klexycole:


Omo!

This one pass me o

Was thinking of getting one for a start to startup my airline business

You can start with Turboprops like the Dash 8 Q-400, less expensive when leased. Most startups don't purchase because they simply can't afford it

Boeing777pilot:


Boeing 737-300 series (classic)
Around $40-50million but not sure they bought it sha, it was probably leased.

I don't think the -300 series should cost that much because they're no longer in production. That's the cost of a brand new 737 with discount.

klexycole:


Thanks bro!

The cost is really much

A commercial aircraft is an expensive equipment but more than likely the airplane is on lease because it's a startup airline. Most airline operators lease MOST of their fleet, purchasing can very expensive unless you have excellent credit financing.

hopsydboi:
Development!

While other airlines even international are folding up, the north are flagging off!

Fly o fly!

Let us see how they source their $$$$ for operational functions, I'm definitely not saying this isn't good, just saying that there's more to this. Who knows, they may get special $$$$ waivers from the CBN like Dangote does.

klexycole:
Boeing777pilot,

What's the make and model of this aircraft and how much does it costs?

Oya, I'm waiting

That looks like a B737 and depending on the variant, seating configuration, A&P age, etc, the starting cost could be upwards of $10 million.

kniru:
who ask you bebeto?

You registered in 2015; I've been a registered member since 2008. Dude, know your level and check yourself when next you step up to me. Don't ever come for me when I haven't sent for you. Now back off little child and speak when asked to.

I seriously don't understand this Name Checkers thingy, like seriously... All not some, but all tribes commit crimes both home and abroad. It doesn't matter the crime because we're all tagged Nigerians, so the sooner yall wake up and quit this rubbish about name checkers, the better.

flokii:


You don't know d way to Aso rock abi? Or aren't you a citizen too

You can as well go all d way down to otueke and bring your 'Mr Perfect' back to the throne cos. it's his birthright.
I'm done here.. cheers!

You're just as clueless as your master coming from someone who wanted bright minds to speak. No need bringing GEJ back, Buhari is gradually adopting his "failed" policies starting with agriculture. Slowly but surely, Nigerian's are wiser now than they were 16 months ago.

I am done with you as well... Deuces

caprini1:
what I don't understand is that prices of goods and services in neighboring countries like Togo and Benin is still the same,but when you go there with our money ,you will really understand how bad and almost valueless our naira has become.

Thank you!!!!

Imagine the person I quoted telling me it takes time and determination to rebuild not magic, what nonsense. Nigeria is literally on reverse from where GEJ left the economy despite the corruption. Two weeks ago, Buhari went back to "corrupt" GEJ's agriculture agenda, something he scrapped. Since Buhari assumed power, it's just been clueless policies.

flokii:


That's part of ur punishment for supporting corruption.. Encouraging politicians to steal and get away with it shouting "which-hunting" up and down.
You better sit ur ass down somewhere and let bright minds speak

Bright minds? Haha... You? You Buhari supporters failed to see things froma greater perspective. Until the entire economy (Manufaturing, Aviation, Oil & Gas, Banking/Finance & Investments etc are in ruins, and it directly affects you, you would not cal spade a spade. Mr bright mind, please enlighten us on Buhari's economic agenda after

a. Nigeria's main source of FOREX has dipped losing more than 45% of daily output and pricing/demand is down
b. How does your Buhari tend to resuscitate businesses that have packed up according to your theory of "it takes time and determination to rebuild not magic".
c. Please share Buhari's plan on how he intends to take us out of this looming recession.

If you cannot answer these question, then I'll encourage you again, please be quiet.

flokii:
It's just too glaring that one region is working tirelessly to paint PMB's govt. and d whole country bad.. Blowing everything out of proportion as if it will bring back their hero..

Really? The way most of you talk is really annoying. Businesses are folding up, the current exchange rate has plunged Nigeria into hardship and you make it seem like a part of the country is demonizing Buhari... If you really want to know the amount of suffering, if the same amount of money you used to buy the same goods last year is the same amount as of today, then you have a point. If it isn't, I'll suggest you be quiet.

I'm surprised he knew what the "Igbo marriage law is, which according to him

I married Stella traditionally and under Igbo marriage law, every child she has before my dowry is returned belongs to me.

