₦airaland Forum

ddippset:
He's not doing anything but bribing people around, throwing money around.

Other Presidents still had some restraint throwing tax payers monies around but this one has no restraint.

That's the difference.

Beer parlour talk spoken freely like a drunkard.

The stammer will only come when asked to repeat the claim before a judge.

kettykin:
Yes that's my excuse because someone who committed a much bigger crime holds a top government position presently and is moving about freely

Obi is moving freely despite domiciling state public funds in his own bank, and investing public funds in his own brewery.

May the souls of those lost to this building collapse rest in peace.

The state government should investigate and use the findings to prevent such accidents.

Malroux:
The president we voted for.

But your "we" was the minority.

What a shame, what a loss.

LegendHero:
That is the hope and belief.

I personally with gauge Jagaban based on his 4 years and that will prompt my 2027 support. I believe in him too much and I am confident he won’t fail those that hold him at a high level.

Certainly!

I am over-confident in his capacity.

I will give him support and also criticise constructively where necessary.

Hahahahaha!

Opposition need to learn from Tinubu on how to be an opposition.

Since Tinubu and his political party assumed power in 2015, opposition ceased to exist in Nigeria.

LegendHero:
Lol, all those who are in the business of sponsoring protests have seen that it is not business as usual during the period of Tinubu.

Tinubu strategically handled all items.

—SE: Normally, Peter Obi/PDP and his gangs of Obedient should have been at the forefront of the protest as opposition. But Tinubu played on their psyche. Prop some people up, then they believe joining protest mean they will be part of people complaining about hunger. So strategically, they are working for Tinubu without knowing. Just feed his ego, and an average Obidient lose his sense of reasoning. Even when parents are now killing kids because of extreme hunger in the SE, Obedients online still believe they are not hungry. What an irony.

—Northerners: In their usual game, they don’t have the moral authority to lead a protest because they know Buhari landed us in this mess and during that period, they failed to protest. So how do you sponsor violent protest when you don’t have the moral support?

—SW: Normally, SW don’t usually speak with one voice coz of 60/40 opposition divide and even if genuine people are protesting, Jagaban people also blended with the crowd and declared hunger and hardship induced by the polices of Tinubu. So when Yorubas themselves are speaking up against Tinubu and complaining of hunger, where is the moral support for opposition to lead a protest? How do you lead protest when the actual people you’re trying to fight against are leading it? So there is controlled protest strategically by same SW politicians to water down effect of any other protest in other part of the country.

—TUC and NLC: Jagaban just try to make sure no amount of protest embarked upon by these guys will carry weight. TUC president saw this and baba backed out of the protest and NLC Ajaero who is another Tinubu tool saw his protest failing on the very first day. An almighty NLC couldn’t even win the confidence of the workers anymore. Ajaero is toothless.

—Police: Usually police are always antagonist of protesters. But the rule play is different now. Police are actually the one cheering with the protesters and even going as far as joining them and providing snacks. So psychologically, the protesters see that the government is part of them. Even if they want to be furious, they will use this to give benefit of the doubt.

Now all this point to one thing. Nigerians believe in Tinubu and they have tried in giving him benefit of the doubt. It’s not like the man jazzed everybody, coz with the hard reforms he embarked on and the hardship that follows it at first, NO PRESIDENT can do this without NLC and opposition shutting the country down. ONLY Jagaban can do that and people will still be patient with him.

Lastly, Jagaban should ensure the promised minimum wage and other intervention come fast. This magic might not last long if people don’t see the promise fulfilled. He is so lucky to have even lasted this long with little nation rocking protest.

No loud am too much.

I only hope Tinubu's mastery of politics and his giant strides in Lagos, would also be replicated at the federal level during his 8year presidential regime.

It has been turned to all fun and games.

Politics na ya mate?

ayokellany:
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria accepted today the resignation of Barth Nnaji, the hitherto Minister of Power.

The resignation is reportedly connected to the revelations first premiered by Business Day which linked the former cabinet member to an underground bid for Afam Power Station.

Nnaji revealed to the National Council on Privatiation last Friday that his company, Geometrics, was a shareholder in a company that bid for the Afam Power Station.

Afam Power Station has an installed capacity of 775 Megawatts which is 18% of the country’s current total power generation.

