LRNZH:
I wonder how GEJites will explain this one.

Insecurity the say it is sabotage.
Oya who sabotaged GEJ on this Power?

Genco and Disco firms have been privatised... The private sector will source for the billions of dollars required for the addition of power capacity.. meanwhile the FG is still building other power plants and will still sell of same for private coys to operate..... There's no short cut... 40, 000 MW will require circa 60 billion dollars to instal and nothing less than 10-15 years even if the cash is readily on ground.. I'm in the industry, talking from experience.

Wittylens:



The issue o power failure didn't start with GEJ Administration. it has been there for long.
Our Past Presidents (Both literates and Illiterates) Were not able to solve this problem.


Next time , Think Before you vomit rubbish all in the name of seeking attention.

Please stop smoking weed it is not good for your thinking faculty. So because the past Govt. failed to fix it the present Govt. that promised to fix it and got our votes should not be held accountable? Most of you behave as if it is only your vote that got GEJ to the seat of the presidency..Delusion Grandeur.

LRNZH:


It is not as bad as she painted it ......heh?
Are you in Nigeria at all?

Pls just shut up. Biko nu.

Oya, ayaff shut up. No vex. But then, y so much anger?

Wittylens:



The issue o power failure didn't start with GEJ Administration. it has been there for long.
Our Past Presidents (Both literates and Illiterates) Were not able to solve this problem.


Next time , Think Before you vomit rubbish all in the name of seeking attention.

is that why it worse than he met it.

If you think the cluelessness of this man motivated Chimamanda to write this article click like!

-CramJones

CramJones, stop being silly!
Your People( Hausa-Falani) have ruled Nigeria for more than 30 Years...nothing to show for it. Constant Power problem didn't start in 1999

ceejayluv:

Genco and Disco firms have been privatised... The private sector will source for the billions of dollars required for the addition of power capacity.. meanwhile the FG is still building other power plants and will still sell of same for private coys to operate..... There's no short cut... 40, 000 MW will require circa 60 billion dollars to instal and nothing less than 10-15 years even if the cash is readily on ground.. I'm in the industry, talking from experience.

60 billion in 10-15yrs? And our 20bilion got missing in matter of days and cannot be found till this day? Keep deceiving yourself except you are Reno Omokri or Doyin Okupe.

Too bad. They've worked on your mind to the point that 3days light is commendable? If only you know how much you family pay as tax

[quote author=AHA1 post=30332845]If you think the cluelessness of this man motivated Chimamanda to write this article click like!

-CramJones

CramJones, stop being silly!
Your People( Hausa-Falani) have ruled Nigeria for more than 30 Years...nothing to show for it. Constant Power problem didn't start in 1999[/quote our problem is not religion or tribe. When it comes to corruption the corrupt pastor/Imam company ltd is in agreement. Wake up

uzolexis:
I always say this, give us steady electricity and see how far our economic potential will go. Nigerians r very industrious pple.

We re Industrious,My Sweetie,Sugar,Pepermint barbie

meforyou1:
Brilliant article. Light in lagos is hell, courtesy of the master forger tinubu.
Where's the light tinubu and fashola promised after stealing billions of naira of tax payers money to build a failed independent power project?
APC is evil. Their members are thieves. Their leaders are certificateless semi iliiterates.

light in delta state is as bad, if not worse. And am sure its the same in all states so quit the hating n learn 2 appreciate good things. Trust me, lagos is definitely better than delta

boriswole:


No sir Lagos has the AES Barge and several IPPs. But your clueless federal government insists that the generated power has to be reinjected into the grid.

Nevertheless Power is the responsibility of the federal Government.

No need to educate him on that...Guess he does not know how power is being distributed..Bayelsa used to have their Gas turbine which they generate their voltage and supply to the whole bayelsa but since the govt ask them to send the generation to the power grid, they now have epileptic power supply....Blaming Fashola for the job of the federal govt how hilarious!

olusolaj:
Ok o.

