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In a very possible future scenario whereby Lagos and Abuja start becoming depopulated as a result of gradual industrial updates and developments in other areas such as areas in the SE (etc Enugu city, Onitsha, Nnewi, Awka, Aba, Owerri) & SS (PH, Asaba, Warri), airports around these areas would surely have to be 1st tier airports in other to avoid the situation of the undercapacity of MMIA. With the new airline, an introduction of the 747-8 on a typical busy route such as Los - Lhr, Los - Dxb and Los - Houston will surely counter the monopoly of Delta, BA and Emirates on such routes bearing in mind the amount of passengers on each route.


Are you knowledgeable within Aviation circles if I may politely ask?

CFCfan:
You're welcome.
If Arik becomes part of Nigerian Eagle (new national carrier), then NE will have over 40 aircraft. This would make it the biggest Nigerian airline ever.

If FG is really serious about the national carrier then doing an audit of the defunct Nigeria airways is absolutely necessary. They should also be more serious with the upgrades of existing airports. The amount to be spent on new terminals is really low. I read that N13bn (about $80m) is to be spent on building an international terminal at Enugu airport. I wonder what kind of design and quality they plan to deliver. If the FG can quadruple the amount required to build terminals across the country then we could start to see some better designed and larger terminals that can manage booming traffic.

I'm sure the govt. would take into consideration the fact that Arik is a highly indebted airline with an inconsistent aircraft order record. I remember and was eagerly anticipating the delivery of their triple-7 aircrafts in 2011 when they cancelled it due to financing issues. Again, they placed an order for 2 747-8 aircrafts but reverted it to 777s. I understand the FG owns a substantial part of Aero. If they decide to use either or both of these airlines, they would need to spend at least not less than £10bn to properly position the airline, develop quality terminal hubs, buy more long range aircrafts especially the highly economical 777s, 747-8s, 787-9s & 10s and A350s (except A380s), adequate development of the new airline's engineering services etc. With these and consistent and disciplined govt policies and regulations, the airline would most certainly be profitable and would look very attractive to investors.


What do you think?

~Bluetooth:


. . . . . . . . .I think Nigerians should start making plans to relocate to Jupiter cuz hell may be [size=13pt]worse[/size] than Nigeria when jonathan finally leaves office.

I believe you meant 'better' than Nigeria.

braine: Who is this one to conclude that a country as complex as Nigeria is a failed state huh? Professor, please tell us the contribution you've made in making things better. Enough of the negativity.

Guy check yourself.

He has been a Professor before your ancestors were ever conceived!

The heat is quite becoming unbearable.

superior1:

........Okorocha also insisted that although there are problems in his party, APGA, the party was committed to the merger.

“Let me say that APGA is in the merger talks. We have our little challenges and we are just trying to sort out about who are the APGA-APGA and who are the APGA-PDP.

“But I can tell you that the APGA-APGA (the real APGA) is already in the merger talks.

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/apc-governors-implement-free-education-okorocha-confirms-%E2%80%98real-apga%E2%80%99-part-merger

Very instructive comment!

@Nightshift and Eastsidaz,

As umunne Igbo, unu ekwesiro idi na-ako onu ebea. Unu kwesiri idi na-ekene Chukwu maka ifeoma dika shoprite na-abia na-alaigbo nke Onitsha.

Chukwu nonyere unu.

Interesting times indeed.

Yes I know. But how can we break Nigeria if we do not have a road map in the satellite pictures?

Musiwa A.K.A Becomerich, u don come again.

I no gree ooo until you show me the evidence in the satellite pictures.

ROSSIKE: Please leave blacks out of your inferiority complex. Your prostit.ute mother and father and siblings are useless and worthless.

Foolish diseased inferiority-complexed bastard. Your mother is the prost.itute upto your earliest ancestors on both your paternal and maternal sides of your cursed family.

Next time, do your stupid self a favor by arguing wisely instead of writing absolutely nonsensical rubbish in the name of contributing trash to this forum.

Idi.ot.

P4VS20:

dude, dont generalize okay, so speak for yourself. if you think you re the useless part of the black race, we wont hold it against you. you can ask for help. thank you.

the white pple also suffer these same things you mentioned. the difference is they look for solutions and not put their race down okay. the world is filled with people who just highlight problems without taking the initiative to do something about it.

i dont know how Israel sterilizing african women became a racial issue. i just dont get how people can just deduce rubbish. any little thing that is between two pple of different skin pigmentation is racism hey? lol. mhen, naa waa for una.

its their country, you blame them? you wanna over populate em and they placed control measures in place, you vex. they can do whatever they want. if you dont like it, get over yourself. this has nothing to do with racism jare.

Guy, If your motive is for me and you to argue or have a debate, it'll not be forthcoming. I believe in everything I wrote likewise you have differing opinions about my comments.

Black people sef. We're just a very useless race of people. If it isn't poverty, its disease, If it isn't disease, its family irresponsibility. And if not that, its illiteracy and a host of other problems. We'll leave our countries to migrate to other countries yet we neither can organize ourselves to utilize what we've been blessed with back home nor can we organize ourselves in the host foreign countries. The story of Africans can be likened to a man who owns a yielding farm yet begs for food. From one useless headline to the other.

