British Airways has said it regrets the March 27 incident, which led to the maltreatment of over 130 Nigerians on-board its London-Lagos flight.

The airline’s spokesman, Mr. Ademola Adedoyin, who said this in a statement on Thursday, said that the decision, which led to the incident, was taken in the interest of safety, and that it was not meant to maltreat the Nigerian passengers.

He said, “We regret the upset that the events onboard the BA75 to Lagos on March 27 have caused in Nigeria. We have made it clear that the decision to offload passengers was made in consultation with and on the advice of the UK police, and the sole aim of this decision was to ensure the safety of our passengers, aircraft and crew.

“Offloading passengers is not a decision that is taken lightly and is a rare occurrence. However, the disturbance on board the BA75 service to Lagos on Thursday, March 27, was a very serious incident, which required the presence of 20 uniformed police officers to regain control of the situation.”

He said that given the level of disruption on board the plane as it was preparing to depart, it was not possible to pinpoint which passengers were the most involved.

He said the crew members were subjected to both verbal abuse and physical assault which, in the confined space of an aircraft, could be a particularly serious issue.

Meanwhile, Virgin Nigeria has been listed on the International Air Transport Association Operational Safety Audit Directory, the global benchmark that measures airlines’ level of compliance to safety standard.

A statement by the airline’s Media Relations Manager, Mr. Sam Ogbogoro, noted that Virgin Nigeria emerged the first West African airline to pass the highly coveted certification following its successful completion of the intensive International Air Transport Association’s safety audit.

He said, “Virgin Nigeria is the first Nigerian airline and first West African carrier to be listed on the IOSA Directory.By this listing, Virgin Nigeria has been placed at par with the best airlines in the world having shown its commitment and demonstration to airline safety standards.”

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20080502413146

bluehorizo:

British Airways has said it regrets the March 27 incident, which led to the maltreatment of over 130 Nigerians on-board its London-Lagos flight.

[size=13pt]The airline’s spokesman, Mr. Ademola Adedoyin, who said this in a statement on Thursday, said that the decision, which led to the incident, was taken in the interest of safety, and that it was not meant to maltreat the Nigerian passengers.[/size]

He said, “We regret the upset that the events onboard the BA75 to Lagos on March 27 have caused in Nigeria. We have made it clear that the decision to offload passengers was made in consultation with and on the advice of the UK police, and the sole aim of this decision was to ensure the safety of our passengers, aircraft and crew.

[size=13pt]“Offloading passengers is not a decision that is taken lightly and is a rare occurrence. However, the disturbance on board the BA75 service to Lagos on Thursday, March 27, was a very serious incident, which required the presence of 20 uniformed police officers to regain control of the situation.”[/size]

[size=13pt]He said that given the level of disruption on board the plane as it was preparing to depart, it was not possible to pinpoint which passengers were the most involved.[/size]

[size=13pt]He said the crew members were subjected to both verbal abuse and physical assault which, in the confined space of an aircraft, could be a particularly serious issue.[/size]

Meanwhile, Virgin Nigeria has been listed on the International Air Transport Association Operational Safety Audit Directory, the global benchmark that measures airlines’ level of compliance to safety standard.

A statement by the airline’s Media Relations Manager, Mr. Sam Ogbogoro, noted that Virgin Nigeria emerged the first West African airline to pass the highly coveted certification following its successful completion of the intensive International Air Transport Association’s safety audit.

He said, “Virgin Nigeria is the first Nigerian airline and first West African carrier to be listed on the IOSA Directory.By this listing, Virgin Nigeria has been placed at par with the best airlines in the world having shown its commitment and demonstration to airline safety standards.”

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20080502413146

Interesting. I hope those screaming that it was all against Nigerians can read this to see how the other side views this. Worse is a Nigeria is representing BA on this one, LMAO!!! Even the Nigerian media is not RUSHING To publish this today, I hope the trend changes in the coming days.

hmmmmn they regret but still no apology.

Jamco45:

hmmmmn they regret but still no apology.

