we hope it will work as planned.

SLIDE waxie: .........even a secondary school students builds solar powers these days.....

Can't we just use our heads?

That, my brother/sister is the million dollar question. Judging by the antecedents, 'clearly not' is the unpalatable answer. It is just another display of idiocy by the Federal Goverment of the Giant disgrace of Africa(ns).

@dollarjunkie, you missed the point entirely but we won't give up on you yet.

SLIDE waxie: Another avenue to embezzle. We all knw how the china saga ended.

And very funny, even a secondary school students builds solar powers these days.

Can't we just use our heads?

Since you are not in primary school, use your head and build us solar panels.

As a sericulture farmer, I would have preferred if they signed a pact to stop Indians from bringing silk into Nigeria to encourage the few people involved in the biz or even sign a deal with their textile factories over there to buy reeled silk from us. Well, ce'est La vie!

dem neva finish hydro electricity. .na solar. . .make dis one no turn to anoda wild goose chase. . .thatz all

What are we supposed to achieve with solar energy? Serious countries only use solar energy and gas as support, their main sources of electricity is coal, hydro or nuclear. If building more dams is not feasible, we should embrace coal no all these projects that don't generate up to 100MW of electricity.

The problem is not "generation of power" to add it to the National grid, its the distribution...

SLIDE waxie: Another avenue to embezzle. We all knw how the china saga ended.

And very funny, even a secondary school students builds solar powers these days.

Can't we just use our heads?

Abi oooo
They will soon have something to impose on us or hold us to rAmson and want to move their investments out of Nigeria

If dem like mk dem sign wt white house, until dey remove their clothes of corruption and work as expected na stl d same old story

Segadem:
India is rated the worst country in term of electricity.
So, how can you convince me that you will build a successful solar power in my country while yours is questionable?

them worst pass Nigeria?

Interestingly, it is rare to find an
Indian with an English name or dressed in suit.

This is a white lie, except you live in rural india, Indians wear more western outfits than nigerians, and they also embraced their smoking and the health care though far better than nigeria's still has a lot of loopholes

As a country that has more than 2million Engineers both registered and not. We are still looking for another country to construct Solar Energy for us to generate electricity, either for back up or for main source.SHAME!! Firstly, Gej travelled to China for Economic assistance, Minister of Aviation was trying to handover the maintenance of all our Airport to a Chinese firm, Niger bridge was won by a German firm, all our refinenary cannot meet up on our daily consumtion. But my quesions go like these, (1) when are we going to praticalize what we learnt? (2) when are we going to depend on ourself (3) when are we going to compete with the country likes, India, Malasia, Brazil and SA. Chinese proverb let me understand that" If you want to plan for a year,plant rice. If you want to plan for ten years plan fruit trees, but if you want to plan for hundred years plant Men. What are we planting? Corruption, political thuggry, Jang vs Ameachi.

the improvement on power we are enjoyin was the effort of late Yaradua(may Allah forgive him). the only development dat GEJ kip bringin is d high cost of electricity bill. lets wait n see wia dis will end too.

huseinhad: the improvement on power we are enjoyin was the effort of late Yaradua(may Allah forgive him). the only development dat GEJ kip bringin is d high cost of electricity bill. lets wait n see wia dis will end too.

Though off subject, Yar Adua needs to be forgiven by Nigerians, for holding the nation hostage for over 90 days while abroad in Arabia. He could have revolutionized the country's medical system, since his mets with similar problems do that in other countries.

Anyway, India India India. Funny that India does not ask any Nigerian company to come and provide anything for them, but from Dana to now this, they just dey chop our money left right center.

Gej I dey ur back cos I can't bliv flexin 24 hour constant light in my area....thumbs up for u....

Senseless white elephant project. With billions of cubic feets of gas flared annually, untapped coal roting away in the east, numerous rivers overflowing their banks and causing flooding annully, it is with solar panels that they want to use to supply public electricity. Do these people have brains at all. Mind you, I support solar energy as domestic and municipal source of back up electric supply, but the installation and maintenance cost of large solar installations and also the huge costs of storing solar energy and converting the DC produced to AC before feeding it into the national grid make it senseless in an energy rich country like Nigeria

okpara ugo: Right step in the right direction. If it materialises.

