first know the true state of subsidy.
Disadvantages
Private companies find it difficult to compete killing the local industries.

baralatie:
TAM means that the refinery is shut down for at least 6 months.imagine having a 6 months shut down every year.
what benefit is it to supply 450000 barrels of crude?

as for the earlier comment about subsidy or not that means you are saying " let us continue the inefficiencies and round down govt till further notice"

If u were d owner of the refinery and it was the only source of income u hv wud u allow it to be shutdown every 6 months period? Is that how all the refineries in d world dat we import from get shutdown? So our own version of TAM is suspect so u see subsidy is not the problem but corruption.

baralatie:
diesel is not subsidized,it is only the oil marketers that can explain why they refuse to cut the price or supply the market.

Good. Same thing can happen to petrol even if u remove subsidy or not. So in essence we can both agree that subsidy does not magically solve our problems as u wud have us believe. All the other quoted rhetorics are just that.

A proper investigation will show for example why a refinery is always on TAM as u claim they are. Just for ur info, are u aware that the Nigerian refineries do not get their share of crude to refine?

baralatie:
hahahahahahahahahahaha!
as long as you keep shifting from what it is and invent the search for corruption as a general term.
the problem remains!

Am not sure I understand you but fact is the whole subsidy issue is shrouded in mysteries. Once the real position of things is known, Nigerians can now decide if they want subsidy or not.

Kindly explain why radio, TV stations, banks and telecoms are shutting down because of diesel. Or is diesel subsidised?

baralatie:
OK,let me help again:
there are five(5) refineries with 450,000 barrels capacity I.e they can deliver around 20 million litres per day of petrol at sustained production but unfortunately these refineries are constantly under (T.A.M).
Nnpc posted it at sustained level 40 million litres of petrol per day which it can't meet so it imports through major marketers at an agreed fee from ppra.
the. on cost before now was subsidized but according to F.g it cannot be sustained.
Fast forward to present,we have a 50% shortfall in oil revenue.how is govt going to pay for the subsidy and pay for the oil marketers.
hence the years budget removed subsidy payments and being the end of an administration.guess what the oil marketers are doing.

OK. As soon as corruption can be differentiated from the corruption a decision will be made. The subsidy removal proposed before now was just an organised revenue scheme by some individuals and a political party.

baralatie:
the claims of been owed is not the problem.


the big gain they are playing is
1.continue the subsidy or not continue the subsidy!

The answer to your question will only be answered when the mystery surrounding that sector is exposed. When we know the true position of things, eg actual product refined in the country, real quantity consumed in d country, the deficit, cost of importation, cost deficit with pump price etc. We can den collectively decide to remove or not to. Not that a certain person will simply tell them to add 10 naira and remit same to him. Until then.

mekaboy:
Those that wanted to crusify Gej and Okonjo iwealla when they asked for removal of subsidy. Can u see who the real enemies are now?

If subsidy was removed back then, by now petrol wont be scarce and it would not be more than 120 now. But today, we gladly by for 300-400 if we see.

Those that brought u food and drinks during the protest are the ones ensuring u pay with ur blood.

We are still here and do not regret our actions. Corruption is the problem and not subsidy. From next week we will start knowing the source of the 3 trillion spent by PDP in the election. The marketers will also explain where they got d cash contributed towards PDP campaign since they claim they are being owed.

PDP has been campaigning with TAN since last year y are they suddenly not ready

msanifu:
please which channels? share more information.

AMD One
AMD sister
AMD Africa
AMD Catchup

Talenty:
4 new channels free on Astra 4A/ SES 5 E,12303H30000

Haha. U beat me to it. Came here to pass the info. Viva FTA.

lugado:
My people, vote your conscience. Don't be manipulated. If your pastor says don't vote for a Muslim, ask him if Daniel served a saint; whether Modeccai did not serve King Ahaseurus and if Joseph was not a prime Minister under Pharaoh. This election is not about North versus South, nor is it Christian versus Muslim. It is about Nigeria and good governance. Don't allow politicians divide us. When they share money, they don't talk about religion. When they want donations from Aliko Dangote, they don't remember he is a Muslim. When they enter an aircraft, they don't ask the religious faith of the pilot. When their bosses are atheists, they don't resign from the job. When an Alhaji gives them contracts, they don't reject it. They and their wives go to Dubai to spend money. Dubai is in United Arab Emirate but they have no problems buying houses in Dubai. But when it comes to politics back home, they say they want to ISLAMISE you. Yet, some of these people were spiritual consultants to Abacha. Vote your conscience. If you want to vote for Jonathan, vote for him based on your conviction that he has performed in your estimation and not because he is a "Christian". If you want to vote for Buhari, vote for him because you feel disenchanted with Jonathan government, not because he is a Muslim. Say NO to bigotry. God bless Nigeria.

pls feel free to share! Good evening

If you like accuse me of plagiarism. I have copied it and am using it on my social network profiles.

huptin:
This is not a train, this is the tram that conveys air passengers from the departure lobby to the plane and vice versa

Hahah. Busted.

Spy360:
Who is receiving champions tv on astra 2f with 60cm?

That station is not stable at the moment. I suspect they are still testing it and working on it.

Sleek05:
Good Morning Nairalanders,

I resigned from my job a couple of months ago and while waiting for another job, I decided to take a few freelance writing jobs. I saw a couple of vacancies on this forum and decided to apply. I got them.

Now, the first one needed an Academic writer. I have a Masters degree and so that was no problem. I did the job and submitted after two days, all about 15 pages. I made one mistake however, we did not negotiate the amount i'll be paid as I was more concerned about impressing her. We know what PHCN is like in Nigeria so I fuelled the generator, used data from my Swift modem and committed two days to writing this thesis.

She loved it and told me I was in. Then she offered me 1k. I lamented about how much time, money and sweat I spent on the project. The 1k barely covered the money I spent on fuel for the generator. She was hell bent on not paying more than that and covered up with the fact that her clients were selfish and I needed to start small yada yada. She just did not get that I ran at a loss, or pretended not to. Her moniker is 'eri pecs' on Nairaland and I could post a couple of screen shots to substantiate my claims if I have to. She eventually sent 1000 worth of recharge card. Lol


Second Experience

I didn't make the mistake of not negotiating amount with this person. We did in fact on a weekly basis, albeit a paltry sum but it was better than nothing. My job was posting on an entertainment blog called 9ja olofofo, with an average of 8 to 10 posts in a day. Although I had a couple of issues starting up as the site had issues and my phone would not post but I eventually worked it out and posted religiously for a week. There were times I did about 13 posts in a day because I was beginning to enjoy it. Then it was time for pay for the first week and this person began to post me. He has asked for my account number twice but has refused to pay or give any reasons why. What I get in return when I ask is an attitude. Today marks one week that my pay was due and I really am over it now. He has a partner who I would ping to tell what was going on and that one would lie and cover up for him and they were both playing me.


I am posting this so as to ensure that other Nairalanders/Jobseekers don't fall into this same trap. The feeling of being cheated is a very painful one as at some point, all you need, even if the person in question cannot pay is a sincere apology and not an attitude which I got from the persons in question.

If you know of a smarter way to deal with online job 'employers', please share as it will help others.

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Nikuchi:
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At Nikuchi, what size of dish can bring down Telstar? @ blexxonmark I will need a Ku band.

Pls what satellite offers smile of a child freely? I fear that when this free one on amos5/eutelsat 16E goes back to being scrambled, there will be no free cartoon channel for children of less than 5. 4kids on multi TV seems to be more for grown up children. Pls anyone who knows should tell pls.