₦airaland Forum

ddippset:
Even the most unserious opposition right now is a better option than Tinubu.

All of you are so shameless. You keep shouting Tinubu will win, Tinubu will win

But on election day now, you will see APC buying one vote for 50k.

Remove vote buying, Remove INEC compromise,, Tinubu cannot win any election in this Nigeria.

Just like how he used vote buying to make your lord and personal saviour the late Buhari president? During GEJ, didn't you say APC would be the best thing to happen to Nigeria, that PDP was not an option, how far today? Were you not among those who supported this weapon fashioned against Nigerians called APC? Hypocrite like you!!

AMINDA:
Where will the votes come from? Tinubu lackeys always starting every comment with "Though I'm not a Tinubu supporter" and "as bitter as it sounds". Tinubu has no pathway to re-election.

Atiku can only defeat Tinubu if he works with PO, he is just wasting his money. Know this and know peace

As bitter as it sounds, Tinubu will win the forthcoming elections with a huge margin, not because he is a good president. As it is, there is no serious opposition; the few that exist are just wailing online, as if there are polling units online.

nairalanda1:
Okay, so you believe that a company being forced to operate at a loss by apc government policy can give you good serivce.

Right.

"Being forced to operate at a loss" is a flimsy narrative you are spinning up just to cover up the inefficiencies of DisCos. Take, for instance, if I am a provider of a service that costs #20k to provide, the government says Look, charge these sets of customers #5k for your service; we will pay the remaining #15k. The onus lies on me to come up with ideas on how to give true and defensible figures of how much service I have rendered to these subsidised sets of customers (metering), and how to collect their #5k payments from them (revenue collection). If, for any reason, prices change and the government is not willing to let me charge cost reflective prices, or it defaults on its payment obligations, I can make the service being offered to those subsidised customers unattractive and unsatisfactory and focus more on giving those customers paying true cost reflective tariffs premium service, which will in turn make the former want to migrate to the latter's plan.

According to NERC, from April - June 2026, DisCos billed #744.67B but could collect only #603.64B, losing over #141B.
That's about 81% revenue collection.
How on earth is it the fault of the government if DisCos can't even collect revenues entitled to them from their own customers?

In banks, some premium customers don't wait at the counter, while other customers spend hours at the counter. Some use local telecoms companies as their ISP, while others use Starlink. Do you think those paying for Starlink just want to throw away 57k monthly? The thing is simple: you can't give what you don't have.

nairalanda1:
Poor lad Jakarta don't know when to give it up.

Jakarta is arguing that a company/sector, the electricity sector, that government price setting has forced to make losses annually, massive losses, can still perform a grade service.

Bro, in all honesty, you are the one arguing blindly here. Let's use myself as an example
In the estate where I live, I'm the only person on Band A, each tenant spends around 11k monthly to buy fuel in order to pump water, but I spend at most 1k monthly to pump the same water using my electricity. If I may ask you, what makes you think other tenants wouldn't want to switch to Band A?

The answer is AVAILABILITY. In my area, if you want to join Band A, you have to procure your own transformer, meters, and everything else, or better still, pay those who have already procured these items. So far, DisCos can't provide these things; as such they can't get more people who are willing and ready to pay cost-reflective tariffs on board. You can't charge people for a product/service that you are yet to make available.

Despite deregulation and subsidised tariffs, telecoms companies still invested heavily in infrastructure in order to make their services available to everybody. People complained of the high costs at first, but having no better alternatives, they had to jump on board. So far, DisCos can't provide the needed services that will attract more cost-reflective tariffs and paying customers. The Aba power plant is a perfect example. It provided the service, and people paid for it.

Greed is a major factor not only in Nigeria but worldwide. Worldwide today, according to the FBI, over $8B was reported as losses to investment-related fraud like MLM and pig butchering.

Looked staged to me; that place doesn't look like where a python of that size was killed.

I hope you are not giving the woman positive signals that her rants and insults are getting to you? Because if you do, she will continue using it as a weapon to blackmail you.
Something similar happened to a friend and an in-law.

