A lot of people says Nigeria is a rich country, I beg to disagree. Nigeria is potentially a rich country I will say.

Even if you are rich and you don't have good managers of resources, as they say the fool and his money are soon parted.

In terms of natural and most importantly human resouces Nigeria is a well endowed country. You will agree with me without being harnesed properly we are no different from those that don't have, infact we may be worst off because we will get angry and depressed because we know we have resources and not been put into good use.

Today, in the UK shell has just announced £14Billion /$28 Billion profits for this year and after tax they will have net income of £12B and $24B money. The reason why I highlight this figure is that it is the equivalent of our budget for the year being made by one company albeit an international company.

So how rich are we ?

First , like I said earlier we are well endowed but not Rich.

My reason , Our 'leaders' are intellectually bankrupt, suffering from poverty of ideas whilst the people are suffering poverty of lacks as a result.

What is the reason for this? i argued that it is not just corruption as others might like us to see or believe but LACK OF WILLPOWER AND VISION.

what do you think? I will let other aired their opinions so we can all learn and see how to change the dynamics

Like our leaders, you ourself are suffering for poverty of ideas. That's why you
are here to abuse them instead of initiating something within your capacity.

Seun:

Like our leaders, you ourself are suffering for poverty of ideas. That's why you
are here to abuse them instead of initiating something within your capacity.

With respect Seun , i think you are so wrong as i am not suffering from poverty of ideas like our leaders.

You have just abuse me without saying what you think or why we are like where we are after 47years. I clearly stated in my previous post to give others the opportunity to air their views before i jump in with my ideas. if you think I am abisuing our leaders let them come and defend themselves after all these years.

As I said that our leaders are suffering from poverty of ideas and quite frankly lack of willpower and vision. anybody who can't see that definitely has a very serious problem. Vison and motivation is even more important than the provison of things as you can motivate people to do things.

I can tell you how to run Nigeria to be more productive in an orderly way. But our so called selected leaders don't want that to happen because they have fear for their own selfish interest, and by the way, they give to the ordinary section of the country what they ask for, patronage!

So what is within my capacity I am doing, and by the way what is within your capacity is to provide the a platform to which we can all discuss this issues but that is not to say that we fold our arms and not let them know that they are not doing well.

Part of what I will like to do i can't because of the lack of enabling enviroment. fisrt there is no adequate power supply to site industry, and your idea of everybody using generator is very deficient because costs of production will go up and the ordinary people will be unable to buy or spend too much money on a particular products.

Government role is to provide enabling enviroment especially when they are receiving huge income from natural resources like oil. They did not provide adequately for the Niger Delta people.

To give you more insight on how bad is every succedding government. 1 road was built from Lagos-Ibadan over 30 years ago and it is in shit now and they are talking about 2020 vision. complete joke.

Go and see my contribuion on power. it can be simpler than that.

We need 50,000M at 65MW per each local government ( of 774 local govt)at costs of $50billion costing each local goverment N82Billion naira or $65Million dollars.

Do I look or sound like someone without ideas or how to implement them. and i can provide you where the monies can come from, so is the other areas like transport etc.

I have solid ideas, i am not in govrnment neither do I want to be but I am saying things can be done better 1000 times, you and all other well mening Nigerians know it, should we settle for less?

I will leave all others to answer that and other questions.

vigasimple:



Go and see my contribuion on power. it can be simpler than that.

We need 50,000M at 65MW per each local government ( of 774 local govt)at costs of $50billion costing each local goverment N82Billion naira or $65Million dollars.

Do I look or sound like someone without ideas or how to implement them. and i can provide you where the monies can come from, so is the other areas like transport etc.
I have solid ideas, i am not in govrnment neither do I want to be but I am saying things can be done better 1000 times, you and all other well mening Nigerians know it, should we settle for less?

I will leave all others to answer that and other questions.

Your solution for power has just shown how clueless you are on how to solve power problems in Nigeria.
1. We do not need 50,000 MW in Nigeria now, May be 10-15,000 MW and gradual increase of 5,000 MW every other year
2. If you will spend $50b for generation, how much would you spend for transmission and distribution?

Easy to criticize, generalize and think you have the best idea in the world!

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vigasimple:

Go and see my contribuion on power. it can be simpler than that.

We need 50,000M at 65MW per each local government ( of 774 local govt)at costs of $50billion costing each local goverment N82Billion naira or $65Million dollars.

Over and over again I have made it clear that your analysis or complete agreement with what you saw on inyang's site is fundamentally flawed but you have turned a deaf ear and have continued to quote this meaningless number.

Thank God that someone else has pointed out the same thing.

We often assume we have the right answers to every single problem but we forget that we must first try to understand the basics and honestly and objectively begin to make suggestions that are easy to implement.

Before one can get a handle on our energy requirement in Nigeria energy efficiency and energy conservation must be taken serious as it does not make sense to claim that I need 10MW of electricity due to the appliances I currently use now when the need could crash to say 3 or 4MW if I used energy efficient appliances which will be cheaper and easier to generate than the 10MW.