₦airaland Forum

kITATITA:
The Police deserves the urgency; but I don't know about Customs. Besides, this is the man that was praised for his austere lifestyle.

The Federal Government has purchased an aeroplane for the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) at a cost of N1.73 billion.

The purchase is part of a bid to boost the capacity of the agency in regards to curbing smuggling on the country’s border.

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Minister of Finance, who commissioned the new aircraft on Friday at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, said it would help the Customs Service to strengthen aerial surveillance of the various terrains along the country’s borders.

Okonjo-Iweala congratulated the Comptroller General of Customs, Abdullahi Dikko, on the acquisition of the aircraft and urged the agency to work harder in order achieve better results for the country.

“The aircraft is an investment for which the country expects good returns,” she said.

“The terrain around the country’s borders includes difficult-to-access riverine and mountainous areas, which make monitoring and combating of the activities of the borders challenging. Several customs personnel have lost their lives or sustained injuries during attacks by smugglers in recent times.”

The two engine 12-seater aircraft with registration number 5N-DIA,which can fly up to 45,000 ft in altitude, will be captained by Kuhi Mbaya.

Captain Mbaya disclosed that the plane is fitted with the state-of-the-art equipment and could fly long distances, revealing that he flew the plane from Kansas City, in the United States and refuelled in Spain, before arriving Abuja.

Dikko said the aircraft would be used for the benefit of the customs in enhancing its revenue collection and surveillance around the borders.
The ceremony was honoured by the deputy controllers general, air force chiefs and members of paramilitary organizations.

VivaVivre:
oh really!!! That is untrue. He is free to travel aboard the presidential air fleet, as long as he is a part of the presidents entourage or a visiting head of government. He doesn't seem to fall in any of these categories, therefore, stop defending defaulters. For all we know, he might even be going about his own business and they call it "official duty". Who una dey deceive?

VivaVivre:
what business has he flying aboard the Presidential air fleet? Is he the president or a staff of the presidency? This is abuse of privilege!!! Here in Europe, our heads of govt either use the designated official vehicles allocated them (which in most cases are modest cars), or the board public transport. The best that could be done is hire a whole coach for them. If they lived the flamboyant lives that their African counterparts live, they would be voted out of office. Why are Nigerian politicians worse than magicians?

Shazee74:
As u can see with d green lines on d jet that its part of d jets in d presidential fleet

CSTR2:
Let me ignore your tribalism.
I thought your APC was going to curb wastes of the past PDP govts by selling off this jets.
Atleast that was one of the things APC wailed about under the PDP.

Paspane:
presendential or custom, is he supposed to be using private jet?

ezeagu:
Guy (or girl), SirShymexx already used one way and saved you guys, I then stopped, are you really trying to drag this thread back? Post about the south west nau.

perculiarperson:
Why are Nigerians like you not sharp

kay29000:
Even though I am on Ameachi's side, this is very hard to believe. Which Nigerian politician doesn't collect bribe? Some just collect more than others.

ezeagu:
What can I say, I guess my writing is just very engaging. Now post south west offerings.

SirShymexx:

I actually like Eko Atlantic a lot and I believe it's one of the reasons why I like Fashola a bit, ditto the metrorail - albeit I'm not his groupie and I still believe he was mediocre.

However, my only grouse with a project of that magnitude is the fact that they never tried to create an identity for the state. Lagos has no identity and when you're planning something as commendable as this within an axis - you've to plan ahead and make it statement, with an identity, so as not to suck developments away from other areas in the South West.

What am I saying? I'll New York and the Tri-state as an example. When Manhattan was built - the identity of New York became the financial district. After that, a lot of things moved to the two other states in the tri-state. However, with Lagos - those folks lack foresight and planning. And they just keep trying to fit everything into one state, while sucking developments out of the other states - thus making Lagos more snarled-up than it's meant to be.

ezeagu:
Please see the last few pages where I was handling several of you at the same time and debunking left and right. Please post economic development of south western Nigeria today like I have done.

ezeagu:
Check the post history. Everything here is a response. Someone makes a claim. A response is followed. I'm sure if someone made a claim you knew was untrue you'd want to correct them as well. So if there are no more false claims or verifiable facts then the thread can carry on.

kettykin:
Your candid opinions can be expressed, no insults please.
This is based on the recent confrontation between the Deji of Akure and Eze Ndigbo in Akure where the Eze Ndigbo was derobed, beaten black and blue and flogged when he was invited for a meeting with the Deji of Akure.

