₦airaland Forum

Billyonaire: Must you comment in areas of your ignorance ? Stop disgracing me pls.

Which area represents ignorance here that disgraces you? Yes i asked rightly if this is the second 4000MW
(of course you should know what i mean by mistakenly typing 4MW), i suppose OBJ has boasted of reaching
same 4000MW since 2003, you can go through this NEEDS presentation http://www.ng.undp.org/documents/NEEDS/NEEDS.pdf
on this UNDP website (on page 60 under power sector section),
you will see this there;

"Some improvement took place between 1999
and 2003, with generation rising to about 4,000
MW a day. Problems of adequacy, transmission,
and distribution remain, however. Improvement
occurred largely as a result of the President’s
mandate and the new funds and capacity
injected into the National Electric Power Authority
(NEPA). Some of the highlights of the mandate
include the following:
• Expeditiously implement the electric power
sector reform programme.
• Generate 10,000 MW a day by 2007, from
existing plants, new host generation, and
reasonably priced independent power plants.
• Develop the capacity to transmit and
distribute the higher level of generation.
• Explore alternative energy sources, such
as coal, solar power, wind power, and
hydropower.
• Renew attention to the question of
electricity tariffs.
• Deregulate the power sector to allow
increased private sector participation."

maybe you may then want to ask if this is actually the second 4000MW. Why not Prof. Bart Nnaji focus on his
principal's promise of delivering power to Nigerians, must he go on propaganda? Nigerians would prefer Prof's
success story of dream come true to irrelevant publicity that would not translate to development at the end of
the day.

What surprises me is that GEJ's administration still boasts of same 4000MW. If Bart Nnaji sees any future boost,
let him use the super star in him to give it to us, then announce as we are tired of getting proposals that end
up being taken as prospects.

Maybe they will site the next plant in Borno and tell us they have gas problem, next they will come on screen explaining
how they have strategically concluded running gas pipeline to the location, as though they did not know that they should
have considered the source of fuel/energy as factors considered in siting a plant. Maybe they should revisit their basic
senior secondary economics since professionalism now earns us poor decision making.

I hope u are now "re-graced"

@captainajama, u should hav said what i said that isn't true either, how many times did obj boast of achieving 4MW? So shocked that wen GEJ/JEG came he still claimed of reaching 4MW, or ar we in 2nd 4MW? Or have we not noticed dat GEJ uses constant power supply 2 decieve us while lunching killing measures? I'v gone a step ahead of the facts u askd 4 to give u the truth. GEJ is showing signs of failure, if he does, then u & i would agree we ended up losing about 20yrs of our development to virtually OBJ & GEJ.

Mind u, GEJ has startd making up excuses 4 anticipated failure by saying dat the country was already this bad b4 he became presido, did he not know this before becoming presido?

I was also not good in english, didn't even know i was not getting my tenses
wrong, my wife thought me to the extent that i can hardly make mistakes.

My weak points were singlular noun for plural verb and collective nouns e.g
"He don't understand me" instead of "He doesn't understand me"

and

"Everyone in church are on their way here" instead of "Everyone in church is on their way here"

All these she did with love, today, though our class still continues, i seem to be a lot better.
Just teach him with love and his weakness will leverage on his love to make him the Queen Elizabeth's
Kinsman.

Also note that if you marry a "Stanford grad" that isn't compatible with you, your portion in that union
would still remain your peace as his wife, else all the English that seemed to have been one of what may
have attracted you to him will end up being the catalyst that would destroy the same home.

Sweet dreams!

Jonathan should carry go, afterall our foolishness in April 2011 shall live after us maybe till 2019.

Hurray!

Have you ever been safe in this country?

They keep dividing the country slowly yet shying away from making SNC
a reality. I pray we don't spend the next 50yrs like the last.

This same aircraft has been said to be having faults by a lot of people even Tony Uranta
and a staff that spoke to Channels TV. Nigeria is focusless.
If it's actually contaminated fuel then could it have been only dana that the oil marketer that
fueled the aircraft refill?

Why didn't the others crash as well?

Why not ask which state has the highest number of thieves since these billionaires
largely thieves.