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answered, Present! I exclaimed, Hmmmm…! All
the student shouted, Absent! I got confused and
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said, Present sir! (I came closer to find out what
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table and made a sound, Ping chung chong! One
boy got up and answered, Present sir! I got
more confused, frustrated, and ran back to
Nigeria!

derailer



buh u funny sha so u are 4given

ITbomb:
To solve years of neglect and decadence is not easy but Goodluck is trying so far

Certainly not in the power sector.

Luvly article. Sure as hell beats the political jagajantis that have been popping up on fp recently

meforyou1:
Brilliant article. Light in lagos is hell, courtesy of the master forger tinubu.
Where's the light tinubu and fashola promised after stealing billions of naira of tax payers money to build a failed independent power project?
APC is evil. Their members are thieves. Their leaders are certificateless semi iliiterates.

you will die of hate,how pathetic ur life is,I wonder if lagos is presided by president there is little fashola can do,and let me tell u please hold ur useless governor responsible and leave our fashola alone

sexyseun:
The worrisome part is that some people will still come to this thread and say they have been having light for the past 5days without it blinking, some will say since last month they didnt take light oooo...
The power sector really need to be revamped, I will surely cast my vote for any of the two president to be willing to give us steady power come feb 14th.
By the way, thats a brilliant article by our very own Chimamanda Adichie... When i grow up, i will like to be like you

The people who say that are simply liars. If the volume of electricity generated and distributed has barely increased, anyone getting 'more' electricity is simply ignoring the fact that someone else is thereby getting less or nothing at all. But then again we know their fake 'transformation' agenda jazz.

#change
#GMB
#APC

sexyseun:
The worrisome part is that some people will still come to this thread and say they have been having light for the past 5days without it blinking, some will say since last month they didnt take light oooo...
The power sector really need to be revamped, I will surely cast my vote for any of the two president to be willing to give us steady power come feb 14th.
By the way, thats a brilliant article by our very own Chimamanda Adichie... When i grow up, i will like to be like you

Believe it or not, we do get electricity for almost 20 hours everyday, on average, in my area. However, just a few streets from us, there's light for barely three hours a day.

Chimammmanda don't know why I love this woman of virtue,her narration is next to none

I can't even blame Jonathan for the country's still epileptic power struggle but I'll call him out for acting like he had a solution to it, which he doesn't have an iota of how to fix.

However it's those Praise Singers I have the MOST pity for with their picturesque rantings of how they enjoy constant power supply.
If hell was on earth, those are the ones clearly in the thick of it gyrating while under unbearable heat and almost constant total darkness.

Accr to Chimamanda Adichie on Lagos'... ... ... .... ..... ...........I love living here,
where Nigeria’s energy and
initiative are concentrated,
where Nigerians bring their
biggest dreams.).....'' I totall agree: Lag na D Baba of Almost everi thing...now wonder if person relocate go Abj,PH or Kad......d inspiration no plenti as him dey 4 Lag.....even though Light No still dey...!!!

Wittylens:



The issue o power failure didn't start with GEJ Administration. it has been there for long.
Our Past Presidents (Both literates and Illiterates) Were not able to solve this problem.


Next time , Think Before you vomit rubbish all in the name of seeking attention.

So because the problem existed before his tenure, he should not solve it? After six years in power?
Do you need to post this at all?

deeptesting:


60 billion in 10-15yrs? And our 20bilion got missing in matter of days and cannot be found till this day? Keep deceiving yourself except you are Reno Omokri or Doyin Okupe.

10-15 years for the design, installation, FID's and MOU's with the various gas suppliers, etc... not to talk of revamping the transmission infrastructure..... This isn't like buying I pass my neighbour Gens... It's Mega.

