rottennaija:


This isn't an issue of what certificate you have in engineering. The problem of power in Nigeria doesn't need a genius like you claim. If it was so, the former minister of power should have gotten it right. He was there and couldn't.

You need to understand that with so many vested interested. So, what it takes is someone that can coordinate and manage this vested egos.

Fashola ones said that a transmission line had to be build from one location to another but there was a telecom mask along the way and because they the ministry of power couldn't have an understanding with the telecom company, the transmission line was left for more than 2 years and nothing done to it.

But all he had to do was call the owner of the telecom company and they spoke like friends and it yielded the needed result. In 2 weeks, the telecom mask was move from there, and the transmission line continued,since it was actually easier to change the location of the telecom mask than changing the direction of the transmission line.

So, it not about science or engineering, it about making people to see reasons with you why they should allow pipelines to be and not blow them, or why they should allow transmission line pass through the farmland that their great grand father left for them and many more

The duties of a power minister requires a lot of technical background. Fashola is just the wrongest person for dat position. Administrative works isn't sufficient to qualify him as a power minister.
Fashola will learn microgrid, distributed generation, smart metering, power harmonics, voltage and frequency control etc.
Give Fashola d diagram of our centralised grid from Oshogbo control centre and u think he will understand ? Show him a line diagram or three phase diagram of 330kv network in Nigeria. Will he understand? What recommendations can he give to people with 20 years experience in d power sector ? Even when he hires a power consultant to assist him, will he understand the technicalities they give him ? We need to stop deceiving ourselves here.
Nnaji and the likes, some people say with engineering background didn't perform? They performed according to the resources made available to them.
The world's largest dam is in China with a capacity of 22,500MW amd a cost of about $28b to build which is more than the 2016 budget of the whole Nigeria if $1=N350
Power is really expensive i know. However, this Fashola led power sector have made power situation worse even before the bombings of pipelines.

Fmartin:
Obj embezzle d funds meant fr dat mambila power project.

It wil b gud if pmb complete d project.

good one. this project was started by clueless GEJ in 2012.

www.vanguardngr.com/2011/02/mambilla-project-ll-gulp-n600bn—fg/


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mambilla_Power_Station

See how dem just dey fool una. How many people are connected to the network for such uplink and downlink speed. If the worst network in Nigeria should run such a test with limited subscribers, it will probably be close to such speed. This test most likely has just one person connected to the network. wait till u see millions connected before we really know how fast they can be.

blazetitov:
One thing that is so common now among the youths is that they blame the government for everything. For pete's sake, IKEDC is a private firm!! Can GTB, PWC, or Total staffers go on strike because they performed poorly in their company's performance appraisal? We need to change our ways of reasoning.

No serious investor would want to buy any of our refineries if they know they would be frustrated by silly unions like the Ajaokuta steel company issue. The major problem the country has is the citizens. IKEDC is a profit making organization and not a government agency. If you as a staff do not meet expected KPIs, then you should expect the worst. No room for inefficiency and ineffectiveness.

u made a point. But d national power generation was less than 1600MW. All discos are affected. Ur Fashola's quote

I can provide stable power in eight months, Fashola boasts
By Temidayo Akinsuyi – Snr. Correspondent, Lagos
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, on Sunday evening boasted that he could provide uninterrupted power supply to Lagos residents between six and eight months.
Fashola spoke at the commissioning of 8.5 megawatts Lekki Independent Power Project (IPP), the fifth of such power projects in the last five years in the state.
The governor said the addition of the Lekki IPP was a testament to the fact that stable power does not require rocket science to achieve in the country.
While challenging power distribution companies in the state, Fashola said, “Let the Eko DISCOs sign a contract with me, giving part of their concessioning to the state government, in about six to eight months, there will be power in all homes in Lagos State,” Fashola said.
He added, “So, let no one say that he has no money to deliver power for the entire country. This is the limit to which the law allows us to do, but we have done this to make a statement that power can be generated. So, when they come with lies that power is impossible, you can tell them that we have power here; we make it possible”.
The project, courtesy of the state government, in partnership with Heritage Bank, is to serve Lagos State Water Corporations in Lekki Phase 1, Oniru, Victoria Island and Ikoyi, as well as over 25km of public lightening in the Lekki axis.
Commissioning the project, Fashola said he felt fulfilled with the conduct of youths that delivered the project, despite the difficulties in getting to the finishing point.
He said it also showed that the money to improve the Nigerian economy is here, “since we don’t need the World Bank to come and do this for us.”
Also, General Manager, Lagos State Electricity Board, Damilola Ogunbiyi, said the state had shown that reliable and sustainable power projects are possible through the youths.
Ogunbiyi said though it had been a successful story, the state was just scratching the surface in its “aggressive development plan” in the area of power.
Promoter of the project, Faruk Agoro noted that the new IPP was an innovative idea of world-class natural gas-fired power generating facility, sold to the government by youths and it was bought into, to support government institutions, especially in the area of water supply and security