After 16 Billion Dollars have gone oblivion, next administration will say they met 2800MW or less,
just before his election when we always had constant power to lure us to vote for our own national failure,
where did they see the constant power given to us? Any time an evil policy is in the offing, there would
always be a boost in supply from no where, Nigerians keep getting fooled and forget easily.

Jonathan keeps smiling as though he's innocent of Nigerian's problems, stylishly creating a Divide in the
country and pretending that he is naive and harmless.

We pray that God truely gives us a leader whom the easiest way to describe his origin will be that he is
a Nigerian!

Minister of Power, Professor Bart Nnaji, was recently a guest of THISDAY Board of Editors.

He was drilled on the progress made so far under the power sector reform programme he is driving. He responded to the questions admitting there were problems and challenges such as the lack of availability of the right quantity of gas to fire the plants. Nnaji also noted there have been successes scored so far, insisting the power roadmap was on track as the compass that would lead to increased electricity output between 2012 and 2015

The nation has been bedeviled more with mega-excuses rather than the promised megawatts; why?

Thank you for this opportunity to talk about what we are doing. I didn’t realise that we have been offering so many excuses. I thought we were telling you what the situation is. I have been minister for ten months. Prior to that I was adviser to the president on power and when we came, what we saw was an absolute mess of the power sector. We met 2,800MW of power delivered to the grid; a lot of the power plants were never really in order and got epileptic maintenance that naturally produced epileptic power supply. Ideally, a power plant should be maintained on schedule and if you don’t do that, you run the risk of running down the plant. So we had a lot of power plants that did not produce up to 50 per cent of their installed capacities; that is the sort of thing we met. The national grid was also weak, which means if something happened on the grid, you ran the risk of cutting off a whole region. In addition, there was no plan for gas supply to the thermal power stations, so we had plants that were being built without gas availability or a proper plan; the distribution plan was also in disarray, such that we could have a power plant without actually getting the electricity to where it could be used. Unfortunately, those in the sector know that power production and delivery are not like building roads and some other facilities. If you are building a road, you can build 50 per cent of it and put it to use, but for power, 99.9 per cent will not be sufficient; you have to have 100 per cent completion to fire it to work. Secondly, it takes time to build a power plant, no matter what anybody tells you, you do not buy power turbines off the shelf. If we had started when we came in here to build any power plant, we would not have completed it by now, no matter the miracle.

So that is the situation we met but we found that Obasanjo’s regime had covered a very positive and important mileage in the power sector, that is the establishment of the Electricity Power Sector Reform Act of 2005. That Act was essentially aimed at reforming the sector with the realisation that NEPA as an authority that prevented anybody else from generating electricity or distributing electricity was not in a position to solve Nigeria’s power problem, and that the population was growing at a tremendous rate. We needed an economy that would compete with others in the world, and prior, we had not invested in power for a period of 15 years so there was no real investment in power production, and there was no way we were going to catch up with the rest of the world with NEPA as the driver of the power sector. So on realisation of this, the natural thing was to reform the sector. It therefore paved the way for private companies to generate and distribute electricity, that’s what informed the 2005 Electric Power Reform Act. But an act of parliament could not just be on the shelf with no accompanying action. We thought that a way to start would be to have a roadmap based on that Act and that roadmap which the president launched in August 2010 provided for step-by-step implementation of the Act, as well as the assurance that with that implementation we would reach the point of absolute reliable and sustainable electricity in Nigeria. So a lot of work had been going on behind the scenes, not something that could give you electricity today but something which if we implement as we are implementing would absolutely ensure that we have electricity in the medium to long term.

With respect to implementation, we are getting to the point of completing implementation of the key pillars of the reform programme. When we started to implement the roadmap, we took a two-prong approach as the president announced in his speech. First, we said let us do as much as possible to recover capacity at the power plants that are installed but not working, let us fix them. Based on that, we would have been able to recover more than 1,000MW within the short period. We also said let’s aggressively pursue fixing the transmission network, so that as we continue to improve power we would be able to take the electricity to the needed destinations, which would translate to an investment on improved distribution network in the short term. The next step was to create the institutional framework that will ensure reliability and sustainability and those institutions would be there to ensure that we are able to purchase power and provide guarantees that would pave the way to transition from public management to private sector management – the privatisation programme is part of that, with transparency in view. Therefore it is not something that you could go and do in the backroom and come out and finish instantly. It was a step-by-step process that required carrying the public and the international community along in the completion process.