My friend had an issue with his wife that led to the crumbling of their 6 years marriage, which produced 2 kids. At the slightest chance, she insults my friend and his mum; she always dictates and sets standards, like which schools the kids will attend, what clothes they wear, and everything else. One day my friend got fed up and told the lady that he doesn't have any money, and he is not sending a dime for the kids' welfare; he said the lady should do her worst. As we speak, the lady is the one taking care of the kids all by herself; my friend told her that whenever she feels tired of taking care of the kids, she should bring them to him.

The other was an in-law who got pregnant for a married man with kids. Initially, the man was sending a little token monthly for her upkeep. After just 2 months of failing to send money to her, all hell broke loose; my inlaw started insulting this man and even attempted to fight his wife at the market. She went as far as posting his pictures with derogatory remarks all over Facebook. The man got fed up and said he would never send her a penny again, and it has been like that for over 3 years now. The child is currently in KG2 and doesn't even know his father. Myself and a few others are the ones funding his school expenses and upkeep. We always say that the man will never have access to his son, but deep down we all know that can not really happen.

Digital identity, my foot. When they want to loot and tax the citizens carelessly, they look for one nonsense scheme or another to hinge their looting on. Even with BVN and NIN, they still couldn't identify those they spent over 600BN on in a so-called unconditional cash transfer.

aieromon:
The app has been discontinued and upgraded to NINAuth.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ninauth.mobile

This APP has never worked since i installed it. Everytime it is check your internet connection error, even though I'm streaming a live match with the same internet connection.

chudez0147:
YouTube shouldn’t have allowed that.

Nothing is free; he who wants a free thing ends up being the product that is being sold. That's the harsh reality.

chudez0147:
It doesn’t make any sense. I downloaded about ten (10) movies, and not even one is a movie.

Channel owners do this to deceive users into viewing their videos and avoid copyright issues. YouTube is not the right place for viewing movies; I miss OnStream dearly

chudez0147:
Good morning lovelies.

I’d just go straight to the point. Have any of you noticed that if you download a movie on YouTube you’d end up getting nonsense.
Please has anyone noticed or the error is from me .

Are you just noticing this? It is almost normal with YouTube. I don't waste my time viewing movies on there, because you will view rubbish.

Jakarta:
Here is what I recommend. If you have direct access to the landlord and he is in Nigeria call him, and explain everything to him. Make it look as if you want to help other tenants given the high cost of fuel. I'm very sure those tenants will be complaining quietly but scared of speaking out, and with time that compound will have a bad name of pumping water with high cost which the landlord wouldn't want.

But then Ogbeni your own greed no go pass Nigerian politicians own so? #1300 for what cost you #310 even with other appliances on?
By the way the caretaker get bar, or him dey sell cold drinks or ice blocks? I see no reason why somebody will gladly donate his generator just to pump water. Who is responsible for the generator repair and oil services? This is Delta state I guess, because na private residence dey do Discos jobs there.

Yes, informing the landlord could be an option, because the last tenant that left the compound had a heavy fight with the caretaker because of the water pumping issue. I was the one who settled them then. And yes, the caretaker is selling drinks; your state guess is also correct. Why is such a practice popular in this state?

And NO, I'm not greedy, you need to see how my co-tenants and street neighbours virtually turned my flat entrance into a phone charging station. They charge all manner of gadgets like phones, MP3 players, power banks, rechargeable fans, PoS machines, and even use an electric blender every day, and I don't charge them a dime for all of these appliances. I once considered disconnecting my outside wall socket, but I didn't after careful consideration. Paying #2600 for something that had cost you over #11k isn't a bad deal either. When the light or stabiliser spoils, na them go help me repair the thing?

jmoore:
How much is your band A tariff? Cos 310 naira for 2 hrs 27 minutes is very cheap.


We sell water in Aba and it takes 1hr 5mins for our two tanks to fill up. That's around 500-600 naira.