(Did you just say the alleged billions of dollars got missing in "days"?.. You're clearly not following issues logically)

power sector is a Work-in-progress.Dont be in a haste

Nice article I doff my hat 4 this lady she's such a rare gem!

sexyseun:
The worrisome part is that some people will still come to this thread and say they have been having light for the past 5days without it blinking, some will say since last month they didnt take light oooo...
The power sector really need to be revamped, I will surely cast my vote for any of the two president to be willing to give us steady power come feb 14th.
By the way, thats a brilliant article by our very own Chimamanda Adichie... When i grow up, i will like to be like you

You are still not grown?.

"But if I’m voted into power within the next four years, the issue of power will become a thing of the past. Four years is enough for anyone in power to make significant improvement and if I can’t improve on power within this period, it then means I cannot do anything even if I am there for the next four years.”
Jonathan said this while interacting with Nigerians mainly diplomats working in the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, UNECA, and the African Union, AU, in Addis-Ababa." This was in 2011.

Sijo01:


Certainly not in the power sector.

Most especially in the Power Sector

Successful conclusion of privatization and payment of benefits to workers
Building of transmission backbone abandoned for over 3 decades
Building of dams for small scale electrifications
Completion of major NIPP power plants throughout the country.

If you dont have light, ask you local distributor the problem cos there is power in the transmission.
As for my side, my LGA chairman ensures full cooperation with the Local distribution company and we have fairly stable light

blacknp:
MuMuDey stop showing your ignorance, what does electricity have to do with tinubu and fashola it is on the exclusive list of the federal goverment and if you want to bring in states that have developed their own independent energy lagos comes tops, number one,numero uno, you never hear about the electricity projects oando is carrying out in lagos followed by rivers mention one pdp state that has light,with all the gas in the south south no light for delta state. Not saying there's'electricity in lagos but most parts of nigeria aren't any better but i'd'rather be back in Lagos then been in delta state. Warri no dey carry last.

Guy you should stop. The light in delta, especially in warri, is far better than Lagos. I have people living off Okumagba layout and I speak to them about the light situation.

Nice write up ma'am but you of all people should know that Nigeria's problem is much more than steady power supply.Ask Greece, Brazil and mexico who have 24/7 power supply but the citizenry wallow in hardship.

ceejayluv:

Genco and Disco firms have been privatised... The private sector will source for the billions of dollars required for the addition of power capacity.. meanwhile the FG is still building other power plants and will still sell of same for private coys to operate..... There's no short cut... 40, 000 MW will require circa 60 billion dollars to instal and nothing less than 10-15 years even if the cash is readily on ground.. I'm in the industry, talking from experience.

I do honestly believe that many of us seemingly sane individuals do suffer from traumatic bonding. I call you sane because at least you know something about cost of power, but equally you have a type of bonding that I can best describe as traumatic bonding (this is to avoid the more accurate word 'sentimental' or 'biased' which might suggests something else).

So I will pretend you honestly believe in what you wrote.....hence this response. This is the economics of corruption or the other way round. In economics, privatisation is good, the same way capitalism is good. But when you introduce corruption, it all FAILS. You see, sometimes when I hear GEJ talk i feel he means well, to an extent, but simply do not understand that his best efforts fail because of corruption. When you sell power to capitalist (GEJs friends) at corrupted prices and corrupted contract, they (capitalist) will not necessarily start to invest in power generation. This is because they can simply hold on to the contract and resell in 5-10 years time. Make cool money, and exit. This happens because the contract has been corrupted. The simple clause that mandates capitalist to invest within a time span and provide power has been clouded in smart contract lawyers and the 'easy to bribe government team' ignores the obvious or too incompetent to even know the difference.

This results in privatisation that has been on for years starting end of OBJ throughout GEJ with no single capital investment by the private partners. They are simply holding on. A good example is the GSM sale that required MTN and Econet to set up within a time span of forfeit license. I remember them running up and down to meet deadline. Nothing like that exist again in government contracts due to corruption. I remember 3G license sold to Dangote who had no intention to invest. Dangote simply held on and re-sold it to etisalat (thank God etisalat made use of it). Hope you get my point

FIRST OFF ALL WE NEED STEADY POWER.

abdul01:
I believe that if these 3 things(electricity, roads and security) are fixed then nigeria will be a very great nation.