Oga following the Oga @ the toppest.

You sure him go implement ham.

Lolzz,anoda xcuse 2 tif''hop e go rish our house??

Thank God...I hope all dis come to reality...God bless the FRNigeria.

exxell: The biggest country in Africa that the United
Kingdom colonised is Nigeria. The biggest
country that the United Kingdom colonised in
Asia is India (which then comprised the pres
ent Pakistan and Bangladesh). When the UK came into Nigeria and India, like
all other countries they colonised, they brought
along their technology, religion (Christianity),
and culture: names, dressing, food, and
language, among others. Try as hard as the
British did, India rejected the British religion, names, dressing, food, and even language, but
they did not reject the British technology.
Today, 80.5 per cent of Indians are Hindus;
13.4 per cent Muslims; 2.3 per cent Christians;
1.9 per cent Sikhs; 0.8 per cent Buddhists,
among others. Hindi is the official language of the government of India, but English is used
extensively in business and administration and
has the status of a “subsidiary official
language.” Interestingly, it is rare to find an
Indian with an English name or dressed in suit. On the other hand, Nigeria embraced, to a large
extent, the British religion, British culture –
names, dressing, foods, and language – but,
ironically, rejected the British technology. The
difference between the Nigerian and the Indian
experiences is that while India is proud of its heritage, Nigeria takes little pride in its own
heritage, a situation that has affected the
nationalism of Nigerians and our development
as a nation. Before the advent of Christianity, the Arabs had
brought Islam into Nigeria through the North.
Islam also wiped away much of the culture of
Northern Nigeria. Today, the North has only
Sharia courts but no Customary courts. So from
the North to the South of Nigeria, the Western World and the Eastern World have shaped our
lives to be like theirs and we have lost much or
all of our identity. Long after the Whites and Arabs left Nigeria,
Nigeria has waxed strong in religion to the
extent that Nigerians now set up branches of
their home-grown churches in Europe, the
Americas, Asia and other African countries. Just
like the Whites brought the gospel to us, Nigerians now take the gospel back to the
Whites. In Islam, we are also very vibrant to
the extent that if there is a blasphemous
comment against Islam in Denmark or the US,
even if there is no violent reaction in Saudi
Arabia, the Islamic headquarters of the world, there will be loss of lives and destruction of
property in Nigeria. If the United Arab Emirates,
a country with 75 per cent Muslims, is erecting
the tallest building in the world and encouraging
the world to come and invest in its territory by
providing a friendly environment, Boko Haram ensures that the economy of the North (and by
extension that of Nigeria) is crippled with bombs
and bullets unless every Nigerian converts to
Boko Haram’s brand of Islam. We are indeed a
very religious people. Meanwhile, as we are building the biggest
churches and mosques, the Indians, South
Africans, Chinese, Europeans and Americans
have taken over our key markets: telecoms,
satellite TV, multinationals, banking, oil and gas,
automobile, aviation, and hospitality industries among others. Ironically, despite our exploits in religion, we are
a people with little godliness, a people without
scruples. It is rare to do business with a
Nigerian pastor, deacon, knight, elder, brother,
sister, imam, mullah, mallam, alhaji or alhaja
without the person laying landmines of bribes and deception on your path. We call it PR,
facilitation fee, processing fee, transport money,
financial engineering, deal, or whatever. But if it
does not change hands, no show. And when it
is amassed, we say it is “God’s blessings.” Some
people assume that sleaze is a problem of public functionaries, but the private sector seems to
be worse than the public sector these days. One would have assumed that the more
churches and mosques that spring up in every
nook and cranny of Nigeria, the higher the
morals in our society. But it is not so. The
situation is that the more religious we get, the
baser we become. Our land never knew the type of bloodshed experienced from religious
extremists, political desperadoes, ritual killers,
armed robbers, kidnappers, internet scammers,
university cultists, and lynch mobs. Life has
become so cheap and brutish that everyday
seems to be a bonanza. We import petrol even when we have crude oil
in abundance. We also import rice and beans
that our land can produce in abundance. We
even import toothpicks that primary school
children can produce with little or no effort. Yet,
we drive the best of cars and live in the best of edifices, visit the best places in the world for
holidays and use the most expensive electronic
and telecoms gadgets. It is now a sign of
poverty for a Nigerian to ride a saloon car. Four-
wheel drive vehicles are the in thing. Even
government officials, who were known to use only Peugeot products as official cars as a sign
of modesty, have upgraded to Toyota Prado as
official vehicle without any iota of shame, in a
country where about 70 per cent live below
poverty line. Private jets have become as
common as cars. A nation that imports toothpicks and pins flaunts wealth and wallows
in ostentation at a time its children are trooping
to Ghana, South Africa and the UK for
university education and its sick people are
running to India for treatment. India produces automobile and exports it to the
world. India’s medical care is second to none,
with even Americans and Europeans travelling
to the country for medical treatment. India has
joined the nuclear powers nations. India has
launched a successful mission to the moon. Yet bicycles and tricycles are common sights in
India. But in Nigeria, only the wretched of the
earth ride bicycles. I have intentionally chosen to compare Nigeria
with India rather than China, South Korea,
Brazil, Malaysia, or Singapore, because of the
similarities between India and Nigeria. But
these countries were not as promising as
Nigeria at the time of our independence. Some would say that our undoing is our size:
the 2012 United Nations estimate puts Nigeria’s
population at 166,000 million, while India has a
population of 1.2 billion. Some would blame it
on the multiplicity of ethnic groups: we have
250 ethnic groups, India has more than 2,000. Some would hang it on the diversity in religion:
we have two major religions — Christianity and
Islam; but India has many. Some would say it
is because we are young as an independent
nation: we have 52 years of independence;
India has 65 years. Apartheid ended in South Africa only in 1994. I am a Christian, and nothing can change me
from Christianity. But I think that our country
is daily sinking into religiosity to the detriment
of godliness. Our land is sick and needs healing.
“If my people who are called by my name will
humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I
will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin
and heal their land” is still a saying that is
germane to our current situation. We need
more godliness than religion; more work and
less of hope; and more action and less of words. Let everyone tidy up his or her corner first and
demand fervently that our leaders tidy their
areas of governance. Our nation is degenerating
at a fast pace and we need to save it now or it
may be too late. via PUNCH ====================== http://www.punchng.com/opinion/nigeria-
exports-religion-india-exports-cars/

