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delugajackson:
Only a foolish man would use his hard earned money to sponsor a girl through school with the hopes of marrying her.

Who the hell does that these days when the chances of her sticking with you in the future is slim! I'd rather use that money on a profitable business with a very high return on investment. I can't be doing the job of your parents all in the name of love.

Succintly put!

I wonder, at times, as to the level of stupidity of some guys. Why, as you said, should I guy take over the responsibility of a lady’s parents?

If they can’t ‘train’ her, then they should source for capital to set her up in any small-scale business she desires. EOD

Quiescere:
When it comes to money given to Nigerians (especially with no signed contract that it's a loan to be returned), count it gone!

I learned my lesson. Now, if anyone asks for N30k and “promises to pay back”, I’d just give him/her N10k. They can go hustle for the remainder.

calmnquiet:
Why God I love this woman. She, Kate Bouldan and Erin Burnett my CNN love.

I love Erin Burnett!!

TissuePaper:
Please save some for me... I can only imagine how good this would taste

Aww
You bet it was muy delicioso (very delicious)

Lunch special Thai curry with egg rolls

But I'm not sure why it should take SIX years for the planes to be tested and put into service. Isn't 2-3 years enough?

A year and a half after President Trump first blasted the cost of the presidential planes as “out of control,” aerospace giant Boeing Co. has officially landed the $3.9-billion contract for the next generation of Air Force One jumbo jets.

The contract, announced by the U.S. Air Force on Tuesday, will include detailed design, modification, testing and certification of the two 747-8 jumbo jets.

The announcement comes five months after the White House said it reached an “informal deal” with Chicago-based Boeing to pay $3.9 billion for the aircraft. At that time, Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley said Trump’s negotiations saved taxpayers more than $1.4 billion, a claim that was repeated in a statement Wednesday from the White House.

But an aviation analyst has said the new Air Force One planes were always expected to cost about $4 billion. And Defense Department budget estimates for fiscal year 2019 project that the Air Force One program will cost about $3.95 billion through fiscal year 2023.

Trump first criticized the price of the program via Twitter in December 2016, saying that the planes would cost “more than $4 billion. Cancel order!" Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg then met with Trump and told reporters that they would cost less than $4 billion.

The planes are already built. They were originally ordered in 2013 by a now-defunct Russian airline that never took ownership of the commercial aircraft, as reported by trade publication Defense One. Boeing will add special features, such as defense systems and structural modifications designed to provide extra protection to those on board.

The new planes will replace the modified 747-200 jets that have been in service since President George H.W. Bush’s administration in 1990. Over their years of service, the planes have been upgraded with safety, self-defense and avionics improvements. But as the aging commercial fleet of 747-200s leaves service, the supply of replacement parts has dwindled, according to an Air Force official.

There are newer two-engine commercial airliners than the 747, but a four-engine plane is required to meet the electrical power production, safety and aircraft size and weight needs of Air Force One, the official said.

The existing Air Force One planes are “near the end of their operational life,” said Todd Harrison, director of the aerospace security project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “It’s more cost-effective in the long run to buy a new plane.”

A prior contract award notice for the new planes indicates that modifications will include a mission communications system, electrical power upgrades, a medical facility and “autonomous ground operations capabilities.”

The special equipment allows the president to direct military forces and even launch nuclear weapons from the plane during crucial moments, Harrison said.

“The purpose of this plane is not just to move the president around,” he said. “In a crisis, it’s a mobile command platform for the president.”
Work on the new planes will be done in San Antonio and is expected to be finished by December 2024, according to the contract award listing on the Defense Department’s website.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-air-force-one-20180718-story.html#

happney65:
Trump wants to shut-down the government because mexico wont pay for the wall.. Wasnt him the one that said Mexico would Pay for it?Why is he now asking americans to pay?oloshi person..

That big, beautiful wall was always going to be paid for by the tax-payers. I never for once believed that Mexico would pay for it.

stanech:
[i][/i]A high school student in Oregon won a $25,000 lawsuit & a written apology after his teachers made him take off his Trump T-shirt.

They wouldn’t let him wear the shirt because of “safety to the other students.”

Safety would not be an issue if liberals weren't so intolerant.

