BlueRayDick:


I saw a friend's status yesterday night lamenting how he paid he got 20.6 units after recharging 5k on his prepaid . Imagine , how many days that one wan take last ?

That means with 20k he will only get less than 83 units . Imagine what that will do to businesses ....

Later people will be asking why is the dollar rate going down and price of commodities not coming down. A barber's operating cost will increase , a welder's operating cost will increase , those selling cold drinks will have an increase in their operating cost, even the woman that grinds pepper u eat at home will have to Jack up her price to pay electricity bill and breakeven.

When Tinubu said "Let the poor breath ", I think that statement was a sarcasm. Tinubu probably believes vast majority of Nigerians are rich or maybe living above average . That's the only explanation for this continued strangling hold on the people's throat with all these anti-people policies

izzou:


They already have a generating set.

Is there any hotel, bank, mall, that Disco is providing power 24/7?

Let them channel their 40 million into their standby generator, than paying Disco, and still budgeting for that same generator.

BlueRayDick:


Okay fair point. I was thinking generally about people that don't have the generators before now.

But even if they disconnect from Discos and opt to rely on generating set 24/7, I don't think their generator will work round the clock. They may have to get a second generator as backup. Also the cost of fueling may not reach 40m but it will certainly go higher than the current N14m

Ellexy:
It's just like for one good move, another policy is wholly undoing the good move and it's back to square one.

This scatter gun approach this administration is doing with their policies is strangling the productivity of the private sector. If you don't want to help the masses, why not create a conducive climate for businesses to thrive, rather you're dishing out policies that are counter productive.

izzou:


Which for me, is obviously better than dashing these people 40 million.

Tomorrow, grid will collapse for 4 days, and they will leave you in complete darkness, yet your estimated billing is like constant K

BlueRayDick:


I get, but u see that guy in his tweet is lamenting because nobody is prepared for that sudden jump in their expense.

BlueRayDick:


Most companies like MTN, Nigerian breweries, Nestle, Cadbury declared losses for the 2023 financial year due to exchange rate wahala and fuel subsidy removal.

Now imagine what this electricity tariff increment will do to their production costs this year again. I can't imagine how much companies like Nestle, Cocacola, Seven-up , etc will be paying for electricity at their plants

izzou:


With the inadequate power we generate currently, let them give each household prepaid meters, and let me see which Disco will declare profit in 6 months.

It is the Estimated billing customers that they plan to chop anyhow with this nonsense.

Suddenly, almost all Nigerian household dey enjoy 20 hours a day.

Na Nigerians fck up. We suppose collect that prepaid from the start.

izzou:


Some of these big factories have ditched Discos a long time ago sef.

They know that these guys are just ripping them off

Most companies in Agbara Industrial estate depend on Gas from a Shell facility there.

larride:


Of course, na those wey dey use Estimated billing go feel ham pass. I can assure you.

BlueRayDick:


Then that makes sense, just that even gas now is expensive but at least it is better than the darkness the discos want to continue selling at high price.

Independent Power plant would've been more beneficial to them, but those stuff are very very expensive considering the exchange rate now and when it's up u will be paying serious money to keep ur engineers motivated to work.

Omo! But now with this tariff rate, fight go dey happen between families on rationing units o. Imagine make wife commot house forget to switch some power source while the husband is looking at how they will ration 83 units @ 20k for the whole month.

chic2pimp:




Diggz baba longest time o. IB is fine o. She is currently taking an extended break from all things Nairaland.

BlueRayDick:


Those ones would just stop paying bill and face bribing IKEDC officials fully.

When u give someone in a 2 bedroom like N60k bill what do u think he will do? If he pays N20k out of it , dem go still cut him light cos he still have N40k unpaid. But if he bribes IKEDC with less than N10k nobody will cut his light for the month.

That will go on and on ;and Discos will still come online to continue to groan that they are not making profit.

izzou:


IPP are the way to go, but when you look at Nigeria, you will know the country is already a weapon fashioned against prosperity.

In all of these energy challenges, the Ministry should be looking at how to generate green energy. China and India have generated Gigawatts from the Sun. Why isnt it possible?

Yes, Solar is expensive, but the raw materials are here. Why not we find a way to produce these things here, and it becomes cheaper for us to use, without the burden of FX?

Instead, state governments will be giving Chinese the licence to mine lithium here for peanuts. Those ones will carry the lithium to China, design batteries with it, and come and sell it to us in USD.

larride:


The Discos know what they are doing. That's why I'm blaming Adelabu. The Discos have been wanting to increase tariff since 2yrs ago ir so that Buhari refused only for Adelabu to get there, within months darkness everywhere and we started hearing Discos increase in tariff bla bla bla.

Even till now, the light is still epileptic. That werey must not be Oyo Governor

izzou:


IPP are the way to go, but when you look at Nigeria, you will know the country is already a weapon fashioned against prosperity.

