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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by patches689: 4:06am On Jan 07, 2015
agaugust:


You fell into my trap, you lied before that they were purchased by C.A.R.... grin grin

SANDF abandoned them while racing like rabbits to Bangui airport for French army protection grin grin
.

For all you know those Gecko's were the ones we transferred to the CAR forces while training them

And a cheap Gecko is no comparison to the vast ammounts of expensive IFV's, APCs, SPAAG's and tanks Boko Haram have captured from you

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by patches689: 4:07am On Jan 07, 2015
agaugust:


That APC you posted has been rosted by Nigerian army...sorry...you are a loser like Boko Haram, tell SANDF to go destroy their Gecko in Bangui.

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A single Gecko 2000km away in Bangui poses no threat to us

Unlike the vast ammounts of heavy weapons and vehicals BH drives around INSIDE Nigeria

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by patches689: 4:08am On Jan 07, 2015
agaugust:


Prove it, list the bases and the history source that says you held all of them.


Find a single source that says we lost any single base in the border war
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by patches689: 4:09am On Jan 07, 2015
Henry120:


You are a lost cause.

Imagine South-Africa falling into chaos, in the same manner as libya, what would the chaos in South-Africa do to the security of Zimbabwe or mozambique battling a rebellion in their own country?

COIN is new to the Nigerian military, at no point did the military claim it was experienced in COIN, I don't know what you're blabbing on about.

Boko-haram has achieved no progress. Reporting on an attack on a remote base, while scores of insurgents were taken out, is like over-exagerating the importance of a tricycle when same person has a rolls-royce.

Except you fought COIN wars in East Africa under ECOWAS

Boko-Haram has made massive gains during the war and grows more powerfull by the day

All thanks to the incompetance of a military that allows its bases to be overrun and vast ammounts of equipment to be captured

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by patches689: 4:11am On Jan 07, 2015
agaugust:

[size=16pt]
Yet 15 million South Africans get 0 MW of electricity per day...black on black apartheid tonguetongue[/size]
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[size=16pt]60% of Nigerians get no electircity per day... ULTRA black on black apartheid [/size]

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MduZA: 4:42am On Jan 07, 2015
mzilakazi:



MANDELA SAVED THE WHOLE OF NIGERIA FROM MILITARY PRISON AND THABO MBEKI INTRODUCED DEMOCRACY AND HELPED THEM TO DRAUGHT THEIR CONSTITUTION WHICH IS THE COPY OF RSA CONSTITUTION.

even their first democratical elections were monitored by our very own IEC....

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by MduZA: 5:06am On Jan 07, 2015
overhypedsteve:
yea i hyped him up cus y'all believe that if not for him your silly military enthusiast a55 would have been plowing a white mans farm land or working the mines of Kimberly. Mandela sat in prison writing garbage on his prison cell wall and smelling his own pi55 and sh1t, while the foreign ministers of other African countries led by Nigeria were pushing for his freedom and the freedom of the remaining bushmen in south Africa( yea the whites literally called you guys bushmen. The whites who you now call your partners ) while Britain was still debating joining the apartheid movement due to her investments in the Boers controlled mines of south Africa and her desire to stand by the terms of the 1910 act of union ( a unification bill that gave administrative power to the boers, banned the blacks from political participation and alienated them from membership in any political organisation.). The uncelebrated African " partners" were busy placing sanctions and trade restrictions on the apartheid regime.
we led the movement that brought out an already sick and demented mandela out of prison, and it will go down in history that your own mandela came first to Nigeria, the land of the free and proud black men. To register his appreciation. The question being put forward to you and your band of illiterate black south Africans is,
why did mandela visit Nigeria before the other so called " highly committed partner countries" why? Ask yourself, maybe mandela just got his brain damaged from inhaling the smell of his own pi55 and sh1t in prison and was unable to differentiate between his real partners and poor partners? Or maybe the old man was actually right, maybe he knew that the long walk to freedom would not be complete without his nigerian friends. Nelson waved in tears at the nigerian flag, he walked on nigerian soil and based in the nigerian sun. It wasn't a long walk to freedom without Nigeria in it.


Nigerians wish their had played a leading role during our struggle...unfortunately they only played hide and seek via united nations that's why their actual role is not known....we only hear them beating their chest about things done by other African countries particularly Tanzania and zambia...the first African country that Mandela visited after his release was Tanzania followed by Uganda and Zambia...you can deceive yourselves Nigerians but cannot deceive us,we know our history...

