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WITH Nigeria holding the record of a country with the highest private jet ownership in Africa, the aviation sector has brought into sharp relief the paradox of a nation that is endowed with huge oil resources but where only a few are wealthy.

In a country where the average Nigerian lives on less than $1 a day, there is a super rich class of business moguls, bankers, preachers, politicians and oil magnates whose private ownership of jets is more than that of any other country.

While the rich can afford such luxuries, the economic crisis in the nation is seen in a situation where the aviation sector needs financial succour from the Federal Government.

Indeed, worried about the critical state of the nation’s aviation industry, the Federal Government is proposing a fresh round of intervention for airlines.

The new intervention fund would be different from the N100 billion given to airlines three years ago to help them boost their operations.

While some judiciously used the funds, others reportedly diverted them.

Also, government has ensured that access to the funds from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) would be on the basis of a single digit interest and it is for a long term.

A top official of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) told The Guardian that the ownership of the state-of-the-art jets in Nigeria had grown to over 200 in 2012 from 50 in 2008.

Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State had on October 7, 2012 acquired a brand new Bombardier Global 5000 (N565RS) for his exclusive use. He is said to glide all over Rivers State while holding the throttle levers himself.

The jet was primarily bought from Bombardier in Canada for $45.7 million through the Bank of Utah Trustee account.

Sources said Amaechi traded off the state’s current Embraer Legacy 600, saying it was too expensive to maintain. The sources said $5 million was added to the proceed of the traded plane that enabled the government to buy the latest airplane.

The oil-rich Rivers State already owns an AW139 helicopter, which it leased to a commercial airliner. The state then turned around to patronize the airline’s VIP Sikorsky S76C helicopter.

Last year, the state government sold its Dash 8-Q200 aircraft to Cross River State for $6 million. Cross River State then leased the plane to Aero Contractors to undertake commercial flights to and from Obudu airstrip in the state.

Amaechi is just one of many state chief executives that own airplanes.

Aircraft manufacturers like Bombardier, Gulf Stream, Embraer, Hawker Siddley and Challenger have made Nigeria their huge market because of the demand for these aircraft types by wealthy Nigerians.

The common brands of private jets in Nigeria are Hawker Siddley 125-800 and 900XP, Gulfstream 450, 550 and 650; Bombardier Challenger 604, 605; Global Express; Embraer Legacy and Falcons.

According to an official of Bombardier, the Canadian aircraft manufacturer, Nigeria ranks behind the United States, United Kingdom, and China among countries that top their orders for the supply of the aircraft type; just as there are indications that N1.30 trillion may have been expended in the last seven years. Nigeria is said to top the market for private jet ownership.

The Managing Director of Aero Airlines, Captain Akin George, had recently spoken on the increasing number of private jets being parked at most of the aprons of Nigerian airports.

He was particularly piqued that most of the private jets carry foreign registration credentials rather than Nigerian registration.

The decision to register the jets in foreign countries, particularly in South Africa, is said to be informed by the notion that in case the owners want to resell the jets, they would warrant a bigger value from buyers.

He had subsequently called on the authorities concerned in the country to make registration processes in Nigeria friendly and attractive.

The economic downturn in Europe and the United States had made Nigeria and China to become two of the fastest growing private jet markets in the world.

There are many factors that have encouraged the rise of acquisition of customized jets, which cost between N2.4 billion and N9 billion.

Chief among these is the fact that flight schedules in the aviation industry are no longer flexible.

Again, the dearth of aircraft and the huge passenger traffic that is not commensurate with the capacity of the airlines has made air travel difficult for those who wish to travel by air.

In a situation like this, wealthy Nigerians would opt to acquire their own private jets to save time that would have been wasted waiting for flights whose times of departure are not known.

According to Aviation and travel expert, Olumide Ohunayo, the flight schedules of most commercial airliners that are not flexible have made it attractive for those who can afford private jets to acquire them.

Recurring delays and an inherent socio-political and economic system that thrive more in spontaneity rather than rigorous planning, according to Ohunayo, are other contributory factors.

His words: “Worldwide, they are taxed and made to pay higher charges to fund the civil aviation system and to reduce congestion, but that is not the case here.”

The new intervention fund of the Federal Government for the aviation sector is about a 16-year facility, which is expected to boost domestic aircraft operations.

This time around, the fund whose exact amount is yet to be disclosed would be paid to aircraft manufacturers or lessors for airlines to acquire newer fleet.

Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah-Ogiewonyi made the disclosure in Abuja at the weekend in an exclusive interview with The Guardian.

She said the intervention fund given to the carriers did not grow aviation, adding that, “we wanted a direct growth for a better impact than what we currently have in place and our strategy to utilising it is to have a tripartite, triangular if you like, system where the CBN with the approval of the Ministry of Finance pays directly to aircraft manufacturers of the leasing company.

“The leasing company would in turn bring the aircraft to our airline operators. The airline operators would now have access to brand new aircraft. If not brand new, but relatively brand new aircraft. You and the passengers will have access to functional airline that can take you to where you want to go safely and aviation remains the preferred mode of transportation,” she added.

She explained that a thorough audit of the airlines was carried out when she assumed office, stressing that there were airlines which were half-dead, financially weak, ineffective, inefficient and predicted that they (airlines) would collapse in six months because of their poor standards.

Airlines in Nigeria have shown signs of ailment, as all of them are heavily indebted to banks, aviation agencies, fuel marketers to the tune of over N250 billion.

Piqued by the development, the apex bank in September sent a circular banning financial institutions from extending further credit to Nigerian airlines.

According to the CBN, this will prevent the airlines from further escalating their huge debt profiles by borrowing more money.

Unlike in Nigeria, the United States gives bankruptcy protection like the chapter 11 protection, just as stakeholders call for more support for the carriers.

They noted that the domino effect of a crisis-ridden sector would lead

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Dear God, I donate all my fake friends & pretenders as a burnt offering to you, use them as a living sacrifice for my success, Amen!!!!

Kslib: How many of una wan finish that pounded yam?
No tell me say na only you ooo..
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Ehen,are you really Mr Itulah from Benin city,Edo state... ###Just asking###
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All izz well!

Make I go change my name

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No long throats guys....

One year after losing his wife, Apostle Anselm Madubuko of Revival Assembly Church is getting married to a 33-year-old Kenyan gospel singer, Emmy Kosgei. But people are beginning to ask questions, if one year is not too short for him to move on with another woman.

Pastor Anselm has a contrary opinion. See the reasons he give below:
"It is how I have chosen to do it. I have decided to move on. I found out that even 10 years will not be enough to forget my late wife. 20 years still will not be enough to forget my late wife. The time anybody remarries has nothing to do with your former partner. And that's one thing people fail to understand. We were married for many years and suddenly I was left alone. It's about many things, companionship.

"Once that person close to you goes, you can never forget the person. It is a matter of picking up one's pieces and moving on. I can't forget Connie, she was my life, it's just about moving on. I don't listen to people. If you re-marry or don't re-marry people must talk.

"I thought I wasn't going to re-marry but God said that is not his plans for me. He chose Emmy Kosgei for me. I chose to trust God more than my mind. I am looking forward to having more children," he told Encomium magazine.

Fhemmmy: So the top should be a man carries his kids on the bike, cos without the wife, it is not yet an "All Family"

All na topic, no thank u..lol

Fhemmmy: Incomplete, cos the wife is not there oh

She get fat body, that`s why space no remain for her

I think am seeing 8 heads or are my eyes seeing them correctly?

This is way too much....whats your view guys?

Source: http://grahamcluley.com/2013/06/hack-facebook-sms/

How to hack any Facebook account in under a minute, by sending just one SMS
Graham Cluley | June 28, 2013 8:28 am | Filed under: Facebook, Mobile, Privacy, Vulnerability | 7

Facebook mobile phoneA UK-based security researcher going by the name of “fin1te” has earned himself $20,000 after uncovering a way to hack into any account on Facebook, just by sending a mobile phone text message.

This should – obviously – have been impossible, but due to a weakness in Facebook’s tangled nest of millions and millions of lines in code, potentially hundreds of millions of accounts were vulnerable to hijacking through the simple technique.

Fin1te (real name Jack Whitten) has documented how the hack works on his blog.

The first thing to do is send the letter “F” in an SMS message to Facebook, as though you were legitimately registering your mobile phone with the social network. In the UK, the SMS shortcode for Facebook is 32665.

Send an SMS to Facebook

Facebook responds, via SMS, with an eight character confirmation code.

The normal sequence of events would be to enter that confirmation code into a Facebook form, and go on your merry way…

Facebook mobile activation form

But fin1te discovered that a vulnerability existed on that form, that could be exploited to use the confirmation code he had been sent by Facebook via SMS with *anyone* else’s account.

