₦airaland Forum

tessyade: Its so sad that we keep losing some of our best brains to such disasters. May their souls rest in peace and May God help this country.

muffins99: @justwise: thanks for your post and I'm sorry that you got thrashed because of it. I just thought I'd clarify the issue but please kindly do your own research and do not take my word for it. I know what I know and he knows what he knows and its clear we cannot agree. However, it was not my intention to claim omniscience but rather made a comment as to why halon wasn't used.

@jp phillips: I don't live in Australia and have not made that claim. I said my cousin's husband works for a aviation fire service in australia and I believe it's a firefighting service dedicated solely to aviation fire... ;Dand by the way, the organisation is called airservice not aviation fire service- you'd have seen this if you'd taken the time to check. Call it whatevever you will, have the last word on this (likely an insulting one), I don't care.

JomoGbomo2: GEJ is obviously unaware of what he is doing. The clown has once again displayed his naiveness and ignorance when it comes to governance and rule of law. I just can't imagine what will happen in the next 3 yrs.

Personally I think this guy in unfit to be head of a family.

justwise: I think you have actually lost the argument, reading your post and that of muffins99. I knew nothing about Aviation fire fighting type and the domestic one but reading muffins99's post gave me a clue about the two types, while you are busy banging on in another direction with insults. Why not put your points across without raining abuses?

research classes A,B,c and D fires, then smartly place your
"AVIATION NONSENSE" where it rightly belongs, bearing JET A1, kero or hydrazine as likely fuels, fuselage are duralumin components too.

omodapson: So na Dana dey manufacture those moto. People will not stop amazing me.

muffins99: Thank you very much for the insult. I know what classes of fire there are afterall I have some fire-fighting training. My comment wasn't about classes of fire (A,B...) but what you call them (domestic, industrial, etc). Nigeria does not have a proper aviation firefighting department so I do not expect you to know what that is. My cousin's husband works for a aviation fire service in australia and I'm sure that they (Australian's) would not call it so if aviation fire does not exist. I will not get into an exchange with you but contrary to what you think, I am not olodo and I do not speak brashly or ignorantly.

http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/careers/aviation-rescue-and-fire-fighting/

because Australia has "AVIATION FIRE SERVICE" justifies your claim that Aviation fire exist?
re you related to beaf? , olodo .

because there is New york fire dept means there is "New york fire",loooool
waste!!.

to think that you Applied for "Aviation fire fighting" to fight "AVIATION FIRE" makes me LMAO. Abeg go study at virtuoso's college of olodonization.

you attended fire training course, your cousin's husband is inferno by middle name, Nigerians don't know Aviation fire because you are cleaning white man's piss in Australia. check my location again.

muffins99: You know what it isn't but not what it is. I guess you'll also say that domestic and industrial fires do not exist? I still maintain that its aviation fire cos I checked before posting, as I always do before posting anything on NL. Please tell me what the correct term is, I want to know ... perhaps you do not know. You'd have been better off giving probable reasons why Halon wan't used- since I wasn't sure if it could have been used in this case- that is, if you even know what halon is.

tevinsolt: anyone noticed that Stella Obasanjo and the plane crash that happened 7 years occurred on a Sunday too 23/October/2005.......same thing today.......i think God is mad at the level of entropy and misconduct in Nigeria

muffins99: I hear people say fire fighters ran out of water and think
- surely aviation fires are put out with halon or C02, not water?
- Water risers and fire hydrants shouldn't be things you only see in hollywood movies.

I watched this on foreign news channels and it was embarrasing to see people, without proper kit on, holding up limp water hoses. Haba!Nigeria needs to get its priorities right.

Caracta: On thursday, a tanker exploded.
On friday, another tanker exploded in the same area.
On saturday, a cargo plane crashed.
On sunday, another airplane crashed.
There shall be no loss again. If u believe, say AMEN!

Saint Chukz: I have been following this thread right from yesterday of this tragic occurence and i couldn't help but ask these questions about my country :- What exactly is happening to this nation? Where exactly have we gone wrong in this nation? Is the land no longer green with flourishing pastures? To cut the long story short, right now my eyes are swollen, my head is heavy, my hands are wobbling, my feet is in need of mechanical supports...i am seriously tired of this situation. My sober heart goes out to all the families of the deceased both those affected in the aircraft and those affected at the impact site on the ground. May the Almighty and most gracious GOD grant their departed souls eternal rest and may perpetual light shine upon them, Amen...!

lol, at your questions, corruption is gradually bringing the nation to its knees pdp!!!!!!!!!!!!
say no to corruption, una no gree, elect credible people, una no gree, fight for a change una go sleep, now its time to pay with our lives, who is next
we have sown evil for sleeping too much in this country and evil shall we reap, no amount of God, Allah, jesus can change that simple fact.

shollyaj: Hmmm so sad....You gambled away people's life for Greed, Money & Power and U think your Kids won't suffer too. Its a matter of time.

a. Do you get always on PUSH email like he does?

b. When you run out of credit on your Nokia, what other options of communication do you have?

c. Do you have a secure phone?

d. Do you have as much data allowance for the same period at the same price?

e. Do you have access to IM clients on the go as he does? (Note whatsapp while mimicking BBM well, doesn't still let you know when a message is read!)