What did you expect them to apologize for?? From their perspective, unloading the plane was not against their policy. Now we see that the police had nothing to do with BA as it turns out security was the police and not BA security as the man made us think. So at this point, what exactly is BA to apologize for??

The incident that happenned before the offloading. Yes the people might have been unruly but it was all after they kicked Mr Omotade off the plane. You and I know that even if BA know they are at fault they will never admit it.

They might have done the right thing to kick 136 off the plane, my question is could they have handled the situation leading to the offloading better than they did? I honestly think they could have handled it better. Lets forget about the guy that was been deported for a minute. Mr Omotade words to the officers were "please don't kill him", should he have been kicked off?

To me this is not about race its about simple customer service. I have lived in UK for 15 years now and I can tell you that if you are being attacked in front of 100 people nobody will interfer just because they are scared and they mind their own business. One thing I miss about Naija is the fact that people will stand up for you on the street (lol apart from when guns are involved). I still believe some or all of the 136 passengers deserve an apology. What if you were on that flight minding your business and going for an important meeting the next day?

@JAMCO45

You have only Omotade's testimony that all he said was "please don't kill him".

Jamco45:

The incident that happenned before the offloading. Yes the people might have been unruly but it was all after they kicked Mr Omotade off the plane. You and I know that even if BA know they are at fault they will never admit it.

How sure are you of this?? According to Mr Omotade, the crowd was already complaining, loud too, even while he was on the plane. So how do you know that they only became unruly when he, Mr Omotade, was removed from the plane??

They might have done the right thing to kick 136 off the plane, my question is could they have handled the situation leading to the offloading better than they did? I honestly think they could have handled it better. Lets forget about the guy that was been deported for a minute. Mr Omotade words to the officers were "please don't kill him", should he have been kicked off?

The article is clear that they, BA, were not even in charge of the moving of the Deportee off the plane. That was the police doing their job. Mr Omotade confirmed this as well in his report. It is always easy for us to claim we could have done it better but we all know that is not always the case considering.

Are we absolutely sure that is all he said Considering the story BA is now telling of the same case, you almost get the idea that more happened on there that we do not know cause someone has to be lying here.

To me this is not about race its about simple customer service. I have lived in UK for 15 years now and I can tell you that if you are being attacked in front of 100 people nobody will interfer just because they are scared and they mind their own business. One thing I miss about Naija is the fact that people will stand up for you on the street (lol apart from when guns are involved). I still believe some or all of the 136 passengers deserve an apology. What if you were on that flight minding your business and going for an important meeting the next day?

Well… I am glad you at least see how arguing for race is not really a great idea. Now when it comes to you seeing it as a customer service blunder, what exactly will you say BA did wrong?? Knowing what you know now of the fact that the UK Police were the one’s Mr. Omotade confronted and not BA itself.

Well, I don’t know about where you live but I believe the UK is where it is today cause of law suits and complaints and much. I mean I have friends over there who are amazed when I tell them that over here, if I lock my keys in the car, I can call the cops and get some help. Over here in the USA where we have had little of such from persons who have been helped, people and police actually do all they can to help you in your situation.

For your belief about the 136, it turns out that not all of them were Nigerians. In fact, there were Americans and even British citizens ordered off the plane as well. Now, when it comes to airlines and next day meetings, trust me, I have had my share of annoyances. I missed an appointment myself on Tuesday cause of flight delays and there was really nothing I could do in the end cause these things happen. I mean airlines have some clause that does not really hold them for not delivering you to your final destination ON TIME.LOL

Now, if only Mr Omotade can tell us how he concluded that it was BA that did this to him, we will be moving forward even on this. I still can not for the life of me understand how this turned into a a) Nigeria issue
b) Nigerian Bar Association issue

Heck, if you ask me, it seized being a BA issue the minute the man opened his mouth to the policemen on behalf of the screaming “DEPORTEE”. Like I said earlier, on some other post, he could have asked the BA flight attendant to convey his concern or complaint to the policeman.

LMAO!!!

Jamco45:

One thing I miss about Naija is the fact that people will stand up for you on the street (lol apart from when guns are involved). I still believe some or all of the 136 passengers deserve an apology. What if you were on that flight minding your business and going for an important meeting the next day?

