EVarn:
but he was talking about generating 160 000MW with $3.2trillion,or cant you read?

The current capacity is 4,500 megawatts.
“The cost of providing electricity per megawatt on average is $2billion. To get to where South Africa is, you will need about $3.2trillion (about N672trillion). Where will you find that kind of money?” he asked.



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Once again, "where South Africa is" could NEVER mean 160 000 MW. Never.

MaVluit their electricity production stands at 2500MW for 180 million pitch black subs....thats lesser than Medupi whose capacity stands at 4800MW. Wow one RSA power station produces more electricity than whole Nigeria

The same can be said about KUSILE POWER STATION....4800MW...The GENERATOR REPUBLIC is fvcked beyond repairs as Woolworths said. ; MAJUBA,TUTUKA POWER STATION etc.. also top the whole Nigeria...

Note:RSA supplies electricity to the whole of SADC...we have over 15000 Gigawatts that we just give away to the less fortunate. Ubuntu 101 helping our neighbours.

dieantwordRSA:
MaVluit their electricity production stands at 2500MW for 180 million pitch black subs....thats lesser than Medupi whose capacity stands at 4800MW. Wow one RSA power stands produces more electricity than while Nigeria

Disgusting

Iterator24
THOSE PROJECTIONS YOU KEEP SHOWING AREN'T MENTIONING THE FACT THAT YOUR OIL AND GAS RESERVES ARE DECLINING AND ITS ALSO NOT MENTIONING "NEW DISCOVERIES IN OTHER COUNTRIES" AND RECENT OIL CRISIS. Save us the PROJECTION NONSENSE, we have seen projections that claimed SA's population would be 34 million in 2010 due to AIDS. Note: these projections were done using % of that time.

Another example is recent OIL AND GAS DIECOVERIES in East and Southern Africa(Namibia,RSA,Mozambique,Tanzania,Madagascar) will harm Nigeria. Note: Nigeria depends on foreign investment to achieve what was shown on the projections...Meaning Nigeria needs to attract investment, unfortunately you guys are getting any new investors.
Bad news US is not longer buying your oil...most western oil firms are pulling out of Nigeria due to new oil and gas discoveries in more stable countries.

Again your GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION you're located on the corner of Africa, unlike SA is located on the bottom of AFRICA and can serve both WEST/EUROPE/US and EAST/ASIA.
Again most ASIAN oil and gas investors will chose east Africa than west Africa for obvious reasons.
Those who have seen projections know that by now Ivory Coast would have been up there...

mzilakazi:



Dream on, I hope God answers your prayers. BRICS will still stand firm above MINT even in the year 3000.

Your views are merely advanced by the right groups who are merely scared of the leftist growing power which seems to thrive despite all the challenges. Their only hope is now only on MINT to challenge BRICS and neutralise them from deleting G8 out of the league of being seen as important. Their fear is China.

there are far better ways at trolling.

Its a known fact that Nigeria has only 25 years left for their oil and gas reserves. By 2040 ya'll will be pulling with 1st gear
The questions that Nigerians should be asking themselves is how will Nigeria cope with OVERPOPULATION AND DRIED OUT OIL AND GAS RESERVES... Qatar,UAE etc..know oil and gas isn't forever hence they have invested in tourism and other things. Their oil reserves are declining everyday..

EVarn:
to get to where SA is?,by the way,where is SA?,you are generating barely 40 000MW of power,our minister was mentioning 160 000MW of power!,so do the mathematics,hasnt that surpassed you?,is 40 000MW bigger than 160 000MW?

Chief!! your power grid is 4000 MW and you are fortunately used to load shedding. You can't keep power for 24 hrs a day.

SA is not used to even spending an hour without electricity, that's why when eskom takes power for merely 4hours it makes world news headlines.

mzilakazi:


Chief!! your power grid is 4000 MW and you are fortunately used to load shedding. You can't keep power for 24 hrs a day.

SA is not used to even spending an hour without electricity, that's why when eskom takes power for merely 4hours it makes world news headlines.

there are already cases of uninterrupted power supply in abuja.some villages and towns in the FCT recently celebrated a year of uninterrupted power suppy.so what are you saying?

@Iterator24
If u were to do a projection in 2009, you would have missed this info below. What am trying to say PROJECTIONS only use current figures to base their calculations and do not show future discoveries like Oil and gas or mineral wealth. Back in the day Zimbabwe were projected to be among the top 5 in Africa, then they were the fod basket f Southern Africa and look at our brothers now. Am not player hating on my Zim cousins but wanna show u that projections will always be projections....

