I think you are mixing issues up oga. I guess you are trying to say the Gencos generate more power than is transmitted by TCN and the Disco are even taking less than what the TCN manage to transmit, even then the total of what the Gencos generate cannot give me 24 hrs though.

Dsticks47:


TCN is generating enough power that can cater for 24/7 power supply but the issue is from the Distro and the final consumer.

If every house should have prepaid meter then there won’t be issue of crazy bills.

IKEDC buys 1000 unit of power at the rate of 5000 and distribute to Area M.

Now Area M pays 3000 when asked to pay.

Nnamz:

I'm glad you took the time to go through my previous comments. I don't have that kind of time to do same for you. I have said what I said.

Oh and by the way, my elders at home are the ones running Ebonyi. Look up the name Umahi. Down to my youngest uncle who is not even in politics, everyone moves with at least one police escort (now that is affluence). What are your own elders doing? Selling palm oil?

I said what I said.

We generate a total of about 4000MW in Nigeria, which is about the total for Johannesburg a city in South Africa

9jatriot:
I think you are mixing issues up oga. I guess you are trying to say the Gencos generate more power than is transmitted by TCN and the Disco are even taking less than what the TCN manage to transmit, even then the total of what the Gencos generate cannot give me 24 hrs though.

I still believe the power is there but it can’t be afforded.

I know some areas in Lagos that have uninterrupted power supply( likes of Ijaiye, Ahmadiya e.tc).

Early last year I was in Kebbi, spent some months there and I will tell you they don’t take their light.

Dsticks47:


I still believe the power is there but it can’t be afforded.

I know some areas in Lagos that have uninterrupted power supply( likes of Ijaiye, Ahmadiya e.tc).

Early last year I was in Kebbi, spent some months there and I will tell you they don’t take their light.

I guess we should say those in Kebbi are able to afford it reason why they don't take light there?
Light affordability and availability, 2 different things entirely.

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Dsticks47:


I still believe the power is there but it can’t be afforded.

I know some areas in Lagos that have uninterrupted power supply( likes of Ijaiye, Ahmadiya e.tc).

Early last year I was in Kebbi, spent some months there and I will tell you they don’t take their light.

Not enough to power the energy needs of industries, businesses and houses in Nigeria

Dsticks47:


TCN is generating enough power that can cater for 24/7 power supply but the issue is from the Distro and the final consumer.

If every house should have prepaid meter then there won’t be issue of crazy bills.

IKEDC buys 1000 unit of power at the rate of 5000 and distribute to Area M.

Now Area M pays 3000 when asked to pay.

Not true.

TotoNaRubber:

I bought the whole $500 from him at N350/$, I took it aboki during lunch time today and behold they were all real. I was confident to buy from him as he is a colleague i see every week, he is a big man who thinks less about exchange rate.

He said the cash has been sitting in an envelop and he believes it will be useful in my next trip, aboki is willing to buy at N415 per dollar as at today.
I intend to keep it at home, hopefully it will be safe.

Well... Well...Well...

Congratulations!

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Brethrens, i need an evaluation on this. I want to buy a land (2 plots) in a choice location for N25 million, the plots are well fenced, the owner is genuine. The problem is this;

The owner says N25m last. He has put the property up for sale since 4 years now, every year the maximum offer he gets is N20m infact in the first year, he said it was N30 million but subsequently he has come down to 25m, little did he know that if he had accepted N20 million in year 1 and invested the capital, by now he will have at least N30 million (Capital + interest 15%yr one + 14%yr two + 12%yr three + 10%yr four) in Treasury bills/bonds).

My concerns buying the property is that it will cost N70 million to develop rental property that will generate N6 million annually. This means it will take at least 15 years to recover the N95 million expenditure before starting to count profit.

My other option is investing N5 million in the property by making it a relaxation center for food and drinks, i am not sure which of the two is best.

TotoNaRubber:
Brethrens, i need an evaluation on this. I want to buy a land (2 plots) in a choice location for N25 million, the plots are well fenced, the owner is genuine. The problem is this;

The owner says N25m last. He has put the property up for sale since 4 years now, every year the maximum offer he gets is N20m infact in the first year, he said it was N30 million but subsequently he has come down to 25m, little did he know that if he had accepted N20 million in year 1 and invested the capital, by now he will have at least N30 million (Capital + interest 15%yr one + 14%yr two + 12%yr three + 10%yr four) in Treasury bills/bonds).

My concerns buying the property is that it will cost N70 million to develop rental property that will generate N6 million annually. This means it will take at least 15 years to recover the N95 million expenditure before starting to count profit.

My other option is investing N5 million in the property by making it a relaxation center for food and drinks, i am not sure which of the two is best.

