₦airaland Forum

Some deserve to be bombed back to the stone age... and use drums and smoke signals for long-distance messaging. Civilisation is not for everyone.

Gbawe: Anyway, most African leaders believe their citizens are 'children' with limited reasoning capacity.

I would disagree with this one. It is more about them knowing as well as you do that there is nothing you can do but to listen (in disbelief or not).

A person who fails to pay his employees for 4-5 months in a row has no right whatsoever to call names and complain of employees disloyalty. What happened to the loyalty towards the employee?! Loyalty works both ways.

Reptyle: Nice one. At least the airline's employees can get back to work.

Not all, not all, 2 pilots and a group of cabin attendants will not go to work

dejustice: Vehicle have accidents and we still use them.

Yes, but unless you are speeding like a lunatic, if something goes wrong with your car/bus/vehicle, you slow down or stop and that is it, you are out of trouble. But up in the air, everything MUST work perfectly well from embarking to disembarking (yes, and before, and after), otherwise you get an obituary. That is why the technical requirements are not and will never be the same on the road and in the air... That is why there are A, B, C and D checks, en-route checks, high requirements to get a licence for this or that etc. That is why some airlines get grounded, rather than the age of the plane. A question for everyone:

Would you rather fly:

A) A plane 31 year old, owned and maintained by Lufthansa (purchased first hand from Boeing)

B) A plane 31 year old, owned and maintained by, for instance, Sosoliso, purchased 3rd or 4th hand, a plane that was grounded for 7 years and underwent a C check just recently?

dejustice: May their Souls Rest in Peace - The Dana Air Victims.

Amen!

Now, for us customers/passengers, the queastion is: Will Arik and Aero (yes, and other much smaller airlines) be able to cope with the demand?

Air Nigeria's web site is still operational. You can try to book a ticket, but there is no flights... Why do they deceive customers?

R.I.P.

great actor, great movies.

Bluetooth hands-free earphones.

olivertwist: So why 45-60days in the case of Nigeria when 99% of them will be denied anyway?

They can answer that question better, but maybe a reduction of number of visa applications which are incomplete, problematic, obviously not genuine etc... by some 75% would enable the embassy staff to process them a lot faster?

colly227: A woman needs a Female bodyguard Imagine a man with a female bodyguard.

A member of the royal family back at home once visited the radio station I worked for. He had 2 bodyguards. One young man, and one mid-aged woman. She was his secretary and... a bodyguard. She was not more than 2 meters away from him even for a second. And guess what, she was trained in Israeli special forces and would probably easily kick a$$ of many men.

The issue is quite simple:

If, let's say, 1000 Canadians apply for a Nigerian visa abroad, it would take their staff so-and-so time to process all applications. And usually, there are no grounds to deny these visas.

On the contrary, if, let's say, 1000 Nigerian citizens apply for Canadian visa of some kind every single working day, it would take a lot longer period of time to process all these applications. Based on the info from my own embassy in Nigeria, a lot of visa applications are bogus, with either falsified documents or with some other issues. So, I guess if the number of applications in total is less, and all or most of them are genuine, Canadians would have no reason to create artificial delays and other disadvantages for Nigerian citizens (in order to demotivate them from applying in the first place).

For foreigners applying for a visa, the process is quite simple:

1. If you are a visitor/tourist (what tourism?!?!), you need a letter of invitation. Visa given does not allow you to work, but many come and do just that. Later, money exchanges hands and visitors visa is miraculously converted to a work permit.

2. If you are applying for a work permit (be it TWP, STR or some other type of visa), a company employing you in Nigeria must create an entry in their expatriate quota which is usually approved byt it can also be denied. I guess how much money exchange hands at this point is unknown to me. Then, once the entry is approved, it costs the employing company approx. N250k per entry per year. Once an expat arrives to Nigeria, a residence permit has to be created, and it costs some money. In addition to that, each trip abroad attracts the need to make a re-entry visa, which is about N8k for single entry, N16k for double entry and N24k for multiple entry.

3. Process at Nigerian embassies I was applying to takes a minimum of 7 working days (Nigerian and local public holidays and weekends observed). Visas are not too expensive, but not too cheap either, so that is not the issue. If you have hundreds of dollars for the ticket, you will certainly have 90 or 180 for a visa (plus courier service, plus documents required).

Euroclydon: The people should be assured that when they give out info,they will be protected from revenge attacks by BH...and info will flow.....i hope

How is ANY security agency going to protect the informants if they cannot protect themselves first? Police stations are being under attack every day.

[quote author=tpia@]why not just make the US visa free for nigerians?[/quote]Because Nigerian visas are not free. On the contrary, they are quite expensive.

Blisslife: This is great because malaria will kill people finish for nija

Is it really that special? Medicines such is Fansidar are not all that expensive... and the question is, how high will the price for this one be fixed by pharmaceutical gangsters?

How about Fansidar? It is also single-dose drug.

I suggest her to also ban British Airways, KLM, Lufthansa and any other foreign airline from operating from Abuja.
Well, not really.

[quote author=shine-eye]Thanks for the thread- although it has become, expectedly, a juicy meal for God haters and filth lovers to feast on. Anyway, hearing is for those who have ears. History will never stop repeating itself.[/quote]We are not God haters at all. We love and respect God, unlike Mr fake prophet. There was only one real prophet on this planet, and he died 2000 years ago.

Turkey has much more dense muscle fibers, and is a bit (and just a bit) harder so therefore requires longer cooking/baking.

As for the taste, well, I can't tell the difference either.

Can someone explain to me how exactly can the SMS or a phone call kill anyone? But when explaining, please be as specific as possible, don't just say JUJU or something.

Whatever he did (before becoming a general) does not justify the murder of his daughter (or any other murder).

I still wish these 4 were simply handed over to Cynthia's family, for quick prosecution, trial and execution.

Fhemmmy: Like some people always say . . My desk is a mess, but please dont touch, cos i know where all things are . . .Lol

Applies to me 101%, lol.

The eternal question will remain: Did he do that or not?

If he did it, he deserves nothing less but to be badly beaten by thugs.

If he was so brave to beat a woman, and not just any woman but his dear mother, why didn't he go to the nearby intersection and beat the hell out of 2 local mopol officers? probably because there is a couple of things they could do to him in return.

Guy deserves a rubber necklace, and whatever goes with that.

You should never... NEVER go to a photo lab and ask for passport.

it is called passport-size photo, not the passport!!! For passports, go to the police or immigration, whatever institution issues passports to individuals.

To the OP:

If keeping her family name (in addition to yours) is your main question/problem/issue, then simply don't marry that lady, as simple as that. Better for both of you.

Church of St Belzebub the Great (oh, should I add INTERNATIONAL to the church name?!)

Stallion77: this link is wikipedia my broda...you know when it was last updated[size=14pt]?[/size]

This page was last modified on 14 August 2012 at 05:56.

However, the content may not be so much up-to-date. In any case, good move by the FG.

Nice, nice. Don't take me wrong, I jsut wish this place becomes as safe as possible, that is all.

cheddarking: So Nigeria needs 24 new jets to fly over the Nigeria-Chad border daily?

Please park well...
and on ya innner light...

You did not answer my direct and a very simple question. What is the cost of operating, for instance, MiG29M, per hour?

cheddarking: For Border Patrol?!

Guy stop trying to be a know-all...Talk smart!

Well, being from that field, I happened to know. if you think I am wrong, then tell us how much do YOU think it costs to fly that category of plane, per hour?