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by mzilakazi(m): 5:34am On Jan 07, 2015
agaugust:


Honestly sir, you will make an excellent thief, you lie a lot
.


Shut up and give me the picture of a hornet captured by Seleka.

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by mzilakazi(m): 7:10am On Jan 07, 2015
overhypedsteve:
mumu, mandela was still in prison cursing and begging to be released. years after the African Titan aroused from her colonial slumber. No American or white leader visited him in prison while he ws a jail bird a nigerian leader did. But years later when he got free the prison cell of the abandoned jail bird became a tourist center for white folks to come and pay penance for the injustice they ve caused you guys. Obama even had the mind to visit that prison and confess all sort of motivational jargons.
Nigeria led south Africa not to her independence but to her true freedom. The book a long walk to freedom will never find its way into my library. Unlike other African heroes that fought in the liberation movement, nelson mandela wrote more about his perceived efforts and his personal woes than the efforts of other partners or the woes of other fellow fighters in that book, the book a long walk to freedom is dubious and ill constructed designed to immortalise a single man. Who by some stroke of luck and coincidence found himself in a favourable position with history.


Don't you get tired of telling lies?
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GreenandGold: 7:33am On Jan 07, 2015
agaugust:


LOL, test tube babies are produced in Nigerian hospitals with IVF capability. LOL....clown

You produce "test tube babies" but send athletes blood samples to Pretoria for testing because you don't have the facilities to do so.


You keep getting weirder by the minute
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by DieVluit: 7:35am On Jan 07, 2015
agaugust:

Your list is nothing special, about Nigeria.
Those things you wrote are all normal incidents of war.
They have happened to Germany, America, Russia, Britain, Israel, Ethiopia, Egypt, Japan, China etc in battles, check their war history.
Also, those things happened in World War II, Vietnam war, Korean war, SADF-Cuba Bush war, Middle East war, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Angola, etc.
It was a nice list of nothing special, just normal war occurrence.
In war y.ou kill, y.ou die, you run, you return, you lose land, you capture land, you kick and get kicked. Nobody has monopoly of hitting the enemy and not being hit back by the enemy. Life is not sweet for you alone, the other side too will have their own sweet day.
Battles are many and with different results, what matters most is the end of the war, who wins, who loses.
Southies don't know what war is, they think @THIZA has shown them war with his many photos from Hollywood SA grin grin
.

Name ONE country where ALL of the things happened to the same military and in tandem. Not in isolation but in tandem.


Just one!

You do that and you win the Internet today.

You won't be able to because this is unique to Nigeria. The Nigerian military is definitely and without a doubt, a lost cause.

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by GreenandGold: 7:40am On Jan 07, 2015
agaugust:


Your list is nothing special, about Nigeria.

Those things you wrote are all normal incidents of war.

They have happened to Germany, America, Russia, Britain, Israel, Ethiopia, Egypt, Japan, China etc in battles, check their war history.

Also, those things happened in World War II, Vietnam war, Korean war, SADF-Cuba Bush war, Middle East war, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Iraq, Angola, etc.

It was a nice list of nothing special, just normal war occurrence.

In war y.ou kill, y.ou die, you run, you return, you lose land, you capture land, you kick and get kicked. Nobody has monopoly of hitting the enemy and not being hit back by the enemy. Life is not sweet for you alone, the other side too will have their own sweet day.

Battles are many and with different results, what matters most is the end of the war, who wins, who loses.

Southies don't know what war is, they think @THIZA has shown them war with his many photos from Hollywood SA grin grin

.

Justifying cowardness.... Isreal, Germany and all the countries you counted don't have insurgents running sharia law in their territories.


You're on your own you cowards

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Centrifude(m): 7:57am On Jan 07, 2015
agaugust:



No official proof Ukraine has joint venture with South Africa, where is your official contract source for the info?

You say Nigeria will probably buy Ingwe missile from South Africa, what official procurement source ?

Nigeria has 10 Russian Mi-35 that use cheaper Russian missiles, so why should Nigeria buy more expensive South African missiles for 2 Ukranian Hinds? Nigeria and South Africa already have an arms trade dispute of $15 million, so why should we leave Russia that has offered us $1 Billion credit line for weapons and come to a fraudulent South Africa for missiles?


Back to your foolish allegation, I got the weblink from Beegeagle, but the source/story is Ukranian and your poor South African thinking did not tell you that lap tops have automatic translator to give me the story in English from Ukranian language.