The revelation came as a surprise, although many Nigerians were already aware that the privatiation of PHCN was simply an unbundling of the country’s power assets to the cabal.

However the undoing of Mr. Nnaji may have come about as a result of the dispute between himself as minister and PHCN employees.

The PHCN employees were embittered by Nnaji’s refusal to pay them adequate terminal benefits running into hundreds of billions of Naira. The conflict-of-interest being he would not want an asset he was planning to acquire to be hugely indebted to the soon-to-be disengaged PHCN staff.

http://businessnews.com.ng/2012/08/28/breaking-news-power-minister-barth-nnaji-resigns/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-news-power-minister-barth-nnaji-resigns/.

Certainly, he tried to sell national assets to himself, even though he had resigned from the company.

But when his corrupt attempt was blown open, he went back to the same company he had tried to benefit with national assets.

EmiloCorn:
Please my people don't mind the op, we were in the middle of our WhatsApp group discussions on how to pepper the Obidients today when he just jumped up, screamed some unknown jargons and stormed out of the gathering only to come and open this thread. Don't worry we will catch him and rehabilitate him before he gets worse.

@ stOla, Oya come and let us be going back to headquarters, shebi we asked you if you've been taking the drugs prescribed for you at yaba and you said yes, so what's all this now? you need stronger prescriptions?

You tried to be funny.

But does not in anyway erode the message and the facts of what is before us.

jmoore:
If a private person uses 100 years to build his business, that's his business, not ours. E no concern us.

It is when a government that is building something that it will be our business.

Mumu man no get cure.

If it was government that spent $800m to provide just 181MW of power, illiterates like you would have polluted the national discourse with your foul mouth, claiming to know more than those who are experts in the field.

Greenback:
When you do not rejoice with people who are rejoicing then rejoicing will be far from you and your family!

My joy is that this project has given knowledge to many lacking the sense that infrastructural projects cost much money and takes much time.

At least, no one can accuse a private company of embezzling from the $800m it required to provide power for just 9 LGAs out of 774 LGAs in the country.

Nor can you criticise why the project that was projected to cost $250m eventually cost $800m.

Abi dollar dey depreciate like Naira when the project was never costed in Naira?

RepoMan007:
He had good vision and wanted to fast track it by acquiring one of the gencos and discos to achieve that. He was rightly asked to step aside and didn't resist. Today he has achieved that goal. What remains to be seen is he will put smile on the faces of Abians or not.
His vision, to me, tells of someone who had good ideas. He could have succeeded or failed depending on other factors within the power system and politics.

The question is was it by his good interest that some have asserted he was our best Minister of Power even if he did not add 1MW of power to the national grid and pushed for the privatisation of GENCos and DISCos that have not helped to turn the tide of our national disgrace?

The 2nd side of the coin is that we can also celebrate good infrastructures if we have the patience and the funds to see it through.

To the many illiterates on social media, infrastructural projects should cost a penny and, should happen at the snap of a finger.

Greenback:
The enemies in full state of confusion 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The thing pain you and Adamusuleiman2 sotey,unah begin upload banners and stickers,to what end? Nobody send unah.... continue preaching to whoever cares to listen 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 while God's people keep progressing....

181 MW in two decades yen yen yen,awon eniyan okuku 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

No pain here.

Just setting the stage to confront those who have always been irrational to think infrastructures are built with Chicken change and at the snap of a, finger.

I have heard many persons on this forum and privately, assert that Prof Barth Nnaji was our best bet to solving our electric power problems, and was our best Minister of Power.

I have always countered that assertion by asking for evidence to show that a man who barely spent a year in office as Minister of Power during the Jonathan regime, before being forced to resign for a conflict of interest matter relating to the privatisation of the GENCos and DISCos, could have achieved anything significant to warrant such claims of excellence.

I always ask that how many MW of electricity did he add to the national grid while in office. Also, the privatisation of GENCos and DISCos that he spearheaded, what have been their benefit to Nigerians in terms of uninterrupted power since then till now?

So that claim of being the best was always based on emotions and nothing empirical.

Now, one of such companies owned by Prof Barth Nnaji, that bid for the GENCos and DISCos privatisation that resulted in his removal from office as Minister of Power, is now in the news for achieving big things in Abia State - the promise of uninterrupted power supply.

