₦airaland Forum

Comedian2019:
That's the point.
Technology has come to stay. Its shameful to see taxi drivers hustling for customers like touts at our airports in this 21st century.

It is so annoying. How can you drive into an airport that manages a paltry twenty or thirty flights a day and you are accosted with hundreds of vehicles in the carpark, mainly taxis, blocking every space and turning the place to a market. What are they doing there.

FAAN should have no interest in how people get or leave the airports. It is not their business. If they must have a stake in taxis then they should build a seperate carpark for them with a dedicated access to the departure lounge.

FAAN, just clear the parks and concourses of our airports please. Rid them of all commercial taxis and taxi drivers. Airports are not motor parks. End the touting. It is putting your facilities into disrepute.

I remain uninterested about anything Kogi politics.

Rubbish everywhere.

Mr. Governor, all you need to do is to confiscate half of these contraptions, sell them and put the funds together to set up industrial clusters with the owners as equity holders to produce stuff the society really needs.

Governance and wealth creation is easy, only to those who know how. We cannot prosper in a mercantile only economy. Wealth is created by making things we pay over the odds presently to have.

Racoon:
Good morning bro.

You two...hmmm...

pedel:
Not every country in Europe allows Uber and a similar model. The Republic of Ireland doesn't want its regulated taxi industry to disrupt. That doesn't mean the country is not making the progress, they just don't want to fix what is not broken.
The FAAN probably have some regulatory arrangement with the Airport Taxi. Maybe someone should develop an app for the Airport taxi, covering all the 31 Airports in Nigeria. Twenty-six of these airports are controlled by FAAN and five are International.
Someone should bring a proposal to FAAN, NURTW, and AIRPORT TAXI, create an integrated application that will offer seamless service for users. Then let the uber drivers enroll in the program to pick passengers from and to the airport.

Oga. There are far too many taxis at our airports. They don't drop and go. They drop and park. They constitute an inconvenience with their crude attitude and mess up the whole place especially at Abuja. If they can be restricted to a maximum of fifty at any one time around the concorse it would be better. The drop and go, place to order operations of cybertaxis are far better for thr public.

Airports are built for travellers not for taxi operators. Thr sanity and welfare of the travelling public should be uppermost in the aspirations of FAAN.

oluwaahmed:
People patronize uber & taxify because their prices are reasonable. These people are also Nigerians making a living. Ever since buhari became president Nigeria has become a socialist state where govt agencies try to regulate the rights of the common man.

This socialist ideology coming to the fore again. Another proof.

delpee:
Why can't FAAN encourage the taxi drivers to upgrade? Competition is necessary for fairness and choice options. Compelling everyone to enter cars mostly with no A/Cs and at exorbitant cost is most unfair.

Security wise, UBER is safer too. Any random guy with a bad motive can register to join the local cab operators which have no trackers installed

Airports should normally have options for bus and/or rail services as cheaper options. We have neither. Sad!

Wr have this crude mentality that hates decency. Why should they permit a situation where you exit the departure lounge and are accosted by a mob of taxi drivers baying for passengers like motorpark touts. Very indescent.

It is in the interest of FAAN to sanitise airports and keep them secure and user friendly and you will expect that a drop and go, made to order service such as Taxify will help them achieve that but the self serving, corrupt nature in our ways won't allow this so you drive to a typical airport and have to park hundreds of metres from the terminal because all the choice spots are taken by taxis soliciting customers thereby causing inconvenience for the real travellers.

Just disgusting. FAAN must be collecting heavy bribes from these notorious airport taxis they are not able to moderate in the interest of the travelling public.

You drive to the airport (Nnamdi Zik, Abuja) and you cannot get a spot to park because these taxis take up all the parking spaces in their vast unregulated numbers.

Very annoying. Crude racketeering. Goverment should call the FAAN to order and sanitise our airports which are nothing but glorified motorparks.

Firminio and Wijnaldum are not pulling their weights going forward. They both look leggy. Liverpool is dancimg with fire here. Napoli has cleaned up before halftime.

Can we all see why it is absolutely necessary to have a Legislature that has equal capacity as the Execitives, to check its excesses or at least call it to question. Just as the Nancy Pelosi led Lower House keeps Mr. Trump from recreating America in his own image.

But when all of 180 million Nigerians have tamely surrendered their collective sovereignity to a single individual called a President then grave danger portends. When the Judiciary and Legislature have been 'captured' anything can happen.

From the raids on the courts to the dessimation of the fabric of society by wanton official tribal antagonism wr are witnesses to a full blown autocracy from which no one will benefit.

We said it countless times, warned of the dire consequences first of a one party state, then of a unipolar goverment. Folks thought we are just being antagonistic not knowing in their ignorance how democracy works. That power must at all times be held in a flux. That no single individual must hold all the cards, have all the power and influence.

Once again our ignorance and selfishness will be our collective undoing. Anything we see going forward we should take. Next time....

tiredoflife:
Oga forget ur low key
Money no dey hide

If you live your life as God prescribes in the Holy book you can prosper even in the midst of our enemies. Wisdom is profitable to direct.

Just live peaceably, without envy, pride, selfishness, excesses, anxiety, greed and even when you give, the bible says without noise and expecting nothing in return.

Tell me how you live like this and still atract troubles. It is not possible. Most folks whose means put them into problems break one, two or all of God's laws for wise and peaceable living.

At that level he was pretty careless with his personal security. How could he have permitted a 2 v 1 scenario. Even in his office this should not be possible.