Learn to use language translators when you browse internet http://bmpd.livejournal.com/1121573.html

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First of all you Ret*rded Fraudster those are Algerian Super-Hind being fixed up in a Ukrainian Factory, they match Algerias Latest desert camo, it doesn't match the ones on BeegeagleBlog.

Second, that Livejournal, makes reference and uses A.T.E brochures to describe a plain, plus that Ukrainian firm has showed interest in doing joint ventures with A.T.E

The evidence in favour of this is that the paint scheme seems to match more closely the new Algerian desert pattern for its operations in the south of the country than the new Nigerian scheme (though they're very close), the fact that the aircraft appear to be Super Hind MkIIIs and not SuperHind MkIVs (not least because they lack the Pall EAPS vortex intake filters), because they have the now-discontinued Argos 550 as its FLIR/targeting turret and that Aviakon in Ukraine was awarded a contract to overhaul and upgrade Algeria's Super Hinds a few months ago.

Its Official those Hinds in that Factory are from Algeria, and @agaugust is just blowing hot air up his own a** and spreading lies, always posting false forms or evidence to support more of his lies.



Internet Translators are sh!t everyone knows that, and that's why most people with a brain are seriously questioning the legitimacy of that Article.
1st pic: factory picture
2nd pic: algerian desert camo
3rd pic: nigerian pic

Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by DieVluit: 8:03am On Jan 07, 2015
GreenandGold:


Justifying cowardness.... Isreal, Germany and all the countries you counted don't have insurgents running sharia law in their territories.


You're on your own you cowards

You said it.

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 8:38am On Jan 07, 2015
mzilakazi:



Those are just green lies. We don't want power generated by generators. We want a steady power supply. However, this end it all.

You are producing 4000MW of electricity from your power stations and that's final.



http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.PROD.KH


http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Energy/Electricity/Production


http://www.tsp-data-portal.org/TOP-20-Generation


http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?t=100&v=79


@Henry- you are taking chances young boy. If you want to compete with SA you must tell your government to build powerstations which will take them 100 years to level with SA.

Nigeria Produces more electricity than South-Africa. This is a fact.

It isn't my problem, you're too dull to assimilate this.
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by DieVluit: 8:46am On Jan 07, 2015
Henry120:


Nigeria Produces more electricity than South-Africa. This is a fact.

It isn't my problem, you're too dull to assimilate this.



Dude, can I please laugh at you.


grin grin grin grin


What rubbish.

Ok, now that this is out of the way:

"Fresh on the heels of the REI4P success, South Africa has also gained a stronger position on the international energy scene. The REI4P has propelled the country as a top three investment destination worldwide for renewables, and South Africa has therefore rapidly grown into a key energy partner."

http://allafrica.com/stories/201412050688.html

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 8:48am On Jan 07, 2015
patches689:


Except you fought COIN wars in East Africa under ECOWAS

Boko-Haram has made massive gains during the war and grows more powerfull by the day

All thanks to the incompetance of a military that allows its bases to be overrun and vast ammounts of equipment to be captured

Nigeria did not intervene in somalia in 1993 as Ecomog.

Boko-haram has made no gains in Nigeria. Neither are they growing more powerful. Running over a remote base isn't a sign of power.

Ignoring achievements made by the military on the same day shows the complicity of the media, and the desire of the media to be a mouth-piece for the terrorist group.

The military is powerful, remains powerful, and this insurgency is only another test of the military's strength. Of which it would prevail.

Algeria 1991 - 2015
Nato 13 failed years in afghanistan, now this is an incompetent military.

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by NaijaPikinGidi: 8:49am On Jan 07, 2015
kgr28:


Stop smoking our own shiit, no Africans were allowed in SA then except those who were working in mines. Madibas family were not even allowed to visit him, and also his comrades, now do you think a Nigerian will be allowed?? there was no even Nigerian embassy then. now wtf are you talking about. You didn't lead SA to shyt, if you did something what did southern countries do people who actually did something. and you cant hear them bittching we did this and that.

NIGERIA IS NO WERE IN HISTORY BOOKS FOR HELPING SA, YOU GOT LIED TO BY YOUR BLACK GOV, WHILE THEY KEEP CHOPING YOUR OIL MONEY.

