I will be doing a road trip from Moscow to volgograd. I missed out on the train tickets. Any info on how I can hire a vehicle and driver for the trip. It will also be a good opportunity to experience Russia. .

[img][/img]

Am currently setting up a 1,500 hectare plantation. We just finished transplanting 300 hectares. We shall plant the remaining next year. Worthwhile and futuristic venture. Also capital intensive. We are ready to wait for 4 years before we celebrate. 2019 is around the corner

pinkrex:


Mehn..you're a serious liar. See how you distorted financial facts. Please how can you backup all these?


Wada can never be vindicated. What did he do? The truth is that, it was during his tenure that those salaries accumulated. My grouse with Bello is not to have paid those who have been cleared by the screening committee. Why didn't he priotise that of the lecturers as well?

Which screening committee. Same one that the chairman General Okuntimo was sacked last week! Lol! Bello is confused. Kogi politics is too advanced for him.

Wada's second coming will be the best thing to happen for Kogi State. We are tired of the NYSC Governor who's obviously got his priorities wrong from the onset. To day, despite collecting allocations, he has refused to pay salaries citing screening. Am sure he will pay when half the workforce die of Hunger. Since the Nation is facing a massive economic hardship, one would have expected Bello to simply focus on paying salaries and leave the rest until the overall economy improves. Unfortunately like the Corper Governor he is, his priorities are completely misplaced. All we've seen since he took over are demolishing of round-abouts and spending our money on exotic cars. His Chief of Staff drives a Mercedes AMG-55 Jeep. A 45 Million Naira car, yet they can't pay salaries. For all they want to say about Wada, the civil servants welfare was not this bad. There was human empathy in Governance. What we are currently seeing is crass dictatorship and democratic recklessness. Am not a legal person but by God's grace Bello will be kicked out!

Sounds like the APC is about to get exposed.. Nigerians eagerly await the results of the proceedings.

laudate:


The comparison was made based on performance, NOT on revenue profile. A governor that is clueless, inept, and visionless can have the highest revenue profile in the country, yet he would still be unable to achieve anything significant, substantial or concrete in his state.

A governor that is creative, filled with purpose and vision may have one of the lowest revenue profiles in a country, but would still be able to deliver good programmes to improve his state and benefit his people, by cutting areas of waste, seeking international donors like the World bank to fund certain projects, utilising international grants judiciously etc.

Lagos repaired federal roads, not because they could NOT find a better use for their revenue; but because they wanted to improve safety, transportation and development of their citizens and their state.

Kogi has a lot of waterways. How many tourist companies has it attracted to the state to develop waterfront hotels or complexes? Why can't they build jetties or do Water Buses/Ferries like Lagos State did, to ferry people from one port to the other? Just create the enabling environment, work hard to get investors in these areas and give them the policies and support they need to succeed! Do you know how many jobs would be created and how much taxes they would collect, if such schemes were operational?

Akwa Ibom transformed its healthcare system and other areas of infrastructure because it knew what such development would bring to its citizens.

Ok, lets us look at Anambra, Enugu, Edo and even small little Ogun State that is in Nigeria. How different is their revenue profile from Kogi?

Did Obi not plug waste in Anambra and did he not leave Anambra in a better state than he met it? Kogi is even lucky, they are close to Abuja. Instead of using this proximity to attract people to its state, it has remained quiet, reclusive and unable to utilise its proximity to Abuja to its own advantage in a way that would create benefits for its citizens.

Nassarawa on the other hand that is also close to Abuja has built housing estates, repaired roads and has done everything to attract new businesses and the best set of investors into the state, to develop it. Do the governors that have governed Nassarawa have two heads? Most parts of that state are better developed than Kogi!