Oh pleeeeeeese,

How many times have people witnessed policemen beating up innocent individuals in Nigeria and have done nothing about it? Who came to aid of the teacher who was stripped naked, beaten and burnt to death by her own students? Please don't come in here exaggerating shit. We are all 'Nigerians' at the end of the day and so there is no need to fantasize!

EloSela:

Oh pleeeeeeese,

How many times have people witnessed policemen beating up innocent individuals in Nigeria and have done nothing about it? Who came to aid of the teacher who was stripped naked, beaten and burnt to death by her own students? Please don't come in here exaggerating shit. We are all 'Nigerians' at the end of the day and so there is no need to fantasize!
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PLEASE BE DECENT. YOU DONT HAVE TO REACT AGRESSIVELY IF YOU DONT AGREE WITH PEOPLE

KOBOJUNKIE,

This discussion can go on and on and on. One thing I agree with is that none of us was there and we will support and stick to each of our beliefs. None of the sides will admit any wrong.

Jamco45:

KOBOJUNKIE,

This discussion can go on and on and on. One thing I agree with is that none of us was there and we will support and stick to each of our beliefs. None of the sides will admit any wrong.

But you don't get it. My point in this is for us to stop JUMPING THE GUN and start thinking more about what we really know of things before we act. A whole NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION just put it's reputation on the line based on the story of just one man. Now the other side comes out and from what BA says, we now see that it was not even BA that the man was supposed to be fighting against but the UK police. I already see this as a huge mistake. We already dragged NIGERIA into it without considering what we actually knew of this. I mean Having a biased view of a corporation is not enough reason to blame the corporation for everything we can. We already played the race card and like many times before that card has been played, turns out there is not much evidence for such. Do you think the next Nigerian who cries RACISM and actually has evidence will be taken seriously

In many European countries, Americans are derided for speaking too loudly in normal conversation, yet anyone who has ever witnessed and heard the tangled baying mob of Nigerians grappling and jockeying for place in "line" for their own dedicated check-in desk at London's Gatwick Airport would come away from the experience with the opinion that even Americans are comparatively subdued and quiet, considering what is possible.

With a well-earned reputation for disorderly conduct fueling many a Nigerian's innate drive to LOUDLY "mediate" in any conflict or altercation they can find, the surprise is not that a bunch of Nigerians were kicked off a plane in the UK, but that such incidents do not occur with far greater frequency.

Some advice to Nigerian   "I know my rights" air travellers on routes to and from Europe or the US : 

This is a paranoid new post 911 world,  with incognito ARMED Air Marshalls on many flights who are trained to ballistically neutralize any person in the passenger cabin who wigs out and starts hollering or acting up, since the marshalls may act on the assumption that the disturbance is a diversionary prelude to an air-hijack attempt.   

If one or more passengers start getting loud on board an aircraft, SIT THE PHUCK DOWN, SHUT THE PHUCK UP, and be glad that it is not YOU engaging in behavior that could get a person shot or jailed quick. 

Convicted felons and deportees are routinely transported aboard commercial flights, and they may not always be willing passengers.  If you observe any such person struggling or arguing with their police escorts, DO NOT MEDIATE in the matter, unless you intend to wind up with your own police escort to assist you into a nice warm detention cell.

Where the Nigerian traveller sees and shouts racism, the London Airport Policeman sees a puffed-up, conceited little man shrieking with a hysterically funny accent about the hand-cuffs being too tight in the back of the squad-car as they cruise to the pokey and the usual disorderly conduct charge.

@Jakumo, LOL unfortunately i have to agree with you. 9/11 changed air travel and you give a convincing arguement. However you have to admit that the green passport does not get repect and arouses suspicion a lot wherever it is being used which to be honest is due to the reputation the country has. I mean flight passengers from Lagos to heathrow and most airports in the UK routinely have to walk through police with sniffer dogs and i don't know of any other route whereby that happens plus you get asked ridiculous questions by authorities if you use the green passport. I just still don't understand why they asked the man to prove that his cash was not the proceeds of crime though, because that right there is the fly in the ointment.