Rapitse Montsho, Chairman: MK Legacy Projects, explained that they were still finding new information and long-lost historical facts from the struggle. “We spoke to our ambassador in Morocco, who told us a story about the preservation of the site where Nelson Mandela received military training. Throughout history, we’ve known that Madiba, along with other ANC leaders, was given shelter in Nigeria and that he’d received his training there, but there you go.”

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http://www.unisa.ac.za/news/index.php/2014/10/unisa-to-help-preserve-umkhonto-wesizwe-legacy/

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 8:50am On Jan 07, 2015
DieVluit:



Dude, can I please laugh at you.


grin grin grin grin


What rubbish.

Ok, now that this is out of the way:

"Fresh on the heels of the REI4P success, South Africa has also gained a stronger position on the international energy scene. The REI4P has propelled the country as a top three investment destination worldwide for renewables, and South Africa has therefore rapidly grown into a key energy partner."

http://allafrica.com/stories/201412050688.html



Go back, read the link I posted. Laughing doesn't distort the fact Nigeria produces more electricity than south-africa.
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by NaijaPikinGidi: 8:54am On Jan 07, 2015
GreenandGold:


Does it change the fact that we have surplus electricity?... load shedding is due to a unit under maintenance.

You live in total darkness, 4000mw doesn't even turn the fridges on.

Surplus and yet you are struggling to keep electricity generation at optimal? Did you even take a look at Eskom news reports for this week? Be bold ... read the reports ... I've done you a favour by providing the links! cool cool cool
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 8:56am On Jan 07, 2015
agaugust:


Are you the same person as ActiveKruger? His nairaland account has a white maniac's photo.

Don't sweat it. They are both the same person, and he's a black boy who likes to play video-games with his friends all week.
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by NaijaPikinGidi: 8:57am On Jan 07, 2015
Centrifude:


First of all you Ret*rded Fraudster those are Algerian Super-Hind being fixed up in a Ukrainian Factory, they match Algerias Latest desert camo, it doesn't match the ones on BeegeagleBlog.

Second, that Livejournal, makes reference and uses A.T.E brochures to describe a plain, plus that Ukrainian firm has showed interest in doing joint ventures with A.T.E

The evidence in favour of this is that the paint scheme seems to match more closely the new Algerian desert pattern for its operations in the south of the country than the new Nigerian scheme (though they're very close), the fact that the aircraft appear to be Super Hind MkIIIs and not SuperHind MkIVs (not least because they lack the Pall EAPS vortex intake filters), because they have the now-discontinued Argos 550 as its FLIR/targeting turret and that Aviakon in Ukraine was awarded a contract to overhaul and upgrade Algeria's Super Hinds a few months ago.

Its Official those Hinds in that Factory are from Algeria, and @agaugust is just blowing hot air up his own a** and spreading lies, always posting false forms or evidence to support more of his lies.



Internet Translators are sh!t everyone knows that, and that's why most people with a brain are seriously questioning the legitimacy of that Article.
1st pic: factory picture
2nd pic: algerian desert camo
3rd pic: nigerian pic

So what is your point?
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by DieVluit: 8:58am On Jan 07, 2015
Henry120:


Go back, read the link I posted. Laughing doesn't distort the fact Nigeria produces more electricity than south-africa.

Henry, your posts on this are the biggest joke of 2015 yet. No further work is needed on this. I am laughing sooooo haaaard!

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 9:09am On Jan 07, 2015
DieVluit:


Henry, your posts on this are the biggest joke of 2015 yet. Not further work is needed on this. I am laughing sooooo haaaard!

There is something really wrong with you.

The Federal government of Nigeria produces 15,000 megawatts of power.

Big manufacturing companies (cement, car, beverages, oil companies, car companies, heavy duty companies, ship building companies, private refineries, et al) produce an additional over 15,000 megawatts of power.

Individual citizens produce between 12- 16,000 megawatts of power.

16,000
15,000
15,000 = 46,000 megawatts.

Nigeria's government's electricity distribution infrastructure can only carry 5,000 megawatts of power. The government's distribution is 4,600 megawatts.


We are talking about power generated in Nigeria. In the true sense, Nigeria generates more power than South-Africa.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/dangote-group-honeywell-others-generate-15-000mw-captive-power/176725/
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by DieVluit: 9:13am On Jan 07, 2015
Henry120:


There is something really wrong with you.

The Federal government of Nigeria produces 15,000 megawatts of power.

Big manufacturing companies (cement, car, beverages, oil companies, car companies, heavy duty companies, ship building companies, private refineries, et al) produce an additional over 15,000 megawatts of power.