So when his bride price was returned to him, why didn't he request for his children then?

One of two reasons: he wasn't interested in them and/or, they wouldn't give him the children. Goes back to what I said before... Anyway, it's a bit too late to cry foul. Let him go make peace with the rest of his kids and hope things work well.

Nigerians only remember "culture" when it's convenient for them, but leaving up to the responsibility of that culture seems to be herculean task. Just like I said before and I quote:

It's only someone who hasn't been through a fire would stand by the side advising another who's been hurt by the fire how he would gone through it without getting hurt. I don't want to delve into this but our people say, whoever fetches ant infested firewood should prepare to invite lizards to his home. Nothing further.

Donald7610:

Now I could understand why you so disturbed
I never talk about your mom nor ur Dad, it's a general illustration
I've said am sorry
My advice is to avoid being cursed by any of your parents
Either you right or wrong
Pray to God for good heart to forgive your parents
God bless you

Stella Oduah son will soon apologize publicly

Me disturbed? Disturbed about what exactly? Because people like you don't want to swallow the bitter pill called "truth".
Indeed it is a general illustration when you said "The day you know the truth, you will forgive your father". Yet you never mentioned about my father or mother and you can't seem to tell me what I think the truth is. Cursed by who? Why in whatever name you serve do you believe that I am angry? Why in God's name are you saying all these?

Are my parents God? I have appealed to you to leave my parents out of this but you continue to involve them, deceitfully, you keep saying "I'm sorry". I did not bring yours into this, don't bring mine into it. You think my comments about deadbeat fathers sums up my existence of having anger at my parents that you seem to think I should pray to God to forgive them... What insult. You don't know me, for the LAST TIME, desist from involving my parents in this conversation. Please don't say I did not beg you to please stop. If you have anything to say, say it to me.

Well, if he chooses to apologize publicly which I don't see, that's entirely up to him. It would not change the status quo: how he feels for his father. Like I've said before, he would fetches ant infested firewood invites lizards into his home. FYI: a curse without cause shall not alight, and the Bible said IT WILL NOT STAND.

Donald7610:

Am sorry if am I make you angry
The day you know the truth, you will forgive your father
Only smart woman protects her home
Even when the father is wrong
Noah cursed his child that dominated Africa

The truth about what exactly?

You're damn right about it, a smart woman protects her home which my mom has done diligently through it all. So bro, you don't know my family, don't say what you don't know.

Go and read your bible very well, Noah cursed Canaan because he saw his father's unclothedness when he was drunk. He had a good relationship with his all his sons prior to this, he wasn't a deadbeat father. So I'm just imagining how this relates to the topic at hand?

steadyguy101:


what the hell are you talking about?
you are offering flight ticket to ur father to come bury his son at his ex wife's place?
do you have any culture at all?
the boy should have been planning on how to bring the poor boy's corpse to his father's home town.

NONSENSE!!

For this stupidity to continue shows how ignorance cannot be allowed to linger on. I repeat, a man who's not been in his children life is NOT worthy to be called a father let alone a dad. Quote me anywhere, IF the Bible forbids it, and our culture detest it, then why the hell are you bringing culture into it? You bring it in when it suits you right? Where was culture when the father went to the media? It's not the boy's responsibility to make plans to return the corpse home to his father's house since his father is ALIVE. That's an abomination, it signifies indirectly the boy wants his father dead. In our tradition, if the father had any rapport with is his kids, all these nonsense would not be in the media. In this case, since there was no rapport, the father and his kinsmen would make plans to return the corpse home, that's how it's done. Since the father couldn't fulfill a simple obligation, then let's forget all these nonsense argument.

freshvine:


I was born in the heart of igboland. In my community, no woman returns with children belonging to another man

I just don't like arguing without purpose. You were born in the heart of igboland without a name. Like I said before, go and your elder how it's done when a man demands his bride price back. This is not any man, but a husband.... I won't argue this anymore. My part of Igboland is very known, so this is how it's done.

freshvine:


In igbo land children belongs to the man. If you like divorce, hence bride price is paid, whatever comes out of the marriage belongs to the man before the marriage breaks.

