₦airaland Forum

It is high time another International airport (in the SE) is built or rather renovate the current ones we have.

From all the revenue Nigeria generate, do they want to tell the masses that they cannot renovate MMIA ?

By Omoh Gabriel

Passing through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport has remained a nightmare for travellers. The ordeal of getting through the arrival bay of the airport is better imagined than experienced. Last Tuesday, scores of prominent Nigerians and foreigners who came into the country on board British Airways had an unpleasant taste of the ordeal at the airport.

Immediately they came out of the aircraft which was well air-conditioned, they entered a very hot atmosphere. It was such that little children were choking while the adults were sweating profusely. At the Immigration desk, passengers clogged the area for hours. It was a pitiable sight.

The airport, like most other monuments in Nigeria, has become a show of shame. If you are travelling out of Nigeria, Murtala Muhammed Airport experience is a bad one and you will end up not having a pleasurable experience.

Mr. George Uriesi, the new Managing Director of FAAN, once told reporters that the organisation wants to intervene in the current sad experience at the airport and create an environment that gives passengers respect and dignity while they use the airport, and provide services that will make them feel like yes, ‘this is my country and it is beginning to get respect.’

He had said that President Goodluck Jonathan has come under pressure over the airport. “This January”, he had said, “the President and his team went for a meeting with some foreign investors and he was told to get serious with his airport, that it’s a disgrace. The pressure has gone all the way up and I like it.”

But months after this revelation of the pressure on Mr. President to do something about the airport, nothing has been done to give the impression that the non-functional air conditioners at the airport is being addressed. Remodeling the airport which FAAN claims to be doing does not stop the organisation from getting the facilities at the airport working.


If Mr. President was told that the nation’s airport is a national disgrace by foreign investors, is it not urgent enough for FAAN to quickly address the facilities at the airport? Does FAAN need to remodel the air conditioners at the airport? Instead of embarking on remodeling the entire airport at the same time, why did FAAN not take them one after the other in order to have enough funds to address the ugly and horrible situation at the airport?

Before the minister started her war against foreign airlines, did she take a look at the pains Nigerians and other users go through at the airport? Is it not better to fight a war when you know your house is in order and you have enough bullets in your guns to fight?

FAAN had promised that it was going to “make it a comfortable environment, some people keep laughing but they will see.” Months on, Nigerians have not seen any change.

Is FAAN’s Managing Director proud of being the managing director of a mess? If not, he should be more dissatisfied with the state of the airports than anyone else. He ought to show some urgency in addressing the situation to demonstrate that he is in a hurry to make some significant changes to the way the airport is.

It is a national tragedy that at the nation’s premier airport, the MMIA in Lagos, passengers have continually lamented that it takes hours to retrieve their baggage and other checked-in items, because the conveyor belt system is old and slow whereas the reverse is the case in other climes.

While slugging it out with the conveyor belt at the arrival hall, they also complain of humid and hot atmosphere because the air conditioning system is almost permanently faulty and the entire place is congested. There is also the issue of slow lifts and poor access for the physically challenged passengers, and more.

To cap it all, passengers complain of harassment and touting from various uniformed officials at the airport. Some, they know and respect, and others they do not recognise but dare not disrespect. All these make their experience very unpleasant and are wondering when these discomforts will end.

Also lamenting are airlines that say they are forced to operate their modern jets in dilapidated and congested airport terminals. They lament that they have lost airplane engines worth millions of dollars to bird strikes, with no form of compensation. This, they claim, shows that the bird and animal control is very poor and yet the airport charges are quite high.

Worse still, aviation experts say most airports in the country were built for political, not business considerations and today, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is saddled with the daunting task of managing 22 airports across the country with very minimal funding.

The modern airport business is a captive business module that says, ‘I have a platform that people must use, and it gives me an opportunity to provide arrays of services to this captive people.’ The captive people include those who are flying out and coming in.

Remodeling the airport is good provided it is not the avenue as usual to make money for some people. But what is mostly needed at Murtala Muhammed International Airport is maintenance of existing infrastructure to make the place user-friendly. What is the guarantee that when the remodeling is completed it will be maintained?

In maintenance, is FAAN ready to change its way as a responsible organisation to embrace maintenance culture? Mr. President should please in the interest of Nigerians and other foreigners using the airport intervene now to save Nigeria from this national embarrassment at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/04/murtala-mohammed-international-airport-the-shame-of-a-nation/

lastpage: Nothing could be far from reality than this! Tinubu as President of Nigeria?
Not in a million years!

