₦airaland Forum

Just another day in Nigeria.

9jaRealist:
Why would assume it would be a “cheap rate” because it’s sold in Naira?
It would still be sold at the Naira equivalent of the current international crude prices.

Nonetheless, suffice it to point out that the Naira is actually the ONLY LEGAL TENDER OF NIGERIA. As the CBN itself constantly warns airlines, hotels and other businesses, it is actually ILLEGAL to charge for goods and services IN NIGERIA in any currency other than the Naira (although we all know that Lagos landlords and some other service providers do so under-the-table all the time). Crude oil produced in Nigeria and sold in Nigeria should logically be priced in Naira.
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The Naira officially is the legal tender in Nigeria, but in reality some businesses run on dollars, oil is run on over 60% dollar, some real estate and schools in Lagos run on 100% dollars.

My dear CBN governor, are you aware that oil is produced in dollars?

The Governor and the Senator are mad.

Amen to your prayers

Hearts that manufactures wickedness.

This was before he was invited at the table. Now he has developed " table manners", I am sure he will deny ever writing such a piece.

kingreign:
No jokes. I was thinking it was 6years ago, till I met some elders who told me it's not 6years but 15years ago they last experienced national power supply.

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Really as a nation we are not making progress, so 15years ago was better than today in such a place. Imagine the running cost of businesses such as laundry, Barbing salon , welding etc.

Well is a decline in revenue and profit, not a loss, most companies will be happy to be in this range.

kellybently:
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Do you knw how many area Afam power plant is servicing. Eche. Rumukushi. woji. Elelewon Eleme ...etc

Sorry I don't know, but I know that other parts of phc not serviced by Afam do have regular power supply with far less drama.

kingreign:
They should be happy. A large part of Southern Ondo (Ore, Okitipupa, Igbokoda, and Irele LGAs, etc) last saw national grid electricity supply 15years ago.

15years¿¿, I hope you are joking?

Abia1stS0N:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-51553861

God help us, you have to mob the flour twice daily, if not the whole house will be a mess.

kellybently:
AFAM community have been using light for free. The new manager ask them to pay for light they use. The youth went and vandalised the power station

Ok, let's say your claim is right, how can people who leave far away from Afam be part of a blame game you were trying to start? We have prepaid meters already loaded, like my own case I buy in bulk to prevent frequent recharges, so I have paid for a product since december and yet to be delivered. No interest on the money, put 50k in PiggyVest for 2months and see what you will have.
Please next time be careful on how you make claims as you may be called in a law court to explain better.
Is not only Afam that supplies light to Portharcourt, some other areas in Phc are doing well in terms of light, why are their towers not being vandalised like it is always the case with Afam?
If phed are tired light from Afam, they can change their customers lines or refund us our money.

kellybently:
Tell the Nairaland that your youth are the one that vandalised power station due to selfish intreast

Please can you be more detailed with the information/accusation?

Is a big disappointment even Phed has no answer to the situation, when called they will tell you that they don't have an idea when power will be restored.
Like I told them, in less than five years from now, if they are not careful, Phed case will be like that of Nitel.

COdeGenesis:
It's a TCN(Transmission Company of Nigeria) issue so i heard. PHED buys electricity from suppliers, Generation Companies(AFAM). The TCN guys help transpor the electricity. The issue i got to understand is that they said some aboki guys in collaboration with some Rivers sate youths frm the community vandalized five of those big TCN towers,the one in the second picture, that carry High Voltage from the Gencos. So PHED is not at fault here. They cannot give you electricity because the people that supply them are having issues.They scattered the whole thing. When the TCN guys came to replace the vandalized towers, it was alleged that the community guys kidnapped one of them or so. But they are done now. When you hv not used your car for some time, you need to warm it well and there is a probability some parts might develop some issues. Same with electricity, when there hvnt been light for a long time, you need to warm the transformers by give short periods of supply intermittently before finally energizing them. They flashed a couple of times. They said they are patroling their lines to endure there is no fault and by monday they will restore

You seems to have an in depth information on this issue. I have used all known channels to get the through picture of things all where giving half info, like I said earlier, people are gradually buying into the idea of living off grid. The more people come into it, the cheaper it will become. Gencos and Discos are on last lap of their monopoly, no one that has an alternative will endure what most of the affected residents are going through.
CodeGenesis thanks for the earlier update, our light has been restored.

AlphaLover:
Oga u are lying


Phedc staff went on strike due to sacking if managers in 3 states .
Their staff av been sabotaging the company since

Phedc is overrun by corruption all their managers especially all those in Rumuodumaya are very corrupt

Another version of the story behind our darkness. The lady I spoke with in their office was sounding so disgruntled that I jejely went to petrol station. What have we not suffered,from contributing for transformer repairs, to replacing vandalised armour cables, to tipping Phed staff to fix our light fault. Our Armour cable theft stopped the moment we decided to be buying new by ourselves from the market as against paying Phed staff to replace and repair.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. This has been the bane of our Government in Africa. Europe was once like this, but they have changed after realising the dangers of entrusting one man with so much powers.

This is one of the reasons I was surprised when Buhari won his first election, is it that we forget so easily, or we were driven by our own selfish ambition?

Go ahead, we are listening.

Chigozie, Chukwu ga gozi gi, biko, come, resign, go back to school, or learn a trade, you will be better off in the 10 years. You are too handsome to be wasted in a senseless war.

Do we need orders before arrest criminals?

Breakfast

husseinaaa:
can you help me please? If I have this machine all my problems is solved.

Sorry I cannot help you.

You just need to sound convincing in writing, stating how much will a sewing machine cost and how you intend to pay back. If you are given a sewing machine now let's say fir 10k, how much will you be remitting monthly? How long will it take you to offset the loan.
Good luck.

seunayantokun:
It's a good decision

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Seriously, considering problem we have had with u underage voting, also electronic voting should also be adopted.

That will be Nice

Government of cart before the horse.

deantimes:
https://todaypoliticsng.com/miyetti-allah-kicks-as-ondo-governor-orders-herdsmen-out-of-forests-within-7-days/

Hmm, the sender and the receiver are not in sync, so what is the true position of the Governor on this?

Obijulius:
No be the same soldiers wey loose a base holding two army sections on Thursday - Marte,Borno State?

As soon as our soldiers cross Kogi state from the North they suddenly become bold.

But heading North they become coward shooting target for Boko boys.

Make i face front sef.

In the name of God, if you know you will not keep it private, invite me for opening prayers.

Thank God the kids are alive.

sapele914:
Zombie what value have you added to Nigeria or yourself? Just to be complaining like a pregnant granny? Go & join the army and defend your country, aren’t your juniors in the Nigerian Army? Mumu. Did the insurgency in Nigeria start under President Buhari in 2015? useless Zombie.

Is that all you can say??

NwaNimo1:
https://guardian.ng/news/jihadists-seize-military-base-in-northeast-nigeria/

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I saw the link. Thanks