₦airaland Forum

Elexdallas:
The way things are going, David seems to be the only artist in Africa.
Like Dey only place en never shot down na hell

Not yet... we're still processing his visa

ChristianNorth:
Air traffic is an indicator of socio-economic activities in a place and also standard of living (disposal income).

It is not a surprise that SW didn't make the top 10 chart because outside Lagos, it will be rare to find a sophisticated level of economic activity going on there.

When you remove the top 4 international airports (Lagos, Abuja, PH, Kano) Imo Airport, a domestic airport sees the highest traffic, maybe because of its vantage position between two commercial heavyweights (Onitsha and Aba).

From the chart below, it is safe to conclude that SE/SS drive air traffic in Nigeria. Of course, we know foreigners and non-indigenes contribute more to the Lagos and Abuja airports traffic.

I am sure a lot of people will be surprised to see Edo on the chart. They are silent achievers.

First of all I'm from SS, so people don't jump on me (of course Igbo people will still find flaws in what I'm saying, but here goes). Second, why do we have to pull each other apart? Increased air traffic in Nigeria is a wonderful thing, and I'm happy to see so many parts of Nigeria getting their own airports - as far away as Kebbi and Dutse in 2013/2014. Third, frankly I'm pleasantly surprised to see Asaba on this list, especially as Asaba airport just really started not too long ago and is not a big city.

1. You can't remove all the international airports, because people use them for domestic flights too. What you could do is find out how much of the traffic from those airports is domestic only.

2. Lagos airport alone 7.3M, all SE and SS airports: 2.4M. (Yes, I'm including all traffic). But even this is quite impressive, considering how many people from SE use LOS inspire of the long drive to their hometown.

3. The vast majority of traffic in/out of Lagos are served by a relatively good road network (e.g. to Island,Ibadan,Ilorin,Akure) though there are some eyesores like Lagos-Abeokuta), and they are relatively close, compared to the long drive from SE to LOS or ABV. So it makes sense there'd be more domestic traffic in SE when you consider the length and dangers of road trips over bad roads.

4. A good proportion of the domestic traffic in SS and SE is to get to the international airports in Lagos or Abuja. How many direct international flights out of PHC (Arik, Air France, Lufthansa, who again)? Even those branch at Abuja or Lagos, so technically PHC is domestic (as in no direct flight from PHC to an international destination without touching down in LOS or ABV).

But it's all good... we're better as a country than we were just 20 years ago.

deji17:
Buhari Govt provided the enabling environment and policy that is driving the growth.

Sai Buhari

Sai Baba!!

My friend please sit down. So the project was envisioned, funding acquired, land bought, bidding, designed and fabricated starting in 2015 bah?

If anything Buhari made things nearly impossible when the Naira devalued by 1/2 under his watch (meaning Dangote had to pay double in Naira for materials), and it was hard to get anything done.

So much talking and bravado, not up to 1% of the total vote... in fact he ranked #10.
He has a point, but apparently points do not win elections in Nigeria.

This is what a a senator is putting together for his constituents... something not up to private house projects of some nairalanders?
Please.

Treat her as you would your own daughter. She's lived with you since 12 and she's becoming a woman in your house.
Just advise her about possible outcomes:

- she will have heartbreak... that sweet talking boy will one day not want to see you
- she could become pregnant
- most men/boys will abandon her if she was to become pregnant, and life will be tough with a mouth to feed
- and if she becomes pregnant, she's off to her parents' house

She's doing the same things most 17-18 year olds do as kongi starts itching. The more you forbid, the more she hides.

hisexcellency34:
Style, style to enter UK

Abi now... 30-day vacation calling, until inauguration

Going forth to embarrass us some more. Maybe this time he may complain about how we're lazy, or is it corrupt, or is it indisciplined, or what.
I'm just waiting for the 2023 to get here so we can restart our dreams again. Definitely going down as the worst performer overall in our history.

festacman:
When you allow emotion to take over your sense of reasoning completely, you reveal the most guarded secret. I hope Helen Paul will from today learn to live with this self-assigned tag.

In any case, congratulations, once again, Helen Paul on this accomplishment.

It took a lot of courage to say this, and I feel it was to shame the haters when she was a small girl. Sometimes secrets that have haunted you need to be aired, then you'll find ultimately that it has less power over you, and surprisingly nobody really cares. If someone goes through something like this when they were small, nothing can hurt them in adulthood.

In fact, she shows the world - and me - that you can overcome, you cannot let words hurt you, you can rise above the circumstances of birth and choose your own destiny.

davien:
Most of these health pointers have either been debunked or are being questioned as the 4 areas of food science are still learning.. Epidemiology, basic science, centenarian studies and clinical trials are reviewing all these old knowledge.

Thank you. A great deal of damage has been done by western "scientists" in demonizing our foods.