It has finally been able to add just 181MW of electricity that will only be adequate for 9 LGAs out of 17LGAs in Abia State, after a period that span over 16years (2007 to 2024), with many escalations of the project cost from the initial $250m to $800m.

Note that this is a wholly funded private enterprise with the hopes to provide service and be rewarded with revenue that can allow for profit.

Professor Barth Nnaji has tried.

But while Abians and fellow Nigerians rejoice, and politicians and parties try to take some glory for themselves, and even some uninformed Nigerians try to give glory to a state government that is barely 10months out of the over 16years spent on the project, the enormity of what is before us as a nation still lacking critical infrastructure is not lost on me and many.

If Prof. Barth Nnaji somehow managed to stay in the office as, Minister of Power from 2011 till now in 2024, how much would Nigeria have spent to have adequate and steady power supply?

Would the many illiterates on social media have accepted the many time extension and the many costing adjustments as scopecreep take hold of the different national power projects?

Would we have labelled many regimes under which the professor would have worked as power minister, as failures for taking so long to deliver what South Africa or Egypt was able to do for so less a time and cost?

Do we really have the funds to spend on just our power projects alone considering the national capacity required, if only to power up 9 LGAs in Nigeria would cost a private company $800m and over 16years of work. What would be the cost to power up all the 774 LGAs in Nigeria and how many years would that take if all projects begun simultaneously?

Even the private firms that would have shown interest in such projects across different regions of the country, would they have the patience and funds to commit without any revenue made not to talk of profit for 16years?

So while we celebrate what Prof Barth Nnaji has achieve with his private firm for a few local governments in Abia State, we should not forget that infrastructures take time and money, and they most be protected at all cost from vandals.

As many now rejoice over this positive development, and assert that Aba is about to get the big leaps of growth it had been denied for too long, the many hypocrites among them including some who attended the commissioning ceremony, have now belied their previous claims that an economy is not infrastructure driven.

RichIgboBoy:
2 yoruba (Ajayi and Wasiu)
1 Igbo (Ebuka)
I’m very sure it was those yoruba boys that convinced the lone igbo boy

Nope!

It was the lone Igbo boy that used Yoruba owned companies and warehouse to move his consignment, so he was caught at the end point of delivery and confessed to being a drug lord.

datola:
The developers of mansions all over Lagos and the world!

It would seem they are patronising Yoruba owned logistics companies to avoid detection.

See as NDLEA trace the consignment to the main dealer and receiver.

jmoore:
Instead of you to learn and take correction, you dey rant babablu.

Do you know any single street in Aba?

Geometric is the generating arm, while aba power is the distribution arm of same company owned by Barth Nnaji.
EEDC owned by Emeka Offor was in charge of Aba till 2022 when Aba power took over. It is not an excuse but fact.

Stop yarning dust.

No need to dey shalaye.

At least you have proven you have the capacity to be rational.

So don't expect miracles from the government in months when you can tolerate a 17year project to provide power to only 9 local governments at the cost of $800m.

SpartaOfLagos:
Stop this nonsense and celebrate this great feat . Stop hating and celebrate this great achievement.

We should celebrate 2 decades to provide 181MW of electricity at a cost of $800m?

But same you would want a new government to perform miracles in less than 9months and claim any budgeted sum for infrastructure could have been costed cheaper.

If only 9 local governments need power infrastructure of $800m at almost 17years, how much and how many years will be required for the full 774 LGAs in Nigeria?

If you still do not get my drift on this matter, then you and me cannot be alive when Nigeria will have the great achievement of steady power supply.

jmoore:
Shut up!

There was license challenges that was holding the project.

EEDC was operating where Aba Power (Distribution arm of geometric) should operate. It was in 2022 that it was resolved and Aba power took over the ring faced area of Aba.

I love how you are making excuses.

It is not even required because it is a private enterprise who can deliver their own projects whenever they are able to.

But I hope your logical and rational mind would not take its leave when it is time to expect miracles from other private entrepreneurs, states governments and federal government?

Built2last:
What's amazing is that this project was marked to take 250 million dollars, inflation took it to 800 million dollars.

If we arrest Abubakar Mallami and all the Buhari cabal. we will get 10 billion dollars and replicate this in many states. and let that be the starting point

Don't worry, Emefiele has been arrested for causing the inflation you so complained bitterly about.

