₦airaland Forum

Governor Fashola SAN is an attorney by profession, and he is by far the most articulate and engaging speaker of the English language that I have ever had the pleasure of hearing ANYWHERE on this planet,

Minister of State for Finance, Mr Remi Babalola, yesterday expressed confidence that Nigeria will definitely be in the league of the 20 leading economies of the world by 2020.

Would I be safe bringing only $1000 for a period of three months

PROVIDING water for commercial and private use is no longer going to be business as usual. The Federal Government has initiated moves to ensure that no one provides water for commercial or private use without an operating licence.

It has already sent a bill for an Act to establish the Nigeria Integrated Water Resources Management Commission charged with the responsibility for regulation and management of water in the country.

In addition to creating a regulatory environment for the allocation, supply and distribution of water resources for all uses, the commission will promote equitable, sustainable and efficient best practices in water matters.

Under the new law no person can operate a public water resource service in the country except he is a citizen of Nigeria or registered as a body corporate under the companies and Allied Matters Act.

The provider must also be licensed as a water resource service developer or operator while an authorised developer or operator of water resource infrastructure, other than a licensee, may provide and maintain only such facilities and services as are required to exploit water for its own external use on its premises and not beyond.

arguements can be made that the circumstances are "special" because it puts the ordinary people at risk of financial crises.

Ibime:
Thats not the point sha. This is not an ideological discussion. Rather, what do we have to do to stabilise the economy?

Thats why I always believe in the common sense moderate approach, not the ideological approach. Ideology torpedoed the bill.

Why did the Republicans torpedo the bill? This is completely irresponsible. The markets are starving. $1.2 trillion was lost just yesterday alone. The greatest single day fall on Wall Street ever. Shit is going to hit the fan in a big way if they don't pass this bill.

idupaul:
Hugo is just a loose big mouth canon Castro wannabe. Known in internationa diplomacy as a showman.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says two Russian bombers have arrived in the country to carry out training flights.

Hugo Chavez announced that two Tu-160 bombers would carry out manoeuvres, saying that it was part of a move towards a "multi-polar world".

"I'm going to fly one of those beasts," he joked.

"The Yankee hegemony is finished," he added

The planes are capable of carrying nuclear missiles, but the spokesman did not give any information about whether they were carrying arms during this mission.

idupaul:
I think mtn should find a way of running them cell sites with obs's blood

Still, Emirates staff will look the other way if u go over their official 20kg limit, but don't overdo it sha (u know as we de do lol)

The plane that crashed killing singer Aaliyah and eight others on Saturday was carrying too many passengers, according to the manufacturers.
The news comes after revelations that the plane was heavily overloaded with luggage.

BUSHFELLOW:
If we decide to sue the government then the nation will go broke because nothing actually works in thisnation. we will start by sueing them for lying that their would be clean water for all which thehre is not, light, road, education, etc. oh boy the country go broke seriously

About 185 passengers scheduled to travel on Ethiopian Airline flight ET900 to Addis Ababa from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport , Lagos with connecting flights to Dubai and New Delhi  were abandoned at the weekend.
There was no indication, as at yesterday evening,  that the passengers would be departing Lagos to the Ethiopian capital. One of the passengers, Linda, who spoke to THISDAY, said that the passengers boarded the flight billed to depart by 1.45 pm Nigerian time on Saturday, but when the aircraft took off it was discovered that the cooling system was faulty which prompted the pilot to abort the flight and return to base.
“When we took off,  we discovered that there was no air in the aircraft (it was not pressurized). The pilot announced to us that he was returning to the airport and assured that they would repair the aircraft and we would depart but when he landed we spent another two hours in the aircraft before we disembarked, ” she said.
According to her, Saturday ended with the aircraft still on the ground without any hope that  the passengers would be departing, adding that  later that evening "the Ethiopian Airlines officials took the passengers to a cheap hotel called Mel Hotels where we were quartered three and four each in one room."
THISDAY gathered that by 8.00 am on Sunday morning,  the passengers who were now dissipated and frustrated with the attitude of the airline, were returned to the airport for another long wait and by 6.00 pm the airline was yet to notify the passengers when they would be departing to Addis Ababa.
“Since that Saturday, they have been repairing the aircraft and as at this moment (5.00 pm ) they are yet to complete maintenance work. We are so disappointed and frustrated with the airline whose attitude is unfriendly and even hostile because we demanded that we won’t travel in that aircraft but they insisted they won’t get us another aircraft, ” Linda disclosed further.
Lamenting further, Linda stated: “They provided us biscuits and Coke shortly after our arrival from the hotel and that was what we have taken since morning. Everybody is sad. Many of us are wearing the same clothes since yesterday. I am going to New Delhi in India and there are those who are going to Dubai , so this delay has shattered our travel schedule. This is a very bad experience for us.”