Let's reason together:

-Are u aware that the noise and flames generated by our generators cause us short life span, this is because we can't sleep comfortably due to this noise, and inadequate sleep causes high blood pressure which in turn causes early death.

- likewise these noise and flames that come out from these gens have a very adverse effect on our health. The night time is supposed to be the time where everything is supposed to be serene and quiet, it's the time u supposed to use to rest and have a deep refreshing sleep, it's d time that u can (also) use to read and do research and do many other productive things, but here in nigeria, (especially lagos), the case is d reverse, this is because we have no light and we are disturbed by d noise and flame of d generators of our neighbours.
The summary of this is that these gens cause us not to sleep well, cause us not to think well(due to d gen noise that's always reverberating and resonating into our brains) and cause us a whole other things too.

-Are u aware that most companies in nigeria including d SMEs spend a fortune of their revenue on generating their electricity by themselves either through heavy weight generators, or through inverters, or even both; this is because relying on d government supplied electricity will affect their business and will damage a lot of d equipments used in these coys, due to d fact that d electricity isn't stable(they're always taking it n bring it). For e.g the company where I work, we use generators through out(we don't use PHCN at all), this is because we can't afford any downtime and we need this steady electricity to power our over 500 PCs, servers and other equipments.
What I'm trying to drive with this point is that if we have good and stable electricity, our economy will improve, there would be much more foreign investments, our SMEs will survive and grow, we (as individuals) will have more incomes, and much more

Hence If we had good electricity this will have a very good effect on our productivity and our economy at large.

Now with the second issue which is good roads:

-Do u know what we loose on a daily basis due to bad roads?
-Our cars get bad quickly mainly because of bad road
-We spend more time on d road due to bad roads, this time could have been utilized to do some more productive and useful things if we had good roads.
Coupled with d fact that we spend more time on d road, we're also fatigued when we get to our destination, hence this reduces our productivity and in turn has a bad effect on our economy.

Let me give u an example:
I ply d apapa-oshodi expressway every mrn, about a month ago b4 d road was partially fixed, we normally spend abt 1 hour or more just between cele bustop and iyana-isolo just because of d bad road aroud d iyana-itire axis, something that isn't supposed to be more than 10 mins drive. Imagine if this road was good, I wouldn't have to leave home abt an hour earlier (I'll use this time for something better), likewise I'll get to work on time and I'll get to work unfatigued, strong and agile.
This is d same thing that happens when I come home in d evening too, I spend an extra hour or more on d road, I get home tired(due to long sitting in d bus) due to bad roads which cause hold ups.

Hence,If we had good roads this will have a very good effect on our productivity and our economy

-Likewise bad roads cause accidents and this lead to loss of lives and loss of human resources.

The 3rd issue is insecurity, the consequences of this are very clear to us all.
-Do u know how many thrillions we loose due to this insecurity and terrorism of a thing?

So my ppl what is d solution to all these problems?

There is a chinese adage that says that knowing d CAUSE of a problem is half d solution to that problem.

The major things I feel are d cause of these 3 points I raised above are corruption and unserious or undetermined leaders. Once we have a leader who has a firm will to serve d ppl, and to uproot d causes of these problems, then these problems will be easily solved.

Just take a look at ppl like sanusi, dora akunyili, ribadu, n co., when these ppl were heads of their respective govt orgs, we could see changes and good results, this is because they had zero tolerance for corruption and mediocrity, and they were focused and firm in what they were doing.

The summary of my msg is that we should vote for ppl who have d strong will to serve d ppl, and who have d strong will to tackle corruption, indiscipline and mediocrity (especially in d govt institutions).

I think she needs to relocate from Lagos, either she relocate to Abuja or Enugu... Cos the difference between these two places and Lagos in her article is crystal clear, its just like comparing sky and earth.