Individual citizens produce between 12- 16,000 megawatts of power.

16,000
15,000
15,000 = 46,000 megawatts.

Nigeria's government's electricity distribution infrastructure can only carry 5,000 megawatts of power. The government's distribution is 4,600 megawatts.


We are talking about power generated in Nigeria. In the true sense, Nigeria generates more power than South-Africa.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/dangote-group-honeywell-others-generate-15-000mw-captive-power/176725/

Henry, I have laughed and have moved on.

Trust me, you don't need to post any more jokes.

You've beaten Trevor Noah at this job already. You can stop now. This is the one joke I am happy I read today though. Made my day.

But believe me, not a stitch of further work is needed on this.

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 9:19am On Jan 07, 2015
DieVluit:


Henry, your posts on this are the biggest joke of 2015 yet. Not further work is needed on this. I am laughing sooooo haaaard!


Will Nigeria’s initiatives on electricity work?

08 October 2013, Abuja

The development of a nation from experts’ view is often rated by how much resources it has committed to improve lives and how effective such efforts have been. power outages in the Nigerian environment are no news even in the wake of myriad policies on electricity improvement.

Nigerians have literally continued to wail due to fluctuating electricity supply. government has not been so candid on overhauling the ailing sector. Rather, a shoddy and berserk public power utility system mercilessly sucks the people dry at maximal efforts to get even the barest wattage of electricity supply.

The National Integrated power Project (NIPP) was conceived in 2004 as a fast-track government funded initiative to stabilize Nigeria’s electricity supply with focus on generation. The federal government also incorporated the Niger Delta power Holding Company (NDPHC) in August 2005 as a limited liability company to supervise the NIPPs.

The encomiums this development enjoyed at inception did not last due to political interruption following a change in government administration in 2007.

It was however reawakened two years after and by 2010, contracts were awarded for the execution of 10 medium-sized gas powered generation stations in some states.These plants which are now at various stages of completion include,

1) Geregu phase II in Kogi State which is expected to generate 434 megawatts (MW) electricity;
2) the 513mw Omotosho II plant in Ondo State;
3) Olorunsogo II in Ogun State with 754mw;
4) Ihovbor (Benin) plant with 451mw in Edo State;
5) the Sapele II 508mw in Delta State.
6) Omoku II with 265mw in Rivers State,
7) the 1,131mw Alaoji power plant in Abia State,
Calabar 634mw in Cross River,
9) Gbarain 254mw in Bayelsa,
10) Egbema plant in Imo State with 381mw expectation.

Although one out of the 10 plants was commissioned last Thursday, the final completion stage is slated shortly before the provisional take over by private investors in June 2014. With the commissioning, Geregu phase II became the first of the 10 projects to be completed under the National Integrated power Projects (NIPP) initiative, despite being the last project that was contracted.

Managing Director of NDPHC, Mr James Abiodun Olotu, said contract for Geregu plant was awarded in April 2010 to Siemens Limited consisting three Siemens SGTS-200E gas turbines operating in a simple-cycle mode and with a designed combined site output rating of 434MW. The plant is designed to use the route from the switchyard of the already privatized (Amperion power) 414mw Geregu I route to Benin substation. Geregu II had however acquired an additional route of 330/132kv substations in Lokoja and Gwagwalada with new transmission lines to connect Abuja. Mr Olotu further disclosed that the Omotosho power plant would also be ready for commissioning soon.

At the ceremony, President Goodluck Jonathan commended NDPHC’s efforts in handling Geregu II project despite apparent challenges. He reassured Nigerians of a fast coming era of adequate power supply. He said: “This is part of the great effort of this administration to provide regular electricity to the teeming population of our great country, Nigeria. With the commissioning of other NIPP power plants, we should have close to 5000mw in our generation capacity.”

The NIPPs are not the only interventions in enhancing the nation’s power sector. There are pockets of projects like the recently awarded and ongoing 700mw Zungeru hydroelectric project in Niger State as well as a planned Mambilla hydropower in Taraba State. Other efforts at generating power are in place from Independent power Producers (IPPs), for instance, Geometric power plant in Abia State owned by a former minister of power, Prof. Barth Nnaji.

Challenges at hand
It may be justified that a lot is being done to salvage the nation’s epileptic power supply, the number of these generation plants when completed should help us to get it right this time. But one may ask if low electricity generation capacity has been the only bane to stable power supply in Nigeria.

