₦airaland Forum

Katsumoto: Use your brain.

Wouldn't it be good for your family if the Nigerian government directed all revenue to it but bad for Nigeria?

Have you never heard of the term overriding public interest. Sometimes, in society, a few have to endure so that a majority would benefit.

If that wasn't the case, then all elections should result in 100% votes for one candidate and 0% for other candidates.

HNosegbe: If I were Buhari, I would focus on developing and endorsing a credible individual to fly the party's flag. He'll never be elected president. Though I admire him personally, his utterances have put him in bad light. Southerners will never vote for him.

Retire from active politics, sir, and choose a successor.

PapaBrowne: [size=13pt]Just one question!
Besides elections, what does Buhari do in the three years before elections asides from going to the mosque.
The man talks about nothing else but elections. Are you sure the man is sane?[/size]

HNosegbe: Well he tried to mediate when he paid Mohammed Yusuf's uncle a visit. We all know how that ended up.

ekt_bear: She has denied the report: http://www.thenationonlineng.net/2011/business/59616-minister-denies-banning-foreign-airlines-from-abuja-kano-airports.html

So now it is left to the rep and/or the airlines in question to respond with facts.

ekt_bear: So there are at least two possible explanations for her behavior:

1. It is in Nigeria's strategic interest
2. She is pursuing a sectional agenda as the rep alleges, forcing business to setup airlines in a place where they have zero interest

So, what is the argument for (1) being more likely than (2)?

In particular, how is it in Nigeria's strategic interest to block an airline from flying the Abuja route (which presumably those two foreign airlines have identified as among the most lucrative possible routes)?

A-ZeD:
Until we start letting the market decide, we will not develop as a nation. I believe if it was economically viable for the airlines to fly from Enugu nobody would tell them to go their.

A simple lay mans way to look at a viable route if airline x lifts Nigerians from Enugu to uk, would it be able to fill that same flight back to Enugu.

ekt_bear: Long story short, let the free market decide.

If foreign airlines are interested in applying for licenses to fly into Abuja and you deny them, trying to force them to fly into Enugu instead, that is wrong.

Onyocha: Don't you think if this is all about the interest of the country and air traffic into enugu,it makes more sense to send british air ways to enugu?

I see foul play by the minister in this regardless if she is being bribed or not and regardless if the rep too is bribed or not.

tunnytox: If you any iota of knowledge about biz you wouldn't make the post you make above. How can you conduct a study for airlines on how to run their own biz? I guess I can come to your office to tell you how to do your job or biz?

Mkpotu: When I see the comments of some of us here, I begin to wonder if we are really one Nigeria.

Minister, if they are not ready to take advantage of the opportunity of flying Enugu, let them go, let other airlines come and apply.

QED

tunnytox: Dude there is nothing tribalistic there, let the minister and other members if the Nigerian govt work hard to improve the infrastructure and facilities available in this country very soon many of these international flights will even apply to provide local flights services within Nigeria.
I for one will be more than happy to see many if these airlines plying several airports rather than Abuja and Lagos alone but at the moment it is not economically viable.
The ministers action is sending the wrong signals to investors and she need to retrace her steps fast.

maclatunji: Of course it is torture. You remind me of the late General Abdulkarim Adisa. Read excerpts of his testimony as I remember it from Oputa panel.

Gen Adisa: They chained my hands but didn't torture me.
Justice Oputa: They chained you but didn't torture you... isn't chaining your hands a form of torture?

Gen Adisa: Ha! They just chained me O, they didn't torture me, that is not torture O.

donedy: A typical blackmen deluded mentality. Other people are out here saving their culture and language, and I blackman is here trying to make foreigner feel comfortable by thinking about what language to speak to them, Inferiority complex. Go to Japan or Korea and expect them to speak Igbo or English for you.

Isreal of yesterday adopted Hebrew language and script as their official language without thinking what other got to say. It's only in Africa that a leader will promote or try to address those cultural inferiority and you will see deluded souls bashing about freedom of speech or cost of interpreters. I swear, I wonder whether you blacks are actually mentally inferior.