Don’t you think the priority would have been to maintain the existing level of power supply by fixing the old plants, the fragile infrastructure of the existing plants under your rehabilitation exercise, and then proceed to the bigger project that takes us to increased output and privatisation?

That’s actually what I said. We are taking a two-pronged approach – the first is involves quick recovery of installed capacities, but we should not forget what actually it takes to undertake recovery. It means the fresh installation of 1MW of power, which costs $1 million. That means that if you are going to build a brand new 1,000MW station, it will cost you $1 billion. However, we don’t have such resources now. I will give you a simple example: the recovery of one unit of Afam provides 138MW, at a whopping costs N6.9 billion but that is just 138MW. You will find some others that cost more, so the money isn’t just there floating for us to do the massive recovery that is needed to turn the sector around. That is why the privatisation of the sector is essential. As such, the first thing that made sense was to a do a quick fix and right now this approach has yielded 1,000MW extra, with an additional 1000MW expected this year which should bring total available capacity to 5,400MW. If we had been consistent with this type of aggressive approach, we won’t be having the problem we are having now. Then again, Nigeria is a country of 167 million people so even when we recover 2,000MW that will be insignificant. So for this year, we are going to rely on the quick recovery approach and the coming on stream of the National Integrated Power Projects (NIPPs) that was started sometime ago and stopped in 2007 for almost two-and-half years and then restarted by this administration with a fast-track philosophy. We are aggressively pursuing the completion of these plants and we will be able to get a number of them on stream this year.

So what are the main challenges you anticipate in wheeling out the extra capacity expected to come on stream?

Actually, our problem is going to be the scarcity of gas. We have a problem there. If you give me gas today, I will give you an additional 1,500MW because we have the stations ready to take the fuel but we don’t have the gas. Just two days ago, Utorogu Gas Plant was shut down for repairs, and what we have lost because of that is over 390MW. So the problem of power supply in the recent past has been lack of coordination; we have not coordinated in such a way that we have enough gas for electricity production. There is also the problem of transmission infrastructure, but we are handling the transmission part. However, gas is going to continue to be a major challenge unless something is done, the same thing that we have done in power needs to be done in gas for us to have adequacy.

What is the problem with having gas, it is not that it is not available, so what is the problem?

We are a country very rich in gas, we have not just planned to produce gas for commercial consumption and the problem of insufficient power is here. By next year, we will have available capacity of close to 9,000MW from the NIPPs coming on stream. If we are able to generate the expected quantity of gas for power, we shall be able to witness a drastic improvement in power supply by the end of this year. Based on what is currently on the ground, starting from next month, you will begin to see an improvement similar to the December/January (last year) scenario when the improvement was felt by all. This will be repeated more prominently, we will exceed that quotient this year and we will stay like that on an incremental basis. But realistically, Nigeria should be leapfrogging, as I don’t want to be talking about 3,000-4,000MW. I want us to think about leapfrogging so that we can catch up with other emerging or developing nations, that is where I am heading for.

Don’t you think the situation in the power sector calls for something more than the emergency declared in the power sector?

There is no need for emergency in power really because we have tackled the main problem that will deliver power, I can tell you that.

(Cuts in…) But we are living in an emergency already, and the problem Dr. Eddie Iroh described captures it all. I think you can have an interface with Servicom so that the communication between consumers and service providers flows on a steady basis; it doesn’t have to get to the minister, but to somebody near his table and it comes under one page.

What we have done ourselves is to set up consumer consultative forums, which were launched last month, but of course we have to promote them, so that people should know they are available. With the forums in place, if we have any issue, we should just call or send an email and someone will respond within a certain period of time, because we have these problems ahead of these complaints – it could be a transformer fault or something else. Somebody was saying they were made to buy a transformer for their neighborhood, but it is not something that should be happening because transformers are provided by the power authority and are free. However, I must admit that we are dealing with one of the most corrupt, if not the most corrupt sector of the economy, that is where we have found ourselves, and what we are doing is to cut off the head of the snake through privatisation – transfer the distribution companies to the private sector, so this way, the owners will now be chasing after you instead of you chasing after them.