If that school is a public school, then they are complete idiots. This is because a public school, funded by the government, has no business infringing on the 1st Amendment rights of their students.

Raumdeuter: CBS’s CEO is being accused of sexual harassment

Evelyn Akhator is already in the Atlanta camp. Also in the D'Tigress camp are Ayoleka Sodade and Nicole Enabosi

The newly established national carrier, Nigeria Air Limited, will be financed through a mix of government budgetary provision, private equity debt arrangement and finance syndication from a consortium of regional and international banks, PREMIUM TIMES has learnt.

The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), the government agency handling the process towards the airline’s establishment, disclosed in an explainer sent to PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday that the government will not fund the project alone.

Since the unveiling of the logo of the proposed national carrier by the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, a fortnight ago, the project has come under serious criticisms, with many Nigerians describing it as a “wasteful venture.”

At the unveiling exercise, Mr Sirika said the new airline, will have a national carrier status and be jointly owned with the private sector, but managed fully by the private sector and run on a purely commercial business basis.”

A former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, dismissed the initiative is a wrong headed priority that “must fail for Nigeria’s sake.”

The former Vice President of the World Bank said if she were President Muhammadu Buhari and her Aviation Minister sent a Memo asking for her approval to set up a ‘National Airline’ with initial capital of $300 million, she will not hesitate to sack him.

Several other Nigerians, including the former Managing Director of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON), Chike Obi, and Lagos lawyer and senior Advocate of Nigeri, Femi Falana, during the recent 25th anniversary celebrations of the have also criticised the project.

According to Mr Obi, it was baffling that 5 per cent of a start-up airline would cost $300million, whereas Air France/KLM paid $286 million for 31 per cent of Virgin Atlantic recently.

Funding details

Of about $300 million funding estimate for the entire airline start-up operations in 2018, the ICRC said the federal government will provide $55 million upfront grant/viability gap funding.

Out of the amount, $8 million would take care of acquisition of offices for the official take-off of operations, cash flow requirements, payment of commitment fees for aircraft to be leased for initial operations and deposit for new aircraft.

The airlines’ financial model shows about $100 million would be required for 2019 operations and $145 million for 2020, with the remaining financing to be determined by equity contributions expected from the strategic equity partners.

To be modeled after the Nigeria LNG joint venture structure, the ICRC said at start-up government would own majority equity in Nigeria Air Limited, with management to be concessioned to the strategic equity investor.

After one year of operations, government would be expected to divest her equity by issuing an initial public offer (IPO) approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission for Nigerians acquire shares in the airline.

“Government will retain only 5% equity (after the IPO), while the rest of 95% equity will be owned by the strategic equity investor and the general public,” the commission said.

To enable the airline benefit from the bilateral air services agreements (BASA) and other such agreements requiring local beneficial ownership as a condition, the law expects Nigerians to own majority stake in the company.

To become fully operational as a public-private partnership (PPP), the company is expected to develop through three stages, namely development, procurement and implementation.

The development stage was recently concluded with the approval of the outline business case and the issuance of a certificate of compliance by the ICRC.

During the procurement stage, requests for qualification (RFQ) and proposal (RFP) would be issued to pre-qualify and select PPP partner, after which information memorandum and RFP bidding process would be published.

“It is only after the PPP procurement process that the strategic equity investor will be known. At that point, Nigeria Air Ltd will become a public company subject to SEC, NSE and relevant CAMA rules for public companies,” the Commission said.

To ensure its viability, the ICRC said the Federal Ministry of Transportation would facilitate a Bill to be sponsored in the National Assembly for an Act making it mandatory for public officials to use the airline for their official trips.

“The Act will demand that any official traveling on a ticket bought with public funds must travel on a Nigerian carrier, unless the route is not served by a Nigerian carrier,” the commission said.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/277894-how-nigeria-air-will-be-financed-infrastructure-commission.html

Valencia are reportedly willing to buy Onyekuru, and pay him 80,000 pounds/week

The Falconets group stage schedule is as follows:

August 6th: Nigeria v Germany at 12:30pm

August 9th: Haiti v Nigeria at 3:30pm

August 13th: China PR v Nigeria at 3:30pm

Trump may just turn out to be the U.S. president with the lengthiest investigation into his life.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether US President Donald Trump’s tweets constitute an attempt to obstruct justice with respect to the probe into his campaign’s ties with Russia, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Citing three unnamed people briefed on the subject, the Times said that Mueller, a former FBI director, was scrutinizing tweets and negative statements from the president about Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Mueller’s FBI successor James Comey.