As for having discordant ethnic groups in a state, that is nothing new! Look at Delta, etc. Delta is a mini-Nigeria with the Itsekiri, Urhobo, Isoko, Igbo all lumped within the same state. Even other states have different ethnic groups within them and yet their governors have managed to develop their states.

easier said than done. Not until the people change their mindset. No leader can make any impact in that state. Little wonder all their governors face excessive criticisms while in office. Messed up state i must admit. Their fetishness is 2nd to none. As for the usual stories of how states have been transformed. All the states you mentioned i guess achieved their goals in 8 years. I doubt if any governor can do too much in 4 years. Especially in Kogi state. You won't understand. It is a messed up state. Very wicked set of people (masses and their elites). After my service year, i was offered a job in the ADP programmed in Ayingba.. I rejected it, in favor of Nifor Benin. The yhave land, but will rather refuse to farm. The Almajiri system in the state is very advanced, only that they are more educated. I don't envy Wada.. He is facing an uphill task. Ruling that state takes more than man's might..

laudate:


Please which poster is being mischievous? Is it the original poster that posted pictures of the dilapidated schools or the one that posted pictures of newly renovated ones? Kindly clarify, oh!

The original post.. The school died with the change in government policy..

All these comparison of lagos and Akwaibom to states like kogi are baseless. Revenue profiles are non-comparable. Kogi is one of the accidents of State creation.. They lumped 3 discordant ethnic groups in one state and expect development and harmony.. And they are professionals in Juju. I can never forget my time in the state..

i think the poster is being a bit mischievous. in 1991 i did my youth service in odu ate. By that time the technical college was already on its last legs. Most of the equipment had been looted. These are some of the legacies of the Ibrahim Babangida Administration. The curriculum was changed, hence the end of technical education. I believe the same fate befell the technical schools in Ankpa and Idah. They are all legacy schools inherited from benue state. During my service years i stayed opposite the school in some blocks of flats meant for the teacher college i believe. Those buildings were also on their last legs. In my humble opinion, i think renovating these structures may be unnecessarily expensive. It is better to build a new school. All the buildings will need foundation reinforcement. i believe the poster is just using these to score cheap points. Kogi people are naturally rebellious towards authority - Government or traditional. In ayangba you wil find some of the most resistive youths.. All they care for is money sharing. They are not interested in Labour..

Sanusi should do the honourable thing and resign. Today if your bank account officer tells you that your bank released fall year end reports and in actuality they are facing a liquidity crisis, will you still maintain account with them? The CBN governor is not a banker for a beer parlour but for a nation. He should have crosschecked his facks before sending such a letter to the president. He should do the honourable thing and resign. His utterances have been a great diservice to the nation. The imports of his statements have hurt the economy badly. To say 49 Billion USD is missing, is akin to saying Governmnet did not function for 18 months. There's a grand conspiracy to undermine this government by hook or crook all in the name of power shift. In the last 6 months this man has implemented policies that have damaged the economy. from his ill planned cashless system to the movement ofpublic sector funds to CBN to the change from RDAS to WDAS and others. In the past three months dollar has gone up by about 17 naira. Yet the man is talking about managing inflation. Resign and let us have peace. Afterall he said he was interested in being Emir.

The report is completely false. it is a very big mischevious lie. I was in Addis Ababa four days before the match. The Ethiopians were very gracious in defeat. They were very hospitable to us. we over partyed ourselves in that fantastic country. I stayed at the Radisson. Me and my friends toured all of the night clubs in addis. Club jolly (opposite addis ababa university), concorde, H2. Me and my friends rode directly behind the super eagles bus. There was no attack whatsoever. This Is not hearsay, I was there live in Addis. The eagles stayed at sarionat hotel. On matchday the supporters club displayed a masterclass performance in front of the players hotel. This is thrash report! I got back yesterday oh!

They snatch the cars and exchange them for arms by the border.

You guys don't know how politics works in Nigeria. There are several psychopants looking for favorsvfrom the governor. I am positive that the bill board did not come from the governor but a psychopant

Sanusi is still struggling to understand his job functions. In a lay man’s term he is the Nigerian Economy’s Insurance Policy. He can make or break the economy with actions. Generally social critics rarely make good administrators because they are consistently being caught up in theoretical solutions, forgetting that humans are meant to implement their theories.