THIS is not the best of times for British Airways as its Nigerian passengers are fighting back either to recover their lost luggages or to enforce their fundamental human rights against maltreatment or negligence by the airline.

For instance, a Federal High Court, Lagos has ordered the airline to pay ?9, 000 to a Nigerian passenger, Mr. Emeka Ngige (SAN), being value of the contents of his luggage lost in transit aboard the airways while returning to Lagos from London.

This garnishee order was made by Justice Ibrahim Auta while dismissing the application brought by British Airways asking the court to stay the execution of the court's earlier judgement made in June 26, 2007 by Justice Oyindamola Olomojobi directing the airline to pay ?9,000 to Ngige as judgement sum for the value of the contents of his suitcase lost by officials of the airline.

By this order, the airline is ordered to go and respect the Nigerian laws by complying with the judgement of a Federal High Court of Nigeria, which has directed it to pay the judgement sum to the Nigerian passenger for negligence.

The statement by the BA authorities is a slap on the wrist, they need to accept responsibility for what happened

and promise our authorities that such an event will not never repeat itself.

Jamco45 i feel you , carry go

All you guys talking in favour of BA's action are exactly what is wrong with Nigeria and Blacks at large.

First although you don't have a confirmed BA view on this, you are more than willing to accept with prejudice that it has to be the Nigerian's fault, when will this self hate stop.

What happened to standing up for your own, people like you disgust me, you actually think you are intelligent but a far cry from it, people you are the types of idiots who sold their fellow beings as salve because they think they deserve it.

So we should now start thanking BA becos they haven't thrown us of their planes more often, you should be ashamed of that statement. If you actually do know anything, you would understand that the british fun seeking holiday crowd are actually one of the most unrully in the world.

We are Nigeria, we are not perfect, but when any Airline in the world, throws 136 of us of the plane, it matters not if they have justification, but they have to answer to the Nigerian public. We need to learn to stand up for ourselves, support each other, becos no one else will.

I am Nigerian, and I love you all.

Court Orders British Airways To Pay N2m Compensation To Nigerian
. As Another Sues For Being Handcuffed On Board

By Ibe Uwaleke and Cornelius Onuoha

THIS is not the best of times for British Airways as its Nigerian passengers are fighting back either to recover their lost luggages or to enforce their fundamental human rights against maltreatment or negligence by the airline.

For instance, a Federal High Court, Lagos has ordered the airline to pay ?9, 000 to a Nigerian passenger, Mr. Emeka Ngige (SAN), being value of the contents of his luggage lost in transit aboard the airways while returning to Lagos from London.

This garnishee order was made by Justice Ibrahim Auta while dismissing the application brought by British Airways asking the court to stay the execution of the court's earlier judgement made in June 26, 2007 by Justice Oyindamola Olomojobi directing the airline to pay ?9,000 to Ngige as judgement sum for the value of the contents of his suitcase lost by officials of the airline.

By this order, the airline is ordered to go and respect the Nigerian laws by complying with the judgement of a Federal High Court of Nigeria, which has directed it to pay the judgement sum to the Nigerian passenger for negligence.

In another development, a Nigerian, Ayo Omotade suing along with the President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) Mr. Olisa Agbokoba (SAN) and the association, has brought a suit against the airline to enforce his fundamental human right for being beaten, arrested, handcuffed and detained for several hours by the British Police aboard the airline.

His offence, according to his affidavit, was that he pleaded with the colonial police officers not to kill another Nigerian who was screaming in agony on board the aircraft because he was being deported.

The deportee, according to Omotade, was being tormented as his captors who were almost suffocating him to death in manacles chained him down.

His wailings, he further complained, attracted sympathy from him and other passengers prompting him to question the treatment being meted to the deportee.

Consequently he said, he was dragged from the aircraft by the officers and made to sit on the floor at the airport terminal after being handcuffed and slammed on the wall.

According to him, as stated in his affidavit, he was prevented from travelling with the aircraft, which he had already boarded to attend his brother's wedding.

No date has been fixed by the court to hear this matter.