Igbo men can never return bride price and return children as well

When they say "nwoke nwe nwa", it does not mean literally. Go and sleep, you don't know jack about Igbo tradition. You see yourself, it's not man returning any bride price, the woman's family is returning it, and it's done differently. Nnewi tradition I am quoting for you on NL, go and ask Igwe , and stop ranting on NL. You know nothing about Igbo tradition.

CandyDiamond:

You dont know what you are talking about,I am talking of Anambra state, Aniocha LGA, your own side may be different. Their is an adage in my place that says that "ozo chio nwadiana o gbanaa igwu nne ye" meaning that if they persue a child in his fathers place he will run to his mothers kindred for integration. Nobody will ask them in the feature of all those things,they will bear the name of their mothers family. A rite will be performed on them by the kindred for assimilation, when they finish eating and performing the rite that is final

Gbam... I just said the same thing because that's how it's done in Nnewi as well.

freshvine:


When you want to marry, call your dad on phone and invite him to your wedding. With all things being equal if he attends, I change my surname.... It's a promise

Nne go to bed, I doubt you have any idea on Igbo tradition. This scenario is quite different because your dad and his kinsmen are the ones going with you to pay the bride price. Absolutely different.

freshvine:


Umunna is the highest organ of family unit in igbo land. That young man won't be admitted.

It is better if a member of umuada has a love child son at home that will bear her father's name than one where a divorcee run back to her father's compound with legitimate children of another man.

Make no mistake, Stella Oduah script what that young man read to the public cos he won't do it without her authorisation. It was a perfect ploy to give substance to their evil action. She's a politician

Oh so you know that Umunna is the highest organ of the family? Admitted to what exactly? Were the umunna not present when the man came to marry/divorce Stella the traditional way? Ogini bu isi okwu gi because I don't understand you. When a son is involved, the father would give a piece of land to his son's and/or the son returns to the mother's side if he wish. I'm from Nnewi, Anambra state and that's how it's done. So were you from so that I know how your culture does it.

neoapocalypse:



That is one side of the story , have you heard what the father has to say in defence of these allegations

The father did not have to say anything, mere stating that he wasn't informed whereas his own biological son called him shows the kind of person he is. Nothing further.

freshvine:


In igbo land, an emissary will be sent to the man to officially inform him that his son living with his ex wife is dead. Whether he was an absentee Dad it doesn't matter, he properly married the woman and she bore him a son.

The man will take a delegation to the in law place, do whatever they ask him to do and take his son for burial.

Case closed.

You're right that's what in-laws (ogo) do but not IF the man divorced his wife and has taken the dowry paid. If this is the case, the children would be given their own land away from their father's land or go to their mother's house. Biko, this is not omenenu, go and ask any elder what that means.

However, before emissaries are sent, your immediate in-law to whom this is affected would have reached out to the family FIRST. In this case, the father shouldn't have waited for emissaries considering it may take up to a week or more, he should have left for his wife's place immediately hearing the news. Obugho so ofu onye nwe nwa (it's not only one person that owns a child).

Like I explained before, he did not have to contact Stella or even the kids, all he needed to do was go with his kinsman (Umunna) or delegate someone to know if the news is true. That's what EVERY immediate in-law does. After confirming that it's true, then the wife's family would send emissaries to "formally" inform the husband's family (him, his family and kinsmen), who would confer with them on how to proceed with funeral rites. You can't wait for a whole week for your in-laws who're in grief to immediately dispatch emissaries to all their in-laws, it does not work like that. Go and ask any elder if what I say is true.

Xsmart22:



I never called him a sperm donor;that is tantamount to a Casanova. My point is that family issues especially as it has to do with a husband and wife should be threaded by care by the siblings. If they must involve themselves in it, let dem act as recinciliatory agents and not divisives. He is his father and that settles all. He is still indebted to him, knowingly or unknowingly

I know you did not call him, I called him a sperm donor. I mean, biologically speaking, you need sperm to make babies. As a father, your name is on the birth certificate and that's it. However, my point is remains: there is a difference between "father and a dad".

