₦airaland Forum

This is another Ribadu - I took the money to the CBN, I inform the police but initially he denied collecting money. fair fair don killam just the wey the thin finished Ribadu. The businessman can as well said I used the money to set him up. children playground!

4bobo: i worked with one very rich ,american woman, who was a trained doctor but runs school.up till now she still uses nokia 1100 , not stingy woman, though, but she will only tell u that she dont want phone that she doesnt use the functions. She only use simple phones. I think it is mentality. We do alot of competitions and under pressure to meet up. Thats why many people dont know what to do with the phone feauture. Our atitude needs to be changed individually.

true talk!

they are all Nigerians and stop pointing fingers.

purpleh: I am thinking of setting up a Dog Kennel in Nigeria, can anyone give ideas of how lucrative this business is/ can be.
I have a passion for Rottweilers, Doberman Pinschers , Boxers and Mastiffs , please advise.

Good business, those pepe-soup bukas in Lagos, Ondo, Benin, etc need the thin.

this is madness, person that never win anything for his own country! HOnour for naija no bi anything again, just give them money.

and this another reason why white country develop, the type of job your friend doing right now most places in Yankee for example will only ask for high school, they will not even ask you to show it and you will still make your $60000/year if you can do the job.

If you have cert and you cannot do the IT job then no one need your cert. wake up Africa!

Your friend shouldn't worry if he can do the job, let him continue with his job.

the match too slow.

2 millions poor Africans sending money home while over 2 millions greedy Americans loosing their homes.

My girl-friend dis-virgin' my friend and has the naive to tell me the story

common Malawi!

acidtalk: I really respect your honesty and sincerity here.

For the fact that you will resign even though you protected your father clearly shows you admit he is a criminal and was at fault for the love you have for him won't make you watch him go to jail.

If I send mine to jail, the entire nation will SIT UP and wakeup to the fact that it is not business as usual.

Corruption will automatically reduce to up to 70%

You will jail your father for nothing! thats not the way to reduce corruption mehn.

den go kill the shabaab soon.

lets continue to wait for the next 100 yias.

werepeLeri: So every road crash worldwide is a result of bad road?

some people are infants in adult's garb.

Nothing in the news says the accident was caused by bad roads - yet...

Most of you also have one or two relations in government. Either local, state or federal, either now or in the past.

Our prayer is that one by one may they all die for their sins while in government - why not say Amen to that?

na DUI

freshmoney: When will Nigeria government stop road transport of inflammable fluid- petrol,diesel, kerosene,gas? Inflammable fluid are solely conveyed via rail transport!

na train you go use deliver petrol to petrol station?

na minus one the thin go bi.

so for 52 yias we can't repair transformer then when we go build one, besides UNILAG na prestigious university abi no bi so.

oldlord: Our Africa leader have bulk of d blame. if d continent of Africa is well developed and govorn, i dnt think other part of the world will disrespect u. Africans there no place like home, let us join hand to build our land and stop bieng pest to the rest of d world

nice one!

good move and God will help you to continue!

cnario: Are you for real? It amazing how some of you allow your selfish views to cloud your sense of reason. You say 'National Interest' - please tell me, of what advantage is it to the nation that the name of a prestigious institution like UNILAG was changed? It is even of a greater National interest that the name should remain UNILAG. Lest you forget, the reputation of Nigeria in the international community is dead, and Nigerians are treated like dogs. Institutions like UNILAG that still command respect in the International community should be preserved, not destroyed - talk of replacing concrete buildings with glass houses.

what is in that school that is prestigious? a school without good computer science lecturer, a school that can't train ready energy workers. poo!

This is why they respect, fair and don't like us! Up Nigeria

cindylee: If my teenage daughter gets pregnant, of course I will feel disappointed and mad at her but she must give birth to that baby. I will keep the child while she continues her life in either secondary or univerity.

She might lose one year or two but she must definitely go back to school. I am prolife except when the child poses a life threat to the mother before the pregnancy can be terminated.