First they said palm oil was bad, now they say it's full of antioxidants and when consumed as part of a balanced diet, has no increased risk over other oils. Guess what oyinbo were trying to sell to us in the 70's 80's 90's? Soybean + corn oil (which we call vegetable oil), so they needed to damage our own.

Not strictly used for food (though my Mom taught us how to cook with it back during austerity days '84): Shea butter. It's a plant oil just like olive, corn, palm, sesame, avocado, etc, so nobody look at me funny.

I remember when Shea butter was demonized as bad for you, unhealthy, local. Guess what "they" were trying to sell us: petroleum jelly (aka Vaseline); as in its derived from the same petroleum that is in petrol... talk about bad for you. Nowadays, shea butter is sold in the finest boutiques around the world as natural, organic, healthy, anti-aging, anti-oxidant, etc. Anybody with a brain would have realized it since we've been using it for centuries and have beautiful skin, but again, we let our minds be used against our own things.

So anytime I see a study - particularly from western scientists - about how bad our foods or oils are, I view that "study" with very skeptical eyes, and expect them to reverse their position within 10 - 20 years.

I reject this form of neo-colonalism that attempts to demonize the food that has sustained my ancestors.

This study is deeply flawed... the only thing I agree with is the high amount of sodium in noodles... and the onset of diabetes by eating too much refined (white bread, which contains a lot of sugar). You'll also notice these two are not native/traditional to Nigeria.

Of course one should not eat too much of anything, but we need the calories for all the hard work we do. It's only in oyinbo land they count calories... where they eat refined sugars, refined wheat, barely do any physical activity, and have to go to a gym to burn off excess.

Ask anybody who's pushing wheelbarrow, hawking and walking, hammering nails, carrying cement in hot sun all day. They need those calories.

As for egusi or our other soups... our diet is superior to anything in the West.

I already knew about the nutrition of Egusi soup, but I'll copy this link to inform some people:

"Egusi is rich in protein, fat and vitamins A, B1, B2, C and alpha-tocopherol, a component of vitamin E. This alpha-tocopherol helps to maintain young-looking skin and good fertility.
It is made up of 30 – 40 % protein, and about the same proportion of fat/oil. 78 % of the fat is unsaturated fatty acid, which is free of cholesterol and protective to the heart.
In terms of vitamins, it also contains palmitic, stearic, linoleic and oleic acids, which help to protect the heart; and a very small amount of carbohydrate and calcium."

http://godandwheatgrass.com/2013/07/egusi-an-organic-miracle-food/
https://www.pulse.ng/lifestyle/food-travel/food-and-health-health-benefits-of-melon-egusi/msqxed1

By the time you add our bitter leaf and other assorted green leaves, which have their own herbal benefits, crayfish (calcium/protein), palm oil, fish, etc, you have a power-soup. Same thing applies to other Nigerian soups. Even cow-foot has great gelatin that helps with joints and delays arthritis... I mean our foods are almost medicinal when you think of all the health benefits.

The rest of our foods are extremely healthy, and even oyinbos are beginning to see the health benefits of our diets. I could go on and on about the different studies, but suffice to say, as with everything, eat in moderation.

Elvis2kay:
NEGROs race with empty head, imagine buying a sand in a desert

Trust me, if there was a way, our leaders would have set up a system to buy sand in the desert... SMH

Na wa for fake news.

How will somebody wake up and just spin this rumor?

Then again, na Naija: I'm used to the "this happened", "it didn't happen", "oh, yes it happened" story-telling.

Still shaking this table eh?

For somebody who apparently is not bothered, there sure is a lot of hashtags.
I prefer people to step up their hustle and not spend energy making remarks that sound like jealousy.

Ebenezerk2:
That is why I like developed countries, you can just block your card from your bank's application, but Nigerian banks have not got to that level

Ironic that in developed countries that feature exists... which means they have thieves, in spite of their wealth...

OnyeMmeri:
Had the same experience early year. The thieves managed to steal 32k from my account.

I've since learnt that the first thing to do after such theft to block your line. Then contact your bank to block your account as well.

This is probably the best advice, especially for those who do everything on their phones. First thing to do when a phone is stolen is to block the line and the account ASAP.

OP, sorry about the loss. I almost had my phone stolen on an intercity transport ... the guy was shifting his body one kind, and I kept noticing my phone was peeking out of my trouser pocket every few minutes. So I moved it to my shirt pocket to avoid stories, crossed my arms and went back to sleep.

Some banks allow you to generate a pin on a phone and send to the for authentication. They don't check the actual phone (IMEI), only the phone number which is determined by your SIM. So if your SIM is inserted into another phone, the bank will think it's still you. As somebody else suggested, SIM lock will prevent that.

No solution is perfect, but I think it helps not to put all our financial eggs in one basket so to say. I only use a token for online transactions (not phone generated PIN), and that token never leaves my house. Also, the bulk of your money should be in a savings account which you never expose.