In all of these energy challenges, the Ministry should be looking at how to generate green energy. China and India have generated Gigawatts from the Sun. Why isnt it possible?

Yes, Solar is expensive, but the raw materials are here. Why not we find a way to produce these things here, and it becomes cheaper for us to use, without the burden of FX?

Instead, state governments will be giving Chinese the licence to mine lithium here for peanuts. Those ones will carry the lithium to China, design batteries with it, and come and sell it to us in USD.

larride:


The Discos know what they are doing. That's why I'm blaming Adelabu. The Discos have been wanting to increase tariff since 2yrs ago ir so that Buhari refused only for Adelabu to get there, within months darkness everywhere and we started hearing Discos increase in tariff bla bla bla.

Even till now, the light is still epileptic. That werey must not be Oyo Governor

BlueRayDick:


That's why I've always maintained we have leadership issues in this country; the entire one year I spent in the north made me realize that.

The sun in the north is so harsh, but less than a week over there it got me thinking : "why are we not tapping into solar to power houses and factories in the north?"

When I got to my PPA, I was surprised to see a full ICT center that was constructed by the Federal government which is powered by Solar. Like if there's no NEPA light for 3 days , some of us corpers literally relocate to the ICT center to spend our days there while we only go to our lodge to eat only to return there.

Then I was like, if this thing is actually possible , then why do we have the north on the national grid? Like rain might fall for as much as 275 days out of 365 days in a year. Why is the federal government and the state governments not figure out a way to gradually take this people off the national grid by investing in Solar energy over time. Why does everyone has to rely on the hydro electric?

Why is the FG not thinking of how the gas deposits in the Niger Delta can be used to generate power for Niger Delta states? Why is FG only pumping into NDDC money that will be looted by their appointees?

Like why do we have simple and obvious answers looking at us in the eye and we just choose to ignore them?

BlueRayDick:


Then that makes sense, just that even gas now is expensive but at least it is better than the darkness the discos want to continue selling at high price.

Independent Power plant would've been more beneficial to them, but those stuff are very very expensive considering the exchange rate now and when it's up u will be paying serious money to keep ur engineers motivated to work.

Omo! But now with this tariff rate, fight go dey happen between families on rationing units o. Imagine make wife commot house forget to switch some power source while the husband is looking at how they will ration 83 units @ 20k for the whole month.

BlueRayDick:


More like Adelabu was the man they've been waiting for. I sincerely hope he will be one of the first ministers Tinubu would sack

OasisX:


......power supply has turned to peculiar mess under his watch. Hopefully, he is gonna be replaced with El-Rufai, who was actually Tinubu's first choice for the Ministry.

A001:

Where did I tell you that chi is god? Is everything okay with you?

And which silly assignment? Ignorance is your problem. Deep ignorance.

You don't know the origin of those Igbo words and you don't know you don't know. I'm not here to engage in silly arguments.

As I said before, whether it's Chukwu, Olorun, or any other gods of any culture/religion, they were all past humans (the first beings that claimed the title of Supreme God in the Old Worlds in their respective cultures).

When you've enough intelligence to differentiate between Olorun, Chukwu/Chineke, Yahweh, and Allah, you'd understand this simple fact.

For now, you can keep regarding all of them as the same. This is simply due to low IQ.

larride:


That man dey vex me.

Minister of darkness pro max

iamoyindamola:

Exactly because it was so smooth no hold up you should experience it
Na speed galore

ouzo1:
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Spy360:

Shege was initially programmed for Obidients alone.

BATists never saw this coming.

APC propagandist will soon come up with...

Real Renewed Hope 2031

TemporaryHansel:


20k for a whole month? In a way the light is kinda cheap. I use 7k fuel every night. If you can give me light for that same hours for 50k a month I'll dive at the it.

No matter how you look at it, nepa light is still cheaper than running generators.

izzou:


I was speaking with a guy that works in the port last month

He told me that if i see what the Chinese are doing in Northern Nigeria, I will weep

He said most of these "Bandits diplaces Villagers" story we read is not the true news. What the Chinese do is that they go to a village, settle whoever needs to be settled, then pay Bandits to chase the villagers away.

Immediately that is done, they swoop in to mine lithium.

And that is how billions in USD of our resources are carted away.

See the one that happened in Oyo. If not for the blast, wetin for happen?

liveLongNprospa:


Just drove through it.
I nor even know when I dey do 140km/hr..

Hmm

BlueRayDick:


Funny thing is if u decide to blow whistle, DSS will use questioning choke u without taking further action.

Even the OYO state matter, nothing is being said again. The victims have moved on and everybody just acted as if never happen . So many people homeless, cars damaged and some people missing.

Omo! This country scares me most times.

Spy360:

Shege was initially programmed for Obidients alone.

BATists never saw this coming.

APC propagandist will soon come up with...

Real Renewed Hope 2031