₦airaland Forum

helinues:
NBA are talking nonsense

Are police above court orders?

So to you the courts can bar the police from providing security for Amy part of the Federation? Next the courts can also bar the army fr defending any part of Nigeria if invaded?

Love800:
How are your parents using the solar without inveter?

It's possible to use solar without inverter by working directly with DC current supplied by the solar panels, but is almost impossible to use solar for normal domestic use without some sort of battery storage. Solar pumps can be uses directly without inverter or battery though. It's just that you will not have water if the sub refused to come out at all for the whole day.

HenryWilliams:
No.
The meter is owned by the DISCOs, like all other electrical components purchased by communities or individuals..
It's a useless ACT copied from the derelict era of NEPA and PHCN

Then what are you paying the N135k for? Payment for an item should convey ownership or at least partial ownership in the form of a lease.

Morizo:
Get a digital card reader and get a qualified electrician to mount it on the cable directly taking light to your apartment. The card reader will register exactly the amount of units consumed by you accurately.
NB: Don't get the manual card reader which is cheaper cos someone can easily manipulate the figures in your absence. Get the digital one. It's not more than 15k last time I checked

Exactly! Let every tenant install a digital electric reader.

netmillionaires:
So many things need clarification in this country. Another issue bothering me is concerning electricity connection. I built a house for my parent but electricity is yet to get to the area. My parents are staying there and have been managing the small solar installation.

Now while the electric pole is being gradually installed, The community CDA is asking the houses to make payment for the poles and the metal nepa cable that connects the poles before being allowed to connect their houses to the mains. The requested amount from each house is close to #300,000. So I have been wondering who owns the pole and its connecting lines. If it is NEPA, why then do we have to pay that much to connect our house?

Is it not the electricity companies' responsibility to bring their service to the area while the landlords pay for monthly services rendered?

This is pure scam! This issue needs to be litigated all the way to the supreme court. Why ask people to pay for an item and yet claim the item does not belong to you? Is the money paid then a donation?

Brendaniel:
You just proved me right, read your statement again and you will know why the country is the way it is...

Misplaced priority, so your house is on fire, because your child committed an offense you will first flog the child before attending to the fire...

Let me just tell you the implication, both you and your child might end up getting burnt inside the house...


Look at Nigeria today the politicians are looting recklessly and destroying the country like fire instead of EFCC to focus on the bigger problem first they choose to follow smaller issues that the bigger problem even caused in the first place...

Ask yourself this year alone the EFCC has arrested over 3000 yahoo boys and convicted more than 500. Did it improve anything in Nigeria?


Just imagine for a second that it was politicians that they were arresting and convicting this way, you think the country will be the way it is today?

Misplaced priority...

To me it's deliberate priority. Most cars, gadgets, properties and cash collected from Yahoo boys are simply shared by EFCC officials without any accountability. That's the motivation for putting so much time and energy is pursuing yahoo boys than actual financial crimes.
Internet scams should just have a department at the commission manned by IT experts who can hack and monitor scammers. They should have a whistle blowing and complaint section on their site where victims can make complaints and they can commence investigations discreetly. That's how others do it, instead of raiding hostels, night clubs and any location where young men gather.

FireUpNow:
Price of single phase prepaif meter is 135k, you will also pay for KYC and installations. Getting a meter now together with Installations is high. The landlord should purchase the meter or if the tenant does, calculate total expenses then make agreement with oga landlord for you to use it as rent.

After paying the N135k, is the meter legally yours?

Zico5:
So majority of u guys on Nairaland are yahoo boys. Why can't those u are defending attack the politicians and steak from them. No wonder, very few of u guys upright. So because politicians are stealing money, we should allow yahoo boys to have field days on innocent people.

What do you mean majority of u guys on Nairaland? I have teenage children that have never been involved in Internet fraud. I knock it into their skulls how much I abhor fraud not to talk of internet fraud.
Having said that, EFCC spends disproportionate amount of time and energy pursuing internet fraud while leaving the main duty to which they were created to do by the OBJ administration. Everyday, we hear yahoo boys being caught, displayed and prosecuted (most cases we don't hear anything after they are displayed), meanwhile, we have not heard or seen one politician, oil thief, subsidy thief, banker, etc and other actual economic saboteurs caught, displayed and prosecuted for over a decade now.

Mynd44:
Why will you take it from the rent when you can buy your own meter, register it in your name and it becomes yours so that when you leave, you can take it with you?

