Even if I'm the richest man in Nigeria tomorrow. Nothing will stop me from getting Canada or USA visa.

LordFaraday:
He was never part of the problem. During his time as the minister of power there was increase in power supply and it was felt by everyone.but the evil system won't allow him stay for so long. Evil cabals that needs to be eliminated in this country.

You can say that again! He was the only me minister of power that really tried in terms of electricity supply! Don't get me started on Mr. Rocket Science and Minister of Darkness sha!

GboyegaD:
Truth is that we are not ready to fix the electricity issues.

Actually, government is not ready nor have the political will to solve the issue by reversing the privatization done in 2014 and doing a reprivatization due to the fear of coups from influence from the owners of the assets SMH.

To me Nnaji was probably the best power minister we ever had in this country . He had a lot brilliant ideas and we made some progress in the power sector when he was the minister. Nevertheless, I believe self-interest was his undoing. The powers that be did not like the way he was allowing his company to bid for contracts. You know that's against the rule of global best practice. The powers that be were afraid that he might use his influence as power minister to favour his company and Nnaji seemed ready to quit anyway

LordFaraday:
He was never part of the problem. During his time as the minister of power there was increase in power supply and it was felt by everyone.but the evil system won't allow him stay for so long. Evil cabals that needs to be eliminated in this country.

ryd3:
Barth was the best minister for power we've ever had

You can say that again bro!

Excuses Excuses Excuses Enough of this silly talking points ..With all the money the politicians and leaders have stolen over the years it could have fixed the problems years ago ....Nigeria has to really decide if it wants to continue in this mediocrity called a nation!! Nigerians have really not had enough of this nonsense yet ...When that arab spring comes i will pity these failures called politicians stealing money from the nigerian coffers as if these b*****ds earned .......Enough Excuses !!

philipobiz:

He is wrong. The few period he was minister. Within 7months there was overwhelming improvement. He resigned honorably before the cabal could lay their hands on him and soil his achievement. It took just a month fir the next minister to take us back to darkness

So true!

Laggafin:
All we need is a Leader in the mold of Stalin and Kim Jon un to Wipe off Corrupt elements and within a day this electric power mystery in Nigeria will be solved

That is the truth

penceman:
This barth man is one of the criminals that truncated the power sector! Barth nnaji was the man president jonathan placed as the custodian of power sector development only for this man to abandon his regulatory role to become a partaker in the biding process. His stupidity didnt open his eyes to the fact that without a straight channel generation the ones who want to distribute will only distribute tin air to consumers, which is now our reality.
the refinaries waste and flare away gas daily yet power company is forever short in gas. God help us

You know nothing about power, so all what you have uttered here are nonsensical

bjdon:


The only solution to the power problem is the total privatisation of the sector. We have seen this in the telecom sector, and soon in the oil and gas sector, when Dangote Refinery comes online. Govt should have role on the productive sector of the economy, other than regulation.

The power sector was privatized, you forget that the reason telecom worked is because competent hands were brought in, not cronies, dangote refinery won't work because its based on cronies, not competence just like the power sector.

There is only one reason why Nigerians don't have electricity. It's because Nigerians don't pay bills.

Finish.

Nigeria is a disgrace.


Na only Nigeria rain go start to shower and NEPA go take light for 3days.

When people with brain talk you ll know. Intelligence lacks in this administration.
Even a layman will follow you with this description. When things were going well.

sammhi:

Telecoms were sold to foreign investors who had enough capital and were able to meet up with setting up infrastructure needed.
The Nigerian businessmwn on seeing the amount of money made by MTN and others did not want the power sector sold foreigners as was done to Telecoms . So overnight ,all sorts of people became power giants , bidded and won because they are connected ..They expect to start reaping money immidiately without injecting the needed capital into it. Since these business men / politicians are cronies of the FG in power , they begin to use the power failure to loot the nation wealth .
Now that the nation is in debt and can't afford to sustain the cash flow , the problem became obvious .
In summary , Power sector was sold to politicians and business men who had little or no experience in power management. It was a paddy paddy thing . FG was at background backroling the expenses because they don't have the capital . Now that the FG is broke , the chicken is home to roost .
Don't let anyone deceive you . If OBJ/GEJ had sold power to Siemens , GE etc , we won't have these issues .Power may not be 100% but we will have move many miles ahead .

