Cheeringly, Fashola referred to this suggestion in his interview and admitted that it was a plausible option. But he dismissed it on the basis of pricing. I was surprised! The minister trashed a suggestion that could pull Nigeria literally out of the dark because the cost of trucking gas to the local power plants would have to be added to the eventual price. Are consumers not already paying a high price directly through our diesel/petrol-guzzling generators, poor economy and indirectly through noise pollution, air pollution, and the opportunity cost of the generators’ space and loss of productivity? Has the minister carefully compared the total cost of using generators for electricity to the option of gas delivered in trucks to local power plants? Trucking of gas could also be an option to gas pipelines which are always being vandalised. Already, Nigerians have started switching from petrol and diesel to gas as the fuel for their household generators. This is quite instructive on the issue of pricing.

I am not aware that Nigerians do not want to pay the right price for electricity. They only want electricity that is available and stable. They want pre-paid meters. They detest estimated bills. In any case, why are we carrying a moribund and inefficient national grid which does not and cannot supply stable electricity to anybody? The national grid is sick and old. It collapsed four times in four weeks (March 31, April 9, April 23, and April 25, 2016). It is not right for the whole country to be affected because of a collapse somewhere along the national grid.

In the lengthy interview, entitled, “Electricity: The price Nigerians must pay, by Fashola”, the minister talked about a myriad of power issues covering pricing, regulation, power purchase agreements, power generation alternatives, and other matters. The interview provided more explanations than specific promises or firm deadlines and offered more shield for the tardy power sector players than succour for the tired electricity consumers. I almost could not believe that it was the same minister who in October 2014 reportedly boasted that it was not rocket science to produce electricity.

Fashola needs to realise that Nigerians have largely lost faith in the government’s ability to positively impact their lives and the recently renewed expectations of change, following the 2015 presidential election, are waning by the day. If the approach to the power sector problems remains the same, the people would totally lose confidence in the government and the already traumatised economy may roll over the cliff.

We must urgently address the problem of electricity cuts through unconventional means. One of those means is to localise generation, transmission, and distribution. The idea is to dissolve the national grid system and let cities and towns stand alone. Luckily, there are ready, mobile power plants each of which can generate power of up to 35 megawatts in about 11 days after delivery. The plant would be powered by diesel or gas transported in trucks. A city like Ibadan or Benin may not need more than three of this type of plant. The city in question would then be removed and freed from the ineptitude of the national grid.

It has become boring to bemoan the paltry electricity which Nigeria generates. It is also trite to state that, more than 55 years after independence, we still depend on imported generators for electricity.

It grieves the heart that the power situation in the country has impaired development. It is sad to consider that electricity generation for Nigeria, with her about 180 million people and a GDP of about $537 billion, oscillates between a high of 4,800 megawatts in August 2015 and a low of zero megawatt in March 2016. It is still dismal as of the time of writing.

It is not a laughing matter when one considers that South Africa, with a population of about 53 million and a GDP of $350 billion, generates 44,000 megawatts. Spain has a GDP of $1.4tn and generates 102,000 megawatts of electricity for her 47 million people. It is not an exaggeration to say that trying to salvage the Nigerian economy without fixing the power sector is like attempting to make a silk purse out of a pig’s ear.

The foregoing is sufficient to convince any serious-minded government to declare a state of emergency, or something more drastic, in the power sector. With the economy lying prostrate and the attendant job cuts, there is every reason to be in a hurry. But, sadly, this was not the tone of the April 24, 2016 newspaper interview of the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola.

I read this article sometime ago and it's still relevant

https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/punchng.com/fashola-nigerias-power-problem/amp/

TMemos:
This post was made almost a month ago.

It has not been pushed to where many people can see and debate it. And hope that it may be useful in the selection process which will be useful for all Nigerians.

Na wa o

Unfortunately, you're so right.

Mace0lane:
There is nothing to debate about all the foolish things you proposed. Buhari did something to ensure his re-election n will continue as he please hoping to improve on that.

How you pathetic lot are shameless to the extent you dare propose changes to someone you never wished success is beyond all human comprehension. I ask you will you take advice from your staunch enemy like many Igbos attested to be with Buhari when you can not determine the validity of such suggestions ?!

Will any average Igbo take advice from Buhari ? If not where do foolish Igbo get the effrontery to make such sickening proposal to Buhari ?

SMH!

Let me let you know: all your assumptions about me are wrong.