You just want to task our brain, you already know you want to do.
I will just advise you to follow your instinct

What's your take on this argument to print more money rather than borrow. I suggest you read the submission below before commenting, it's an interesting perspective.

frica's Position in the Global Economic System

by Mavis Enyan March 31, 2020

Does Africa have the need to continuously borrow Money for her today’s survival while creating debt-burden the next generations?
The simplest answer that can be given is “it depends”, -but on what?

In conventional economic theories, we are told that when a government prints money, it exposes itself to inflation because there will be more money in the system to chase fewer goods, causing the money to lose its value.

However, if we can think beyond these theories, and accept the fact that these theories were developed by humans; individuals with brain capacities same as ours and we also have the capacity to device alternative models to solve our own problems, then, we can start to ask questions like: How can there be fewer goods in the system if the money printed is used as an incentive for innovation and production rather than serving as an object for demanding goods and services?; what is the central duty of a sovereign government when it prints paper and calls it money? What are the fundamental differences between monies printed into an economy and those borrowed into the same economy? Questions of these kinds can help us probe deeper to understand the system that controls us better.

To a very large extent, when a government borrows money, it shows the lack of ability and understanding of that government to an effective management of the economy. Unfortunately, the idea of going to another sovereign country to borrow paper (fiat money) instead of using our sovereign status to print money and manage this printed money to support our developmental projects and programs has become the normal and easy way for almost all African countries since attaining independence status.


Why should someone print paper and hand it over to you as money and let you pay back not with the same paper (paper as used here means what one has the right to print, in this case, if America prints dollar for us to support our economy, we should be able to print our own currencies to pay back after our economy has become stronger and not to pay back with dollar which we do not have the right to print and as such, it becomes a value for us), instead, we are required to pay back these paper loans in values, resources, and efforts? I know it is not as simple as I am putting it in this piece, but the truth it is that, it is also not as impossible as they make it looks to us.

Before going further, it is important to point out that in an extreme distressed circumstance, a country may borrow money in a 1 or 2 cases (this happened to continental Europe, wherein, after the Second World War when America has to print and loan out money to Europe under the Marshall Plan to help them recover from the total breakdown). However, it is so not normal for a sovereign nation to resort to borrowing of paper money as a way of life. In fact, no one has borrowed her way into freedom or development.

At this stage, I want to point out, first and foremost that every sovereign state, no matter how small it may be, has the right and authority to print and manage its own money.

Second, I want to state categorically that the act of printing money does NOT result in inflation (that concept is a hoax at least). Rather, it is the mode of management of the printed money that causes inflation or deflation.

For example, if the government of Ghana (inset here the name of any African country of your choice) realises that a region/state needs a road and it estimates the cost of constructing the road to be 50 Billion Ghana Cedis (inset here the currency of your selected African country). If the government goes on to print 50 Billion Ghana Cedis for the purpose of this project, and then calls on a Chinese or an European construction agency to construct this road on a condition that 20% of the capital cost is giving to the government or the political party in power as a kick-back, the following is what will happen:

1.The Chinese or the European company will demand that the payment is made in Chinese Yuan or European Euro. This means, the government of Ghana has to place the local currency it has printed on the international financial market to demand for Yuan or Euro. When this happens, there will be more Cedi (than it should be) on the market and if there are not equally more customers on the market demanding for Cedi, then this automatically reduce the value or relevance of Cedi, hence drastic or continuous exchange rate depreciation of the Cedi.

2.Once, the company pays the 20% of the capital cost to the government or party in power, it immunes itself of any system of control that is meant to regulate and manage the economy of the said African countries. In this case, the foreign construction company will construct a road with a quality far below what the money it has received should normally construct, it will under-pay local labour if it ever employs one, and it will invade taxes and all other statutory payments. The compositions of these negative actions will weaken the economic management regime of the said country.

Additionally, it is important to consider that the 20% (paid in kickback) which has gone in the hands of the ruling gangs as a mere paper because they have received that without working, or exchanging any value for it. The effect from this is no different from the damage the economy will suffer when a criminal sits in his or her room and print counterfeit and release them in the economy. Yet this money will be cheerful release in our economy through unproductive and abusive channels such as paying for sex of, and rent for ‘slay queens’ and ‘Bleep boys’; sponsoring of political hooliganism to destroy lives and properties in our countries; and embarking on expensive holiday trips abroad and showing offs at public gathering and events.

In the end of all the above scenarios, what will happen is that Ghana has used it sovereign status to print 50 billion in cash/paper but that 50 billion paper has not been properly managed to translate into /create actual wealth in equivalence of 50 billion. This, among many other negative economic consequences will result in inflation (more money in the system chasing fewer goods) because the focus of the money printed was to serve as object for demand rather than being an incentive to induce production and innovation. It will also result in exchange rate depreciation and damaging of the country’s economic sovereign worth because no one can trust a system managing by ineffective heads.