Trump has repeatedly turned to Twitter to try to bend proceedings and public opinion in the direction he would like — calling for Mueller’s probe to end and demanding that the Justice Department investigate his political enemies.

In one of many similar tweets, Trump on April 20 appeared to try to undermine Mueller’s probe into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in its efforts to skew the 2016 US presidential election.

“James Comey illegally leaked classified documents to the press in order to generate a Special Council [sic]? Therefore, the Special Council was established based on an illegal act? Really, does everybody know what that means?” he wrote.

Now Mueller is reportedly investigating whether that pattern of behaviour is enough to constitute obstruction of justice.

Obstruction is difficult to prove, and US legal opinion is divided on whether the president can be indicted for such a crime even if it is a slam dunk case.

To avoid that legal thicket, Richard Nixon was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate scandal, which nonetheless led to his impeachment by Congress and exit from office.
https://www.channelstv.com/2018/07/26/trump-tweets-under-investigation-report/?utm_source=TW&utm_medium=ChannelsTV-+AutoPoster&utm_campaign=SNAP%2Bfrom%2BChannels+Television

majestique:
I seriously hate topics like this!! so what if he spent 5000 on the date? so what if she ordered 7k takeaway for her friends? he shouldn't have presented himself to be who he's not if he wasn't ready to spend. Better still, he should have looked for a N500 girl to go out with!! Boys everywhere pretending to be men!! nonsense!! as if women don't spend on men too....

You’re missing the point.

No is saying that he shouldn’t have spent money on a date. But it is wrong for the woman to invite her friends to a romantic date in the first place.

To add salt to injury, she had the audacity to order N7k takeaway food for her friends. I mean, who does that?

olaboy1:
Nigerian men created these monsters. I don’t have any pity for you guys. Why on earth would you spend 5k on a first date.

What’s wrong with buying smoothies and go for a walk. I’m glad the girls are teaching you beta guys bitter lessons since you can’t think with anything else other than your d!ck.

They even emotionally manipulate you and you guys tolerate all this nonsense. Here in Europe no guy buys a girl a cup of coffee on a first date, if you are not ready to swipe your card then you are not ready for a relationship...key word RE-lationship.

30 likes for your post

gamaliel9:
Ladan Bosso.... of all those u21 he took to...eemm where was that? Only Ideye is surviving....he later turned to say it was racism....just negodu....mess up country....messed up coaches...messed up local players...messed up agents...good NFF

Ideye and Ezenwa

Arondizuogu:
So we want to buy the lowest Boeing commercial plane abi? And we are targeting 84 destinations at icky off? That plane is phasing out, hope you know.
How will 5 planes deliver 84 destinations? You do know that staff would be paid? The aviation industry would be paid too? $300 million dollars would not go anywhere in starting an airline carrier. Do you even think that anyone u see on nairaland is a riffs raff?

The airline won’t immediately start flying to 81 destinations; but will do so within its first five years. Half of those destinations will be regional/international (long-haul).
Moreover, the plan for airline shows that it will operate a fleet of 30 aircraft within its first five years of existence. And Nigeria Air will start its intercontinental flights in the middle of 2019.

Rice with stew. And beans with plantain

Nostradamus:
Nice one mr.pdp,can we also talk about nigerians doing big in the nba here?

Yes

Not to be left out, the D'Tigers are also involved in qualifiers for the 2019 FIBA World Cup, which will be hosted by China. It will feature 32 teams, for the first time ever.

D'Tigers breezed through the first qualifying round, beating Rwanda, Mali, and Uganda; and out-scoring their opponents 605-387. Yes, D'Tigers scored 605 points in 6 matches!