What fin1te had uncovered was that one of the elements of the mobile activation form contained, as a parameter, the user’s profile ID. That’s the unique number associated with your intended target’s account.

Profile ID parameter inside form

Change the profile ID that is sent by that form to Facebook, and the social network might be duped into thinking you are someone else linking a mobile phone to their account.

Therefore, the first step needed to hijack someone’s account in this way requires your victim’s unique Facebook profile ID.

If you don’t know what someone’s numeric profile ID is, you can always look it up using freely-available tools – they aren’t supposed to be a secret.

Find a Facebook profile ID

Sure enough, fin1te was able to replace the profile ID parameter sent by his browser to Facebook with the unique number of the account he wanted to access…

Facebook hack data

.. and within seconds his his mobile phone was sent an SMS confirming that he had successfully connected the device to the account.

Facebook confirmation SMS

Success. A Facebook account now has a third-party’s mobile phone number associated with it. Without any need for malware or phishing. All that was done was to send an SMS text message.

The final stage of the account hijacking is straightforward. Facebook allows you to log into its system using your mobile number rather than an email address if you want, so at login you enter the mobile phone number you have associated with your victim’s account, and request a password reset via SMS.

Reset code

Sure enough, fin1te discovered that Facebook duly sent him the password reset code for the account – meaning he could change the account’s password, and lock out its legitimate user.

This is an incredibly simple but powerful way to take over anybody’s Facebook account.

The good news is that fin1te disclosed the vulnerability responsibly to Facebook, rather than exploited it for malicious intentions or sold it to other parties. Facebook has fixed the problem so others can no longer take advantage of this serious security hole. For his troubles, Facebook awarded fin1te a hefty $20,000 worth of bug bounty and fixed the vulnerability.

But there’s no doubt that on the underground market, perhaps sold to cybercriminals or intelligence agencies, fin1te’s discovery could have earned him even more money.

Who knows what other serious security vulnerabilities may lay inside Facebook that haven’t been responsibly reported to the company’s security team?

If you are on Facebook, and want to be kept up to date on the latest privacy and security risks threatening users, be sure to Like the “Graham Cluley Security News” Facebook page

[quote author=Frank-C]Are you saying in essence that protocol allows a governor to saunter into the hall hosting an occasion where the President is already seated? Can a Local Government Councellor or Chairman walk into a ceremony where the Governor is already seated? You happen to say nothing about Lamido calling Gulak a boy. If GEJ calls Amaechi a boy, will you retain your position? How can the 5 governors give the condition for reconciliation as the sack of the Party National Chairman? Do you now see why strategic thinkers like Gulak need to speak to maintain the present division to keep denying the Amaechi led NGF the potency to push and succeed in removing a Party National Chairman against the President's desire.

The fact is that NGF has become so powerful and need to be reigned in, otherwise we will be faced with tyrany of the minority. This body is not a constitutional body, yet they wield so much political weight that they decide what happens from political appointments to economy (SWF) to war on terror (if not for the early split, Amaechi and his gang has already taken a position against this) and even dictating who becomes the party national chairman. That is not good for our democracy. The NA, council of states, NEC, FEC, etc have their roles in our democracy and NGF cannot usurp all those on the very potent stable of political expediency.[/quote]Mr Frank, you have said it all......Nothing left to say.