In this respect, what has happened in the telecoms industry will surely happen in the power sector – the bidding process will be completed in July next month and bidders will submit their bids by October, so we expect that we should announce winners soon after. Under the current dispensation, those who call themselves distribution companies that interact with the consumers are marketers who work for themselves; they are out there, their small networks or companies, exploiting consumers and we have heard about them. But we have to stop this whole thing because the key to having investors agree to build a power plant is that they must sell to credible buyers. What we are doing to contain this fraud is to use the bulk trader to buy power and provide guarantees. But really, the ideal situation is to have a bilateral agreement. You don’t need to have a middle man in the business, but to have that, you need to have a credit worthy off-taker, and a credit worthy off-taker means the distribution company network should be robust, that the distribution company mode of collection must be efficient, that you must have a really efficient and honest system that can only come through the privatisation process.

What this translates to is that if your transformer breaks down, the distribution company must come to repair it because it will be losing business if it does not fix it. You will be provided with a prepaid meter, because that establishes a transparent transaction between you and the provider, which would rather be efficient than argue with you. The provider would want your business. This is the market structure we are headed towards and we are almost there. But many want to remain under the old order where the distribution companies preferred the corrupt billing system rather than the pre-paid metering system.

See Farouk's Bro them, who knows who's voices are these

For younger folks, boycott the polys until the Govt. regains their mental head

There is ALWAYS something you guys can make up. Don't abort it because of shame, just go ahead and do what you guys can afford.
Regarding your mum, unfortunately it could no longer work that way because of the situation at hand. The mistake has been made already,
just hold your heart to fight the societal frown, go through the traditional, and for the court wedding, it costs very little.
Since you guys planned to get eventually married and are ripe for it,CARRY GO.

However, this doesn't mean i am in support of intimacy before marriage. This is the only a remedy to your present predicament.

For the singles out there, abstainance is the only way that makes sence.

Happy married life in advance!

stay with her, una go fit date... na water dey carry go so javascript:void(0);

down[s][/s] up delta

Who is fooling who? Does any Naija company actually produce PCs. Can we even make a simple resistor or diode?

guy, u fall my hand. You don marry your grand mama

Havard is far better, after working with both US & UK graduates, i'll
always prefer the US schools based on higher level skill
than UK schools.

Could as well be selected areas in owerri. Just like Lagos, if u snap a picture
of the way between 1004 estate and Mobile filling station @ VI/Lekki boundry,
u might conclude that Nigeria is fully developed with standard infrastructures

You sounded intelligently, well done! But 4 those igbos & yorubas who always play tribalism, i wish either of ur parents is from these two tribes so u could say ur father is a traitor 4 marrying ur mother or vice versa. I see a future none tribal nation ahead!

That tells us that naija has really gone security crazy, this is a fast deterioration towards anarchy,
them no even fear to protest, why dem no give them army as them do for lagos?

If it's possible for naija to break along corruption lines, i would have loved it, so that
the corrupt will form their own country

shey be naija don talk to kill and divide, make their militant glorified leaders
continue the blind support of their corrupt leaders until 2015, when them go finish
eating their birth right in the name of looting. If lagos dey develop with the small wen
them get, nddc go they loot, later them go begin do militancy.

Niger Deltans, I hail o!

Beaf, na u be this? so u fit talk like who get sense?
Well, thank God for your new found brain!

Am happy for you!

