Welcome to Our Live Blog of power supply in this Niger delta

Sitting in our little 2 bedroom flat, listening to the thrum of the generator, Mr and Mrs Okada decided to give a live account of power improvements (and declines) in our neighbourhood.

We have been inspired by the sight of 3 successive Presidents promising us more electricity. This time we intend to help by providing live data from the field. We'll innovate, gyrate, and create. Soon we hope (with your assistance) will be a luck-o meter where we can measure how much things have really improved.

Its a survey of one, but we hope you'll share your stories, that NEPA will bring light and that laughter will at least abound.

If you really like the look of this little diary you may want to try reading from the bottom to the top.

(we still haven't figured out how to get blogger to keep our first entries at the top of the page and let you read through from the beginning )
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Friday, 21 May 2010

Price shock - 28 % power price increase (!!!)

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Well we've been offline for a few days.

Its been a busy week for Mr and Mrs Okada.

At one level you've not missed much.

Another 30 minutes of electricity here, another 20 there, and quite a bit of blackout.

But then the shocker - the price of our power is going up big time !

A 28% increase of power costs - from 6.6 Naira per unit/kwh to 8.5 per kwh

We're shocked

Have they not heard we're all in a global recession ??

Mrs Okada was shocked.

She whipped out the calculator to recalculate the monthly budget.

Using last week as a guide we've about 130 Naira to shell out per week then we'll be forking out N166.4 per week, or in other words an extra 36 Naira per week

Hmmmmm....

Maybe we'll survive after all.

NEPA bills don't cost too much if they're not delivering electricity.

Dear Mr President, we're not seeing so much electricity since you left town. Please keep working on this power thing.

PS- do remember that you promised us electoral reform when you finally decide on a new INEC Chairman. No shaking on this one please !!!
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