These days too, there are thieves working with bank staff, so all bets are off.

Raydos:
Has fela ever hit 100,000,000 views on YouTube before? ?

Abeg Davido and burna boy are my favorite and they are the best hit maker in the world

Both are great in their own eras, but Fela is undisputably the greater artists.

1. Fela was known worldwide and was going on international tours in the early 1970's. Before the Internet, before social media, before smart phones or easy International travel. Imagine what he could have achieved if he was of this time. Forget oh.

2. Fela still resonates with people 22 years after his death. I can't imagine anybody remembering Davido in a few years when he stops making music.

3. Fela was the voice of Nigeria for many years - the focal point of our protests against the governments of the time. He also spoke truth to power on many issues: corruption, austerity, zombie soldiers, election rigging, colonialism, bleaching, mental-slavery, internal hypocrisy, etc.

4. Even in his more secular songs, the words and melody he'd put together about bumbum were ingenious... unmatched by any of the childish imitations we hear today.

5. Fela is a cultural icon - a landmark in human history - in a way I can't imagine anybody in the current generation matching.

Even the person who made that original comparison knows better and was just trying to find our mouth.

Jessyjack:
if you are neither male nor female,then what are you....

Intersex. That's the term.

Jcole1985:
With that level of Ugliness,you are free to be whatever you like,Fagggot claiming Bullshit we will even welcome you among the male folks cus ladies don't look that ugly

What's the need for all this hate? Nature has its ways and intersex is a natural phenomenon. If you consider the incredible fact that all fetuses are essentially morphologically identical until the chromosomes express themselves - around 2 months - you'll marvel at how sexual differentiation happens correctly most of the time.

"If you ask experts at medical centers how often a child is born so noticeably atypical in terms of Instruments that a specialist in sex differentiation is called in, the number comes out to about 1 in 1500 to 1 in 2000 births [0.07–0.05%]. But a lot more people than that are born with subtler forms of sex anatomy variations, some of which won't show up until later in life."

"Blackless, Fausto-Sterling et al., said in two articles in 2000 that 1.7 percent of human births (1 in 60) might be intersex, including variations that may not become apparent until, for example, puberty, or until attempting to conceive"
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex#Population_figures

So this phenomenon happens a lot more often than people think; it's just that most don't talk about it.

RIP sir ... people just being killed here and there.

If it was by anonymous robbers, this should be a note to us all to carry less cash.

johnmartus:
As if dangote was not part of those make them poverty.

You mean the Dangote that has employed many, and buys farmers' produce for his food factories?
Or are you referring to some other?

Finally... I've been waiting for a person from North to tell the plain truth. Hopefully poor people will take his words to heart and demand more from their leaders.

Goals and actuality are two different things.
This government reversed the trend of our growing economy. We'd gone from #52 to #20 in GDP between 2005-2015 (10 short years), but PMB has taken us back to #24. This is the same way they plan to move us back in every index - poverty, happiness, ease of business, even corruption index.

It's not politics, but fact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nigeria look for "global ranking of the Nigerian economy"

Danrizzle:
The cleaners have deserted their jobs due to a backlog of unpaid arrears. Students are now left with the options of hiring cleaners with their own money, or cleaning the place themselves.

I'm going to rant a bit here:

If I was a professor at that university, I would be very angry at the students, and would give them quite the speech.

What is wrong with students these days that they can't organize themselves to clean up the bathrooms that they use? Aren't they old enough?
We can't always ask people to do things for us, and if you see something wrong, organize and get to work. How much is bleach? How much is brush and a few mops? But they have money to go and flex, or to buy weave, or for data.

Did you know that in Japan... the students at all levels clean their classrooms, halls, toilets, and are wholly responsible for keeping their surroundings neat? Students as young as 8 self-organize and give each other cleaning responsibilities without any input from teachers or staff. This is in a very wealthy country that can afford all kinds of cleaners. Look it up.

The attitude of younger Nigerians really tire me sometimes; sure there are genuine hard workers out there, but some youths really are lazy, and expect everything to be done for them: parents pay fees, staff clean for them, professors should just pass them, and after graduation, they just want somebody to hand them a job... all without any effort or initiative. Some schools here in Naija also do it, so there's really no excuse.

Instead of posting pictures of yet another hostel bathroom... OP (or whoever took the pictures) and your cohorts... clean the fscking place up. You're not 5 year-olds.

And that reminds me... I've been trying to get people (especially the youths) in my area to stop littering. They complain about all the trash and how it's blocking drainage, yet they are the first to drop sachet like a bird dropping sh!t.

And look at this gem from BananaTree, typically self-absorbed and missing the point:

BananaTree:
You're a mumu. I really don't think you ever attended a university. If you did, please tell me tales of how you and your colleagues took a day to clean the toilets cleaners are being paid to do.