This young man's issue isn't really about his parents divorce or their issues 30 years ago; however, the beef with his father that has reached to the point of no return. Believe it or not, he's old and matured enough to speak for his immediate family, and as for indebtedness, nah, I don't think so. He's grieving his brother's demise and instead of the father using this as an opportunity to console his kids, knowing fully well that he's not been there, the best possible way was to tell the media that he wasn't informed. You expect him to smile upon hearing this right?

Donald7610:
it shows that you're raised by single mother
And you still young to know the truth
Go and ask Noah in the Bible

I was raised by a single mother because men like you don't want to swallow the bitter pill called the "truth" about yourself... Please, don't bring my mom into this topic, if you have anything to say, direct it at me. Since you seem to know much about the truth and Noah in the Bible, please prove your point. Tell us more, perhaps I may learn something new.

nkechiasogwa:
Oh! To have a broken home or marriage is too bad. I always plead with couples to try as much as possible to remain at peace with each other for the sake of their children. This boy should not have addressed his father like that no matter what. Yes he may have neglected you n ur brother, but he is still your father through whom God Almighty in HIS infinite wisdom gave you breath n life. It is better you resolve such issue in private than to discredit your dad in public with such height of bitterness. When your children grow up to treat you same way, quickly remember you did it to your father. If your father curses you, you are finished for life. Please give him that honour and try all you can to make peace with him n ur mum, So that it will be well with you.

Curse of the causeless shall not come to pass, it is in the Bible. Yes the holy book talks about Children obey your parents, honor they father and mother so your days may be long, but what people fail to understand is that God later said "Father DO NOT provoke your children to anger, bring them up in the way of the Lord. The Bible also said, ANY MAN that cannot provide for his family (morally, spiritually, financially, etc) is more than an what? Go figure... So again, this is a curse without a cause, and the holy book said IT SHALL NOT STAND neither WILL IT COME TO PASS.

Dante2008:
my brother, there is no justification on the surface of this earth that will make someone insult is biological father in public like this, haba this is too much, why, we are Africans, Nigerians to be precise, we have our values and culture, we don't behave like this in public. Pls note something I've been emphasizing PUBLIC PUBLIC PUBLIC what is bad is bad .......

Africans? Are you serious? Okay I agree yes we're African and IF the man was truly African, regardless of whatever Stella did, for the sake of the kids (which he knew were his), he would NEVER have divorced her. In Igbo land, divorcing a woman and taking your bride price back carries a lot of negative significance. Imagine the slurs the kids have faced upon till this time, you have no idea what it means.

If the man was African, when he heard about his son's death, it's your son for crying out loud. Media should NEVER have been involved. I repeat, media should NEVER have been involved. He should have contacted Stella's family, NOT Stella or the kids. From there, Stella's family would sent emissaries formally to their place. In Igboland, we have what's called "Omenana", so let's stop accusing Stella when the man in question hadn't performed well.

It is correct that we have values which we must hold to high esteem, but holding these values is not a "one-way" street. It goes both ways. Finally, he's a father and not a dad. An estranged man who's not been in the life of the kids is not worthy to be called a dad by general standards.

Malawian:

oga, neutrality ends once your mother is attacked. be guided.

Gbam!!!!

Xsmart22:


What sort of bitter truth will a young man be professing Dat will lead to him calling his father names in public and even calling himself a bastard? Truth be told, he is his father and nutin can change that. I'm sure the mum will not be at home with the boy's public outburst unless she has never been a good woman ab initio

There's a difference between "Father" and "Dad". As you rightly said, he's a sperm donor, a father and nothing else... But being a dad, requires commitment. An absentee father would NEVER be regarded as a dad. Plain and simple truth. The man did not act like an elder in the family, he knew the supposed thing to do before going public. Going public was his greatest undoing. When you point an accusing finger at someone, three other fingers are pointing right back at you.

Ngozi123:

I'm sorry but what has the man's tribe got to do with any of this? It's clear that this is a domestic issue and not a tribal one. Please stop pretending that there are no Yoruba people who've done this type of thing before as it is rather misleading.

No need responding to him/her, OBJ and his daughter comes to mind... Not being tribalistic, just pointing out facts.

That's a Toyota not a Porsche

The more you look the less you see, so that means that the so-called recovered loot did not drain the economy like they made it believe. It's Buhari's incompetence that plunged us into this mess.