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Fashola commissioned the project. He was not the originator of the project. Jebba dam is an already existing dam connected to 330kv grid. Additional units is "likely added". It's an on-going stuff. So it's more of an upgrade

bezimo:
If OPEC members can corporate and reduce production by 40% or say 35% or a little less, supply would reduce and the oil price would go up, but no member wants to lose its market share.So the situation continues.
Or alternatively if there is crisis in the middle east, the oil prices could bounce back but what would trigger the crisis?

Opec refused to cut down supply which increases oil prices is because of the presence of US shale oil. US is pushing the shale oil. Traditionally, what OPEC does is to cut down supply to allow prices to go up. However, the threat is that cutting down oil supply will make us shale oil to boom because crude oil prices will go up which will eventually lead to the demand of Us cheap shale oil and then lead to high demand for shale oil. Saudi Arabia and Opec's plan is to kick US shale oil out of the market or make the demand for shale oil low as it used to be. when the prices is low for both us shale oil and crude oil, demand for OPEC'S Crude oil will be higher and will eventually phase out us shale oil. In addition, Sanctions against Iran has been lifted and they will eventually enter the world market making excess supply of crude oil and cheaper prices. The ultimate goal of opec is to phase out us shale oil. How ? when OPEC'S crude oil are in excess, the demand for shale oil will drop and demand for crude oil will increase......etc

bro i know acess very very well. i don't want to tell you the pros and consbecause it depends on your career goals. Ask Access professional staffs and NBC staffs as well. Then make your decision. In my opinion, NBC is better in the long run

N55m allocation is not true .Please read

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Mrs Anastasia Nwaobia, on Wednesday said that N389.9 billion was shared among the federal, states and local governments as revenue for September, 2015.
Nwaobia announced this in Abuja when she addressed newsmen on the outcome of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC) meeting.
She said that the shared amount comprised the month’s net statutory revenue of N321.9 billion.
“Also, there is the exchange gain of N5.2 billion which is proposed for distribution.
“Therefore the total revenue distributable for the month of August including VAT of N56.3 billion, is N389.9 billion,” she said.
Nwaobia said N6.3 billion was refunded to the federation by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and was also proposed for sharing.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that N422.6 billion was shared to the three tiers of government as revenue for the preceding month. This shows a difference of N52.6 billion.
Giving the breakdown of revenue among the three tiers of government, Nwaobia said the Federal Government received N151.3 billion, representing 52.68 per cent; states, N76.8 billion, representing 26.72 per cent.
The local governments, she said, received N59.1 billion, amounting to 20.60 per cent of the amount distributed.
Nwaobia announced that N27.5 billion, representing 13 per cent derivation revenue, was shared among the oil producing states.
On VAT, she said that the N62.1 billion collected for the month showed a decrease of N12.7 billion from what was collected in the preceding month.
She said that the country generated N213.1 billion as mineral revenue and N108.8 billion as non-mineral revenue.
She noted that this showed a decrease of N2.8 billion and N44.2 billion, respectively, from what the country generated as mineral and non-mineral revenue in the preceding month.
She puts the balance in the Excess Crude Account as at today, at 2.25billion dollars, which showed that nothing had been removed or added to it since July.
Nwaobia lamented over the low revenue.......

dailypost.ng/2015/10/29/faac-fg-states-lgs-share-n390bn-as-revenue-for-september/

Baboo13:


Lol Mr jigga, I get you but I've extracted the main points from your write up;

1) That more than half of the members of the church can't afford school fees

2)That they can instead help with tuition of poor people in federal schools

3) That the missionaries set up schools in Nigeria for free

Let me now analyse your points

Putting points 1 and 2 together, the question should be why do we set up schools? Is it only for the church or for the nation at large?. If we set up these universities only considering church members, then only Winners members should be in CU and only redeemed members should be in reedeemers and we can't have winners members go to redeemers and vice versa.
Remember that years back, we had issues in getting admission into govt universities even when you passed Jamb?, these private universities has help to lower the pressure of getting admission. We have graduates yearly from private schools. Let us not restrict our scope the church members but the NATION in general

As for missionaries setting up schools, remember that you can't compare the population we had in the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and so on to the current population now thus it was easier. Mind your University of Ibadan was the FIRST UNIVERSITY created in Nigeria in 1948 so what the Missionaries set up were ELEMENTARY schools, so that's knocks off your point.