God bless you! correct thinking!

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Engines out, the pilot of the doomed Nigerian commercial airliner looked for somewhere to put down the aircraft, desperate for open space but finding only a sea of tin roofs and narrow dirt roads. Down below, people quietly rejoiced in their homes that erratic state-run electrical service had returned to their crowded neighborhood on the edge of the megacity of Lagos on a hot Sunday afternoon.
The crash on Sunday of the Dana Air flight killed 153 people on board the MD-83 jetliner and an undetermined number of people on the ground. The tragedy struck all of Nigeria's economic classes, from the state-run oil company executive riding on the plane to the working poor on the ground in the country's largest city. As investigators continue to probe what caused the crash, many fear another could happen in a country with a long history of aviation disasters that remains completely unprepared for large-scale emergencies.
It's not just those aboard aircraft who face danger, noted Ezekiel Adekunle, the son of a landlord whose apartment building was damaged in the crash.
"What about those people at home who didn't board any plane, but the plane came and crashed on them," he said.
It was the worst air disaster in nearly two decades for Nigeria, a nation where carriers have longed used aging aircraft and often operate under little government scrutiny. Some passengers clutch Muslim prayer beads or Bibles, softly praying or loudly calling out "Blood of Jesus" as airplanes hit turbulence. Applause and more prayers punctuate landings.
But flying is the quickest and safest way to move around a nation about twice the size of California with a crumbling network of roads that drivers in rickety buses and trucks speed along and where robbers lay in wait in the night.
Among diplomats and expatriate workers in the oil-rich nation, air travel often becomes a macabre cocktail party discussion, as people swear by one airline or whisper about rumored pending bankruptcies of others. Some of the smaller carriers rely on just one or two aircraft while the largest, Arik Air Ltd., has more than 20 airplanes.
Dana Air, owned by a wealthy family whose conglomerate sells everything from fruit juice to cars, had a fair reputation for on-time departures and safety. Politicians and government workers shuttling between Nigeria's central capital of Abuja to its seaside commercial capital of Lagos in the southwest were frequent passengers. Dana's fleet of five planes, all of them U.S.-made MD-83s, stood out among other airlines that rely on Boeing 737s. Passengers got Dana-branded drinks and sausage rolls on each flight.
On Sunday, airlines ran the normally reduced number of routes between Abuja and Lagos. The Dana Air MD-83, crewed by a pilot, co-pilot, a flight engineer and four flight attendants, had flown from Lagos to Abuja earlier in the day and was scheduled to depart the capital for Lagos at 2:13 p.m. for the return flight.
Abuja's Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport is undergoing renovations, so passenger squeeze into one waiting hall where large standing air conditioners cannot cool the hot and humid air fast enough. Those wanting to travel on Sunday crowded against each other, trying to obtain seats on the limited number of flights available. Omonigho Akinsanya was trying to travel back home to Lagos with her 5-year-old son Moyo after visiting her sister. She got angry when a man jumped the line and got one of the last tickets available on the Dana flight. Her other sister, Eseoghene Okor, got a seat and boarded the flight. The man's rudeness saved the lives of Akinsanya and her little boy.
Inside the full flight, a cross-section of Nigeria's elite sat in business class and coach. The son of a former vice president during Nigeria's military era, Ehime Aikhomu, sat in first class. Levi Ajuonuma, an executive and spokesman for the state-run Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., was nearby. Members of the Nigeria's military were scattered throughout the plane, as were employees of the country's Central Bank. The Anyenes, a Nigerian-American family of six from West Hartford, Connecticut, sat in coach. There were a total of nine Americans on board as well as a Briton, an Indian, a French citizen, at least four Chinese citizens, two Lebanese and a Canadian.
The flight taxied and took off into the dusty air outside of Abuja at 2:54 p.m., about 40 minutes later than scheduled. The plane banked and began heading south toward Lagos.
It remains unclear exactly what went wrong, but at 3:42 p.m., pilot Peter Waxton, an American from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, radioed Lagos' control tower and declared an emergency, saying both of the Pratt & Whitney engines that hang just below the plane's tail had failed. The MD-83 lost altitude, still miles from the airfield and surrounded by the sprawl of Lagos, a state home to more than 17.5 million.
In the final moments, the aircraft neared a small open space in the crowded neighborhood of Iju-Ishaga, about nine kilometers (five miles) short of Lagos' Murtala Muhammed International Airport. The plane barely passed over an uncompleted building before sheering off the top of a mango tree. The belly of the airplane crashed into an empty house. Its nose smashed into a three-story apartment building.
On the ground, Abiodun Adeniyi had turned on a PlayStation, happy that electrical power had returned to his neighborhood just ahead of the Nigeria-Namibia FIFA qualifying soccer match at 4 p.m. Without noise or warning, the plane came down. Debris penetrated his roof and rained down. Some struck his cousin's baby, only bruising her face. One of the plane's wings destroyed the rooms of two men who had joined Adeniyi only minutes earlier.
As the plane burned, sending acrid white smoke that stung the eyes into the air, thousands gathered around the crash site, taking pictures with their mobile phones and rummaging through debris. It took emergency workers about 20 minutes to reach the site over the narrow, crooked dirt roads. Even then, there wasn't enough water to put out the flames. Residents tried to put out the fire by throwing water from small plastic buckets.
Night fell, and private water tankers from nearby construction sites rumbled toward the site, but couldn't get through because cars of onlookers and security officials blocked the road. Soldiers and police tore away pieces of scrap lumber to strike those who wouldn't step back from the shattered and smoldering plane.
As of Thursday, it remains unclear how many people in total died in the crash. Government officials have said they likely won't know until they complete forensic testing, which could take weeks. Meanwhile, bulldozers have leveled the remains of the buildings struck by the plane, turning it into an eerily empty lot of airplane parts where security officers were seen thumbing through the pages of a torn family photo album.
Adeniyi had immediately packed his belongings and those of his neighbors as the fire still raged from the airplane. Some people approached and began moving his possessions. He thought they were lending a hand. Instead they just walked away with them. Adeniyi doesn't care all that much.
"I just thank God that I did not die," he said. "I'm alive."