In the final round of qualification, they will square off against Senegal, Rwanda, Central African Republic, Cote D' Ivoire and Mali in group F.
Tunisia, Morocco, Cameroon, Angola, Egypt, and Chad are in group E. The top two teams in both groups, and the best third placed team will advance to the world cup.

The final qualification (group F) round runs from September 14 - 16 in Lagos, and from February 22-24, 2019.

D'Tigress group games are as follows (all times in Nigerian time):

September 22: Australia v Nigeria at 11:30am

September 23: Nigeria v Turkey at 8:30pm

September 25: Argentina v Nigeria at 5:30pm

Australia are ranked 4th, Turkey are ranked 7th, Argentina are ranked 16th, while D'Tigress are ranked 42nd in the world by FIBA.

It sure looks like D'Tigress are in a "group of death".

First off, D'Tigress will be participating in the 2018 FIBA Women's World Cup, to be held in Spain from September 22-30. Sixteen nations will be participating at the tournament, including the United States who have won the last two world cups.

D'Tigress are placed in Group B alongside powerhouse Australia, Turkey and Argentina. Already, coach Sam Vincent has called up 28 players to the team's Atlanta, USA camp, including 10 players from the victorious 2017 Afrobasket competition, for intense preparations for the tourney. At the end of the camping exercise, 16 players will be cut from the squad.

The 28 players in camp are as follows:

GUARDS
1. Ezinne Kalu (PG) – Vasa Akademia, Hungary
2. Upe Atosu (PG) – Labette College, (NJCAA)
3. Promise Amukamara (PG) – Alexandria, Romania
4. Jasmine Nwajei (PG ) – University of Syracuse, (NCAA)
5. Patience Nene Okpe (PG) -Panola College, (NJCAA)
6.Sarah Ogoke (SG)- RC Celta, Spain
7. Nkechi Akashili (SG) – First Bank, Nigeria
8. Ayoleka Sodade (SG)- University of Buffalo, NY ,(NCAA)
9. Elizabeth Balogun (SG) – Hamilton heights, Christian Academy, USA
10. Ijeoma Ajemba (SG/SF) – University of North Carolina Greenboro (NCAA)
11. Adaeze Alaeze (SG) Ciudad de la Adelantos, Spain

FORWARDS
12. Adaora Elonu (SF)-Perfumerias Avenida Salamanca , Spain
13. Atonye Nyingifa (SF)- Duran Maquinaria Ensino, Spain
14.Cecilia Okoye (SF) – Oviedo, Spain
15. Ify Ibekwe (SF)- New York Liberty, WNBA
16. Nicole Enabosi (SF) – University of Delaware (NCAA)
17. Sarah Imovbioh (PF/C)- PEAC -Pecs, Hungary
18. Nkem Akaraiwe (SF)- First Bank, Nigeria
19. Uju Ugoka (PF) -Roche Vendee, France
20. Amy Okonkwo (PF) – Texas Christian University (NCAA)
21. Evelyn Akhator (PF) – Dallas Wings, WNBA
22. Juliet James (PF) – Georgia State University, (NCAA)

CENTRES
23. Ashley Ezeh (PF/C) – ADBA, Spain
24. Aisha Mohammed (C)- Istanbul University , Turkey
25. Felicia Aiyeotan (C) – University of Virginia (NCAA).
26. Edeferioka Elo (C) – Celta Zorka – Spain
27. Ugo Uwaigwe (C) – Yakin Dugu U, Argentina
28. Elem Ibiam (C)- Kangoeroes, Belgium

Hello Nairalanders:

You’re welcome to the Nigeria Basketball thread, where we would talk about all things concerning the D’Tigress, D’Tigers and other Nigerian basketball teams.

happney65:

Why are you like this

The man is absolutely daft and stupid at the same time. If he isn't stupid, had he not heard of a six-letter word called CONDOM?

Smh

The government has identified 81 domestic, regional and international routes

AIG07:
when is this tournament kicking off?

Tournament starts August 5th. Nigeria’s first match is on August 6th.

As the World Cup has ended, the UEFA Nations League kicks off on September 6th. One of the tasty games on the opening day is... Germany v France

cococandy:
Or results in them buying chanel/Hermes bags that cost $8000- $15,000 a piece and owning a closet full of them.

They are not deceiving me