₦airaland Forum

The case of the stowaway, we should see as an act of God meant to alert us about the level of insecurity in the aviation sector. Imagine if the poor boy was a suicide bomber. Of course, it would have been a job perfectly executed. Let our government stop playing politics with our lives and be alive to their responsibilities. Let's look at the issue in a more comprehensive manner. The issue of insecurity in the country seems unending despite the huge resources supposedly committed to it by the government. Don't forget, the issue concerns all of us, but the ruling class seems to be most concerned; not because they care about the poor Nigerians, but because they have so much money stolen from the government treasury and they are desperate to tackle whatever would prevent them from enjoying their loots. If you doubt me, what about ASUU strike? Does it mean anything to them? No! Because their children are not attending any of the tertiary institutions in Nigeria. It is important for us to cry aloud now more than ever. The government should address the issue of education which the lack is one of the ingredients of insecurity in the country. To this extent, the recent case of the stowaway caught in Arik plane should be treated with every seriousness it deserves even if they feel they can turn deaf ears to the ASUU strike, so as to save the country from potential avoidable air disasters. In conclusion, let the government pay more attention to education of the Nigerian children so as not to continue breeding criminals from those who are supposed to be leaders of tomorrow. This again brings us to what ASUU strike stands for in the education sector. Nevertheless, the Federal government should eware! ASUU strike is a gunpowder. If it explodes, none of them in the government circle would survive it.

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The fight against Cybercrime in Nigeria should start from the telecoms operators. It is unfortunate that the government of this country has sold its people into slavery to the so called operators. How on earth could our government pretend not to know that the operator especially MTN, GLO, AIRTEL and ETISALAT are promoting gambling, laziness and greed especially among the youth in the country. The rates at which they disturb subscribers with unsolicited text messages and "Ponzi" promos is quite worrisome. The more you ignore or delete such messages, the more you receive from them. Of course, GLO cases are particularly annoying. Even when u call to inform these operators about your dissatisfaction about their disturbances, it makes no difference, as whatever step they ask u to take to deactivate such messages never worked. In most cases, the response u get is "The service is not available now, try later". Above all, they deceive subscribers to migrate to a certain plan without clear terms other than "Condition applies" only to discover that your airtime is being depleted irrationally for no effective service rendered. Imagine a situation when they claimed they were running a promo on television and they put the picture of a popular celebrity on television screen and asking people to choose the correct name of the celebrity among three or four different names given at N100 per message with the promise of a reward that is less than One million. Calculate it; if about five million unsuspecting Nigerians responded to such promo, it means the telecom company must have made a whopping sum of N500,000,000.00. Nigerians should rise up and condemn these thieving of the telecoms companies in stronger terms than ever. I am aware that NCC at one time or the other slammed fines of various amounts on the operators, yet the trend is getting worse daily and the quality of services rendered are getting poorer. In view of the foregoing, it is exigent that the government and its regulatory agencies should show genuine concerns about its people and put necessary measures in place to mitigate this ugly and unethical practices of telecom operators in Nigeria.[quote author=Jon-Ajumobi B.]