The current challenges facing our country did not start with the 4th republic; it started from the day our founding fathers negotiated for a compromised independence from the British Colonial Masters. Approaching independence the core North did not have the required man-power to drive the civil service in the region. This disadvantage led to the accelerated training and hiring influx of Northerners into the civil service. Upon gaining independence, rather than focus on developing skilled manpower, they promoted and strengthen the culture of perpetuating themselves in the civil service. The “Old North” tagged success to relevance in the civil service, while in the south entrepreneurship equated to success. The North kept on producing Oil Ministers yet there was no functional Oil Economy in the North. The North Kept on dictating the economy yet there was no functional economy in the North. They did these by ensuring that they populated the civil service with their kith and kin.

The Federal Character Principle Sanusi is criticizing today is the main reason he is the CBN Governor. When Soludo’s tenure expired, it was no news that the North will produce the next CBN Governor thanks to the principle of rotation. Despite being zoned to the North, it was not all the Northern State’s that were in contention but the “Real North”. Yes Sanusi had the required pedigree, so did others. But I can bet my life that if he was from the South, he would not have emerged as CBN Governor, thanks to the General consensus that it was the North’s turn to produce a CBN Governor.

I am not an advocate of Big Governments but before criticizing or proffering solutions, it is good to understand the peculiarities of our economy/Nation. Nigeria spent a good number of years under military rule. Soldiers are meant to be career civil servants and not entrepreneurs’ hence military lean toward socialism. From the day a soldier joins the force, everything is provided for him. I.e. Accommodation, education, trainings and etc. That’s why military Governments rarely promote free market economic policies. It will take a while before Nigerians understand the concept of sustainable economic independence. The Stigma left by the military will fade away with the final exit of the independence generation.

Many look up to the Government for everything. In a system like this Government must be the biggest employer. But I believe that with time as more sectors open up, Government jobs will become less attractive thanks to better opportunities in the Private sector. Sanusi himself has testified that he got everything for free while growing up, that in itself summarizes the problem with the Nigerian Structure. How were these freebies funded? How many people got these freebies? Was it because he was from an opportuned background that’s why he got the freebies? How has he paid back the freebies he got from the Government?

Another factor that Sanusi should consider is the fact that the Growth in Government Structure is as a result of the dynamism in governance. For example when the UN Came up with the MDG project, all countries participating in the project were mandated to open MDG Offices and furthermore the states were also required to do so. Such decisions that lead to growth in government structure are beyond the powers of the federal government. Some of the other factors Sanusi should consider are extreme population growth, Security challenges necessitating the increase in security personnel, Emergence of new economies (NCC was created to regulate the telecoms sector), accommodation of various interest groups (mainstay of our nation), the Ghost Worker Syndrome and etc.

Sanusi as CBN Governor should not be seen to undermine the Government he works for. The same Government foots his private jet bills, accommodation bills, charity donation bills and etc. Since Sanusi got to CBN hiring new personnel and building new CBN Offices has been the order of the day. As CBN Governor he has spearheaded one of the most expensive economic recovery projects in the history of Mankind. Yet we are still not sure if our economy will ever recover. As CBN Governor he needs to update us on the progress made thus far in the cashless banking policy and other policies he has spearheaded. I am of the opinion that Sanusi’s comments are not in line with his role in the CBN.

http://www.sundaytrust.com.ng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11423:phrank-shaibu-a-shameless-serial-plagiarist-of-my-grammar-column&catid=13:the-arts&Itemid=136


Phrank Shaibu: A shameless serial plagiarist of my grammar column
| Print | E-mail
Written by Farooq A. Kperogi Ph.d Sunday, 23 September 2012 05:00


inShare
SocButtons plugin


I made a startling discovery two weeks ago about a certain Phrank Shaibu(a former Special Adviser on Public Communication and Strategy to former Kogi State governor Ibrahim Idris and who, according to his Facebook profile, is “currently an Adviser to the FCT Minister” and a “Consultant to Delta Governor on Public Communication and Strategy”) who has been willfully and barefacedly plagiarizing my grammar column for months on end on Facebook, Channels TV, and Radio Kogi.