When it comes to helping poor people, let's ask ourselves as individuals; How many individuals on our own( not relatives) have we taken responsibility to support their education?. The church is helping to solve a problem one side, what are we individuals doing on our part? Don't let this things be a church thing, church thing always..

Harvard is the best and many other top unis around the world are owned by PRIVATE individuals coming together, but is it CHEAP? No

Jesus said in John 12 v 8, 'For the poor you have with you always...' So even if the church use all tithes and offerings to support the poor. We will still have them and people will continue to talk

In summary, university education is not cheap, let's look at the nation at large

my brother believe it or not we only have commercial churches in Nigeria. u made no points in all your grammar. how can a church waste it's members money to help d country? how can a church build schools where majority of its members cannot pay the school fees ? is a church not suppose to be helping it's members before helping d country. if Jesus Christ has a church will he do like Pastor Adeboye and Oyedepo opening Universities where majority of his members cannot afford? why did Jesus feed thousands with 5 loaves of bread n 2 fishes ? Stop deceiving yourself all these pastors are commercial pastors. how can a church be spending at least N121 million annually to maintain a private jet. what type of gospel are they preaching

I don't understand all of you. GEJ is from Bayelsa state. I am from Bayelsa state. However frankly speaking GEJ didn't deserve to win the election. He performed badly during his Tenure. Any corrupt political deserves to be prosecuted. Integrity group and Rivers state Governor WiKe submitted petitions to EFCC and to court for hearings respectively in August. PMB was aware yet he nominated Amaechi. Is this how he wants to fight corruption. If PMB hears that Diezanni stole N120B, immediately he will be so much interested in investigating. For Amaechi he is reluctant. Any politician who is corrupt should be prosecuted. PDP OR APC. Nigeria will never be a good country if everyone doesn't speak of the truth. All these politicians don't care about us.

[quote author=Baboo13 post=38036663]

I graduated from a federal university, but let me tell you these facts;

1)Covenant University is still one of the cheapest standard private universities in Nigeria, and one of the best.

2)For your information, Most of you people don't know that the Federal government subsidizes the fees of each university student to a tune of about 300 000 naira. They also get different funds and grants from the government. Or do you think the federal schools run on the 10, 15k students pay per session? University education is not as cheap as you think.

I'm using this to make you and thousands of people out there who have the notion that some churches uses peoples offerings to build schools which some people can't afford to stop being hypocritical and get more knowledge


Wisdom encompasses knowledge. Get more wisdom. a true pastor is better than an academic professor.

it is better not to run a school at all than for any church to have a school where more than 50% of the church members cannot pay the tuition. If these men of God are wise they should rather use the money and help the poor members to pay tuition in Federal universities or elsewhere . Quote me any day anytime, all these pastors or churches want to "show off" that they have a school. They want the world to know they have money. They are after worldly gains. u remember the missionary school during British colonial rule. Ask Pastor Adeboye, or pastor Oyedepo whether they paid tuition fees then during our British colonial rule. Ask your father, Ask any old person whether when the missionaries came to open a school in Nigeria and how free they were without worrying for school fees.

i tell u. yes i agree with you that running a school os expensive but running a school when majority of your church members cannot pay the fees is wickedness and uncalled for.
opening such expensive schools is misplaced priorities of the first order and a very foolish idea.

$65M is more than N1.3Billion o. kai. And the cost of maintaining this jet is roughly $3M or at least N600M annually . Poor members paying Tithes. And people will still support all this. Redeem Commercial church

THE PROBLEM WITH WE NIGERIANS IS THAT WE FAIL TO SPEAK THE TRUTH, MANY ARE HIGHLY MINSINFORMED AND MANY DONT KNOW WHAT IT TAKES TO READ NEWS OR BE SIMPLY CURRENT WITH POLITICS. I AM A BIG FAN OF FASHOLA BUT I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT HE IS NOT CORRUPT. DO YOU KNIW THE DEALS HE HAS WITH TINUBU. AS FOR NOW HE IS NOT GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN SO. LET EFCC DO THEIR WORK AND SOME OF U HERE SHOULD STOP UNNECESSARY STATEMEMTS. CAN ANYONE HERE TELL ME ANY GOVERNOR WHO IS NOT CORRUPT. I AM FROM BAYELSA STATE AND THERE IS NO WAY I CAN SAY MY BROTHER JONATHAN GOODLUCK IS NOT CORRUPT. NO SENTIMENTS. LETS LEARN TO TALK WITH FAIRNESS ELSE NIGERIA WILL NEVER GET BETTER

so happy the Governor won. As for me, He is the best performing Governor in the whole north

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