XtremeBase: Inene, i didnt even see this when i made my own post. These are my points exactly? The guy is a gold digger and had this all planned out. I am pretty sure it would have been a small wedding or even court, and the guy knowing he has no money except the one his oil company working friend gives him would tell the cousin that he doesnt like anything loud, he wants a small wedding with just family and few friends etc. SMH!

pro01: This is such a preposterous question. Men and woman have different privileges, just as they have different burdens. A man knows how much effort, time, money, and other resources he expended to 'win' you, yet you still have the audacity to give that pussy he worked so hard for to another man. Surely, this can't be as painful to a woman who didn't do anything to win the man, so why should she be so offended by his 'cheating' (if you can call it that)? What 'investment' does a typical girl/woman (in Nigeria at least) put into a relationship that entitles her to the same 'privileges' as her man?

Call me a chauvinist or whatever, but the fact remains that men and women live by different rules for the most part. I'd certainly find it bemusing for the typical naija babe that has to be bought/maintained with money to be upset if I decide to have some variety in my sex life. However, if she is atypical, then of course she has every right to demand equity. But we know that the atypical ones are less than 5% in this part of the world. You can't have your cake and eat it.

Meanwhile, superficial morality has NOTHING to do with this. Let's be pragmatic here.

ben4ever: please stop generalizing this issue. Not all men cheat and for some of them, when you jnow why, you wont blame dem. Besides which lady can truly claim to be a virgin before she met her husband?

jessymic: that have been the problem in our society, men seems to enjoy everytin starting from family inheritance to cheating which is also in a normal tin. but in everytin am still happy to be a woman sha

i love the "sha" part, lol. it is called the "battle of the sexes" Men are the winners for now, women should step up their game

Ultrame: Ha! iya won!!! That hospital will burn!!! 800k just like that. Abeg pay me my money!!!

rotiroti: so hard to say.......now a days might be something to have for emergency purposes. With all that's going on in the world...it's a hard one...I think for me when my kids are older I would only for the sake of emergencies and what not.

alj harem: [size=13pt]Shebi una talk say you no go learn, You go learn by thunder by fire.

Sanusi is just following the economy so stop blaming Sanusi

If you increase price of fuel in a mono economy like Nigeria, every commodity inflates, thus devaluing the Naira. eg what 10 can buy before would be less now

SO STOP BLAMING SANUSI !!!!!![/size]

One big problem of Nigerians is our inability to scrutinize people’s pedigree.
Look at president Jonathan for instance, this is a man with zero success story as both deputy and Gov. of bayelsa state, zero success story as both vice and acting president yet Nigerians delude themselves he is the messiah even when it was clear that unscrupulous elements were donating to his campaign, we still believed he will take us to the promised land on luck.

Let us talk about this mystic economic team Jonathan put together, who are these people?
I for one have no bias against any public official in which ever capacity but I have zero tolerance for incompetence,
Has sanusi’s economic agenda ever worked in this country? Which school of thought does he belong to and what is his mission in this country?

I asked this because I am an ardent follower of events in the economic parlance and the pragmatism of sanusi’s economic agenda eludes me.


This is a man who inherited a banking sector which according to Business day 2006 edition averred that for every five Nigerians with a good job, three are bankers.
Today, we have a Sanusi who in his usual voodoo economic jingoism has created more unemployment and inefficiency in the banking sector than the military junta.

Who is this man Sanusi?

In the words of his predecessor, he consolidated these banks, the banks were more financially robust, doing bigger business but along the line something happened.
There was partial deregulation and the cost of diesel went all time high and very scarce, militant siege in the Niger delta, some of those companies who took loans from the banks were running high over head cost and couldn’t survive the tsunami of events that followed,
Job cuts, and eventual closure, during the last days of chukwuma soludo, the businesses were already down so no way to repay the bank loans.
The banks were stranded but soludo applied wisdom, in his words ‘’ decision making in the banking system must carry the instrument of perception along’’ and that was exactly what he did, he quickly created an EDW whereby the near distressed banks could quietly access Govt. loans to revive their institutions hoping to keep people’s confidence in tact while the banks gradually recovers.