Nice speech and write up. But Nigerians are a set of truly happy people. Although we have our religious diversity sometimes, Islams or Christians are not the real cause of these problems. We are just pawns for evil and ritualistic politicians who have decided to used that as a basis for change. We have been living peacfully as islams and christains over d decades and never had any issues of war. Infact there was a time wen we prayed together fro achievements of certain economic goals. It is just recently that politicians use this avenue as a means for causing war. d truth is WE KNOW THAT IT IS NEITHER THE CHRISTIANS OR MUSLIMS WHO ARE BOMBING AND KILLING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE, BUT WE KNOW THAT THEY ARE POLITICAL THUGS. some muslims or christains may fall victim to being used as pawns dosent mean der is a war between islam & Christianity. That is exactly what the politicians want and by even writing this, you re giving them what they want.

i dont even know who is the stupider of the two. Nigerians or indians. Wait are we now so useless dat we are turning to india for power supply?

Nice step up.

na everytime dem dey sign deal....with foreign countries and we aint getting aany in returns

Am tired of hearing Nigeria has signed this and that on media!!! While don't we have Nigeria has done this or that. Hope this our hope is hopeful.

[color=#006600][/color] solar with fuel subsidies whc 1 beta pass?

Mexyz: Mr swizzy,don't u think calling your father retardeen is disrepectful? Its high time u nd ur likes on nl grow up nd leave ur toddler stage.....wiawia

when your father budgets 1.4 billion just to eat while his children are hungry, t'he father will deserve every insults he gets! Hissssssssssss

Dollarjunkie:
Actually, most of us are making good use of our brain. But I can see you're not making use of yours by saying the above. So you can actually give such a contract to secondary school students?
Oh!!! We give up!

The guy was right about you. Your reasoning is too low since you could not comprehend the simple message he passed.

His point was very clear and people with brains know that he is indrecting asking for more confidence on solar energy provider within Nigeria instead of throwing our money away to foreigner as usual to provide something as basic as solar power. No surprise that we have a retardeen "leader", he was voted by buch of retardeens like you.