Proper investigations and survey into power generation, transmission and distribution would reveal quite more than fathomed as there are other posers such as transmission system failures, low and poor personnel, pipeline vandalism and inadequate gas infrastructure.

System failures have accounted for several megawatts loss often times paralyzing business activities in hubs and city centres across the nation. Despite occasional upgrades of transmission infrastructures, incessant cases of system failure keep rising thereby raising concern that the transmission network is either being sabotaged by unseen forces or is too weak to withstand any additional capacity. There is hardly any parallel effort to rehabilitate aging transmission facilities of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) with a lopsided attention given to generation and perhaps, distribution.

President Jonathan while unveiling the power roadmap in August 2010 clearly noted that the transmission network was so weak that, “even with the completion of the extant PHCN and NIPP transmission projects, for which funds have already been provided, the gap between generation capacity and the capacity of the transmission grid is expected to widen considerably over the next three years.” He had also stated a 30% increase in evacuation capacity of 330Kv transmission network to move it from the then 4,500mw capacity. The only visible outcome of that was the added Geregu – Abuja transmission network, yet to be explored.

http://sweetcrudereports.com/2013/10/08/will-nigerias-initiatives-on-electricity-work/
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 9:20am On Jan 07, 2015
DieVluit:


Henry, I have laughed and have moved on.

Trust me, you don't need to post any more jokes.

You've beaten Trevor Noah at this job already. You can stop now. This is the one joke I am happy I read today though. Made my day.

But believe me, not a stitch of further work is needed on this.

Don't worry, you'll learn today. Classes are now in session.
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by DieVluit: 9:21am On Jan 07, 2015
Henry120:

Will Nigeria’s initiatives on electricity work?
08 October 2013, Abuja
The development of a nation from experts’ view is often rated by how much resources it has committed to improve lives and how effective such efforts have been. power outages in the Nigerian environment are no news even in the wake of myriad policies on electricity improvement.
Nigerians have literally continued to wail due to fluctuating electricity supply. government has not been so candid on overhauling the ailing sector. Rather, a shoddy and berserk public power utility system mercilessly sucks the people dry at maximal efforts to get even the barest wattage of electricity supply.
The National Integrated power Project (NIPP) was conceived in 2004 as a fast-track government funded initiative to stabilize Nigeria’s electricity supply with focus on generation. The federal government also incorporated the Niger Delta power Holding Company (NDPHC) in August 2005 as a limited liability company to supervise the NIPPs.
The encomiums this development enjoyed at inception did not last due to political interruption following a change in government administration in 2007.
It was however reawakened two years after and by 2010, contracts were awarded for the execution of 10 medium-sized gas powered generation stations in some states.These plants which are now at various stages of completion include,
1) Geregu phase II in Kogi State which is expected to generate 434 megawatts (MW) electricity;
2) the 513mw Omotosho II plant in Ondo State;
3) Olorunsogo II in Ogun State with 754mw;
4) Ihovbor (Benin) plant with 451mw in Edo State;
5) the Sapele II 508mw in Delta State.
6) Omoku II with 265mw in Rivers State,
7) the 1,131mw Alaoji power plant in Abia State,
Calabar 634mw in Cross River,
9) Gbarain 254mw in Bayelsa,
10) Egbema plant in Imo State with 381mw expectation.
Although one out of the 10 plants was commissioned last Thursday, the final completion stage is slated shortly before the provisional take over by private investors in June 2014. With the commissioning, Geregu phase II became the first of the 10 projects to be completed under the National Integrated power Projects (NIPP) initiative, despite being the last project that was contracted.
Managing Director of NDPHC, Mr James Abiodun Olotu, said contract for Geregu plant was awarded in April 2010 to Siemens Limited consisting three Siemens SGTS-200E gas turbines operating in a simple-cycle mode and with a designed combined site output rating of 434MW. The plant is designed to use the route from the switchyard of the already privatized (Amperion power) 414mw Geregu I route to Benin substation. Geregu II had however acquired an additional route of 330/132kv substations in Lokoja and Gwagwalada with new transmission lines to connect Abuja. Mr Olotu further disclosed that the Omotosho power plant would also be ready for commissioning soon.
At the ceremony, President Goodluck Jonathan commended NDPHC’s efforts in handling Geregu II project despite apparent challenges. He reassured Nigerians of a fast coming era of adequate power supply. He said: “This is part of the great effort of this administration to provide regular electricity to the teeming population of our great country, Nigeria. With the commissioning of other NIPP power plants, we should have close to 5000mw in our generation capacity.”
The NIPPs are not the only interventions in enhancing the nation’s power sector. There are pockets of projects like the recently awarded and ongoing 700mw Zungeru hydroelectric project in Niger State as well as a planned Mambilla hydropower in Taraba State. Other efforts at generating power are in place from Independent power Producers (IPPs), for instance, Geometric power plant in Abia State owned by a former minister of power, Prof. Barth Nnaji.
Challenges at hand
It may be justified that a lot is being done to salvage the nation’s epileptic power supply, the number of these generation plants when completed should help us to get it right this time. But one may ask if low electricity generation capacity has been the only bane to stable power supply in Nigeria.
Proper investigations and survey into power generation, transmission and distribution would reveal quite more than fathomed as there are other posers such as transmission system failures, low and poor personnel, pipeline vandalism and inadequate gas infrastructure.
System failures have accounted for several megawatts loss often times paralyzing business activities in hubs and city centres across the nation. Despite occasional upgrades of transmission infrastructures, incessant cases of system failure keep rising thereby raising concern that the transmission network is either being sabotaged by unseen forces or is too weak to withstand any additional capacity. There is hardly any parallel effort to rehabilitate aging transmission facilities of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) with a lopsided attention given to generation and perhaps, distribution.
President Jonathan while unveiling the power roadmap in August 2010 clearly noted that the transmission network was so weak that, “even with the completion of the extant PHCN and NIPP transmission projects, for which funds have already been provided, the gap between generation capacity and the capacity of the transmission grid is expected to widen considerably over the next three years.” He had also stated a 30% increase in evacuation capacity of 330Kv transmission network to move it from the then 4,500mw capacity. The only visible outcome of that was the added Geregu – Abuja transmission network, yet to be explored.
http://sweetcrudereports.com/2013/10/08/will-nigerias-initiatives-on-electricity-work/