The sky turns red
The clouds decentralizes
The Man's mother  dream weeps
Abandons rose at his tomb
Watching her son's significance strangled

Where is Enenche, where is Enenche
Whos bullet(s) tore him
at the witness Of his flesh
The lense of his camera knows not
His Master's whereabout

I can imagine His blood's thickens
I could Hear his reporting roar
Roaring pity at his own soul
Wasting to His Ancestors abode
whisked while scipting out to immortality

Recording  a cruel Nation
Nation eroded by dark minds
Cross Carpeting into its captivity
Captained by self ranked Generals
Shot to end while shooting animations

Enenche bows out but
who will confront the arrow
The arrow that confronted your great Camera
The arrow that confronted your voice
That Voice that dared to announce again

Carnivores of destiny ate Enenche's
Costly destiny
Destiny that compares not with Gold
Hopefully you are gold
Hopefully immortality shares you up

Am Alone:
Who Will Bell The Cat!!!!

Wait for 2015 to bell the cat! We voted as disillusioned citizens when we had the good opportunity, rather than hear a debate and make our choice, we based our decision based on the circumstances of his emergence, if any Nigerian or nairalander claims he/she did not know that Jonathan had a leaking brain, then the problem is traceable to us. The evil we did by voting Jonathan is presently living with us. Next time Vote for a basket brain because he has good luck and expect luck to hold your water!

Long Live "Good luck" Jonathan

Now, repeat after me!

Any power, any witches, any blood sucker, that says that Nigeria will not succeed as a nation, that will intend to chase me to the west for slavery, that will make witches and wizards keep ruling and fustrating us, Die by fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I see 90% of Nigeria's problem reflecting here, we abandon the critical issues for irrelevant things.
We don't have to always compare them in order to prove their worth! We can learn from their lives and become
better first as an individual, then as a nation!

These are the two most excellent Nigerians of all times with their various aspects of global influence.
I am proud to be a Nigerian because of them.


To the initiator of this topic, would you say you did not know you were about causing something stupid
knowing that Nigerians are likely to tilt towards tribalism? What do you expect, that soonest we will start bad
mouthing each other with the Ibos calling the Yorubas names and vice versa.

I have  carefully X-rayed the duo, they had same educational foundation (of those old good days when
our education was well valued over those of the UK & US) from the same university around the same period,
what this should remind any agent of change is that we need an educational revolution back to the prestige of
those good old days.

How many Nigerians can speak good english like the duo today? Do we say minority or majority?
How many Nigerians have their level of integrity?
What value will comparing them add to our present situaton?
How do we tackle corruption without being selfish or tribal?
How do we salvage this country from this great political and economic tribulation melted on us by our politicians?
Do you have power to run your business?
Is your certificate fully accepted even in your country?
Does your vote count?
Have you actually had a balanced meal this morning?
Can your parents enjoy their old age without your input?
How many bills passed by the senate touched your life since 1999?
What percentage of Nigeria's budget touched your life since 1999?
Can you prevent a terrorist plane from crashing into your country's defence H/Q or Aso rock
like the Americans did for Pentagon?
How many Nigerians are poets?
How many Nigerians are even writers?
Who are you today and what are you hoping to become tommorrow?

Instead of allowing these rare gems (Soyinka & Achebe) divide us, why not use them as yardstick to measure
our national deviation.

I expect us to weep for our country and refuse evil leaders whos worth could only be reconciled
to corruption. They pretend loving Nigeria and therefore would die for political offices whereas in real terms
they are after money and political influence.

I see Nairaland as a forum of national unity and will be proud of a new Nigeria initiating its course
through this forum. Let's be Nigerians for the sake of Nigeria. Let's not propagate the silent fact; that
the only reason why Nigeria has not splitted is not that we love each other as ethnic nationalities but that
corruption has formed a vehicle for our leaders to understand themselves and bind us together through it.

I love Nigeria, i love Nairaland!

sorry, meant injuction.

There was a court order, PDP disobeyed the order on constitutional bases, we can all see how the judicial
system is being ridiculed.

Even if the Judge acted wrongly by placing the injunction, i think the right thing PDP would have done was
to file an application or appeal against the injection in a higher court (Appeal court).

What is law without respect for the rule of law?

jason123:
And so? Is Nigeria USA?? Inferiority complex is terrible!

This is not inferiority complex, it is truth complex, the award system is seriously being messed up.
Anyway no be Jonathan fault, who no saby write go saby cancel. As GEJ no saby rule, na him God com
give am ability to saby give award. UP GEJ, UP PDP!