Phrank Shaibu created a closed, invitation-only, 1,000-plus-member Facebook group called “Mind Your Grammar” where he impresses impressionable and unsuspecting young people by posting my grammar column week in week out and passing it off as his. During my brief membership of the group (I will tell you how that happened shortly), I discovered that he copied entire passages—sometimes whole articles—word for word from my grammar column and pasted on the front page of the group. He got lavish praises from members of the group, some of whom addressed him as a “professor of English.” I have been reliably told that his periodic “Mind Your Grammar” programs on Channels TV and on Radio Kogi also habitually plagiarize my column.

So how did I discover this brazenly criminal rape of my intellectual property by a nitwitted charlatan who, going by his written and oral communication skills, has no capacity to even string together a sentence in English that isn’t a rib-tickling travesty of the language? (Phrank reminds me of Oscar Wilde’s epigram about how “everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”)

Well, it started like this: Several months ago, someone “inboxed” me a grammar question onFacebook.I gave him a quick answer and promised to expand on it in a couple of days. But he came back the following day seeking more clarification. I obliged him.

Then something bizarre happened. My questioner started to argue with me using the exact words of an article I’d written years back. Of course, I recognized my style and diction in “his” argument. So I wrote: “Are you for real? You’re plagiarizing my previous article to argue with me? I thought you were a serious person. I regret ever responding to your queries.”

It turned out, however, that he was a member of Phrank Shuaibu’s fraudulent “Mind Your Grammar” Facebook group. He’d asked Phrank the same question, and Phrank lived up to his name and “pranked” him by lifting passages from my previous article to answer his question and to dispute the accuracy of the response I’d given him.

The questioner gave me the link to the Facebook group from where he excerpted the response. I followed the link and sent a request to be a member of the group. This was several months ago. My request was never granted. Of course, no thief who has illegally seized a house would knowingly and willingly grant entry to the legitimate owner of the house; that could signal the end of his criminal exploits.

However, by a quirk of circumstance, on September 13, I got an email notification from Facebook that said “Abdul Mahmud approved your request to join the group MIND YOUR GRAMMAR.” It turned out that Phrank Shaibu appointed a Comrade Abdul Mahmud as an administrator of his duplicitous group without his consent. Comrade Mahmud is a lawyer, human rights activist, former president of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), and former University of Jos student whom Phrank Shaibu knew because he is also an alumnus of the University of Jos.

Comrade Mahmud and I have never met physically, but we have many mutual friends and have interacted on Facebook a number of times. He said when he saw my request pending on the group’s page, he decided to approve it.

Once I became a member of the group, I voraciously read the postings on the group’s page and found that EVERY SINGLE contribution that PhrankShaibu made to the group was plagiarized from my grammar column. His responses to questions from group members were lifted from my articles, sometimes even when the responses were irrelevant to the questions asked. And he was praised to high heavens by his admirers, most of whom were young girls.

Since it was Mahmud who approved my membership to the group, I first sent him a message asking if he was aware of the serial theft of my intellectual property by a despicably nescientmounte bank who goes by the name Phrank Shaibu. He assured me that he had no association with the group other than that he had just been made an administrator of the group without his consent. So I sent a message to Phrank Shaibu warning him to cease and desist from his intellectual theft of my grammar column or risk being sued. He ignored my message.

Then I posted on the front page of the group that Phrank Shaibu is a nakedly transparent fraudster whose entire contributions to the group were bald-faced thefts from my Sunday Trust grammar column. There was a whiff of incredulity in a few of the comments that followed my post. “Are you real?” one young girl commented. “Seriously?” another one wrote.