@OP, there is no way to calculate how much you power you use at this point, your best bet is to go get your own meter and register it in your name. This becomes yours and you can replicate it if/when you move out. You don't even need the landlords permission for this

This is one issue that has been bothering my mind for a few months now. Who actually owns the meter - The distribution companies, the landlord or the tenant? This question can to my mind when the meter of one of my neighbour got burnt. Ikeja disco came and evacuated the meter and gave my neighbour two options - Buy a new meter at N150k or be put on estimated billing, which is about 80k a month. The landlord says he was not the one using the meter when it got burnt and so not responsible for replacing it. My neighbour asked that if he pays for the meter will he be allowed to take it if he moves to another location? Ikeja disco says no, that the meter is their property. If the meter is their property, when why collected money from customers?
NERC needs to clarify this meter issue.

panpan:
It is obvious that the main reason that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was created is to arrest "yahoo boys" to please the United States government.

The way EFCC is going about it, you will think that it's only Nigerians that Participated in Internet scams. There are far more effective ways of detecting Internet scams that is if the Nigerian government and EFCC are actually interested in fighting Internet scams in this age of AI and machine learning. But the Nigerian government is only interested in doing eye service to the west and EFCC is only interested in sharing yahoo boys money asserts seized.

Zico5:
If these boys have dealt with u before, you won't have mercy on them. One of my friends will never forget their escapade as they cleared his 2.5 millions using sportybet pseudo. Omo the guy nearly committed suicide. The money he has been saved for almost 2 years.

Is it comparable to the ones the bigger boys aka politicians and their cronies have dealt with us all including you? The amount of money you pay for their own scams runs into millions for each one of us. That is not even putting into consideration the billions of dollars that have been borrowed to be stolen but to be repaid by your grand children.
EFCC should just be renamed Yahoo boys Crime commission.

basilico:
You are now using race. So Mitchell Obama is gorgeous. I don't think so
You thinkn I said so because of race. I find blacks drop dead gorgeous but not Mitchell. I could drop some famous names we all know ... Halle Berry sits somewhere on top of my
You turned to race.
Media never featured Melania at all of which I'm sure you know why.
How many degrees Bill Gates got? Or Zuckerberg.

Harry Berry, a Mulatto with Caucasian features is your typical idea of a gorgeous black woman? Your problem is more serious than I thought.
I wonder why you did not name Kamala Harris or Magan Merkel also as your idea of gorgeous black women.

basilico:
If Mitchell Obama was as good looking as her, there would be a shortage of glossy papers worldwide spurned by her coverage appearances on magazines such as Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan etc

So to you Mitchell Obama was not as good looking as Melania Trump? Why is that? What is your criteria for beauty? Let me guess - Skin colour and other racial features like hair colour, nose, lips, hips, etc.?

The fact that Michelle Obama was one of the most educated US first lady in US history and Melania was one of the least educated does not count, all that matters to magas is skin colour.

ObaIgwe1:
So in your eyes, a Married man that slept with a IndecentStar, who also claimed he was grabbing women by the pussy, a convicted felon and a confirmed fraudster is better or same with a woman who when single dated a man who was formally separated from his wife? Right?

You like packing them together, don't ya?

They asked a thief why did you steal your neighbor's goat, he said ennn I also caught the Prince stealing water from the river... All na stealing abi?

The extent to which Trump's Maga cultist members will twist whataboutism to ridiculous levels is legendary. Imagine comparing a person liable for rape, accuses by over 24 women of rape/sexual abuse, lied about sleeping raw with a porn star while his wife was pregnant, and actually admitted to grabbing women by their genitals (consent ot not), with a single woman who had a relationship a man that had been legally separated from his wife for over 10 years, had no other scandal in her political career.

techbro1:
Impressive. Next thing we need is a good charging network/infrastructure that can accommodate those that choose to do long road trips in their electric cars

Which power will support the charging network/infrastructure you are talking about? On top of the measly 5,000Mw of electricity NEPA is struggling to distribute?
Each electric vehicle would require at least 60Kwh to fully charge. Now imagine having just 100,000 electric cars requiring charging everyday.

12345baba:
no worry chinese people go supply us with enough power bank for cars

How will you charge the powerbanks? NEPA or Generator?

jmoore:
It can serve for short distance.

That's why we are saying the 5 days is misleading. He should have simply stated the distance covered on a single charge.

jmoore:
5 days is nothing.

How many kilometers was covered should be the point.

5 days ko, 5 years ni. It is a matter of how many kilometers the car can run on a full charge before requiring recharge.

The man said that a full charge will carry him 350km to Lagos. From onitsha to Lagos is over 450km. Then to charge the vehicle from empty to full charge will take 6 hours. Who will wait 6 hours to fill your car with current?
Where are the charging stations in case you run out of charge away from home?
Before we can start using electric vehicles, charging stations needs to be built in strategic locations.

press9jatv:
yes soo. It’s a great initiative to covert petroleum cars to electric cars 🚘 . It’s a big breakthrough

So what energy source will you use to charge the electric cars - NEPA or generator?

Successlane:
Yes, but still very, very active in manipulating the economy

How?
He had never received any contract from any government since he left office.

He was forced to take up defense minister portfolio under Obasanjo first term. He refused to up the appointment until he was forced to. Obasanjo insisted that he would not appoint anyone else for the post.