Thanks for the insults.

Lalasticlala

This is a very important message for front page.

This post was made almost a month ago.

It has not been pushed to where many people can see and debate it. And hope that it may be useful in the selection process which will be useful for all Nigerians.

Na wa o

Printerscanner:
Go and hold positions in Biafran Republic. Positions in Nigeria are for Nigerians

We're not fighting for positions with you. Don't mind those giving the false impression that Igbos want any position.

You're the loser here. Because even without fighting for any position with you, we are richer than you. Even our gatemen are richer than your bank MDs.

IgboAmaka

aribitoye:
Jesus died on a Wednesday and rose on Saturday evening. 3days, 3 nights. Like the previous poster rightly said, there were 2 Sabbaths during Jesus crucifixion. Please try to read the Bible between lines with understanding. The widely accepted Friday to Sunday morning doctrine is false!

Friday to Sunday morning is false?

I'm happy you're admitting this.

But what's the authority supporting it? What's the proof?

MXrep:

We rejected buhari since 2003. All this noise don't move us. We made our decision long ago. Please enjoy your buhari alone

We're saying the same thing. I agree with you.

They should enjoy him and Nigeria alone. We don't need any of them

Have you forgotten that Igbos don't need any position including the presidency?

Every Igbo man is a millionaire. Young and old. Even the hawkers in Lagos are all millionaires. Even the Igbo truck pushers and Okada riders are all millionaires.

Why should Igbos be interested in President, VP or Senate President, or Speaker of the House of Reps? For example, all the Igbo newspaper vendors in Surulere and puffpuff sellers in Lekki Agungi plus Okota axis are all multi millionaires.

Igbos own 85% of Lagos and are responsible for 90% of Lagos revenue. Igbos own 90% of Abuja and 87% of Port Harcourt as well as 70% of Kano plus 75% of Ibadan.

Igbos own over 85% of all the blue chip and medium scale companies in Nigeria. The south east is the most developed part of the entire Africa. All their villages already have a good network of roads, water and electricity.

What else do Igbos want? Haba!

#IgboAmaka

MuttleyLaff:
It is literal, literal as they come, just that the first day and first night was a Thursday, then Jesus resurrected on Sunday morning

Your head honcho Satan, wouldnt dare to talk about Jesus the way you've done

Are you changing Good Friday to Good Thursday? On which authority are you relying on to do this?

Let's even calculate it even if it was a Thursday:

Thursday night to Friday morning: 1 night
Friday full day: 1 day
Friday night to Saturday morning: 1 night
Saturday full day: 1day
Saturday night to Sunday morning: 1 night

Total: 3 nights, 2 days


You wanna try Good Wednesday?

TVSA:


what of this?


Matthew 12:40 KJV
For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.


Friday afternoon to Sunday morning isn't up to three days and three nights

Exactly

MuttleyLaff:
He spent three days and three nights as prophesied.

Conscious literalism things.

Were the 3 days and 3 nights spent by Jonah not literal?

How did you arrive at 3 days and 3 nights from Friday evening to Sunday morning? Eh? Break it down.

Friday night to Saturday morning: 1 night

Saturday full day: 1 day

Saturday night to Sunday morning: 1 night

Total: 2nights, 1day

There is a big question hanging on crucifixion.

Jesus said he was going to spend 3 days and 3 nights in the heart of the earth just as Jonah spent 3 days and 3 nights in the belly of the fish.

Jesus was crucified on Friday. He was said to have risen on Sunday. This cannot be up to 3 days and 3 nights. The prophecy was not fulfilled and this is a big doubt on crucifixion and the entire Christian faith.

He spent two nights and a day!

Bella55555:
all I'm trying to say is that AIT did nothing this is just politics being played either you are APC or you are the villain

You don't have a proof of this assertion. And it's not fair or good for the country.

Do you know that, as we speak, a part of Abuja office of CBN is being demolished because of road construction?

Let's not see everything in terms of politics. It's not healthy.

Bella55555:
what did AIT do to them

You should be the one telling us.

You must have seen something before describing the act as wickedness.

It is that thing you saw you should simply prove or demonstrate.

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“Yes, it’s an AIT property but the good thing is, it's not an operational building, so its demolition will not affect the core of what AIT does”.


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Journalists can cause disaffection and war with their manner of reporting.

Just compare the details of the demolition with the headline.