Special Adviser to the President on Political
Matters, Ahmed Gulak, on Monday accused the
five northern Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
governors, who recently embarked on nation-
wide consultations to douse the political tension
in the country, of disrespecting President
Goodluck Jonathan.
The state governors are Sule Lamido (Jigawa)
, Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Aliyu Wamakko
(Sokoto), Babangida Aliyu (Niger) and Murtala
Nyako (Adamawa). Gulak, however, included
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State in the
list of disrespectful state governors.
Gulak, speaking through his Political Affairs
Assistant, Godwin Akpovie, was reacting to a
statement in which Gov. Lamido made reference
to him as “a boy.”
It would be recalled that the Jigawa governor
had taken the presidential aide to the cleaners
for asking that the differences between the five
governors and the President be settled internally
instead of embarking on national consultations.
But apparently taken aback by the statement,
Lamido described it as “offensive and
disrespectful” coming from that “boy”, Gulak.
But Gulak on Monday wondered why the
governor was asking for respect when he and
his other colleagues had not shown same to the
President.
He said, “The other day, in company with some
other governors, led by Governor Rotimi
Amaechi of Rivers State, they (the five northern
governors) walked leisurely into a function in
which President Jonathan was already seated.
“Is that not an affront to the office of Mr.
President? How many of them will allow their
commissioners to walk into a function in which
they are already seated?
“As part of resolving their so-called differences
with Mr. President, they are demanding the
sacking of some key personnel in Mr.
President’s administration, including Alhaji
Bamanga Tukur, the National Chairman of the
Peoples Demoratic Party.
“Again, can anybody, including Mr. President,
order them to appoint so and so individuals as
commissioners in their respective states?”
He also accused the governors of keeping quiet
when the interim chairman of the All
Progressive Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, called
Jonathan a ‘kindergarten’ President.
“If l may ask; are they still members of the
PDP? If they still are, why are they more critical
of the President than even the opposition?
“Respect is reciprocal. Anyone who wants to
propagate equity must come with clean hands.
You cannot demand respect when you refuse to
accord same to a higher office.
“Besides, what is disrespectful in advising that
it is more decent to explore and exhaust all
internal mechanisms to resolve any perceived
grievances?” He queried.

Federal Gov. may massively produce or buy multiple for individual to encourage them.

This a video clip before and during which Nigerian went into war with Biafrans.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=MyLlGQ1e4qc

Jessica Mattews is her name, she invented power generating football that can last upto 72hours after 30min play. The Federal governments has appointed her as an Ambassador in Nigeria.

Link: www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/fg-appoints-electricity-generating-football-inventor-as-ambassador/

Jessica Mattews is her name, she invented power generating football that can last upto 72hours after 30min play. The Federal governments has appointed her as an Ambassador in Nigeria.

Link: www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/fg-appoints-electricity-generating-football-inventor-as-ambassador/

It better for everyone

TRUE FEDERALISM: THE SOLUTION TO NIGERIA'S LINGERING PROBLEMS
There have been ethnic and religious tensions around the world, and in some cases have resulted to devastating wars. Examples of such tensions were found in the Former Yugoslavia, which disintegrated into seven countries vis- Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Bosnia. We also have the post-Soviet states, also commonly known as the Former Soviet Union or Former Soviet Republics, are the 15 independent states that emerged from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in its dissolution in December 1991. The three Baltic states restored their independence on the basis of state continuity; while the remaining 12 republics are deemed to have seceded from the Soviet Union and are thus referred to as the Newly Independent States, viz Armenia; Azerbaijan; Belarus; Estonia; Georgia; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russia; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Ukraine; Uzbekistan - (Wikipedia). Sudan is another example. Since gaining independence from Britain and Egypt in 1956, Sudan has experienced more years of conflict than peace. These conflicts, fought between the Sudanese government and movements arising within Sudan, are commonly rooted in the exploitative leadership of the Government of Sudan, and the unequal distribution of power and wealth among the Sudanese population. These internal tensions drove the country's decades-long civil war, which led to South Sudan’s secession from Sudan on July 9, 2011 -(enoughproject.org).

With the above examples in mind, Nigeria should strive towards resolving her lingering problems by adopting a different structure for governance. The map below could be used as the demarcations for the federating units in the entrenchment of TRUE FEDERALISM, as against the country splitting up into independent units. In all fairness, we need a very strong country, but for effectiveness and to reduce the unnecessary tensions, power should be devolved and decentralised to the federating units, which in turn will lead to accelerated socio-economic and infrastructural development. The current structure foisted on us by the selfish colonialist hasn't worked and there appears to be no meaningful headway as a result of the ethnic/tribal; religious; and regional bigotry of the selfish and greedy POLITICAL CLASS and their sycophantic followers and supporters. MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES.

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Dbanj and wizkid were spotted rocking the same
versace shirt over the weekend.
Good to know that the two music stars are friends!

Twitter conversations

A few hours ago, Hip hop artist Eedris Abdulkareem
released a new single “I go whooz u” and it’s
currently trending on twitter.
Reacting to the new track, Mavin boss, Don Jazzy
tweeted at Eedris saying “Baba if you wooz me, I go
still bend down and clean your shoe o. I hail, I love
your new jam, keep the flag flying boss. God bless
you”

For more: dailystar.com.ng/2013/08/14/i-will-bend-down-and-clean-your-shoes-don-jazzy-tells-eedris-abdukareem/