Here comes our Sanusi with his usual voodoo economic theories and economics jingoism.
Destroyed the first instrument of perception which soludo fought so hard to preserve by coming on National television to announce that most banks are not healthy. You know the end of the story. Till date we lost one of the most viable sectors of this economy, we lost meaningful employments and international confidence in our banking industry in its entity, thanks to Sanusi’s voodoo economic theories and mystic economic solutions.

I ask again; who is this Man Sanusi and his mission in this country?

I leave you to be the judge of preceding events from Sanusi’s actions. After consulting his economic oracle, he boldly told Nigerians that the way forward is to bail out the banks (he destroyed) and give loans to SME’s (small and medium scale enterprise) hoping that they will bounce back in business to repay the bank loans.

Till date, Sanusi has not given Nigerians the progress report of those bailed out SME’s especially those in the textile business.

By throwing his weight behind full deregulation in the downstream sector simply tells me that Sanusi’s witch doctor did not tell him exactly which economic formula destroyed his banks. Perhaps he thought that his SME ‘’palliative’’ was good enough for miserable Nigerians who don’t mind trading a permanent position job for a contract job which was what his SME’s were offering or rather, our good jobs for underemployment.
This is a man that ignores the basic on ground economic theories that work in the country for some mystic economic solutions.

[b]That begs the question; should you deregulate fully the downstream sector, what becomes of those SME’s and how do they repay the loans you gave to them considering that energy cost and inflation will triple their over head cost? [/b]Or has his voodoo economic solution already categorized them as mere collateral damage in your economic reform agenda.

Let us analyze some of sanusi’s Hennessy inspired economic formulae.

First he said that by withdrawing subsidy they have destroyed corruption and broken the financial bones of the ‘’cabal’’ benefiting from this subsidy regime, is this really true?
If the landing cost of PMS is about 120naira and government’s inefficiency bloats it to 141naira (ofcourse, storage,transportation,deumurrage etc as enshrined into the subsidy are all Govts ineptitude).
“Citeris paribus” under the subsidy program a marketer earns 110-65 (ie if ideally Govt clean their mess)
And without subsidy, a marketer makes 220,180,165-110 who exactly did this economic magician break their finances? Because what I see in my economics kwashiorkor is Govt transferring the burden of import deficit to the people.

Secondly, his liquor economics made him believe that he will save money in the face of spiral inflation, and went ahead to justify the inflation saying it is by a fraction of 10% increase, lol
This is an economy without a functional price regulatory agency and a comatose standard organization with bribe drunken police officers. What drives this man’s economic sagacity? Witch craft?


Thirdly,

Sanusi is consistently lying to Nigerians that an increase in pump price will attract investors to build refineries; this is the verge where I think sanusi should go back to school.
SLS is not enlightened enough to understand why there was an exodus of indigenous American companies from united states between 1998 to 2008 to Asia and Africa, reason; COST OF DOING BUISNESS or better put, unfavorable business climate.


With unfavorable tax laws, incessant labor wage reviews and land acquisition challenges, most companies couldn’t survive and they left US en masse.

Today, a drunk CBN governor is proposing that increase in pump price which will directly translate to high energy cost (in a generator driven economy), spiral inflation and high cost of labor will attract foreign investors to build refineries. Is it not ridiculous?


What kind of voodoo economic theory is that.

Take shell for example, the presence of SPDC in portharcourt has given rise to a plethora of servicing companies rendering one or two services to shell and that is how it works.
Does sanusi think that the refining companies will be servicing themselves? Is that possible? When you destroy the business environment for these smaller sergvicing companies to thrive, how exactly do you want
the refining companies to thrive?

How do they cope? If at all it works, most components and services are definitely going to be outsourced to neighboring countries creating jobs for ghananians and Niger than Nigeria.
Some servicing companies will rather relocate to Ghana and leave skeletal operations here in Nigeria just to stay in business exporting our labour else where and our voodoo CBN governor thinks otherwise.
I am deeply ashamed and embarrassed for the caliber of m0rons that rule this nation.
I say it for the umpteenth time that we don’t need to create problems to solve problems, what we need is to ensure that Nigeria has cheaper oil on ground, that will attract investors as against sanusi’s high pump price economic theory which will breed inflation and closure of smaller companies.