As for GEJ meeting with Bank-Ole and Thief-nubu, well, Birds of the same feathers flock together, dont you think?

Lastpage!
BTW: l laugh when l hear peeps assert that Thief-nubu can deliver the S.W. to GEJ?
How will he? Will Thief-nubu force You and Me and our families to vote for GEJ? Or willhe buy my own conscience with stolen money?
Funny how you guys make a "Tin god" out of these mere mortals.....just because they have looted large amounts of our money!

Thank you jare,

Liverpoolfc: Reading through the story and comments hurts me. For the governor to blame pdp, i will not vote for him again, he just lost my vote for him, i hate him for that, he deserved to be punished for that. Eye witness in NTA news said it was a break failure. The accidents that occur in benin -ore, benin okene, and benin-sapele road who caused it? Pdp? It was wicked to blame pdp. May be oshio thinks that all those BREAKING NEWS in our media were not real, it is very bad of him, for governor to try and shift blames of his own BREAKING NEWS. I pray that more Break News affects our politicians that they may realise that BREAKING NEWS are real. I miss olatuji Jacob from ITV, i like the way he reports news....olatuji jacob reporting.

So who should be blamed ? State government (Osho)

Those roads you mentioned are FEDERAL ROADS, The FG has not given the SG the power to build on State roads so how is it Osho's fault ?

Abeg wake up

Adejoro74: ''I will spend more of my time and energy to talk about the fall in standard of education in Yorubaland than I would for one prominent position or the other''. -Mimiko

http://tribune.com.ng/sun/news/6598-yorubas-emphasis-must-be-education-mimiko

Bros you are fighting the wind. Yes I have admitted that yorubas are not educated but is that the reason why Igbo boys are dropping out and committing crime in the society from Maiduguri to Ibadan down to Onitsha.

LOL your link is quite a good one. It addresses the fact of yoruba funds going to educate here people.

Tell us about this

alj harem: [size=18pt]Igbo boys drop out of school to do drugs[/size]


Failure to address the realities of the socio-economic problems facing the individual passing through the education system has been identified as the major problem facing education in the country.

President, Nigeria Book Foundation, [size=13pt]Prof. Chukwuemeka Ike has attributed the reason why people drop out of school to the result of the Igboman's get-rich-quick propensity.
[/size]
[size=15pt]"Drug peddling, 419, internet business deals, political patronage, and other instant money spinning avenues have out distanced education as the means of acquiring the present day social indices of success, "namely a "white house", the okwu oto ekene eze automobile, paper titles from traditional rulers, and spraying of bundles of dollar bills at the slightest provocation".[/size]

In her remark, Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Education Trust Fund (ETF), Chief Mrs. Olutoyin Olakunri said that gender crisis manifests in Nigerian education system line in most of Africa.

To solve the problem, she said that a new awarenss and zeal in gender research must be developed, accelerated and sustained.

Olakunri highlighted the importance of Boy Child Education in Nigeria as a whole in the South East, adding that there is a national gender disparity in basic education in enrolment, retention and completion against girls.

She also said that there are regional variations in education with girls and women from Northern Nigeria and rural communities generally at disadvantage.

"The national literacy rate for females is only 56 compared to 72 for males, and in certain states the female literace enrolnment and achievement rates are much lower", she added.

She said that following this, strategies have been mapped out to address the imbalance by raising national awareness on girls education, building of schools technical capacity to develop girl-friendly school environment.

This Day.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200607130043.html

alj harem: [size=18pt]Igbo boys drop out of school to do drugs[/size]


Failure to address the realities of the socio-economic problems facing the individual passing through the education system has been identified as the major problem facing education in the country.

President, Nigeria Book Foundation, [size=13pt]Prof. Chukwuemeka Ike has attributed the reason why people drop out of school to the result of the Igboman's get-rich-quick propensity.
[/size]
[size=15pt]"Drug peddling, 419, internet business deals, political patronage, and other instant money spinning avenues have out distanced education as the means of acquiring the present day social indices of success, "namely a "white house", the okwu oto ekene eze automobile, paper titles from traditional rulers, and spraying of bundles of dollar bills at the slightest provocation".[/size]

In her remark, Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Education Trust Fund (ETF), Chief Mrs. Olutoyin Olakunri said that gender crisis manifests in Nigerian education system line in most of Africa.