My bad, it was 1 hour 27 minutes, not 2 hours. I have corrected it. The machine is 1.13 kWh, with a 1hp motor. My Band A cost is #209.50 + VAT of #15.71 per kWh. I didn't even spend the whole #310 on the pumping machine; appliances like a TV, CD, and a fan were powered on during that period of time.

jmoore:
So you had stable power all these years and you were using generator.
Nawa!!

For your caretaker: Don't tell the tenants. Let them find out by themselves.

I have tried pumping the water using the electricity in my apartment on several occasions, but the machine stopped working after a few minutes. I was surprised because my voltage was around 209 - 231V. An electrician told me that he suspects a voltage drop, given the distance between my flat and the pumping machine and the cables used to transfer the electricity (1.5 mm wire).
Given the current cost of fuel in my area #1300+ per litre, I tried it again just last week with my abandoned 5000V stabiliser, and it powered the 1hp pumping machine flawlessly. I was just spending #11k+ unnecessarily all this while for what who have cost me #620. Can you imagine?

Imalwayshorny:
You dey use band a for band e lol 🤣

There is Band A in the area, but it is private. A businessman brought Band A to the area. He bought poles, cables, a transformer, and funded the whole operation, so any compound that wants to use the light will have to pay him a fixed amount of #1.3M, buy a post paid meter, buy an electric pole if needed, and cover every other cost needed to transfer electricity to your apartment. I discussed it with other tenants so we could contribute the money and connect the light, but they said they don't have money. So I negotiated with him, and he charged me #250k; that was how I started using Band A in a Band E area since 2024 till now.

Samuels90:
what the hell. Sell registered SIM card and buy NIN. Nigeria is funny country. That is breach of security!

It is a very popular trade in a market called Swali in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. A

Koppaguard:
According to what the customer care told me, they don't pay anybody, they mischievously steal and use the nin to register another Sim while telling you to hold on that network is unstable, the moment they succeed in registering one or two Sims with your nin, they will tell you that your line has been successfully registered. He said MTN doesn't regulate them the way they regulate them that are working in their various customer care offices.

Can you imagine? No wonder they rush you as a customer once you say you want to register a SIM.

This is similar to the almost normal buy already registered SIM card being practiced in most parts of Delta and Bayelsa states. It is a loophole being exploited by most roadside agents. What they do is pay those who have NIN, then use their details to register a SIM card and sell that SIM to customers who are always ready to buy an already registered SIM.

In the estate where I live, there is no power because the whole of the area is on Band E, and I'm the only tenant who uses Band A electricity. Having no power, in order for us to pump water, each tenant, including myself, takes turns buying 4L of fuel and handing it to the caretaker, who uses his generator to pump the water. We pump water 15 times a month during the rainy seasons and 20 times a month during the dry seasons, averaging around #11k per tenant a month just to pump water. And it has been like this for over 2 years.

But last week I felt fed up, threw caution to the wind and used the electricity in my apartment to pump the water. I was surprised the whole 3 tanks were filled in 1 hour and 27 minutes at a total cost of #310. I told the caretaker that henceforth I will be pumping the water for each tenant at a cost of #2600 per month per tenant as long as there is power in my apartment. His response was I can use my electricity to pump it when it gets to my turn. But I'm considering telling my co-tenants, even though something is telling me to mind my business and let it slide.

I strongly suspect these guys have a collabo in the works. Davido can't just wake up one morning and start dishing Erriga, both of them are up to something.

rossipki:
HE ENDED FUEL SUBSIDIES.

HOW THE HELL WOULD THINGS BE CHEAPER?

If you want to return to fuel subsidy, say so and stop all this your Maradona question..

Remove subsidy yet spent trillions of naira on same subsidy, can you please make it make sense?
Below are the costs the government spent on Energy security expenses, the new name for subsidy

2023: ₦4.84tn
2024: ₦7.13tn
2025: ₦8.67tn
2026: Yet to be released

helinues:
Can you see where the confusion is, how did you know the extent of the hardship when you are not experiencing it?

