What Is Wrong With NEPA?

I was having a good day until my mum entered my room this morning and dropped our January electricity bill on my table and I went sour and wild.
They say Nigeria does not produce enough power to satisfy her populace - which is something we should not even be hearing in the first place - hence they have resorted to a rationing method of disbursing the rare commodity and Nigerians have not been raising placards or anything of that sort. We are a happy people you know...
Whenever a pole gets felled by a natural disaster, the affected neighbourhood gets to fix it. There's no transformer in a community or the existing one gets damaged, members of such community will have to levy themselves to secure one of their choice, according to the strength of their 'contribution' as though distribution companies were less concerned about the quality of their distribution.
What then puts peppered finger in my eye is the superfluously outrageous bills that accompany this epileptic power supply. In my place, the rationing we get is in 48hrs interval, which means you're supposed to see your bulb glow in two weeks for a month. What's more? You'd be lucky to get supplied for 24hrs during your active supposed 48hrs which means on the average, you get to see electricity in less than a week for a month and some human beings will then bill you 5k!
Fellow Nigerians, if we cannot come out and say NO to this injustice, we then are not ready for a change and the labours of our heroes past would be in vain.
Forget about the explanations and excuses. The technology involved in generating electricity is not new. We're not reinventing the wheel for Christ's sake!
In South Africa, they produce about 40,000 megawatts of electricity and the bulk of it comes from coal fired stations (bringing Enugu State to mind) and supplying Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique & Zimbabwe whereas the Giants of Africa cannot boast of 4 megawatts!
These generators we import and keep importing do not help. There are so many businesses most of us venture into that is detrimental to the common good of Nigerians. Generator importers should start thinking of something else, it would be better for them and for everyone that they bring their resources together and build a power plant. They surely would earn more in the long run and be blessed beyond their graves.
Of the many reports I've gotten from interviews, our low income earners have demonstrated willingness to pay even 10,000 naira monthly on electricity. "As far as we can see light steady, we are ready to pay any amount" they say.
Let's help ourselves.
God bless Nigeria. 

Reviving The Nigerian Economy

The nation's economy is dwindling and our lawmakers are collaborating with the relevant stakeholders to see how a sustainable blueprint/framework can be designed and implemented so that Nigeria can pull herself out of the pit she's fallen into.
This is commendable and should be supported by all. However, we should all bear in mind that such policies would yield good fruit in the long run. There are a few adjustments we can do individually which is capable of yielding short term results as well as fast track the realization of government policies such as:

• Paying taxes 
• Curbing excessive appetites 
• Patronizing indigenous goods and services 
• Patriotism 

The watchword here I think is patriotism. Great men and women plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. If we cannot imbibe this 'greatness' attitude, we cannot make reasonable progress as a nation. 

Nigeria is suffering and she requires a united citizenry to heal herself of her afflictions. This is not a time to prophesy that the nation's economy cannot determine your own economy and all that. Even if it doesn't affect you, it affects your neighbour whom you ought to love as yourself. This land was given to us by God and we ought to manage it well. 

We've been a consuming nation - which is the reason for this season - and our national consuming habit is but a compounded reflection of our individual consuming habits. You shouldn't say we produce nothing as a country when you yourself produce nothing..... A pot calling a kettle black scenario. 

I always dreamed of purchasing a Toyota Camry, but as it stands now, my dear country is bleeding and desperate situations beg desperate measures hence I would have to settle for a car assembled here in Nigeria. This is my first step towards a better economy, define yours today if you have the well being of our future generations in mind. 

God Bless Nigeria.