GIANT OF AFRICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT!

Breaking News from the Nigerian Daily Independent, "Ghana plans to be major electricity exporter to Nigeria, others". Enough said. Read story below. I normally wouldn't even comment, but while reading this I just remembered the numbskulls who were making a lot of brouhaha about President of the United States, Barack Obama, flying over the "Giant of Africa" to visit Ghana. "How dare he", they exclaimed. "This is an insult to the "Giant of Africa"!

Take that 'Giant of Africa'.

While you are busy being the giant, Ghana, South Africa,Egypt, Kenya, etc will be getting ready to start donating food and water to your oppressed masses. But why change now? Keep your head buried in the sand and continue robbing yourself blind. Nigeria, We hail thee.

I liken this to the parable of the talents in the book of Matthew Chapter 25 in the New Testament of The Holy Bible. Normally Ghana would be the servant that was given one talent that did nothing with his talent, and Nigeria would be the servant that was given ten talents that went out and earned ten more talents, but somehow we have managed to get it all twisted.

Trust the 'Giant of Africa'.

Instead, what we have ended up with is Nigeria as the servant that was given ten talents, but instead of putting the talents to work to multiply his blessings has chosen to sit on them, while Ghana, the servant that was given just one talent, has multiplied that talent, and is being rewarded with more talents as a result. Eventually the servant that initially was given one talent will end up with more than ten talents, while the one that was given ten talents will end up destitute. Lets keep on watching...


Ghana plans to be major electricity exporter to Nigeria, others - Nigerian Daily Independent, August 4 2009


Ghana has said at the weekend that arrangements are now in place for it to be "a major exporter" of electricity to Nigeria, which was hitherto supplying gas to it for electricity supply through the West Africa Gas Pipeline arrangement.

The former Gold Coast took Nigeria to the cleaners over epileptic power supply at the fifth Aelex Lecture in Lagos, stating that the country may remain in darkness until its authorities remove politics from its power generation effort. Ghana's Minister of Energy, Dr. Joe Oteng-Adjei, who stated this through his deputy, Kwaminai Donkor, at a lecture entitled; "How Ghana Kept the Light On," said: "Ghana wants to be a major exporter of electricity and arrangements have been made for this."

Ghana generates just 2, 062 mega watts (MW) against the peak demand of just 1, 350 MW unlike the over 10, 000 MW electricity demand in Nigeria. Nigeria, he said, has declared a force majoure in its supply of free flow gas to Ghana. "But this in not unexpected, we have, for long, planned alternative for this even before we appended our signatures on the West Africa Gas Pipeline document", he said.

He said Ghana has discovered abundant gas in its West corridor, adding it will not limit its source of power generation to gas. Fielding questions after the lecture, Oteng-Ojei said electrification in Nigeria should be taken out of partisan politics and be made a national issue. Ghana, he said, is advancing its nuclear for electricity project, stressing that although Ghana doest not have coal reserves, the country does not rely on gas alone for its electricity generation. He said: "Mr. Chairman, supply of adequate, reliable and economically priced power supply is vital for the socio-economic development of every nation. It has been observed that the GDP growth rate of a nation has direct relationship with the growth in the per capital electricity consumption. "The development of the various sectors of the economy, such as industry, agriculture, health, education, tourism, among others, depends heavily on reliable, adequate and economically priced power supply. "The vision of energy sector of Ghana is to provide adequate and reliable energy supplies to all sectors of the Ghanaian economy to support socio-economic development, poverty reduction and also for export."

According to the Ghanaian minister, "in line with our government's overall vision of reducing poverty and becoming a middle-income country in the near future, the government of Ghana has committed itself to increasing the current installed power generation capacity of about 2, 000 MW to 5, 000 MW in the medium-term (by 2015). "Let me at this juncture note from experience that whatever we are made aware of our projected power demand, we should not hesitate at all to ensure that the necessary capacity additions are made", he said.