Because Odogu9195 suggested students take responsibility.

Odogu9195:
Here is something I don’t understand. Why can’t those students take a day and really clean the toilet?? So those yeye student expect school to come clean toilet for them? Smh lazy and dirty youth. Just 1k is enough. Everyone in the building contribute. Was this toilet like when it was opened?? Sometimes I think we deserve the kinda politicians and so called leaders we have. Looking at this, some stupid students they even poo for toilet ground.

I tire.

Youths deserve the country they get, and if our youths in university do not give a damn about their own toilets, what can one expect when they get into positions of power? Oh, that's right, they don't even care about building or making sacrifices... it's just "what can you do for me", and then abusing someone if they don't get their way.

I'm just envying this man, Mr. Allen Onyema. Silently making waves.

How I wish I could be controlling a business 1/1000th the size of his. How did he do it? Going from his days as a student, to squatting in Oshodi, to struggling lawyer, to business magnate.

People will sit on their ass and complain that there's no money, yet people are flying. There's no money, yet business is booming. There's no jobs, yet people are starting and growing companies.

Not sure what the hysteria is about. One one hand, yes ExxonMobil might be planning to leave, which is indicative of its loss of confidence in our economy.

However, there a several things to mind:

1. it plans to sell its assets, meaning others are willing to buy those assets. In other words, the sum total of business and employment may not change much, just ownership. Ideally these will be Nigerian owned, which I can only welcome.

2. there is a HUGE refinery coming online (i.e. Dangote) which will seriously hamper their profits. Better for them to redeploy their business to other places where they have competitive advantage.

3. businesses enter and exit countries for their own interests, and are the true beneficiaries from the economy, so I don't mourn their loss, especially since the majority of profit is exported back to their home country

IamaNigerianGuy:
Can you offer more information ? A link maybe ?

https://www.boi.ng/apply/register

There is more detail on the site, but as usual, one would need some long leg and greasing to actually get the loan.

However, lending rate appears to be market+6% (market is 14% according to CBN), so this is a basically 20% loan. NO country developed its industry with 20% loans, so for FG to think this is helping anybody shows the policy makers are out to lunch.

Far better to seriously save salary for 1 or 2 years (while living with parents and no flexing or spending money), than to wait for this nonsense because at the end of the day, profit margin is under 20% so one will end up working so hard just to pay the loan back, without actually gaining anything.

To make it worse, the money is disbursed to the suppliers for your business - not given to you in cash. If you can establish a good relationship with suppliers, they may be willing to extend credit for 30-90 days with much less interest.

Until the official word comes from a .gov.ae domain, please disregard.

There has been no confirmation from official sources, just this unsubstantiated notice from a travel agency.

gift01:
They should not rely only on 300watts. Produce 250w and 200w. Also make your pricing very reasonable

Good point. But don't forget there are additional costs in retooling equipment, supplies, and even packaging to create a variety of panels. I would rather see them concentrate on one panel type. If they can flood the market with a standard 300W at reasonable prices, it would be a good thing to standardize solar.

Let's hope the factory is still running 10 months from now.

thesicilian:
She should leave music alone and go join her father's company as a secretary or receptionist.

It's pity you got so many likes for this comment, which reflects the thinking of other nairalanders.

Is it a crime to try to do something that interests you? Even if the rest of the world thinks it's a failure... is there anything wrong with exploring ones abilities? Here's a person who is trying to chart her own path - unlike many who would just depend on dad's success - and just for that I think she should get a nod and encouragement. I don't like the music she makes, but I admire her hustle.

Your comment also smacks of latent sexism: "woman, instead of trying and failing, and ultimately finding success in something you are good at, just depend on a man for your existence". I don't find the same comments being applied to sons of successful men...

She's someone who graduated from King's College London, with a degree in Business and Economics, and from New York University with a Master's Degree in Music Business. And for some reason (maybe just a knee jerk reaction), you think being a receptionist is the appropriate position?

I would encourage my daughters to try their best to do what inspires them, instead of leaning on my success. Even if they fail over and over, that's just the life of an entrepreneur.

Auxtin85:
This toothless bulldog don start again, he is yet to realize how irrelevant and stupid he is.

You dey mind am?

Is not by mouth only... see how Boko boys are causing trouble... feel free to emulate them abeg and stop making noise. You can also take instruction from MEND.

OK, I just realized today's April fools... no wonder this joker is making statements.

Emvico34:
this life get as e be. See this small girl life don change because her kpekus dey intact. Me wey don tey for this life still dey strugle to chop food. Baba God abeg next time no give me preeq again . Na to.to i want pls

Funny... but after thinking about it... all these men giving away cars and house... they were all born with preeq... and there are hundreds of thousands of them - successful men.