In that same judgment made by Justice Olomojobi, she also ordered BA (British Airways) to pay the sum of N10, 000 to Ngige to offset the inconveniences he suffered and the cost of prosecuting the case against the airline.

The claimant (Ngige) in the suit filed in 1999 had contended that he on September 19, 1998 bought an air ticket from Lagos to London and back but on arrival back to Lagos from London on board the airline's flight No. BA2075, he could not find one of his three suitcases.

The issue of the missing suitcase, he further claimed was raised by him with the staff of the airline who promised him the luggage would arrive the following day as he was asked to fill a form in which he described the contents of the luggage to enable them track the luggage.

The suit, according to Ngige, was instituted when the airline refused to release the luggage to him and wilfully withheld the luggage and instead kept advising him to collect a compensation to which he will be paid $120 dollars instead of ?9,000 pounds said to be the actual value of the items in his luggage.

In the suit, he said, he sought a court order directing BA to deliver the suitcase with its contents or in the alternative, pay the sum of ?9,000 being the rough estimate of the value of the said suitcase and its contents and any other sum of money as may be determined by the court as being reasonable and fair value of the inconveniences suffered by him.

In his defence, British Airways called no witness but argued that it took all necessary steps to locate the plaintiff luggage but to no avail.


source;www.nigeriamasterweb.com/guardian

judgement is coming very fast for b.a and thats the start of the compensation,if they like let them not pay and thats the end of their flights to nigeria

bluehorizo:

British Airways has said it regrets the March 27 incident, which led to the maltreatment of over 130 Nigerians on-board its London-Lagos flight.

The airline’s spokesman, Mr. Ademola Adedoyin, who said this in a statement on Thursday, said that the decision, which led to the incident, was taken in the interest of safety, and that it was not meant to maltreat the Nigerian passengers.

He said, “We regret the upset that the events onboard the BA75 to Lagos on March 27 have caused in Nigeria. We have made it clear that the decision to offload passengers was made in consultation with and on the advice of the UK police, and the sole aim of this decision was to ensure the safety of our passengers, aircraft and crew.

“Offloading passengers is not a decision that is taken lightly and is a rare occurrence. However, the disturbance on board the BA75 service to Lagos on Thursday, March 27, was a very serious incident, which required the presence of 20 uniformed police officers to regain control of the situation.”

He said that given the level of disruption on board the plane as it was preparing to depart, it was not possible to pinpoint which passengers were the most involved.

[b]He said the crew members were subjected to both verbal abuse and physical assault which, in the confined space of an aircraft, could be a particularly serious issue.[/b]Meanwhile, Virgin Nigeria has been listed on the International Air Transport Association Operational Safety Audit Directory, the global benchmark that measures airlines’ level of compliance to safety standard.

A statement by the airline’s Media Relations Manager, Mr. Sam Ogbogoro, noted that Virgin Nigeria emerged the first West African airline to pass the highly coveted certification following its successful completion of the intensive International Air Transport Association’s safety audit.

He said, “Virgin Nigeria is the first Nigerian airline and first West African carrier to be listed on the IOSA Directory.By this listing, Virgin Nigeria has been placed at par with the best airlines in the world having shown its commitment and demonstration to airline safety standards.”

http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art20080502413146

If the crew were subjected to verbal and physical attacks by some of the passengers, why stop at the arrest of just one, and why then go on to put the rest of them on later flights or put them in hotel accommodation for the night.(as someone once mentioned)

Even the only guy that was arrested was only charged under the money laundering act, are we to believe that there was no one in the 20 police officers or the crew that could testify against him if he was violent as claimed?

Someone is definitely lying and I think i know who that is.

Interesting read. I feel you Big bumper

Statistically, more Nigerians are arrested for crime outside their home country than most other nationalities combined, with a significant number of those arrests arising from drug trafficking offenses detected at airports.

This reality implies that international travellers with Nigerian passports can reasonably expect to attract the sort of law enforcement attention that would be focused on an air traveller dressed immaculately in a prison uniform.  Common sense SHOULD thus dictate that Nigerian's outside their homeland need to strive to be on their very best behavior if they don't wish to wind up delivering those indignant "I know my rights" speeches for the bored amusement of fellow inmates in jail.