This sentence:

"Nigeria produces more electricity than South Africa"

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Kwaaaaaaks!


Henry, please stop my man. You're hurting my ribs.

If I stood up and recited this sentence in a full hall, I'd get sooo much applause and laughs. I Wanna respect you in the morning, brother. Stop.

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by DieVluit: 9:21am On Jan 07, 2015
Henry120:


Don't worry, you'll learn today. Classes are now in session.

Comedy session, bra.
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 9:27am On Jan 07, 2015
DieVluit:


Henry, I have laughed and have moved on.

Trust me, you don't need to post any more jokes.

You've beaten Trevor Noah at this job already. You can stop now. This is the one joke I am happy I read today though. Made my day.

But believe me, not a stitch of further work is needed on this.
"With only 10,000MW of electricity supplied to Lagos from the national grid at peak, he lamented the insufficient supply profile, explaining that the plight necessitated the IPP scheme initiated by the state government to strategically ease the network.

  He, therefore, urged Lagosians to desist from wastages and conserve energy with October already declared as Energy Conservation Month.

  Tijani noted that about 4,358,000kwh of electricity were wasted in the state yearly, stressing that Lagos required additional 10,000MW to meet the state energy demand."
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/business-news/133714-lagos-to-get-five-
Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by DieVluit: 9:30am On Jan 07, 2015
Henry120:

"With only 10,000MW of electricity supplied to Lagos from the national grid at peak, he lamented the insufficient supply profile, explaining that the plight necessitated the IPP scheme initiated by the state government to strategically ease the network.

  He, therefore, urged Lagosians to desist from wastages and conserve energy with October already declared as Energy Conservation Month.

  Tijani noted that about 4,358,000kwh of electricity were wasted in the state yearly, stressing that Lagos required additional 10,000MW to meet the state energy demand."
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/business-news/133714-lagos-to-get-five-







Here's how you can release yourself from this bondage, bruv.

Just say: "I was joking. All I wanted to do was make africa laugh"

And that you did. Nothing more funny than "nigeria produces more electricity than south africa".

You win the internet today, Henrito. You win it lol

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Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Nobody: 9:33am On Jan 07, 2015
DieVluit:


Comedy session, bra.

Learn.

Nigeria's problem isn't in generation, rather weak distribution infrastructure. The government's generation, individual companies generation and the power generated by individual households put together is more than the power generation of South-Africa.

Whether you accept it or not, facts are facts.

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