The next thing Phrank did was to kick me out of the group. He also blocked me on Facebook, although we were never Facebook friends in the first place. I had no earthly clue that a vile, contemptible, Janus-faced, disreputably scheming character by the quirky name of Phrank Shaibu existed until September 13.

I brought this issue to the attention of my over 4,000 friends on Facebook and got over a hundred comments and over 70 “likes.” Similarly,Comrade Mahmud, whom Phrank Shuaibu unfriended and blocked on Facebook because he called his attention to my complaints, posted this on his wall:

“If you’re my Facebook friend and PHRANK SHAIBU is our mutual friend, please rethink the friendship. PHRANK SHAIBU is a serial plagiarist, a master crook. Phrank Shaibu, as I gathered a few hours ago, is an Igala chap from Kogi State and a former Media Campaigner for the failed Kogi State governorship aspirant, [Jibrin Isah]Echocho.

“Phrank Shaibu is accused of lifting the works of Professor Farooq Kperogi and posting same inside a closed group, ‘Mind Your Grammar’, that he (Shaibu) made me its administrator of without my knowledge and permission. Phrank Shaibu has refused to respond to the charges and has now gone ahead to unfriend me, blocked the limited access I had to the Facebook group when Professor Farooq found his way in…. There is a very serious issue of intellectual theft here… on Facebook, our place of communal meetings. Stop Phrank Shaibu in his tracks. Please share!!!!!!”

My status update and Mahmud’s wall post must have conspired to scare the pants off the crook because he shut down the “Mind Your Grammar” group shortly after. But if he shut it down because he wanted to destroy my evidence, he miscalculated. I took snap shots of the plagiarized materials before coming out in the open. I intend to use this evidence to sue him.

Phrank called me a week ago and admitted to his plagiarism, apologized profusely (I recorded all his phone conversations with me, which I will tender in court), promised to pay me compensatory damages, and to issue a public apology for his infractions. But he shamelessly reneged on all his promises. Instead, he kept playing childish pranks on me. The man, certainly, is not contrite.

But the bigger worry in all of this is that this wretched, dishonest, compulsively mendacious character was a media adviser to a state governor, and is currently the media adviser to a serving minister and a serving governor! I learned from his Facebook pictures that he also once won an award as “Media Spokesman of the Year 2009” and that, in fact, the Kogi State government took out newspaper pages to advertise messages of “congratulations to a worthy son”!

What kind of society puts people like that in positions of responsibility? Worse, what kind of society celebrates slimy little liars like this?

I’ve consulted with my lawyers and will sue the butt off this audaciously atrocious intellectual thief. I will also sue Channels TV and Radio Kogi for providing him the platforms to plagiarize my intellectual property. This plague of intentional plagiarism in Nigeria has to stop!

Hi,

Please has anyone flown Arik Air to JFK lately? What't their Service Like? Are they on time?

Cheers

Key Laws in the Constitution


OATH OF OFFICE:
185. (1) A person elected to the office of the Governor of a State shall not begin to perform the functions of that until he has declared his assets and liabilities as prescribed in the Constitution and has subsequently taken and subscribed the Oath of Allegiance and oath of office prescribed in the Seventh Schedule to this Constitution.
(2) The Oath of Allegiance and the oath of office shall be administered by the Chief Judge of the State or Grand Kadi of the Sharia Court of Appeal of the State, if any or President of the Customary Court of Appeal of the State, if any, or the person for the time being respectively appointed to exercise the functions of any of those offices in any State.
WHEN THERE IS A SUCCESSOR IN WAITING