The ubiquitous "Don't you know who I am ?" attitude that Nigerians are accustomed to adopting in confrontations with their area-boy contemporaries in the squalid back-streets of Lagos simply WILL NOT WORK in Heathrow or Gatwick Airport, and will more than likely get cut short by the slamming of that paddy-wagon door after an inevitable arrest.

Bottom line :  Mind your own business, shut up and keep your head down when on board a plane or in an airport building anywhere outside of Nigeria, and maybe, just maybe, you won't get roped in with the usual suspects when the chit falls after some Lagos Big Man opens his big mouth to try and show British or American policemen who is boss.

YourFather:

All you guys talking in favour of BA's action are exactly what is wrong with Nigeria and Blacks at large.

First although you don't have a confirmed BA view on this, you are more than willing to accept with prejudice that it has to be the Nigerian's fault, when will this self hate stop.

What happened to standing up for your own, people like you disgust me, you actually think you are intelligent but a far cry from it, people you are the types of idiots who sold their fellow beings as salve because they think they deserve it.

So we should now start thanking BA because they haven't thrown us of their planes more often, you should be ashamed of that statement. If you actually do know anything, you would understand that the british fun seeking holiday crowd are actually one of the most unrully in the world.

We are Nigeria, we are not perfect, but when any Airline in the world, throws 136 of us of the plane, it matters not if they have justification, but they have to answer to the Nigerian public. We need to learn to stand up for ourselves, support each other, because no one else will.

I am Nigerian, and I love you all.

My friend you're a very wise person!! don't mind all those ITK set of people here defending their british masters

Come and see british tourists here in Palma de mallorca, all drunk and unruly, walking the streets of a city wearing only bikini or pants all in the name of seeking sun (thank God they get a well deserved fine if they do it again now)

Jakumo:

Statistically, more Nigerians are arrested for crime outside their home country than most other nationalities combined, with a significant number of those arrests arising from drug trafficking offenses detected at airports.

This reality implies that international travellers with Nigerian passports can reasonably expect to attract the sort of law enforcement attention that would be focused on an air traveller dressed immaculately in a prison uniform. Common sense SHOULD thus dictate that Nigerian's outside their homeland need to strive to be on their very best behavior if they don't wish to wind up delivering those indignant "I know my rights" speeches for the bored amusement of fellow inmates in jail.

The ubiquitous "Don't you know who I am ?" attitude that Nigerians are accustomed to adopting in confrontations with their area-boy contemporaries in the squalid back-streets of Lagos simply WILL NOT WORK in Heathrow or Gatwick Airport, and will more than likely get cut short by the slamming of that paddy-wagon door after an inevitable arrest.

Bottom line : Mind your own business, shut up and keep your head down when on board a plane or in an airport building anywhere outside of Nigeria, and maybe, just maybe, you won't get roped in with the usual suspects when the chit falls after some Lagos Big Man opens his big mouth to try and show British or American policemen who is boss.

@ One day it might just be you, or your relative. It is in our culture to stand for one another. I don't know how long you have stayed abroad,therefore some of this values might have eroded but for some of us that culture is still there.

I will stand (reasonably though) for a fellow Nigerian maltreated anywhere in the world.

deor03:

@ One day it might just be you, or your relative. It is in our culture to stand for one another. I don't know how long you have stayed abroad,therefore some of this values might have eroded but for some of us that culture is still there.

I will stand (reasonably though) for a fellow Nigerian maltreated anywhere in the world.

Come to think of it, do most Nigerian's deserve to be stood up for anyway?

jakumo, u are the biggest fool of all, ode buruku, u are so smart to the extent of stupidity. keep

Engineered please save your impotent ranting for when next you visit London and decide to become a guest of Her Majesty.   The local constabulary there would be delighted to accommodate you free of charge, in response to your pushing the right buttons with some patriotic Nigerian ululations.