For god sake, slavery is over, wake up!

jaw jaw: Geometric Power which Bart Nnaji was the founder and Chairman is a company financed by local banks and international financial institutions based simply on his recognized personality.
I can tell you authoritatively because I worked in one of such institutions. Please note that we are talking of billions not small money. The project Geometric power is into, being the first of its kind in Nigeria, attracted so much interest that a renowned member of IFC resigned his appointment to work with the Geometric power.
Hope that answers your question.

Akanbi_edu: Ojukwu tried to colonize the oil but failed. Somebody's got to share the spoil. My only regret is that Yoruba elites stayed neutral at first. Who the h-ell does that in the same country controlled by a military government? You are either with the Nigerian side or against, no room for neutrality in this case.

Paul John: That's why development is slow. We claim to be one but divided. I think it'll be better if we divide and stand on our own, or we unit and drop the Ethnic thing. Than to be as a country and divided within.

berem: hmm! You are right bro! I seem to wonder what's the similarity between aishatua1 and mukina2.its unfortunate that the tribal hatred has gotten to this level.I feel so ashamed that even Seun has not even made a single comment regarding this issue.he just folds his arms,reads topic/comments and maybe laugh over it.you might have noticed that there are some particular set of people who engage themselves in tribal bigotery.its really a shame I must confess.I will advise Seun to give a stern warning to all tribal bigots.if he doesn't well its up to him.

Tribalism [/b]is a way of thinking or behaving in which people are more loyal to their tribe than to their friends, their country, or any other social group.[1]

The social structure of a tribe can vary greatly from case to case, but, due to the small size of tribes, it is always a relatively simple role structure, with few (if any) significant social distinctions between individuals.[2]

Another concept to which the word tribalism frequently [b]refers is the possession of a strong cultural or ethnic identity that separates one member of a group from the members of another group. This phenomenon is related to the concept of tribal society in that it is a precondition for members of a tribe to possess a strong feeling of identity for a true tribal society to form.[3] The distinction between these two definitions for tribalism is an important one because, while tribal society no longer strictly exists in the western world, tribalism, by this second definition, is arguably undiminished. People have postulated that the human brain is hard-wired towards tribalism due to its evolutionary advantages.[4]

Akanbi_edu: Yes it is, that is why Ojukwu went to war too. Not a bad thing though in my books, fights for resources are worthy fights.

PointB: I see. So you went to war to steal SS oil from them?
We will watch as the 'shoeless fisherman' and his siblings from the creek take back what belongs to his people. Thank God the Deltans are seeing Yorubas today for what they are- oil thieves. I hope you guys are proud of the grand robbery you committed against the Niger Deltans.

How have you guys fared afterward? Fifty years after the heist, how come your part of the world look like caves, while your masters the hausa and fulani live like paupers, and have decided to bomb themselves into oblivion. Karma?

PointB: I see. So you went to war to steal SS oil from them?
We will watch as the 'shoeless fisherman' and his siblings from the creek take back what belongs to his people. Thank God the Deltans are seeing Yorubas today for what they are- oil thieves. I hope you guys are proud of the grand robbery you committed against the Niger Deltans.

How have you guys fared afterward? Fifty years after the heist, how come your part of the world look like caves, while your masters the hausa and fulani live like paupers, and have decided to bomb themselves into oblivion. Karma?

bubadaniel13: Baba Iyabo.....just admit that you were left out period.....international issues indeed...

Paul John: Why can't our leaders for ones drop ethnic card, and face reality?

Chrisbenogor: Bros, there is no need to engage in cyber warfare. You have asked a barrage of questions all in a bid to evade what I asked. This is not war this is a discussion, I am not jumping to any conclusions all I have done is ask you a couple of simple questions.
Can you kindly climb down from the high horse and have a discussion like normal people do or[b] are you not capable of that?
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Now you are saying you dont want to be understood, how does being misunderstood aid your strategic interest?

PS: Stop referring me to other groups or other people that think like you. If you are incapable of explaining yourself in a sane manner devoid of acrimony, just say so.

Akanbi_edu: Yes it is, that is why Ojukwu went to war too. Not a bad thing though in my books, fights for resources are worthy fights.