A drama  however ensued when THISDAY called at the Ethiopian Airline’s office at the airport  for further enquiries . An official of the airline  who was at the door rushed in and quickly locked the door on sighting this reporter and not even several knocks would  make them open the door.Customers who were also being attended to were also locked in and two expatriates customers  were only allowed to go out after  several minutes  while a tall, huge looking man who looked like bouncer stood at the door and shut  it thereafter.Spokesman of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) that operates the Consumer Protection Unit (CPU) told THISDAY that he would notify concerned authorities about the incident.

The Federal Government has commenced civil action against frontline telecommunications company, MTN, by demanding N500 million as damage and another N1 million for cost of the action for installing two 15KVA generators in densely populated areas of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The government, through its agency, the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), filed a legal action before the Federal High Court in Abuja last Friday seeking to restrain MTN from further acts constituting dangers to human health and the environment.
According to the writ of summons, the crux of the case is the unwholesome practice of MTN in total disregard to issues pertaining to environment in the course of installation of their equipment and other telecommunications facilities.
In the suit filed by the agency’s counsel, the telecommunications firm was accused of erecting its base-station in a dense residential area within the Abuja metropolis, where it installed two heavy-duty generators operating on a 24-hour basis.
The firm was also said to have installed a mast on the rooftop of residential premises in utter disregard to the possible radio-active and electromagnetic discharges on the people living around the facility.
According to NESREA, its action was necessitated by numerous genuine complaints from residents and in the exercise of its power as enunciated in the establishing law.
NESREA is asking the court to order MTN to remove the said base station and indeed all its equipment as they constitute nuisance, pain and grave danger to people’s health and degradation of the environment.
It is also seeking among other claims a declaration that the construction of the base station, surface storage tank for diesel, installation of two KVA generating sets and communication masts, constitute a real threat to human health and the environment, an order of perpetual injuction restraining the defendant from further operating the communication facilities located within the premises.
In an affidavit deposed to by the Assistant Director in-charge of Environmental Inspection and Enforcement, Mrs. Veronica Enemali, NESREA wants the court to order the defendants to remove all its facilities including its rooftop monopole antenna mounted on the rooftop of the premises and N500 million as general damages.
The agency, in a statement, said the legal action was taken following MTN’s failure to honour the invitation for a meeting to resolve the problem peacefully.
“NESREA is reacting to the genuine complain from the residents and in the exercise of its power as enunciated in the relevant law and considered it legally expedient to take this course of action after the failure of MTN to honour the invitation for a meeting to resolve the problem,” it said.

In fact other citizens also became the victims of this action, but in compare with the number of the African who died it is so small. Africans are becoming the main targets of the skinheads and radically motivated extremists.

Angelheart:
Ok. Keep amusing yourself. Keepgoing to China and have urselves killed.Keepcoming toSOuth Africa and get your arses roasted like suya.

tosinadeda:
osuofia really messed up big time! do this artistes really think the whites are dumd? first you scam them and as if thats not enough you sing about it again?
idoits!!!!!

The new technology above is needed for all our bridges so that we may know their level of performance and enable us take corrective steps on those which are already in danger of collapsing.

Its sad, but hey what was the Nigerian businessman doing in China. Haven't he had about what is called the Chinese triads. The next minute you'll here that a Nigerian businessman was killed in Afghanistan or Bangladesh.
I ask myself why is that West Africans are the ones who are killed all over the world e.g Africans killed in Italy, Senegalese killed in Spain, Nigerian killed in China.

There must be something that our West African brothers do in foreign countries that always get them into foreign jails or be killed. You'll never hear stories of South Africans or Black Americans being killed in foreign countries

I was born in the UK and my parents came to the UK legally in the 1950's