₦airaland Forum

Paa Djadad Habul ( The Zed Festival)

Location
Snellville 19 Baah Baah Yananan ln Snellville, GA 30078 United States

Date and time
June 24 · 3am - June 26 · 9pm EDT

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Ubuntu Uppercut Short Film (The African John Wick)

If they are really concerned about his mental state they should remove his sole authority to order nuclear warfare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFED6Fx8iDY

China Spying On The Kenyan Goverment

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Argentina vs Nigeria U20 (0-2)

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Argentina vs Nigeria U20 (0-2)

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Nigerian singer Rema in Kapil Sharma Show in India

Africans should stick to their own and African women should stop wearing wigs to imitate other races

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=harZ-0bxqq4

Nigerian Man Challenges Pastor Who Contracted Him To Give Fake Prophecies

A Mexican drug cartel has sent a letter a letter of congratulations to Tinubu

US Drug Cartel Delegation arrives Nigeria for Tinubu's Inauguration

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This Is Why Indians Don't Marry Black People

Tinubu In Court Over Corruption Charges

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FG Acting in Illegality with the Launch of Nigeria Air - Chike Ogeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p18jrXmXdiw

There's Nothing Nigerian in Nigeria Air - Prof Obiora Okonkwo

Domestic Carriers Claim Ethiopian Airlines Plane Covered With Nigeria Air Sticker Was Unveiled in Abuja

It’s a scam, aircraft owned by Ethiopian Airlines, covered with Nigeria Air sticker

A plane belonging to the controversial Nigeria Air, the proposed national carrier, finally landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, yesterday afternoon.

Outgoing Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, excitedly announced the arrival of the aircraft via a Tweet: “We are here. To Almighty God be all the glory. It has been a very long, tedious, daunting, and difficult path. We thank everyone for the support. This, by the will of God, will be for us and generations to come. Ya Allah make it beneficial for our country and humanity.”
But the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) described the unveiling of Nigeria Air’s aircraft as a scam, insisting that the aircraft displayed was a Boeing 737 MAX owned by Ethiopian Airlines and covered with Nigeria Air sticker.

Later yesterday afternoon at NAIA, Sirika officially unveiled the plane, a Boeing 737-800, which is one of the 35 aircraft planned for the National Carrier project. Sirika while unveiling the plane stated that a National Carrier is one infrastructure that has been missing in the general aviation dynamics of the country. He said: “This Nigeria Air Limited, of course, obviously, it’s an entity known to Nigerian laws. There is a partnership between entrepreneurs in Nigeria and the entrepreneurs in Ethiopian Airline Consortium. Consortium is a company belonging to many partners, and it’s a very long journey. “We started in 2016 and it ended today. There is a history behind all of these. There were challenges for that matter. We didn’t allow them to make us lose focus. We stayed with our eyes on the ball and today we’re here.

“No, it is not subjudice. If it is, we are not going to embark upon it. There’s nothing that stops us from continuing to bring developmental projects to our people. The constitution of Nigeria is very clear that it is within their rights to go to court for whatever reason they want to go to court, and it’s also within our own rights to do all the things that will promote the general well-being of Nigeria and Nigerians and this is one of it.

“The economy of Nigeria, the centrality of civil aviation and the promotion of the economy and the value addition to the GDP. It’s very important and paramount and the focus of the government and I can tell you that, from the roadmap implemented, aviation became the fastest growing sector of the economy before COVID. Even with COVID, we were the third fastest growing sector and this is the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics.

“So, in the process of establishing an airline, there are the conditions set by the regulator, which is the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). This airplane will be here and we will commence the demonstration flight to show that we can do it. Normally, I think between zero to 40 hours, but it can be less, it can be five hours, it can be two hours and this is to ensure that we are able and we have the capacity to do it.”
Speaking on the partnership with Ethiopian Airlines, Sirika said: “But, of course you know the partnership with Ethiopian Airlines, Nobody can doubt the capacity that this can happen. So, I know very well that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority will do the needful, and of course, give the clean bill to start to fly. So, this is part of the process. It’s the beginning of the establishment of the airline.”

In the business case, Sirika said it is envisaged that within the next five years, it will hit the 35 Aircraft mark: “You don’t come in one day to dump 35 airplanes. You can’t come in one day and start going to London. So, it’s a gradual process. The airplanes will be coming one after another. And until in the next five years, according to the business case, we achieve the 35 aircraft mark, from there, it continues.

