"Look at Nigeria 45 million people, they don't enjoy our standard of living with vastttt natural resources...." Prime Minister of Singapore's speech still golden till today
JUST IN: Burkina Faso is officially overhauling its national curriculum to strip out colonial biases, replacing terms like "explorers" and "conquerors" with "invaders" and "spies" in history, geography, and citizenship textbooks.
"In April 1968, during the Biafran Civil War, Nigerian soldiers disguised as Biafran soldiers killed 28 Ibibio leaders in one evening under the supervision of Benjamin Adekunle, a Yoruba man. They were buried in a mass grave near the Uyo Post Office. This left the Ibibio people without leadership and forced them to put square pegs in round holes. The Kalabari nation also suffered the same fate."
—Uyo man tells Asari Dokubo
@ChuksEricE@Chude_ND1@ElochukwuOhagi@trigottista
This is how they keep you in chains. This is how they ensure you never truly become free. And this is how they constantly keep you unproductive. Absolutely disgraceful!
“free palestine”
but, plateau has been bleeding for a while. people are dying in minna and no rest for all of them.
your own country people are going through hell all the time.
African leaders go to UNGA and go on about Gaza.
They don’t talk about the killings in Nigeria, Congo and how sub-Saharan African is being ravaged by Islamic terrorists.
Such a useless bunch.
Every time you have the opportunity to speak at the UN, you don't talk about the genocide in Nigeria, Sudan or the terrorism in Burkina Faso.
You don't talk about what is happening in Congo
It's always Gaza Gaza.
Don't you care about the werfare of Africans, Mahama ?
This community transformer racket has to stop completely. It is daylight robbery disguised as community self-help, and the regulatory double standard is sickening.
Look at how the power sector works in Nigeria:
When a community transformer blows up, the DisCo goes deaf. You write letters, make calls, and nothing happens. Six months down the line, residents are suffocating in darkness, small businesses are dying, and fuel prices are draining everybody's pockets.
Out of sheer desperation, landlords gather, task every household 50k, 100k, or more, and scrape together 5 to 8 million Naira to buy a brand new transformer, buy heavy copper cables, and pay for poles.
The moment that equipment is energized, the DisCo claims it as company property. They add it to their network balance sheet, and within two weeks, they start distributing Band A and Band B bills. If you do not pay, they disconnect you with the ladder leaning on the very pole you bought with your own sweat.
How can a private, for-profit utility company take free capital equipment from struggling citizens, pay zero interest, give zero equity, and then charge those same citizens full price to use it?
If NERC mandated that customers who pay upfront for meters under the MAP scheme must be refunded their money over time through energy credits, why does the exact same logic not apply to transformers?
A meter costs 100k to 150k and you refund it via monthly energy units.
A transformer costs 6 to 10 million Naira funded by an entire street, and you pretend it was a charitable donation to a private entity?
This injustice has to end.
If a community is forced to step in and buy infrastructure because a DisCo failed its obligations, NERC should make automatic amortization mandatory:
Every single household on that street that contributed to buying that transformer should have their meter credited with monthly energy units until the full cost of the asset, cables, and installation logistics is completely paid back.
You cannot let private DisCos enrich their asset portfolios with crowd-funded community blood and then charge those same people premium tariffs for power. If DisCos want to own the asset, they must refund the people who paid for it.
There’s a declassified U.S. report out there stating, in remarkably clear terms:
“Nigeria must never be allowed to consume its resources. If Nigeria’s people grew too numerous, they might consume too much of their own oil, gas, and mineral resources, which Washington considered essential for its own prosperity.”
I won’t say more than this.