And i responded with how did your senate president knew that these were hard times, was he experiencing the hardship too?

I knew the extent of the hardship because i've seen people who could eat 3 square meals daily, now begging to even afford 1 square meal. Same fuel which people cried and protested for at a cost of #145/litre without subsidy is currently being sold at #1300+ with subsidy. People who visited their home towns, and villages annually now consider such journeys a luxury, no thanks to high fuel cost, and the number of bandits checkpoints being higher than that of security agencies, cows are now more valuable than human lives, news of bandits kidnaping, maiming, and ransacking whole communities are now being regarded as normal occurrence.

A minimum wage worker who could comfortably buy a sack of rice with his #30k salary and still left with enough money to buy other food items, currently cannot afford same sack of rice with the whole of his monthly pay. Same people that were living averagely are now being advised by a country's first lady to start kuli kuli and akara business. The poor man who could afford fried indomie, egg, bread and tea with just #1.5k can not currently afford same food for even #5k. I must be honest you are clearing my doubts of me mistaking you to be smart and an intelligent fellow, the signs are choking already.

helinues:
In short, you and your family have been badly affected with hunger and hardship because of this government policies. Is that what you are insinuating?

Do you agree that the current level of hardship and hunger in the land has never been this bad? Even with the Great Recession of 2009, Nigerians had never had it this bad, no thanks to your lord and saviour True/False? As long as the government hasn't restricted access to the internet (I won't be surprised if they do), my family and I will never go hungry or blindly lick arse for a living.

helinues:
You are the one arguing blindly. Those who are supporting this government have a special market where they buy goods and services at discounted price

Stop looking for lame excuses. The thread is about the hardship and hunger in the land which according to you was caused by earthquakes, tsunami, and flooding happening around the world as if those natural disasters started happening in May 2023. My point remains, those of you supporting this government and the government itself are weapons fashioned against this country.

helinues:
We are saying the same thing. My progress in life is not tied to government policies unlike you that's affirming that your own progress in life depends on government policies

We are not saying same thing, stop shifting the goal post, and stop sounding inconsistent. Initially you were attributing the cause of hunger and hardship in the country to earthquakes, tsunamis, and flooding happening around the world, not about personal progress, which i can boldly say you don't even know what that means. Peoples lives are being ruined daily due to bad government policies. The government you are supporting is a disaster, let's call a spade by it's name. For the fact that you support a political candidate doesn't mean you will swallow his poo and urine, and tell him God bless you sir, your poo is somehow delicious i must say.

helinues:
Because I am a realist. I follow global news in order to prepare ahead.

Have you seen me on this forum shouting hardship and hunger like you lots?

Our progress in life is not tied to government policies

Why will you shout hardship and hunger, when it has become a normal way of life? Only a smart and intelligent being will know that government policies can have a huge effects on our progress in life, and so far i must admit you haven't shown that you are one.

helinues:
If I asked you if you and your family are going through the same hardship, your response will probably be No.

Then my curiosity is, how come you can describe hardship like this without experiencing it

And if i asked you, if you are experiencing the hardship and hunger you will say NO. But how come you are explaining and using earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding around the world as excuses for the reasons why there is hunger and hardship promax in the land?

Does a medical doctor need to contract HIV for him to know how the HIV virus works? Even your senate president once advised Nigerians to help themselves anywhere they see free food because according to him these are hard times. Does it means Akpabio was experiencing hunger and hardship for him to have known and admitted that these are truly hard times? Common bro, you have to put in more effort to at least pretend smart and intelligent.

helinues:
Hardship and Hunger in Nigeria precisely started from 2023

It was never this bad. Nigerians have never had it this worst. You have to be at least half smart so you can come up with more mature excuses. Your government was voted in so that Nigerians could raise their heads above hunger, not make hunger and hardship sink them the more. They protested and cried when they bought petrol for #145 without subsidy, but they are currently buying same petrol for #1300+ even with a secret subsidy being paid.They don't even have the voice or strength to protest again, no thanks to your lord and saviour induced hunger and hardship promax.