all this nonsense meeting na cos bigmen died, how many poor people dying everyday of road accident and no meeting on how to fix the bad road. They have received their own share, and they will continue to receive it in different way. CO from their generators is reducing their lifespan, they should do something about it now.

Gbawe: There will soon be an official Presidential committee on Nairaland propaganda 'public awareness' services. We all know those who will lead such a committee and those who will be 'dedicated' and 'valuable' members

already on NL, Beaf is the chairperson.

make dem manage jam!

idiots go back to school!

Sky Blue: Don't get it twisted, Nigeria does not seem to enforce adequate maintenance systems so I will also be using that list if I ever fly local. Just because in my thinking the newer planes might not require as much maintenance as the much older ones, but I am fully aware it isn't quite as clear cut as that.

But moving forward, that is not the approach to take to gaurantee airworthiness, maintenance is key, and if we need to enforce this through the constitution then so be it. I mean, all these new train and monorail lines we keep hearing about, the thought of those things not been maintained after launch is scary. Its the same reason why some states will continue building new roads instead of just building good roads and maintaining them.

who wan dey for hot sun for min wage to maintain road?

lagcity: Chineke! Ojukwu and Gowon eating cake like say dem dey for honeymoon

Retardeen-2 how are you?

when poor people die of road accident, na normal, then when rich people die and continue dying of air accident na normal also. let them fix the road otherwise they will continue to die of air accident. Amin!

gregg2: Demuren, NCAA boss should resign not Stella Odua.

You get sense pass others, are you a Naija person? cos naija person only thing with their ass.

dulaman: Tears are stil running..

it's not the first time and this not going to be the last, we are dying of road accidents more than fly.