Will igbos with their vast majority network exert a revenge on the Deji anytime he is on a neutral domain or will igbos beat a retreat and eat the humble pie.

Please discuss and again no insults.

ezeagu:
I guess you missed the part where it was said the Onitsha Main Market was built for £530,000 pounds in 1955. That's the equivalent of 10 million pounds today according to inflation calculators. That's one expensive "yam market".

You're talking about pre-colonial now, do we want to go there? Isn't it more impressive that Igbo people who supposedly never had markets or towns now have some of the biggest markets and industries in tropical Africa?

Yes, oil was produced in other areas of the south, but, I don't know who was taking oil from Lagos then because Bonny and Calabar together accounted for at least 60% of Britain palm oil imports in the 19th century with a total value of over £350,000 in 1850, 50 years before Lagos £100,000 and that's without considering inflation which makes Calabar and Bonny's palm economy in the 1850s roughly four times the size. And that's just palm oil.

ezeagu:
Still not the first industry in Nigeria.

WIZGUY69:
So Oluyole industrial estate is dead? the industries in Ikeja etc are dead?
Seems you don't know the difference between industrial estates & markets.
just keep rewriting history to suit yourself, it's a free world buddy

ezeagu:
Look, I don't care about a radio station that doesn't exist today. I want to discuss innovations, not second hand equipment dashed to the Lagos office in the 50s. Eastern Nigeria was going through some industrialisation during the 1880s to 1900 which is why Calabar was the first capital. The palm industry is what started Nigeria and the trade was made by several ethnic groups in eastern Nigeria. The first anti-colonial movement, the Ekumeku movement, was initiated by Anioma-Igbo people. The biggest market of colonial Africa, Onitsha Main Market, still thrives today and now shares that title with Kumasi. I can't be bothered talking about industries that are completely dead today.

They tell outrageous lies to make them seem very important persons even as you evaluate them and see that they are not what they claim to be.


Igbos claim to be special. A wag quips: they are so special that they did not invent writing, the wheel or make any contribution to science and technology. When the world of science and technology is talked about they go missing! They did not even have the ability to develop an Igbo wide political state but instead lived in stateless villages!


http://chatafrik.com/articles/nigerian-affairs/igbos-lying-and-its-negative-consequences-for-them#.VdRlEDNw0jN

kingzizzy:
The only thing of note in what you said is that there are more industries in Ogun state than the SE/SS. So Ogundipe state has more economic and commercial clout than Onitsha. Enlighten me. Where are these industries, is it in Abeokuta or where? What type of industries are in Ogundipe state. I'm intrigued

tayooluwole:
Is Lagos not part of south west ? What of ONdo state where bitumen are deposited, what of osun where gold are deposited, what of OGUN that is emerging the industrial hub of Naija aside lagos... This is not to talk of agriculture and many more...Guy go sleep, I no feat they follow u argue

ezeagu:
1. No you didn't, you said "any reason why your SE was unable to achieve anything meaningful within the same regional era", I could talk about the first. Also Lagos was the administrative capital from 1906.

2. None of the stuff anybody built is empowering anything. Crude oil is the only relevant industry in Nigeria and everybody knows that.

3. The South east folk, as I said, were busy running the biggest markets in Africa and being put in administrative positions throughout Nigeria. The British encouraged education and allowed many missionaries into eastern Nigeria which made them very competitive in western education.

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ezeagu:
Eastern Nigeria had the biggest markets in Africa and eastern Nigerians were in top positions across Nigeria.



It was because of the palm oil trade that this country started in the first place. Eastern Nigerian oil was the prized commodity. Much development across eastern Nigeria. We can go before British Nigeria if you want, because bragging over achievements in slavery is pointless, apart from say independence movements, which was sparked by events such as the Iva Valley shooting of 1949 and which came from the examples led by the Ekukumku of Anioma-Igbo and the Women's war.

ezeagu:
In British Nigeria, yes.

ezeagu:
1. No, but that's not an excuse.

2. Other regions were busy having the largest markets in Africa, being the best at agriculture, or simply filing the upper ranks of the military and civil service.

There is no excuse why another Cocoa house wasn't built, apart from the missing presence of the British. I'm not saying you can't do it on your own, I'm saying that that was the situation