But arresting more criminals who benefited and enabled Emefiele, will always be a welcome idea.

This project took almost 2 decades to complete just 181MW of electric power.

The Nigerian standard of efficiency and urgency is quite embarrassing.

Now those celebrating this will expect other state and federal governments to give them similar project in 1yr.

A private firm spent $800m for almost 2 decades to provide 181MW power to only 9 out of 17 LGAs in Abia state.

Again, those rejoicing will expect FG to spend only $100m to provide thousands of MW electricity within 1year.

Are we not an absurd bunch?

jmoore:
Novice, wetin you know? 1,600 is making you high. How much was it on July 31st 2023?

Dollar will hit above 2,500 naira before Dec 31st 2024. Save this post.

I have saved it.

OredoPikin:
Ozuor
He was referring to the presidential and national assembly election

Una mumu man don score own goal.

Cantonese:
He surely will not have issues collecting tariffs.
The DISCOs do not have that as a problem. The metering system provides pre paid and post paid for those who can guarantee their payments as at when due.

Certainly no one will steal power through the back door because it is a private initiative. If you do not purchase power, you will be in darkness.

Look, Nigerians spend a lot of money monthly on the purchase of petrol and diesel for their generators. If you make an comparison of the cost of buying petrol and energy purchase, you’ll find the later far cheaper in the end.

Geometric has done well. Let’s see others invest in the power sector.

I agree with you, but you do not truly know the Nigerian mentality.

Many Nigerians who are well paid in private enterprise and whose power bill is not up to 5% of their salary, still bypass the metering system for their high power consuming electrical appliances like Air Conditioners.

It is very disgusting.

nairalanda1:
Because geometric was a private company, done by someone with an active interest in the power problem in Nigeria.

NO businessman would invest in power supply issues in Nigeria. Especially since there would be no sufficient return on investment due to lack of cost reflective tarrif, and the high cost of gas.

I wish Prof Nnaji good luck, but he is going to have problems when it is time to collect tarrifs. Nigerians are notorious for not paying for power. When even Aso Rock is owing money to discos self...

Even at that, it took almost 2 decades to deliver on the project.

How a vibrant man allowed madness to waste his life.

The story of Nnamdi Kanu.

Mumu man who was representing Fubara is saying even the Labour Party gubernatorial candidate that many do not even know her name, also won the election, and Fubara is a mandate thief?

Lumarstone:
To what an end? Of what impact does that his brave decisions have on Nigerians as at today 26/2/2024? Please never you try to defend leadership failure at it's peak. Is this how oversea first class account scholar handle economy of a nation like ours?

This man has made former PMB led immediate past Government to be a saint.

Nigerians are indeed suffering bro!

You mean the saint who had already borrowed the crude oil sales income for the future and who already realised that there is no money to pay subsidy anymore so he removed it and then reintroduced it, only to remove it again with a post date of end of June 2023?

Una too dey mumu.

It is not Tinubu that stole your future, and he has refused to steal the future of your children.

So no more freeloading.

It is easy for Tinubu to take the easy route to win your support, but he will take the hard route to lose your support but provide a future for your children.

SoNature:
Stop justifying stupidity!

The smartest Nigerians who were brought back to Nigeria to serve happened under the PDP.

On the other hand, APC is an Association of Past Crooks who hire fellow criminals to loot the resources of this country. That's why Nigeria fared better under PDP than APC.

You can argue from now to the end of the world, but you don't need a mirror to see a wristband.

Was it APC that made Jonathan sack him as Minister of power?

And you read how many decades it required for this single project to finally be completed?

HitRun:
$10k dollars can’t even pay a semester’s tuition in most schools in the US.

We cannot even afford to be depriving our own educational institutions of funds that we need to remain in Nigeria and grow our economy and education infrastructure.

Imagine $10,000 not being enough for US and UK tuition fees for a session, yet ordinary $1000 we do not even pay for tuition in Nigerian public schools.

Place an embargo on forex for education for 10yrs and charge properly for Nigerian education and, pay the lecturers well.

10yrs, we will turn the tide on our steady decline.

Anyone who wants to school abroad should go find work abroad and pay from that income.

Nigerian funds should stop subsiding education and providing infrastructure for UK, Canada and US.