Here's a good example today SA's and overseas companies have realized last year that SA waters were UNEXPLORED....Note:SA is sorrounded by both Indian and Atlantic ocean and has the longest shoreline in Africa. These new oil and gas activities will be added on SA economy that will change PROJECTIONS that were made about SA. SA like many countries will REBASE HER ECONOMY AND START COUNTING OIL AND GAS MOOLA.



By: Natalie Greve


Vast majority of SA’s offshore oil and gas blocks already under licence, application
Sasol, Eni partner on SA hydrocarbon exploration

Producers were also looking for supply alter-natives to the oil-rich, but politically unstable, Middle East oilfields and have been further attracted by recent legislation in terms of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, which Salomo argued had provided a degree of risk-share with the South African government.

Offshore exploration activity over the past two years had produced some 21 000 km2 of three-dimensional survey data and over 36 200 km2 of two-dimensional data.

While emphasising that an accurate quantifi-cation of South Africa’s offshore oil and gas potential remained elusive, at present, Salomo maintained that, based on geological modelling and long-term predictions, Petroleum Agency SA, which promotes exploration for onshore and offshore oil and gas resources, had estimated prospective offshore oil and gas resources at 21.75-billion barrels and 62.4-trillion cubic feet respectively.

Of this, 10.2-billion barrels of oil and 27.7-tril- lion cubic feet of gas was attributed to prospec-tive resources along the West Coast of South Africa, while 9.55-billion barrels of oil and 25.5-trillion cubic feet of gas was estimated for blocks off the country’s South Coast.

“Prospective resources along the East Coast of the country are estimated at two-billion barrels of oil and nine-trillion cubic feet of gas.

Among the largest offshore oil and gas pro-jects currently under way was the Ibhubesi gas project off the West Coast – a joint venture between South African national oil company PetroSA and Australian independent energy group Sunbird Energy.

This project would see the development of a 400-km-long gas pipeline, two shorecrossing sites – one between Grotto Bay and Duyne-fontein and the other on the Saldanha peninsula – and the construction of an onshore gas-receiving facility near Ankerlig, in the Western Cape.

“The offshore field is expected to begin pro-duction in late-2017, early 2018, with an initial flow rate of 100-million standard cubic feet of gas day,” Salomo said.

^^^21.5 Billion barrels for a country like SA, OIL AND GAS BUSINESS WILL PUSH US UP THERE WITH THE FIRST WORLD COUNTRIES.
Another pushing factor will be THE RECENT FINDINGS OF NATURAL GAS IN MOZAMBIQUE (Moz will be the 3rd largest Natural gas producer in the world kicking out Nigeria and others ).

http://afkinsider.com/83529/mozambique-to-become-worlds-third-largest-natural-gas-producer/
http://www.sanec.org/news-publications/latest-news/mozambique-could-become-top-natural-gas-player/131

dieantwordRSA:
Its a known fact that Nigeria has only 25 years left for their oil and gas reserves. By 2040 ya'll will be pulling with 1st gear
The questions that Nigerians should be asking themselves is how will Nigeria cope with OVERPOPULATION AND DRIED OUT OIL AND GAS RESERVES...

what of the newly discovered oil fields in lake chad basin,lagos{aje oil field},ondo,enugu and akwa ibom?,the truth is that,we have barely scratched the potential surface of our crude and mineral resources reserves.perhaps,the reserves we currently have may diminish in the next 30 years,but what of the newly discovered ones?,what of the ones that we are yet to discover?.even then,by 2020,nigeria will be a fully diversified economy,with an heavyweight industry to rival japan.we are already a net exporter of cement,cocoa and sugar.we will begin massive exportation of rice next year.by 2020,we will commence exportation of automobile vehicles

Please give us sources for all these claims and tell us who are the INVESTORS. That still doesn't change the fact that Nigeria is placed in a bad position as cmpared to SA, Mozambique or Kenya... WISHFUL THINKERS...2020 is in the next 5 years in case u think otherwise By the way who will buy your INFERIOR CARS If we were interested in making our cars we would have done that long ago.... "NIGGER AREA" at its best. who ever gave ya'll that name suites u. "NIGGER AREA" the land of GENERATORS AND WISHY WASHY. lets hope Nigger area will still be one country then as know that Igbos are fighting for BEER-FRA, Yorubas want Oduduwaland and Hausa/Fulani want Orewaland we will see my "niggers".

EVarn:
what of the newly discovered oil fields in lake chad basin,lagos{aje oil field},ondo,enugu and akwa ibom?,the truth is that,we have barely scratched the potential surface of our crude and mineral resources reserves.perhaps,the reserves we currently have may diminish in the next 30 years,but what of the newly discovered ones?,what of the ones that we are yet to discover?.even then,by 2020,nigeria will be a fully diversified economy,with an heavyweight industry to rival japan.we are already a net exporter of cement,cocoa and sugar.we will begin massive exportation of rice next year.by 2020,we will commence exportation of automobile vehicles

The truth is everyone knws where the mineral wealth of the world is and which waters have oil and gas. GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY has all these ANSWERS. Mtchew we don't have to stay in Nigeria to know about Nigerian GEOLOGY. Your rocks have FOKOL/NOTHING. Same can be said about your SMALL SHORELINE. Remember ya'll are trapped in a corner.