To solve the problem, she said that a new awarenss and zeal in gender research must be developed, accelerated and sustained.

Olakunri highlighted the importance of Boy Child Education in Nigeria as a whole in the South East, adding that there is a national gender disparity in basic education in enrolment, retention and completion against girls.

She also said that there are regional variations in education with girls and women from Northern Nigeria and rural communities generally at disadvantage.

"The national literacy rate for females is only 56 compared to 72 for males, and in certain states the female literace enrolnment and achievement rates are much lower", she added.

She said that following this, strategies have been mapped out to address the imbalance by raising national awareness on girls education, building of schools technical capacity to develop girl-friendly school environment.

This Day.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200607130043.html

Adejoro74: Nigeria: Yorubaland in Moves to Shore Up Education

Some prominent indigenes of Yorubaland who are not comfortable with the poor state of education in the geo-political zone have formed a steering committee for mobilizing.

http://nigeria.codewit.com/nigeria/nigeria-yorubaland-in-moves-to-shore-up-education-560

This shoring up thing was several years ago. Still the same outcome. Losers

fighting the wind, you still have not answered my question you know ?

BTW you must be Igbo for you to be this tribalistic

what do you expect from a racist tribalistic newspaper like odili news. rubbish typical nyamaria newspaper

[size=18pt]Igbo boys drop out of school to do drugs[/size]


Failure to address the realities of the socio-economic problems facing the individual passing through the education system has been identified as the major problem facing education in the country.

President, Nigeria Book Foundation, [size=13pt]Prof. Chukwuemeka Ike has attributed the reason why people drop out of school to the result of the Igboman's get-rich-quick propensity.
[/size]
[size=15pt]"Drug peddling, 419, internet business deals, political patronage, and other instant money spinning avenues have out distanced education as the means of acquiring the present day social indices of success, "namely a "white house", the okwu oto ekene eze automobile, paper titles from traditional rulers, and spraying of bundles of dollar bills at the slightest provocation".[/size]

In her remark, Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Education Trust Fund (ETF), Chief Mrs. Olutoyin Olakunri said that gender crisis manifests in Nigerian education system line in most of Africa.

To solve the problem, she said that a new awarenss and zeal in gender research must be developed, accelerated and sustained.

Olakunri highlighted the importance of Boy Child Education in Nigeria as a whole in the South East, adding that there is a national gender disparity in basic education in enrolment, retention and completion against girls.

She also said that there are regional variations in education with girls and women from Northern Nigeria and rural communities generally at disadvantage.

"The national literacy rate for females is only 56 compared to 72 for males, and in certain states the female literace enrolnment and achievement rates are much lower", she added.

She said that following this, strategies have been mapped out to address the imbalance by raising national awareness on girls education, building of schools technical capacity to develop girl-friendly school environment.

This Day.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200607130043.html

Adejoro74: You have to explain yours first before you expect an answer from another. Charity begins at home. Why do Yorubas drop out of school? Why is that that despite Igbos dropping out of school (as you claim), the number of Igbos in schools is still by far greater than that of your people? Your article was written in 2006. You are not current, dude.

We are dropping out just cause we feel like. Now answer my question, How does yorubas dropping out affect Igbo people doing drugs ?

Adejoro74: Is it so you can run to London and steal their money that you drop out of school? Why is 99% of Nigerian corruption reported in the UK perpetrated by your people?

dude you are getting boring. Yes Yorubas are very very bad, you still have not explained why the most educated Igbo boys are dropping out of school

Obi1kenobi: Are you some kind of mouthpiece for every Yoruba man. I'm pretty sure this entire thread contains many Yorubas with their spurious, unsubstantiated claims about their pre-eminence. I've even seen a lot of their newspaper columnists sink to the same level in trying to stereotype the SE as a bunch of traders who don't go to school. Yet not a single stat supports their pretentious claims to erudition and sophistication. Infact, those unfortunate to travel to the Yoruba states like Ekiti and Oyo for NYSC or other pursuits often express surprise at the general backwardness.

If you claim they're not in competition with any group, I don't want to hear anyone's spurious claims about the number of Professors Ekiti or Ondo produce - particularly with no factual backing.

Shut it, Igbos are the best, Yorubas are just aljmajiris just as their northern brothers

so f-off and go carry cup. Igbos are the msot educated, we fit rest now ?