“And don’t forget, this is a private sector-led airline with the skin of the government at 5% and there is no stripping right by the government. So, Nigerians are welcome and I am sure it’s going to go to the public for sale at some point for 5%.”
On his part, the Chief Commercial Officer, Ethiopian Airline, Lemma Yadecha Gudeta, while commending the effort of the federal government, assured that the project under the watch of the Ethiopian Airlines, would ensure economic development for the country.

Gudeta however assured that Nigeria Air would be a one billion dollars project in five years’ time, stating: “As far as the initial business plan that we are working on in collaboration with stakeholders in the consortium, Nigerian air will be a one billion US dollar company in five years’ time. “As a company in Africa, which operated for the last 77 years in aviation with Ethiopian Airlines is very much pleased to be part of the beginning of the Nigeria national carrier and we strongly believe that our presence here in Nigeria will serve as a way of supporting the economic growth of Nigeria.”

The AON described the unveiling of Nigeria Air’s aircraft yesterday as a scam, insisting that the aircraft displayed was a Boeing 737 MAX owned by Ethiopian Airlines and covered with Nigeria Air sticker. Spokesman of AON and the Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines, Prof Obiora Okonkwo made this known in an interview during Arise News Newsnight last night.

Obiora said there is lack of sincerity and transparency in the process of establishing a national carrier by the Minister of Aviation and remarked that all indications point to the fact that the federal government, which has only five per cent of the shares in the planed Nigeria Air, is bankrolling the airline, while other shareholders that have 46 per cent are quiet and Ethiopian Airlines, which has 49 per cent control share and core investor has not contributed funds to the airline.

Obiora said that AON is in court to stop the establishment of the airline because of the shadiness and lack of transparency and emphasized that the ‘charade’ that happened yesterday was to deceive the Nigerian public because the new airline has not met the five critical conditions that will enable it to secure Air Operator Certificate (AOC) from NCAA.

“There is an attempt by somebody to hang on to Nigeria Air, using it as cover to take over Nigeria’s aviation industry. So, the purpose is self-serving. The cost of the establishment of this airline is about $250 million. Who paid the $250 million? MRS and Skyway Aviation Handling Company Plc (SAHCO) listed as shareholders are not talking and have not made any contribution to the company and indications show they are not interested. Then if after eight years as Minister you can only bring in one aircraft, what do you make of such? Nigeria Air unveiling was meant to confuse Nigerians.

“Nigeria’s aircraft registration number is 5N and before you express the readiness to operate an airline you must have at least three aircraft registered in Nigeria, which you could buy or dry lease, but I can assure you that the document of the aircraft the Minister brought in is not with NCAA,” AON spokesman said. He said that if the Minister had succeeded in having an airline without going through the required process, the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) would have blacklisted Nigerian airlines because such would cast aspersion on the credibility of Nigeria’s airline certification, AOC.

The AON spokesman also said that the people behind this airline were eyeing Nigeria’s grandfather Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) rights, which is put at about $20 billion, adding that the alleged plan of Ethiopian Airlines is to force Nigerian carriers out of business with predatory prices; that is, selling tickets below profitable margins in order to force existing Nigerian carriers out of the market.


He also explained that Ethiopian Airlines planned to do this because it requested that the federal government must guaranteed all its loans and also give it 15 years tax holidays, adding that these advantages it sought would enable it survive and sustain its operations and it is targeted that in six months all Nigerian carriers would be out of business, remaining the Nigeria Air, as the East African carrier stated that Nigeria ought to have only one airline.

“Thank God NCAA refused to be cajoled. Many top NCAA personnel lost their jobs over this, but the Director General survived because the new Act regulatory the authority said before you remove the Director General, you must secure approval of the Senate. Soon ICAO will come to Nigeria to audit our processes. So, Nigeria Air is dead on arrival,” he said.

Obiora expressed the hope that the in-coming government will be business oriented and run pro private sector-driven economy, observing that the federal government had for many years been unable to refine fuel locally despite the fact that it has four refineries, but Dangote, an entrepreneur built the biggest refinery in Africa, adding that national carrier is outmoded and wondered why the outgoing Minister was desperate to establish a national carrier.

He also said that domestic airlines may not have partnered with the federal government to establish an airline because what the domestic carriers need is not partnership with the federal government but support, noting that governments after the Covid-19 pandemic supported their airlines with billions of dollars. “We are not against the establishment of a national carrier, but we don’t want an airline that will be used to wreck the country. We don’t think this process is good for this country. We are happy NCAA stood its ground to insist that the right thing is done,” Obiora said.

lordm:
It will work out soon.
God bless Nigeria.
May the new administration favour me and my family

Soon?, When?