On the other hand, if the government prints 50 billion of the local currency for the purpose of constructing a road and this government ensures that the capacity of local construction companies are strengthened to execute the project, it will have no need to put such huge amount of the local currency on the global financial market for foreign exchange (because local companies are paid in local currency) to damage the exchange rate value of the local currency. Ethiopia has been able to developed strong local Construction, Banking, and Telecommunication system to champion the country’s development internally. Other African countries can learn from the Ethiopian system.

In the event that 50 Billion is printed to embark on road construction, all that the governments has to do to avoid inflation is to internally manage this printed money to ensure that:

1.It is fairly and widely distributed
2.It translates into multiples of actual values and wealth in the economy

Why is Fair and Widely Distribution of Printed Money Important?

First of all, every member of a society has some potential(s) or value in them which when is encouraged and tapped, will contribute to national development. However, this value cannot just be tapped unless regimes of rewards and recognition are instituted as a modality of exchange for these inherent values in the citizens.

After printing money, the government has a management duty to ensure that the money does not get concentrated in the hands of a few people; rather it must be wisely and widely distributed with an objective to use it as a bait to attract and uncover hidden potentials in citizens for national development.

How can this be done?

Whereas the main objectives of businesses owners will be to maximize profit, the government who has a duty to provide social good must at all times aim at maximizing quality and ensure that standards are strictly adhered to. When this is done, contractors are expected to spend the money received fairly on ‘all’ sectors of the economy to ensure widely and fairly distribution of the money.

For example, by insisting on quality and adherence to standards, the construction of a single road can lead to: increase demand for general logistics; available capital for trading and operations of the banking sector; higher employment and welfare for citizens; and capital returns for government to embark on other project generated through efficient and transparent tax system and many other benefits to the economy.

When the printed money is efficiently managed to inject the above benefits in the economy, the beneficiaries, will subsequently use and reuse the money/the benefits to create multiples of values (far higher than the original value of 50 billion) in the economy, thereby, promoting steady and long-term development of the country.

Will Printing of Money rather than Borrowing be an Easy thing to do by any African Country?

Certainly not, no single African country will find it easy to adopt this strategy; it even seems impossible because, lending to keeping Africa and her future in debt is a big business that helps those who want to keep Africans in an unending slavery use in controlling both the labour and human capital, and natural resources on the continent. By this any country/leader that makes such an attempt will face strong sabotage, sanction, and likely power instability from the controllers of the system.

Nonetheless, Africa will certainly win, when all or most African countries come together in unity and make this a continental policy. Without, doing this in unity, we must consider it that we are ready to bring our next generation into a new mode of slavery.

emmanuelewumi:



Reduce what you spend on booze, clubbing and girls, that is a starting point.

You start small, grow your 10k to 100k, then grow your 100k to 1 million.

Little drops of water makes the big ocean

Live below your means.

Change your circle of friends, you need friends who will encourage and make you be a better person.

Be forward thinking and have a long term view.

Delay gratification.

If you are not married, get married to a lady with the right attitudes and positive outlook about life.

The guy you quote na King of boys for women matter.

I thought this space is for Tbills.

If you want to buy land or build a house or even have issues with Discos please go to property or relevant section, this space is for Tbills.

Stop making a nuisance of this space.

Nigerians are lawless and itreflects in our society

thattnaijaman:
I thought this space is for Tbills.

If you want to buy land or build a house or even have issues with Discos please go to property or relevant section, this space is for Tbills.

Stop making a nuisance of this space.

Nigerians are lawless and itreflects in our society

Lol. I saw dat comment and I just smiled...

To be fair, it didnt start with him, check previous pages, no one did bat an eyelid then.

What's are the rates now for TBs?

thattnaijaman:
I thought this space is for Tbills.

If you want to buy land or build a house or even have issues with Discos please go to property or relevant section, this space is for Tbills.

Stop making a nuisance of this space.

Nigerians are lawless and itreflects in our society

that's not the only thing we talk about here. we exchange ideas as well. Anyway TB has tanked. I wouldn't buy any now.
we are repositioning ourselves to profit off of this recession.

thattnaijaman:
I thought this space is for Tbills.

If you want to buy land or build a house or even have issues with Discos please go to property or relevant section, this space is for Tbills.

Stop making a nuisance of this space.

Nigerians are lawless and itreflects in our society

The Bible says man shall not live by bread alone.

An investor shall not live by one investment alone.


The thread is primarily for Treasury Bills, but we discuss and share ideas on other legitimate investment opportunities.

So we are expecting your contributions on Treasury Bills.

Pascopele:

The guy you quote na King of boys for women matter.

I have told him to exercise caution and do things in moderation.

The main causes of a man becoming broke and poor are ladies, liquor and leverage

emmanuelewumi:


I have told him to exercise caution and do things in moderation.