Actually, it was GEJ then who sold those power assets to his cronies as a sort of compensation then as he possibly felt the mood then in the country was to unseat his government which he was right about. That mistake then in 2014 that has refused to be corrected by the current scared, clueless and brainless one due to the fear of coups is why the issue continues to persist!

SadiqBabaSani:
A part of the problem is speaking

Nnaji still remains the best power minister we hv ever had

The government knows exactly how to solve the problems, but no, they won't..

sammhi:

Telecoms were sold to foreign investors who had enough capital and were able to meet up with setting up infrastructure needed.
The Nigerian businessmwn on seeing the amount of money made by MTN and others did not want the power sector sold foreigners as was done to Telecoms . So overnight ,all sorts of people became power giants , bidded and won because they are connected ..They expect to start reaping money immidiately without injecting the needed capital into it. Since these business men / politicians are cronies of the FG in power , they begin to use the power failure to loot the nation wealth .
Now that the nation is in debt and can't afford to sustain the cash flow , the problem became obvious .
In summary , Power sector was sold to politicians and business men who had little or no experience in power management. It was a paddy paddy thing . FG was at background backroling the expenses because they don't have the capital . Now that the FG is broke , the chicken is home to roost .
Don't let anyone deceive you . If OBJ/GEJ had sold power to Siemens , GE etc , we won't have these issues .Power may not be 100% but we will have move many miles ahead .

You were right though that the cronies of the government then who got the power assets had no experience in the sector. It was also the reason, Manitoba Hydro after being schemed out of the generation plants' assets despite having the experience and was given a useless TCN, opted out altogether!

ukahrawah:


Not surprised you'd say that. Your people that held onto every sector yet, completely deficient are the solution.

Prof Nnaji is not your mate. Parasites.

You can say that again bro! The rocket science government even made what they met worse! SMH. Only in Nigeria! Only in Nigeria!

basty:
The best power minister Nigeria ever had.

+1

quentin06:


The power sector was privatized, you forget that the reason telecom worked is because competent hands were brought in, not cronies, dangote refinery won't work because its based on cronies, not competence just like the power sector.

You can say that again!

Trait of a failure. He was ex power minister without meaningful contributions

SadiqBabaSani:
A part of the problem is speaking

He's not part of the problem. He was already trying to solve the power issue when the Jonathan govt and the cabals kicked him out.

EcoBrick:

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/03/electricity-crisis-three-reasons-nigeria-is-in-darkness-barth-nnaji-former-power-minister

Hypocrite everywhere. When this Barth Nannies was the Minister of Power, what did he do? He doesn’t need a spokesperson but let him tell us and provide verifiable evidence. That’s the question the so called journalist should have asked him instead of this envelope collecting journalist that we have in Nigeria

No doubt these are the main problems. How to go about solving them? . My take is decentralization. Each State and each city should be responsible for its electricity supply. Generation.... supply and distribution should be privatized but regulated by the State/City. Any breach of contract must have penalties... and they must be enforced. The problem is the people in charge.... how much money was given to the private companies... by the FG.... yet the FG is accepting excuses for failure to produce. The country needs a dictator.... a Rollins to weed out the corrupt decision makers and throw them in prison with the common criminals. It is only by fear or force we will.see change.

Mumusaphire:
But they still bring their outrageous bill

They will force, threaten and blackmail you to pay...
If not so... I told a district manager we have no light and that made it difficult to people in the house to pay their bills, he vehemently told me, if that is the case, he will totally disconnect us so that both of us will have rest of mind. Who does that in this hot weather. Kia, wickedness at the highest order.

SadiqBabaSani:
A part of the problem is speaking

Example of how he is a part of the problem?

As nepa failed, get this powerbank contact me on my siggy and thank me later

Solution

Decentralize power , let’s states or regions generate and transmit the power and create employment and wealth while doing so.

If power generation is localized then I think most of this problems would've been solved.

SadiqBabaSani:
A part of the problem is speaking

You just get up and spew nonsense from your burukutu addled brain