The DRC is the one that can make noise and mention their $24 trillion mineral wealth not flat head Nigerians. Sorry NATION OF EMPTY CLAIMS.

EVarn:
there are already cases of uninterrupted power supply in abuja.some villages and towns in the FCT recently celebrated a year of uninterrupted power suppy.so what are you saying?

Then it should have been by the works of ogwugwu and omaliko that you can manage to keep the light for the whole day.

ZUMA'S PARLIAMENTARY ADDRESS TURNS INTO CHAOS ! ! ! !
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http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/02/12/zumas-parliamentary-address-turns-into-chaos/

BACK TO THE "MILITARY" FORUM

South African A Darter missile in final tests



The A-Darter fifth generation air-to-air missile has undergone further testing, with a successful launch on Monday. During the most recent test, from a South African Air Force Gripen fighter, an A-Darter was launched at a target drone on a perpendicular trajectory to the launch aircraft, and at substantial distance. The missile's targeting system locked on to the target, flying 600 metres above the launch aircraft, the Brazilian Air Force said.

The success of the flight test marks one of the final stages of the missile development. According to Brazilian Air Force Colonel Julius Caesar Cardoso Tavares, the project manager for Brazil, with this release A-Darter is over 90% complete. It is expected that production will commence before the end of this year and the programme will be ready in the first half of 2016, and should eventually equip the Brazilian Air Force's Gripen NG fighters as well as the Gripen C/Ds and Hawks of the South African Air Force.

According to Tavares, the main feature of the latest generation of missiles is the ability to perform high-performance manoeuvres. "The guidance sensor detects the target and the missile then calculates the best route to intercept."The A-Darter is the flagship project of Denel Dynamics, the division in the group responsible for advanced systems technology in the missile and UAV environments.

With a length of 2.98 meters and weighing 90 kg, the A-Darter is not fitted with the normal small forward wings used for manoeuvring. Instead, the missile steers by directing the thrust of its rocket engine. It is thus able to perform manoeuvres that include load factors of up to 100 g, when the most modern fighter jets cannot exceed 9 g.Guided by a heat-seeking homing head, the A-Darter also can "see" more of an infrared frequency and can thus avoid being deceived by "flares", incandescent bait thrown by enemy aircraft to confuse missiles.Its maximum range is 12 miles (19 km).

The development partnership between South Africa and Brazil on the A-Darter began in 2006 and the goal is that both countries produce components for future exports. "In future, sales will be shared. There is already as agreement between the companies," said Tavares.South Africa, with missile development experience since the 1960s, sought to partner with Brazil due to the complexity of the project. "It's a high-tech missile," said Tavares. He said the A-Darter has innovations dominated by few countries in the world, which is not transferred when there is the purchase of weapons. "No one teaches how to do that," he said.

Three hundred million Brazilian r'eals (R1.3 billion) have been invested in the A-Darter so far, half being directed to Brazilian companies including Mectron, Avibras and Optoelectronics.

dieantwordRSA:
Please give us sources for all these claims and tell us who are the INVESTORS. That still doesn't change the fact that Nigeria is placed in a bad position as cmpared to SA, Mozambique or Kenya... WISHFUL THINKERS...2020 is in the next 5 years in case u think otherwise By the way who will buy your INFERIOR CARS If we were interested in making our cars we would have done that long ago.... "NIGGER AREA" at its best. who ever gave ya'll that name suites u. "NIGGER AREA" the land of GENERATORS AND WISHY WASHY. lets hope Nigger area will still be one country then as know that Igbos are fighting for BEER-FRA, Yorubas want Oduduwaland and Hausa/Fulani want Orewaland we will see my "niggers".

search for citations yourself,i dont babysit.
nonsense,nigeria cannot break apart,the greedy politicians clamouring for the 'republic of biafra' are just making political jambourine,no one takes that trash seriously.

mzilakazi:


Then it should have been by the works of ogwugwu and omaliko that you can manage to keep the light for the whole day.

what did i tell you about whipping out lies from sangomas a.ss?.

dieantwordRSA:
@Iterator24

do you expect me to read all the gibberish you've been posting on this platform from day 1 under different handles?
you should go and join your Ghanaian brothers to help rescue cedi .. and stop being a hypocrite.. nobody has your time here..ode oshi

iterator24:


do you expect me to read all the gibberish you've been posting on this platform from day 1 under different handles?
you should go and join your Ghanaian brothers to help rescue cedi .. and stop being a hypocrite.. nobody has your time here..ode oshi

on point

DieVluit:


Just one picture bra.