The main causes of a man to being broke and poor are ladies, liquor and leverage

Leverage? How do you mean?

CBN OMO Sale Booms Again, Traders Offer N324bn for N100bn Bills
https://businesspost.ng/economy/cbn-omo-sale-booms-again-traders-offer-n324bn-for-n100bn-bills/

kristien4:
Leverage? How do you mean?

Debts or loans.


Nothing bad with leverage if you are prudent, frugal, business minded and investment savvy, unfortunately it is less than 5% of the population that fall into this category

emmanuelewumi:



Nigeria is poor, we don't generate enough income, the few income are mismanaged and looted, our population is growing higher than the economy, we failed to invest on critical infrastructure, we rely solely on crude oil and we have failed to diversify the economy

So many problems plaguing Nigeria...

Theconglomerate:
Where I always get confused is who is responsible for the failed economic diversity?
The government or the people?
Because the only place I think the government failed is not generating enough electric power.
Just my thought though.

The government also failed by not checking the activities of herdsmen and providing security against these them. The government keeps clamouring for diversification into Agriculture, but a lot of these crops and farmers are lost through the deadly activities of the herdsmen and their cows.

emmanuelewumi:



The people and the government.

Agriculture is an area every state government ought to invest in, it will have a great effect on our GDP

Herdsmen and their cows destroy the crops. What happens regularly in Benue state comes to mind

TotoNaRubber:
Brethrens, i need an evaluation on this. I want to buy a land (2 plots) in a choice location for N25 million, the plots are well fenced, the owner is genuine. The problem is this;

The owner says N25m last. He has put the property up for sale since 4 years now, every year the maximum offer he gets is N20m infact in the first year, he said it was N30 million but subsequently he has come down to 25m, little did he know that if he had accepted N20 million in year 1 and invested the capital, by now he will have at least N30 million (Capital + interest 15%yr one + 14%yr two + 12%yr three + 10%yr four) in Treasury bills/bonds).

My concerns buying the property is that it will cost N70 million to develop rental property that will generate N6 million annually. This means it will take at least 15 years to recover the N95 million expenditure before starting to count profit.

My other option is investing N5 million in the property by making it a relaxation center for food and drinks, i am not sure which of the two is best.

Go for the second option, especially if the location is good. The starting capital (5m) is reasonable and, if you are strategic about your operations (value-adding), there is a high chance that you will recoup your 5m investment in less than 2 years. Nigerians flex alot.

Also, if you are investing 5m for the second option, it means most of the setup materials will be make-shift materials, so your exit process may not be too expensive if things dont go as planned.

In all, follow your instincts.

odimbannamdi:


Herdsmen and their cows destroy the crops. What happens regularly in Benue state comes to mind

Talking about large scale agricultural businesses, the people making billions from agriculture in Nigeria are foreign owned businesses Olams, Okomu, Presco and others.

Subsistence farming is just the starting point that we should have gone beyond by now. We don't even produce enough food for the teeming 200 million Nigerians.

The current lockdown will further affect food availability and security in the country, I don't know if we have grains reserves in the country. And if we have, how long can the grain reserves feed the citizens

learning a lot from this thread
kudos to the bosses in the house
more blessings to all of us

odimbannamdi:


Go for the second option, especially if the location is good. The starting capital (5m) is reasonable and, if you are strategic about your operations (value-adding), there is a high chance that you will recoup your 5m investment in less than 2 years. Nigerians flex alot.

Also, if you are investing 5m for the second option, it means most of the setup materials will be make-shift materials, so your exit process may not be too expensive if things dont go as planned.

In all, follow your instincts.

May I suggest that you look at how covid will change peoples behaviour in the coming years especially now it will most likely become a yearly affair.

I would suggest that if you do go for the second option, you may have to spend a bit more to make it covid proof.

I also suspect this property may likely become cheaper .

missjekyll:



May I suggest that you look at how covid will change peoples behaviour in the coming years especially now it will most likely become a yearly affair.

I would suggest that if you do go for the second option, you may have to spend a bit more to make it covid proof.

I also suspect this property may likely become cheaper .

CC: TotonaRubber

I think this post is for you

missjekyll:



May I suggest that you look at how covid will change peoples behaviour in the coming years especially now it will most likely become a yearly affair.

I would suggest that if you do go for the second option, you may have to spend a bit more to make it covid proof.


I also suspect this property may likely become cheaper .

Good point

If he goes for the second option and manages to figure the emboldened out, it will be a major differentiating factor for his business, and boost his patronage.

missjekyll:



May I suggest that you look at how covid will change peoples behaviour in the coming years especially now it will most likely become a yearly affair.

I would suggest that if you do go for the second option, you may have to spend a bit more to make it covid proof.

I also suspect this property may likely become cheaper .

How would covid change people's behaviour post pandemic?I'm curious.
Also,what do you mean by making his place covid proof?