To all who think there are two sides to this story you must be absolutely bonkers.
BA has a history of maltreatment of Nigerians.
It was published in the Independent that BA has a history of rascism.
They were deporting a Nigerian fair enough.
They maltreated him. Not fair.
The man (Mr Omotade) who spoke up was been treated like a criminal for speaking up for hi countryman. This is in the Guardian UK. Check their website.
The used a Nigerian to release the statement to appease to our country person in us. Obviously it worked cuz some of you on this thread think because they used a Nigerian to release the statement then it must be legit. I unreservedly call all of you who believe this idiots. This is a classic media spin which I was actually discussing with a journalist and viola! they have done so. There was no way they were going to use a White person to issue this statement of defence.

To those of you who hold Oyinbo people the master in high regards then you really should move out of Nigeria and come and clean your masters shoes here in London. I am sure they would gladly accept you here to wash their toilet on minimum wage. Majority of Nigerians lack self respect in their race to be accepted readily by the White man. The white man respects you when you stand up for themselves.
If we let BA off all on this statement then boy, I oh boy i do not know what to say. As a patriotic Nigerian living in the UK, I stay putting my boot up the white man's ass if he disrespects me. i work in a highly successful company and I see how our young Nigerians who come in take insult so they can fit in. I never had to go through that cuz I did not take shit. You are Nigerian and you deserve the respect of everybody and you should reciprocate this respect to all

So you out there, keep licking the boots and believe the whip shall be cracked hard on you. Feel free to respond to this.

One more thing, a lot of Nigerians usually wonder how "Jamo" people et away with a lot of crap in London, its cuz they are quick to stand by their poeple. Yes they know they smoke way too much weed and they are likely to drop out of school, have a baby before 19 and other social negatives but on the whole, they stand by each other when something wrong is done to them in UK. We see what happened last year when Ken Livingstone tried to alter their Carnival, they unitedly stood against it. Guess what part of the Carnival was shut down, the Nigerian part. Where were we. A lot of US knew livingstone were gonna shut that down but unlike our Jamaican counterparts, no one cared.

Jakumo:Bottom line : Mind your own business, shut up and keep your head down when on board a plane or in an airport building anywhere outside of Nigeria, and maybe, just maybe, you won't get roped in with the usual suspects when the chit falls after some Lagos Big Man opens his big mouth to try and show British or American policemen who is boss.

The fact you say this is very scary and you are a slimy coward. You are such a slave and i spit on you. In fact I hope something like this happens to you and you feel the full brunt of it. I hope it happens to you in France where you can experience French immigration brutality towards Nigerians. That way when they beat you into a coma and you miss important events in your life, no one would care cuz we would follow your advice and mind our businesses and keep our heads down.

Calm down gentlemen, for it is this very sort of hysteria that will get you in trouble if you lose control in a public place.

As for being labelled a coward for not going out of my way to seek police trouble in the West,  I gladly accept the honor as I consider it far preferable to spending even one hour in anybody's detention.  With a deep and respectful bow,  I'll go ahead and leave all the heroics to you die-hard PATRIOTS who are ready to jeopardize your own liberty by stepping up and defending the rights of a complete stranger who happens to carry a passport that is the same color as yours.

May you emerge from the jail-house experiences stronger, nobler and wiser than when you first went down kicking and screaming in restraints.

Texcee:

The statement by the BA authorities is a slap on the wrist, they need to accept responsibility for what happened and promise our authorities that such an event will not never repeat itself.

I agree with you o jare, plus unreserved apology and adequate compensation to all passengers on board.

those guys are playing smart on our intelligence, they are only trying to avoid sanctions by the nat. assembly.hope our reps dont consider their crocodile tears

@ Jakumo or wetin u call yourself again, When you say "Statistically, more Nigerians are arrested for crime outside their home country than most other nationalities combined, with a significant number of those arrests arising from drug trafficking offenses detected at airports."  Which statistics are you qouting from? Or do  you expect us to accept your word as the gospel truth?

Honestly I think you are just typing a whole load of crap and if you want to sell your birthright go right ahead and do that. Nigeria doesn't need peeps like you. And we are better off without you. For once I'm "that" close to really insulting someone on the net but I'll refrain from it.