180. (1) subject to the provisions of this Constitution, a person shall hold the office of Governor of a State until -
(a) When his successor in office takes the oath of that office; or
(b) he dies whilst holding such office; or
(c) the date when his resignation from office takes effect; or
(d) he otherwise ceases to hold office in accordance with the provisions of this constitution.
(2) Subject to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, the Governor shall vacate his office at the expiration of period of four years commencing from the date when -
(a) in the case of a person first elected as Governor under this Constitution, he took the Oath of Allegiance and oath of office; and
(b) the person last elected to that office took the Oath of Allegiance and oath of office or would, but for his death, have taken such oaths.
81. (1) If a person duly elected as Governor dies before taking and subscribing the Oath of Allegiance and oath of office, or is unable for any reason whatsoever to be sworn in, the person elected with him as Deputy governor shall be sworn in as Governor and he shall nominate a new Deputy-Governor who shall be appointed by the Governor with the approval of a simple majority of the House of Assembly of the State.
(2) Where the persons duly elected as Governor and Deputy Governor of a State die or are for any reason unable to assume office before the inauguration of the house of Assembly, the Independent National Electoral Commission shall immediately conduct an election for a Governor and Deputy Governor of the State.

INCASE THERE IS NO SUCCESSOR
191. (1) The Deputy Governor of a State shall hold the office of Governor of the State if the office of Governor becomes vacant by reason of death, resignation, impeachment, permanent incapacity or removal of the governor from office for any other reason in accordance with section 188 or 189 of this constitution.
(2) Where any vacancy occurs in the circumstances mentioned in subsection (1) of this section during a period when the office of Deputy Governor of the State is also vacant, the Speaker of the House of Assembly of the State shall hold the office of Governor of the State for a period of not more than three months, during which there shall be an election of a new Governor of the State who shall hold office for the unexpired term of office of the last holder of the office.

He is in dubai chilling with his kids. I ran into him in the Address Hotel a couple of days back.

Capt Wada's Curriculum Vitae:



CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DATA

SURNAME: WADA / Capt.

OTHER NAMES: IDRIS ICHALLA

DATE OF BIRTH: August 26, 1950

PLACE OF BIRTH: Dekina, Kogi State, Nigeria

NATIONALITY: Nigerian

MARITAL STATUS: Married with children

PROFESSION: Pilot & Aviation Consultant

LANGUAGE SPOKEN: Hausa, Igala, English and Yoruba


EDUCATION

INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED DATES

1. Government Secondary School, Dekina, Kogi State - 1963-1968

2. Federal Government College, Sokoto - 1969-1970

3. Nigerian Civil Aviation Training Centre, Zaria. - 1970-1972

4. Air Services Training College, Perth, Scotland - 1972-1973

5. Burnside-Ott Aviation College, Opa-Locka Airport,    -        1973
Miami, Florida, USA

6. Air Services Training Centre, Perth, Scotland          -        1976

7. Nigeria Airways Training Centre, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria    -        1978

8. Boeing Flight Training Centre, Seattle,  USA -   1979
Boeing 727 Conversion training programme

9. Boeing 737 Aircraft Type Rating conversion training
        at Varig Airlines Flight Training Centre,
Rio de Janeiro Brazil. -      1980

10.    American Airlines Flight training Centre,
Dallas, Texas, USA - Boeing 707 Conversion training  -     1984
                                                                     

11. United Airlines Flight training Centre,
Denver, Colorado, USA - DC 8 Conversion training      -    1987

12. Flight Safety International Training Academy,
Wilmington, Delaware, USA - 1993

13     European Aviation Flight Training Centre,
Bournemouth, UK      -    1999

14.    Dornier Flight Training Centre,
Kaduna, Nigeria                        -    2002
           
15. University of Abuja, Nigeria. - 1999-2004

16. University of Abuja, Nigeria - 2004-2006

17. Attended Several High Level Aviation Management Courses and Training programmes in Nigeria, Brazil, Germany, UK and USA over the past 25 years.

Attended several Simulator conversion/recurrent flight training programmes regularly over the years at Varig Airlines, Brazil, Lufthansa Airlines, Frankfurt, Sabena Airlines, Brussels, Pan-Am Flight Academy, Miami, USA and many other high quality flight training facilities over the last 30 years of active Airline flying operations.