Bella55555:
This is share wickedness APC hmmmn

Explain. How is it wickedness?

RTSC:

I know you are afflicted with selective amnesia.
I would advise you to go back to other past threads when innoson was arrested, and how clowns like you from the south west insulted the entire igboland calling us fraudsters.

Just recently after the Supreme Court judgement favouring innoson, Yorubas everywhere on nairaland,twitter, claimed innoson want to take over a Yoruba bank.

How dare he?

You people are hypocritical slobs. Innoson does not need the likes of you to excel.

We are killing innoson because we are defending him from a shark.?
Imagine the audacity of these Yoruba clowns.

You've made too many wrong assumptions about me that I'm beginning to doubt your sanity. You made wrong assumptions about what I said in the past and my ethnic group.

It doesn't seem like you're okay. I only gave an advice. If you don't agree with it, why not give your own view or just waka pass? Why must you display your hate and stupidity?

I repeat, you guys will turn Innoson into a pariah with this attitude. Is it the only company which has obtained a supreme court judgement against a bank? Is this the first garnishee judgement in Nigeria?

RTSC:

GTB has lobbied tinubu to Lobby the federal authorities.

I hope the FG has the sense to stay out of it but I don't have the hope.

Innoson is as vital as GTB if not more in the long run.

There is nothing innoson has done that dangote has not done with federal support to get to where he is.

You guys are killing Innoson without knowing.

The conduct of the company and the tribalistic comments will work against the company's access to credit. Of course, credit is very vital to a growing company like Innoson.

Go and write it down, Innoson will regret this whole mob approach to this issue.

There was a company, located in the South West, which took banks for granted in a similar way. The company regretted it.

He fights like a lion

IamD18:

Imagine! She no even fine! All the way from Uniport, she went to Federal University of Tramadol Owerri to fvck 3 foolish guys to death.

Kai! This lady is not just a wayward hoe, but a sexual hero.

The earlier guys realize that pussay is sexually stronger than preeeeeq, the better for them.

Your primary goal and aim during sex is to achieve orgasm, not to form Jackie Chan on top person daughter.

Kpekus wey pikin head dey fit pass, na em you think say you fit destroy with preeeq?

Call me five seconds man.....I AGREE!
I'm not man enough......I AGREE!
I have small preeeq....I AGREE!
I'm not a real man....I AGREE!
I don't last.....I AGREE!

The most IMPORTANT thing is that I reached orgasm, and the most IMPORTANTER is that I'm ALIVE.

I cannot come and kill myself in the hands of this generation ladies that can't even jog for 5mins, but be wanting their father's agemate to last for hours on them.

If orgasm dey hungry you, go buy tubers of yam use dey give yourself orgasm.

Anytime I see you, I owe you a carton of Heineken

Confusion.

They want a man to provide for them like in the days of old.

Yet they want to be part of the man's decision making unlike in the days of old.

They want feminist rights unlike in the days of old.

They want monogamy unlike in the days of old.

Choose one nah.

Na real confusion for these women o

You claim to be equal to men.

Yet you want him to spend on you.
From courtship to bride price to marriage.

Na real confusion.


Some of these ladies, even after spending on them, won't even change ordinary bedsheet or wash a single plate.

Na confusion.

You want a man to share chores with you, to show love.

But you don't want to share expenses with him, to show love.

Na real confusion

iAudio:
And this is "breaking" abi?

Yes. The breaking of the tank

Why are their taps not running?

Why queue up to fetch water in a university? What kind of backwardness is this?

Martinez39:
YOUR FAULT
Lazy man, you are in the house all day doing nothing and you expect your girlfriend, after a long day at work, to wash the dishes and tidy the house. Lazy man.

HER FAULT
She shouldn't have been insultive or rude. There was no need for that. It shows she is a nasty person. She should have spoken gently to you that she needed you to assist in the chores.

I did not insult him

flyingdutchman:


Ah ah! Madam, are you out of the hospital? Hehehe! *brings out bench*

Just imagine. How can an abled bodied man bring his girlfriend's matter to nairaland?

I didn't throw any plate at him o

You're not a man.

So you ran to nairaland after raising your hand against me and beating me to stupor?

I will show this thread to all your friends you've been hiding your predicament from.

Let me also tell you. You can't kick me out of the house. The rent was paid in my name. The tenancy agreement is in my name. The landlord knows you as my visitor and squatter. The landlord even asked me why I brought in someone else to the house.