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The church of the Holy G-string

Blue Rail Line: Government misses commercial operation deadline

When the Lagos State government announced that the Blue Rail Line would commence commercial operations in the first quarter of 2023, many residents, especially those living along the Orile-Okokomaiko corridor were exhilarated that the pain they undergo while trying to connect Lagos Island from that axis would become a thing of the past.

But just when they started the countdown, the state government killed their joy, by adjusting the date to April. We are in the month of May and commercial operations are not starting any time soon on the blue rail, which has been in the works for 15 years.

For those who have followed the rail project over the years, the shift in deadlines is nothing new given the several adjustments of completion dates since the days that Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola was in the saddle.

Speaking at the commissioning of the project earlier in the year, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, blamed the many shifts in the completion deadline (before the All Progressives Congress (APC) took power at the centre in 2015) on alleged hostile policies of the then Federal Government.

When The Guardian visited the Mile 2 end of the project, last Wednesday, there were no signs that commercial operation would commence before the weekend. Some workmen were, however, on the ground putting finishing touches, just as an additional post was still being constructed beside the Mile 2 station.

The station verandas looked unkempt and the two main doors were partly damaged. The broken sections of the doors were patched with roofing zinc to restrain prying eyes.

Bolaji Ajose, one of the residents of the area is not surprised that the state government failed to fulfill its promise, noting that this is not the first time that it has disappointed. “And I am not sure it will be the last. It is really sad.”

He, nonetheless, expressed optimism about the project’s impact saying, “If it starts (commercial operation), one won’t have to be driving down to the Island. And this will reduce the number of cars on the roads. Commencement of operations will also reduce vehicular traffic and by extension, ease pressure on road infrastructure, in addition to reducing travel time,” Ajose said.

Another resident, Olatayo Ogunsola, said that she is eagerly waiting for the commencement of commercial operations.

“When completion of work on the rail project was announced, I was looking forward to when passengers would start going onboard. So, my plea to the state government is to speedily commence the train transportation service.”

For Kayode Amusan, the blue rail line project has taken too long to begin servicing the people that have been waiting anxiously, even though “I knew that it would be difficult to commence commercial operation in April because a lot still needs to be done.”

“Honestly, if the government can get this project right, it will be easy commute to work and back, with more development going on within the corridors, especially from Orile, to Amuwo, Ojo. Commercial bus operators may be forced to bring down their fares. Louts could also be done away with.

When President Muhammadu Buhari commissioned the project, Blue Rail Line was not completed, as there were still several things that needed to be fixed.

At the commissioning ceremony, Sanwo-Olu alluded to this when he said that the Blue Line would be operational after the completion of a 750-volt-ampere dedicated power supply source.

It was, however, gathered that the non-completion of the 750-volt-ampere is a major interruption to the commencement of the commercial operation. It was further learnt that the test runs that have been going on for months now were done using locomotive, which should not be.

The idea of a state-owned metropolitan train service was birthed to check traffic and ease movement across the state, which has over 20 million residents. Over the years, moving around the state has been largely by road due to the absence of a functional rail transportation system, while water transportation is still at a developing stage. As a result of this, a lot of man-hours are lost daily to the perennial chaotic traffic on Lagos roads.

That was when the idea of developing a light rail network for Lagos, as a response to the perennial traffic snarl became a major best option. Former Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, resuscitated the idea in the early 2000s, with a formal announcement of its construction in December 2003, after an earlier attempt by the Lateef Jakande-administration failed.

In 2008, the state, through the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) made progress with the rail project, focusing initially on the Blue and the Red lines.

The entire Lagos State rail project is designed to run through various areas, under a seven-line network codenamed: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Purple, Brown, and Orange lines.

The Blue Line, which the state has exerted more energy on, is a 27 km-long rail project, connecting Okokomaiko to Marina. It is split into two phases. The first phase is from Marina to Mile 2, while the second phase is from Mile 2 to Okokomaiko, with the initial estimated completion date of 2011 for the first phase. This was, however, shifted midway to 2013, by Fashola.

However, the project suffered many delays, with the state government, and the supervising agency- LAMATA, sometimes giving contradictory reasons for the delay in meeting the numerous deadlines.

First Attempt At Constructing Light Rail

THERE was an attempt to establish a metro line in 1983. Flagged off on July 16, 1983, the project was expected to cost N689m, and the first phase was projected for completion in July 1986. But the project, which was to have 30 trains, each running 28.5 kilometers, on raised concrete tracks from Marina to Agege, was terminated two years after it started, and a year before the completion of the first phase.