[size=15pt]We're a useless set of people. [/size]

Keshi has shown a severe lack of technical skills with his choice of players and has allowed sentiments to becloud his decision to exclude certain players.

Now I really miss Osaze, Martins, Kalu Uche and Taiwo.

What was Ik Uche doing on the bench for so long with a player like Musa still on the pitch?

What was the motive of attempting to substitute Emenike. It even disgracefully appeared that there was a bit of confusion in the attempted substitution.

For a player like him, Mikel was quite careless with the ball throughout the game.

Onazi was fantastic. He played confidently and it showed.


I could go on and on... Disappointing really.

Guys, any idea of an online website to watch the match?

Ndigbo kwenu, Ndigbo kwenu, Ndigbo kwezuonu,

Isee.

Nigerians, I hail thee.

Happy new year to everyone.

I've been away from nairaland for 11 months and indeed missed the site. Nice to see many familiar posters around. It has come to my understanding that Mazi Onlytruth has ceased to be the Eze and has been replaced by Mazi Odumchi. Congrats to Odumchi and the new Eze Nwanyi Ogugua88 as I'm conversant with their posts.

Mazi Onlytruth was a conspicuously remarkable and effective Eze who understood the etiquette of diplomacy and belligerence and effectively utilized them to the advantage of the interests of Ndigbo Nairaland. A scion of our warriors past, a true fathers' son and the ebubedike of his umunna, he has led well by the attestation of his dearest brethren.

Mazi Odumchi, as the new Eze Ndigbo, mara na ndi iro choro ka I meyelie na nairaland. Ekwekwana ka ngwere gba aji here. Mulu anya ofuma.


Anyi kwu gi na-azu.

Ndigbo ekenem unu.

odumchi:

My brother, happy new year. No worries. We are currently organizing a date or the official handover. This will happen very, very soon.

Ndeewo.

Andre Uweh:
Happy new year Odumchi. I can remember we elected you as our new Eze Ndigbo last oct. What is happening to the mandate we gave you?.
From yours worried Andrew.

Onlytruth: Eze Odum, I sent you an email.
Happy new year bro.

Happy new year my people. Otegokwa aka m biara here last. I dee hail una.

Ileke-IdI:
Front page

https://www.nairaland.com/1157256/70-year-old-man-marries-15-year-old-saudi#13759685

Andre Uweh:
Alright. Happy new year.

Ileke and Andre, happy new year. Say make I hail una as e don tee.

Afam how far? Long time I never enter nairaland. Kedu maka Eze Ndigbo Onlytruth? I see say u be mod now. Congrats..

Negro how far. Long time. Where all of una political/cultural section guys? I dee hail una after a long time out.

Very noted Eze ndi eze niile.

@Obiagu, I can assure you that you are not the only one who harbours such thoughts. My hatred for Nigeria is unsurpassed and intensive.

Its a name that conjures up very very negative feelings in my mind.

@Onlytruth Eze Ndiigbo 1 of Nairaland, kedu ije?

PapaBrowne:

Very Interesting thread. 25 pages in 3 days!!
You learn everything here. History, Politics, Geography, Comedy, Sociology, Anthropology, everything.

I agree completely.

I've learnt and assimilated tons and tons of info from this forum.

Infact, I can honestly say that there's no other website that I've learnt much more about mostly everything about Nigeria than NL.

Boko Haram and Northerners aren't mutually exclusive to each other neither are their evil ways.

Alj, please join auwal87 for the growing multitude of northerners insistent on ending the union.

auwal87:

Majority of us now doesn't want this unity anymore, only those people holding some positions in the government or are planning to run for office in the future and take their piece of national cake are against the division. We are many and growing everyday.

The Middle-belt with people like IBB can keep their one Nigeria. We are over it!

Thank you. You're a highly foresighted and blessed man.

I pray that you go far in life.

Please, try to convince your people like alj harem, ndu_chuks, namfav, mai suya and other northerners so that, they can see into this realization.

Infact, there're more virgins for you on the way.

auwal87 I'm happy that as a northerner, you're indeed yearning for the dissolution of this great cesspit south of the sahara.

Its indeed blissful.

Infact, your kind hardly exists up there in Arewa.

I'm also very happy in your zeal for the realization of your region to join a United Arewa/Niger/Chad republic.

Please keep the fire burning.

100 virgins are reserved for you if this conquest succeeds, only and very solely for you!  

And please, take your middle belt slaves with you.

You all will do very well together.

And my interpretation of Fodio's scary dream or nightmare, is the massive deportation of the Fulani to their ancestral home of Guinea.

My ancestors were a mixture of warriors and traders in ancient Aro confederacy. I've also visited some graves dating back to at least the 1700's.

Good.

Informative but not surprising considering how increasingly difficult it is to separate BH from Nigeria's northern muslim ummah and vice versa.

Instructive. Very instructive. A man ahead of his time but which a certain useless country has held hostage to him and his people.