Promise Mmanta

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[Toby @TomolaGroup]

Nigeria has been generating electricity since 1896. That’s 130 years.

Today, in March 2026, the national grid just dropped to 3,940 megawatts. For 220 million people.

South Africa generates over 48,000MW for 60 million people. Egypt has about 59,000MW installed for 110 million.

Nigeria? About 13,000MW installed. But we can only push around 4,000 to 5,000MW through the grid on a good day. The rest just sits there. Wasted.

The grid collapsed 12 times in 2024 alone. 128 transmission towers were destroyed by vandals in the same year. Government spent N8.8 billion just repairing them.

Between 2010 and 2022, NERC recorded at least 222 partial and total grid collapses. That’s roughly one every three weeks for 12 years straight.

Every time the grid collapses, restarting just three power plants (Azura, Delta, and Shiroro) costs Nigeria about $25 million. That’s N42.5 billion. Per collapse. For just three plants.

The power sector owes generation companies N6.8 trillion as of February 2026. Growing by N200 billion every single month. By end of March, it’ll hit N7 trillion.

Of that N6.8 trillion, about N3.3 trillion is owed to gas suppliers. So what did the gas suppliers do? They cut supply. Right now, thermal plants need about 1,630 million standard cubic feet of gas per day. They’re getting 692 million. Less than 43%.

That’s why your light is off right now.
The government approved N4 trillion in bonds to fix it. So far they’ve issued N590 billion. The rest? We’re waiting.

Meanwhile, Nigerians spend about $14 billion every year buying and fueling generators. 22 million generators across the country. Their combined capacity? About 42,000 megawatts. That’s 8 times what the national grid delivers.

We literally have more generator capacity than grid capacity. Think about that.

In 2023, 767 manufacturing companies shut down. 335 more became distressed. 18,000 jobs gone. In the first half of 2025 alone, manufacturers spent N676.6 billion on backup power and still couldn’t meet their needs. Another 18,935 jobs lost.

The World Bank estimates power outages cost Nigeria $29 billion annually. That’s about 10% of GDP. Every year.

This isn’t a power problem. It’s a governance problem.

Egypt added 14,000 megawatts of gas capacity in six years using the same Siemens equipment we’ve been talking about for decades. Ghana fixed its power crisis between 2012 and 2016 and now exports surplus electricity. South Africa just went 300 consecutive days without load shedding after committing to a real recovery plan.

We’ve been “fixing” power since 1999. Every president has had an emergency power plan. We’ve taken over $4 billion in World Bank loans for the power sector. The grid can barely hold 5,000MW. Any more and it literally collapses.

Nigeria cannot be a serious economy running on generators. No country industrialized on backup power.

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

He is not campaigning with results. His strategy is to buy everyone buyable. Governor Amuneke is a genius. His contents are always accurate.

[Ayo of Ibadan @theayoadams]

Views from Eleyele River, Ibadan.

📸 by me.

[KHAN'✨ @khanofkhans11_]

The fact that they walk the same way 😂

[Kemi @iksly2]

I have about 10 big names on my Instagram asking me to recreate this video for them.

Some want a monthly package, some want two videos every single week.

If you are a social media manager or you are learning a skill, pay attention.

There is demand for AI videos, there is demand for AI skills, pick one, learn and start selling.

People want visibility, but they also want comfort.

Now imagine you can take one picture of your client and turn it into 30 videos every single month without having to set up cameras every day

That is value.

You can package it as an offer and sell it for upto $1k monthly. Now scale it and sell to 5 clients monthly, that's 5k monthly.

Wisdom🤗

This is 2026
I will not teach you everything🤔

[𝕭𝖊𝖑𝖘 🇺🇸 @therealbelano]

How to regain your value as a man.

[The Creative ® @thecreativexx]

What did I just watch???? 🤯🤯🤯

[. @UcheKl]

Nigeria was handed over to terrorists in 2015.

[Shehu Gazali Sadiq @Rejoice_inlife]

Those are the 50 Nigerian soldiers massacred by Boko Haram in Borno state yesterday, 1st of March 2026. There is no statement from Tinubu, just silence from the government. APC government is a terrorist government.

[@𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘆 @OneJoblessBoy]

"You can electronically collect my tax, but you cannot electronically transfer election results."

- Zekeri Idris

[Promise Mmanta @bymmanta]

@oladele @claudeai OLA

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

Just pass this on. Don’t say anything.
Make sure you keep passing it on.

[Arinze Odira @CaptainArinze]

Bank transfers in Nigeria are instant. It is one of the fastest I’ve seen compared to the US and Canada.

I can walk into a Nigerian bank, initiate a 100 Million Naira transfer, and before I finish arguing with the bank manager about Arsenal not winning the league, the money is already sitting in the recipient’s account ready to be withdrawn.

But when it comes to electronic transfer of votes in real time, we suddenly act technologically backward. Taa, gbafuo!

[Promise Mmanta @bymmanta]

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[Michael @michaelagiri]

@akintollgate @PayPal 1 Grey
2 Eversend
3 raenest
4 payoneer
in that order

[Akin Olaoye @akintollgate]

Tech bros.....Kindly suggest alternatives to @PayPal. List your top 3 and let's enlighten Nigerians.

[DD 🐎 @Didara0]

Bruhhhhh, what will it take for Nigerians to take back their country? I AM TIRED!

[Charles Dairo | Kindlybook @charles_dairo]

Five books I HIGHLY recommend for tech founders:

[chijiоke, Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering(Affidavit). @Ekwulu]

Lagos legislators budgeted N6.2 billion to buy 40 houses for themselves in Abuja, FCT. It is in the 2026 budget. They budgeted N4.2 billion to buy generators for themselves too.
This is how tax payers money are frittered away, same rubbish is happening in other states too.

[JP Attueyi @jpattueyi]

Remember when some of you (like that guy that is based in Canada and deceiving you) said “relax, they can’t just touch your money”?

This is Lagos State, formally activating the Power of Substitution under the new Tax Administration Act.

Translation in plain English:
If LIRS says you owe tax and they’ve “established” it, they can:
• instruct your bank to pay them from your account
• instruct your employer to divert your salary
• instruct your tenants or customers to pay them instead of you
• instruct anyone who owes you money to settle your tax first

No court appearance.
No negotiation.
Just a notice.

This is exactly what I warned about.
This law didn’t just increase taxes.
It shifted power.
From courts → to tax authorities.
From due process → to administrative discretion.

In sane countries:
• substitution powers are rare
• tightly supervised
• judicially reviewable before execution

Here? They’re rolled out via “Public Notice”.

If you’re calm about this, it’s only because you think it’s for other people.
Until one day, it’s your bank.
Your employer.
Your rent.
Your cash flow.

This isn’t about compliance anymore. It’s about control.
And some of you cheered it on.
Remember this moment.