Egypt’s Cairo Metro Line Up And Running

THE Cairo Metro, a similar project, which was to start operation after the first and second phases of the Lagos Metro Line had since taken off. It not only completed its Line 1 in 1987, but it also followed it up with two other lines. The construction of the Cairo Metro Line 1 started in 1982 after the French government agreed to give Egypt the necessary loan. The first section was opened on September 27, 1987, and the line was completed in 1989, connecting Helwan with El Marg, and consisting of 33 stations with a total length of 43 km, of which 4.7 km is underground. The line witnessed few developments since 1989 as New El Marg Station was added in 1999, to the northern end of the line, bringing its total length to 44.3 km. Helwan University Station was built between Wadi Houf and Ain Helwan stations.

Cairo’s metro network was greatly expanded in the mid-1990s with the building of Line 2, from Shoubra El Kheima to Cairo University, with an extension to Giza. The line includes the first tunnel under the Nile. The construction of the line was finished in October 2000, and was later extended to El Mounib.

The construction of Line 3 started in 2006, with the first phase opening on February 21, 2012, and the second phase starting in 2014. It has 29 stations, out of which two will be on grade and the remaining 27 stations underground, with a bored tunnel. The total length of the line is approximately 30.6 km of which 28.1 km is an underground section that became operational in June 2019.

And the city is not relenting, as it has commenced work on Line 4, planned to run from Haram District to New Cairo district, connecting Greater Cairo from West to East. It will cross the two branches of the Nile River and have a total length of 24 kilometres. It has an estimated completion date of 2024.

Addis Ababa Light Rail

ADDIS Ababa Light Rail, a light rail transportation system in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is another contemporary of the Lagos Metro Line that has become a success story in terms of completion though now grappling with some challenges. A 17-kilometre (11 mi) line running from the city centre to industrial areas in the south of the city opened on 20 September 2015, after inauguration by Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, service began on November 9, 2015, for the second line (west-east). The total length of both lines is 31.6 kilometres (19.6 mi), with 39 stations. Trains are expected to be able to reach maximum speeds of 70 km/h (43 mph).

The railway was contracted by China Railway Group Limited, and the Ethiopian Railways Corporation began the construction of the double-track electrified light rail transit project in December 2011, after securing funds from the Export-Import Bank of China. Trial operations got underway on February 1, 2015, and were followed by several months of testing. It is operated by the Shenzhen Metro Group.

This light-rail system was the first to be built in Sub-Saharan Africa. Of the two rail lines, the east-west line extends 17.4 kilometres (10.8 mi), stretching from Ayat Village to Torhailoch, and passing through Megenagna, Meskel Square, Legehar, and Mexico Square. The north-south line, which is 16.9 kilometres (10.5 mi) in length, passes through Menelik II Square, Merkato, Lideta, Legehar, Meskel Square, Gotera, and Kaliti.

The report, however, has it that the lack of spare parts has left 23 of the light rail’s 40 trams inoperable. This was just as low-ticket prices, overcrowded and limited services, along with electricity issues have made it difficult to generate enough income to cover operational costs.

Commenting on the botched commencement of commercial operation, the Consultant, Corporate Communication, LAMATA, Kola Ojelabi, said that, “the project suffered some delays in terms of escalators and the rest of it, which were held up at the ports for some time.”

He added that until the escalators and lifts are fixed, the commercial operation cannot start. “In terms of the operations, the tracks are there, the trains can run. What would assist people to get into the station very well is what we are fixing now, and we hope that would be completed by the end of May. Those are the things delaying the commencement of operation. If you get to all the stations now, you will see that those lifts and escalators are being fixed, and until that is done we cannot start commercial operation. It is not everyone that can go through the staircase, so, we have to do something that will make life easy for everyone. We would continue to do the test ride till probably the inauguration, and after the inauguration, we would commence operation.”

Source

https://guardian.ng/sunday-magazine/blue-rail-line-government-misses-commercial-operation-deadline/

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He is a dispatch riders and by observing the back of the motorbike this man can be identified by the Police

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BBC interview with President Julius Malema

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtopF9BLEgw

France vs Gambia 1-2 - U-20 World Cup & All Gоals - 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=448FLqMyjvo

Lothar Matthaus Acquires Accra Lions FC

Former German international and Ballon d'Or winner Lothar Matthäus has become co-owner of Ghanaian football club Accra Lions.
The former Bayern Munich player hopes the club can serve as a pipeline to European clubs

cejaypriesty:
My only concern is poor maintenance culture in Nigeria

This is an opportunity for Nigerians to create more companies specialised in maintenance.
We should learn to turn every problems into business opportunities