The IOC’s (international oil companies) operating in Nigeria has told us that it takes less than 12 usd to extract 1bbl of our crude oil.
Why is sanusi not thinking of creating a solution from that angle? if NPDC can guarantee us just 150,000bbl/d of this cheap crude at less than 12usd, the market will be attractive, add refining cost and other cost to push it to about 22usd/bbl a pms of 30naira per litre will be achievable from these refineries and inflation will reduce by over 40%.
Is this too much for Madueke and Sanusi to sit and figure out? Other than their inflation marred solution.

Lastly

Sanusi lied that the subsidy reinjection fund will be used to build refineries; I can’t help but pity his unrealistic mystic economic solutions.
How much is the FG’s cut in the SURE fund? Less than 600billion, what kind of refinery will that build? Hope sanusi is not confusing refineries with fuel dispensing stations or we are going for another IMF/world bank debt burden? I don’t just get it.

Where is sanusi gonna get the crude oil to supply these refineries? From the little we make from our JV? I hope this man is not taking us for a ride?
This same crude we use to implement our budget? Which sells at international crude price? This man is cynical.

How did we end up with two monsters sanusi lamido sanusi and Allison Madueke at the same time? I don’t know if our prayers are really working.

Sanusi and Allison madueke are doing a great disservice to this nation though I don’t expect Mr. President to fire them because he is too incompetent to read the hand writings on the wall.

bayooooooo: One lazy secretary wrote this (names redacted):



She did not copy me. The Professor, my research advisor, forwarded same mail to me with additional "why?" on top. I wrote the Boss with copious examples of students that I taught same day and asked some of the students to mail the Prof.

Then, I sent the following to the lady (I copied my advisor):



She did not respond to my mail. First reminder, no response. Second reminder, no response. I picked my golden pen again and wrote a follow up to Human Resources Manager and copied Dean of Arts and Sciences. I wrote another one for the chinese guy, just for him to append his signature.

I organise another petition complaining about her many useless mails with sole aim of tarnishing the image of international students. I collected twenty three (23) signatures and submitted same to Dean's office.

The woman was queried. She wrote more than 50 emails begging me to withdraw my petition, promising heaven and earth. I did not dignify any of her emails with response. Then, she threatened to deal with me. She was stupid enough to send SMS. I forwarded same to the disciplinary committee hearing her case and reported same to the Police.

Bottomline, the lady was fired.

Ibime: Eziachi,

First of all, my sincere prayers for your return to full health. You are one of my cherished elders on NL.


Second of all,

It is very necessary to sack underperforming staff. . . however. . .

You shoulda got the cleaning company to redeploy the lady and put them on final warning before withdrawing the contract. The owner of the cleaning company is a business man just like you and the actions of this lady cost the company fixed income even though they had little jurisdiction over the ladies actions. If contracts were torn up everytime an employee misbehaves, nobody would have any contracts in UK. You have to raise complaints with the company and they will deal with the lady themselves. If they continue sending substandard staff, then you hammer them.

sample042: @op, if nt 4 maturity i wuld ve used harsh words on u. 4rm ur write up u seemd enlightnd n intelligent bt 4rm wat u composed above it demeans ur personality. Complain s nt a solutn to such things. As a poster 1c said "quit d sch" if it's nt convenient 4 u. Mind u, am nt a redeemer.

What’s the point of this write-up? The world deserves to know what goes on in these so called private universities. Covenant University is another university with loads of secrets. Do not be deceived. If proper investigations are carried out, who knows what can be achieved? We young people are made to endure a lot and when we complain to our parents, most of them ignore our tales in the belief that they are nothing but tales. I guess it is until something happens to the child of someone prominent in the society or military that these vices will be tackled.

Smilenw: GRA in Enugu !!! Looks like their original intention was not abduction. But honestly, how can these thugs compare the life of an innocent child to that of few ornaments? Btw, where was the child's father? Can imagine what the parents must be going through and sincerely pray for the child's safe return.

semid4lyfe: Don't know about others but the militants from my villa earn 60K/Month! I know cos I have some relatives who are part of the amnesty scheme and collect the grant. Lots of guys for my villa dey collect the pay and many of them have gone for training in SA, Ghana, Britain etc and some have gained admission into Nigerian Universities.

In fact, mid last year, the coordinator of the militants in my villa met with me and offered to put my name forward for the scheme for a cut of N20k/month from the allowee but I declined cos of my v. upright principles.

Naija na unpredictable place and one can just wake up one morning and see the names of the militants published in the National dailies and that no go pure at all. . . .Imagine make all my school mates/friends/babes wey I dey try chyke etc come see my name amongst those of militants Tufiakwa. . .God forbid bad thing!

Moreover, the meaning of ''a militant'' ain't flattering I don't want that tag hanging over my life. Although it wouldn't have been bad to collect an awoof 40k every month sha