The only business he involved himself in since he left office was the oil business. He even has oil assets in 4 other African countries including Benin Republic.

slimfit1:
That is the poor training you left behind sir.

Someone that retired from the military 45 years ago left poor training behind that resulted in insecurity today?

basilico:
I've beaten tha dog already. The Haitians are voodoo people . They offer animal sacrifices

Haitians are now voodoo people just because your cult master label them Dog and cat eaters? So anyone the cult leader point at automatically becomes hated by the MAGA cult.

DeepSight:
A king who does not know Joseph! Indeed!

It seems you have been quoting the bible more frequently of recent. I also saw you tell someone that flesh and bllod did not reveal the non-profitability of refineries to him.

Have you been on the road to Damsacus recently and did someone accost you on the way?

I love biblical quotes, devoid of its myths and exaggerations, it's a treasure throve of literary artistry.

lithiumnigeria:
You must be very smart, running financial models of these processes is what I do for a living. Infact, revealing these tips is a disservice, you can’t resist the urge attimes.

Wow that's interesting. Abeg can you help me in running the financial model for I business I want to embark upon. Its got to do with selling of solar energy products particularly for commercial and industrial markets, given we are in dire energy crisis right now.
I will be willing to get in contact with you.

I noticed your username has lithium in it, so I guess you are in the solar energy industry.

DeepSight:
He is not a stupid businessman, this we know. So he must know what we do not know.

Obviously, he is not a stupid businessman. Dangote is one person I admire and respect a lot, he is a patriotic Nigerians and takes huge business risks. Its just that in this refinery business, he miscalculated. He believed he will alway get government backing and patronage, not realising that a king might come to power that does not know Joseph.

lithiumnigeria:
Dangote to open gas stations?
Refineries in the world need about 3 Months down payment to have liquidity so they can do forward payment for crude.
Dangote will only open gas stations when all Nigerian vehicle users can pay their 3 months petrol demand to his station, how possible is that?
I don’t think if there is any marketer other than NNPCL capable of that. He needs NNPCL more than NNPCL needs him.
Refineries are globally a low margin business. I don’t know who corrupted our brains that it’s a highly profitable venture.
Lols, majority of Nigerians think downstream business is tomato business.

Flesh and blood did not reveal thus secret to you but the holy spirit. Refinery business around the world is not a profitable business, unless of course you secure a source of cheap crude, either by stealing or other underhand tactics.
Why dangote decided to pump in billion of dollars into the refinery business instead of other more profitable and less volatile business is a mystery to me.

Blitzking:
Dangote should sell at least 50percent below landing cost. Any other thing is rubbbish

Is the government selling crude to Dangote at 50% below international price?
Dangote that NNPC refused to sell crude to and had to resort to importing from Brazil at international price is the one you want to sell petrol to you at 50% landing cost?

Diligence:
QED

The real Indigenes just CONFIRMED that there is a DISTINCT DIFFERENCE between a Yoruba & a Lagosian!

Lagos Colony doesn't believe it should necessarily be under SouthWest.

One can then deduce that, Many, not all, Yorubas from Southwest hv really bitten more than they can ever chew in Lagos Colony

The irony is that if the country should revert back to the regions, the real lagosians would prefer to be an independent territory instead of being subsumed under the wider Yoruba tribe. It was Gowon that merged Lagos colony with the wider Lagos from the western region in 1967.

Ogunboylag:
I’m from Lagos and all Yorubas are home
ibo you are not welcome

What of Yorubas from other countries, ie Togo, Benin, Cuba and Brazil, are they also free to come and own Lagos?

Elliotwaveforec:
If you aren't satisfied with the bill, fuckkkkk yourself out of Lagos

So you have no answer but juvenile tantrums? I am certain you are an immigrant from one of the neighbouring states claiming Lagos. No original lagosian many of whom I grew up with talk so foolishly.

Smartcitizen:
You talk as if Lagos belongs to you, Lagos is NO MAN'S LAND, and that's why every Nigerian should lay claim on it.

The Yorubas may be controlling the political power in LAGOS and Igbos the economic power, then the north the security, it doesn't make anyone the owner of LAGOS.

Where was all those idiots claiming Lagos when Lagos was being built with our oil money?

Nonsense.

You people are the ones causing all the problems in Lagos with your outlandish and stupid egocentric claims. Igbos do not control the economic power of lagos. With his refinery in lagos Dangote alone controls more economic power in lagos than all igbos. Lagos was already an economic powerhouse before igbos started migrating to lagos enmass after the end of the civil war.
How are the north controlling security in Lagos? Except you mean it's maiguards that are controlling the security of Lagos.

Elliotwaveforec:
Good! All markets in the state must be under Iyaloja; if you don't like it, relocate.

Please explain how this iyaoloja system would help improve the economy of Lagos and your own life?