And then just one quote:

The current capacity is 4,500 megawatts.
“The cost of providing electricity per megawatt on average is $2billion. To get to where South Africa is, you will need about $3.2trillion (about N672trillion). Where will you find that kind of money?” he asked.



And your GDP is already pegged at higher that South Africa's, but you don't have enough money to get where we are.

electricity in Nigeria has now been privatised like telecommunications.

But do we need electricity to beat south afrika? Nope. We don't.

DieVluit:


And where will the standards of living and infrastructure be?

Simple question.

Where will your population be?

Simple question.

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/jun/13/nigeria-larger-population-us-2050

By the way, Evarn, we know that you are Lezz. Stop talking to yourself or about yourself.

I take it as an honour likening Evarn to Me. But I really don't care for your opinion or beliefs.

Point to note is that today Nigeria is no 1 in Africa and tomorrow still holds true of that position.

Sweden and other Scandinavian countries have a higher standard of living than the mighty US but you and I know you do not compare them.

So let south Africa use Sweden as her model and we shall use US and China as ours . In a few years time we shall compare who is more powerful and prosperous.

EVarn:
wow!,you must have consulted sangomas to pull out this analysis once again.even your most vaunted source,the world bank,has made a projection that nigeria will be in top 10 economies by 2050,with south africa nowhere to be found.we are growing our infrastructure and middle class at a surging rate....remember,china is the number 1 economic power on earth,yet it is the country with the highest number of poor people in the world.like lezz said,you are a renown wizard.how do you do,oh great sangomas?!

even if you put truth in front of his eyes, he pretends not to see. Mzilakazu the rock headed junkie wizard.

And BBC confirms the Giant of Africa in the fight against Boko haram

https://soundcloud.com/bbc-world-service/the-fight-against-boko-haram-a-nigerian-soldier-speaks-out?ocid=socialflow_twitter

DieVluit:




The current capacity is 4,500 megawatts.
“The cost of providing electricity per megawatt on average is $2billion. To get to where South Africa is, you will need about $3.2trillion (about N672trillion). Where will you find that kind of money?” he asked.



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Once again, "where South Africa is" could NEVER mean 160 000 MW. Never.

you always have a very pathetic claim to reason. how can the cost of providing electricity per megawatts be $2bil dols. are this things not determined by certain factors? or will the cost of getting power from a nuclear plant be the same cost of getting power from a wind farm.

lezz:
even if you put truth in front of his eyes, he pretends not to see. Mzilakazu the rock headed junkie wizard.

i've noticed it,mzilakazi is always in denial when faced with truth.
SA has always been doing everything in their power to downgrade and denigrate our gigantic economy for fear of losing its purported "super power" status on the continent....they are always provoking diplomatic face~offs between us.but in spite of it all,we are growing and they are sinking.
who knows whether they are the foreign power helping boko haram with weapons,funds and strategy.jealousy is a very dangerous emotion.

EVarn:
i've noticed it,mzilakazi is always in denial when faced with truth.
SA has always been doing everything in their power to downgrade and denigrate our gigantic economy for fear of losing its purported "super power" status on the continent....they are always provoking diplomatic face~offs between us.but in spite of it all,we are growing and they are sinking.
who knows whether they are the foreign power helping boko haram with weapons,funds and strategy.jealousy is a very dangerous emotion.

Are you on your dreams again?

lezz:
even if you put truth in front of his eyes, he pretends not to see. Mzilakazu the rock headed junkie wizard.

Chief, I cannot be told about some fantasy which is predicted to happen in 2050 and suddenly jump to concur with it. A lot can happen along the way. Who knows if in 2050 Nigeria will still be a one solid country? Some American experts predicted that Nigeria will tear into two and their economy will crash and collapse. So, tell me why do you chose to believe one prophecy over another? I call it a prophecy because what those researchers have predicted is untrue. A lot more can happen along the way. Nigeria could discover gold and SA could as well discover Oil and change the whole lies that those researchers predicted.

EVarn:
what did i tell you about whipping out lies from sangomas a.ss?.

It is only amadioha that can keep the light glowing for 24 hours a day in Nigeria.

mzilakazi:


Are you on your dreams again?

i do not dream m'boy

EVarn:
ZUMA'S PARLIAMENTARY ADDRESS TURNS INTO CHAOS ! ! ! !
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,
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/02/12/zumas-parliamentary-address-turns-into-chaos/

You only need your Malema version to transform the politics of Nigeria to a multiparty democracy.