QUALIFICATIONS DATES

1. West African School Certificate (WASC)/GCE O’Level    -     1968
2. Higher School Certificate (HSC)/GCE A’Level    -     1970
3. Aviation Diploma, Commercial Pilot – CPL-IR & ME Rating     1972
4. Qualified Flying Instructor Certificate – (QFI)    -     1973
5. Certified Flight Instructor Instrument Course    (CFII)  -     1973
6.     Airline Transport Pilot Licence (ATP)                            -        1976
7.     Fokker – F28 Aircraft Type Rating Certificate                -        1978
8.     Boeing 727 Aircraft Type Rating Certificate                  -        1979
9.    Boeing 737 Aircraft Type Rating Certificate                  -         1980
10.   Boeing  707 Aircraft Type Rating Certificate                  -         1984
11    Douglas DC-8 Aircraft Type Rating Certificate              -          1987
12.   Hawker Siddely HS-125 Type Rating Certificate            -          1993
13.   BAC 1-11 Aircraft Type Rating Certificate                    -          1999
14.   Dornier – 228 Aircraft Type Rating Certificate              -          2002
15. Bachelor of Science Degree BSc. (Business Admin)    -       2004
16. Master of Business Admin (MBA)                                -         2006

WORKING EXPERIENCE

1. COMPANY : Nigerian College of Aviation Technology
    Zaria.
POSITION: Flight Instructor   
DATE: 1973-78

2. COMPANY: Nigeria Airways Ltd.
POSITION: Pilot
DATE: 1978-1983

3. COMPANY: United Air Service.
POSITION Chief Pilot and Gen Manager
DATE: 1983-1985

4. COMPANY: Executive Aviation Services Nig Ltd.
POSITION: Chief Executive 
DATE: 1985-1988

5. COMPANY: EAS Cargo Airlines Ltd (UK).
POSITION: Managing Director
DATE: 1988-1992

6. COMPANY: EAS Airlines Ltd.
POSITION: MD/CEO
DATE: 1993-2006

7. COMPANY: NICON Airways Ltd.
POSITION: Exec. Vice Chairman
DATE: 2006 - 2007

8.     COMPANY: AEROCONSULT Ltd   
POSITION: Exec. Chairman
DATE: 1995 – to date

9. ORGANISATION: FEDERAL COLLEGE OF EDUCATION (TECH)
POTISKUM, YOBE STATE
POSITION: Chairman, Governing Council
DATE: 2008 - date 






AVIATION QUALIFICATIONS

1. Nigerian Airline Transport Pilot Licence No.992

2. British Airline Transport Pilot Licence  No. 104990

3. U.S.A./FAA Air Transport  Rating  No.  2223411.

4. Qualified Flight Instructor Rating ( QFI ) - UK

5. Certified Flight Instructor Instrument ( QFII ) – USA

6. Aerobatic Instructor Rating – UK

7. Airline Training Captain - Nigeria

8. Certified Flight Examiner - Uk, Nigeria.

AIRCRAFT TYPE-RATINGS:

Boeing 737, Boeing 727, Boeing 707, Douglas DC-8, Fokker F28, HS 125, BAC 1-11 Jet, Dornier 228.

MEMBERSHIP OF ORGANIZATIONS

1. Member, Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM)
2. Member, Institute of Directors (IOD)

PUBLIC ASSIGNMENTS

1. Member and or Chairman of Several Nigerian Government Aviation Policy Development and Review Committees from     - 1988- 2007 .

2.     Chairman, Ministerial Committee on Airline Operations - 2006

3. Chairman, NCAA Implementation Committee on Airline
Operations for ICAO Audit                                        - 2006

4. Given Several Lectures and Presentations at Aviation
Seminars in Nigeria and abroad over the last 20 years.

5. Vice Chairman, Airline Operators of Nigeria             -     2000-2007


HOBBIES:

Golf, Tennis, Music and Reading