Many times I see this and ask the accomplice to step out immediately if my assistants are not within the immediate space.

kayusely70:
Lets hope the yoke has been bioken.

Against a Westham?... c'mon... I seriously doubt that. Individual performances remain poor despite today's result. Still cannot defend,still cannot transit to attack and despite his goal and assist Pepe's overall game play remains dodgy. Far too many turnovers due to his unecessary dribbles when his close control is mediocre at best.

One or two more games vwill give a beter perspective.

marvelphysics:
“At $80 billion, it costs over 30 times the cost of
building alternative energy sources of Solar and
Hydropower.



this is the most important from the post

The popular cost analysis gives an average of 8 billion dollars for 1000 megawatts. Nuclear power like renewables are heavily front loaded but they last very long with practically no downtime. They pay off very well in the long term.

chewwie:
The test was going wrong and they were supposed to shutdown the nuclear reactor using the control rod which were supposed to be made with boron, rather it was made with a positive catalyst with graphite. It wasn't human error as much as it was manufacturing error caused by the incompetent government and that led to the collapse of the USSR. And come to think of it, if we haven't gotten hydroelectricity, coal and other fossil fuel powered electricity right in Nigeria, is it na nuclear power we'll get right? And we lack maintenance culture in Nigeria, it'll be a disaster

Oga, it was human error that led to the Chernobyl incident. Stop the argument. The shut down drill had been practiced many times previously with no problems.

Yes, the plant was not up to western standards but it worked well for many years. All industrial processes have their risks.

I will tell you this categorically. There are currently over 400 nuclear power plants operating in the world and over 600 have been built all time. Out of this only three have had a major incident and only 1 led to significant loss of life.

Compare that to the number of lives lost in refinery fires, coal mining tragedies, pipeline and rig explosions, it is insignificant. Outside renewables nuclear power is by far the safest means of power generation and by far the best means to protect the environment.

But just like air travel nuclear tragedies make for very bad press and rhe scaremongering surrounding it. The major fear of the west is not safety but the ethics behind the storage or disposal of spent fuel but with Elon Musk's heavy lifting space ships coming on line the costs of space disposal will come within economic reach.

There is also safe fission technology coming on line that doesn't require fuel enrichment, runaway reactions and produces far less toxic waste . The science is hard but breakthroughs will be seen in a decade or so. Oil will definitely die long term. We better get thinking.

EazyMoh:
Lake Chad is not flowing, it is stagnant. You need a flowing river. It is amazing how you think you know more than the experts who sites the plants there.

Water is not the fluid of choice used in the modern reactor process. Liquid sodium is far more efficient in extracting heat from the core and through an exchanger. It is the cooling of the steam back to water off the steam turbines that takes much water but even that is beginning to be replaced by helium.

Nuclear plants of the future will not require huge water bodies to function.

chewwie:
Chernobyl didn't happen in the 40s and 50s. The Chernobyl was caused by corruption. The reaction in the nuclear reactor is stopped by dropping control rods into the reactor. Control rods are made with boron, which acts to stop the reaction, Russia made their control rods with graphite which acted as a positive catalyst that caused the explosion.

That is not what caused the Chernobyl accident. It was caused by a improperly conducted test of the shutdown mechanism. It was human error. The reactors in question were old 40's and 50's designs.

I didn't say the incident occured in the 40's. It occured as a result of a design protocul that was hidden behind the soviet union when there was no peer review or vetting by the IAEA.

All modern nuclear plants are open to international scrutiny, their designs vetted by the IAEA and Russia's designs are more in tune with western concepts.

ShattaBandles:
It's Japan

Japan is most technically sophisticated country in the world but they still find it difficult in handling nuclear disaster.

Nigeria is playing with fire

But Japan is expanding its nuclear energy capacity. They know there are few alternatives. Fukushima was not a nuclear led disaster, it was a Tsunami led disaster. No one died or got injured from radiation poisoning. The surrounding land is contaminated but it was simply because the plant design was faulty, the backup generators situated below sea level and the sea wall design not anticipating such wave height.

If an oil refinery or coal fired plant was situated in the same path of the Tsunami, all hell would still have broken loose, the land would still be heavily polluted and lives in jeopardy.

ajl:
Mr Expert, read about this massive solar energy project in Morocco. Don't we have areas in the north close to the desert with endless daily sunlight. Sowore was even talking about this during last election campaign. We are dealing with brain-dead public officials.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/africa/ouarzazate-morocco-solar-plant/index.html

Just the size of half a small local goverment can produce all the electricty we will need for the next 1000 years. And the good thing about solar is that it is scaleable.

Just situate a plant to produce and recycle PV panels near the site and you can add 100 megawatts every month or 15,000 panels of 300 watts capacity every day covering approximately 3 hectres of land a day.

Very easy to generate power. The problem arises when the sun sets. Big problem.

ajl:
How do you know Russians are not bringing old obsolete technologies they can't use by themselves. You all don't know what this is all about.

Oga. Nuclear reactors are not television sets that you manufacture and store in the warehouse.

Plants are complex, componented trains that are design specific. They comprise thousands of purpose built and fabricated parts not off the shelf.

Look at the Dangote refinery. There is nothing there that will not have been made within the past 3 years and there are other components being designed as we speak. So how can you expect to find old parts or old technology being incorporated into new systems. It just is not possible.

Secondly, unlike other fuel based power systems, nuclear plants are not reuseable particularly the older ones due to heavy contamination. It would be a logistical nightmare and mindless cost to try to clean them up. No nation has ever attempted that.

The technology to re-energise spent fuel rods is pretty dodgy and under the eagle eye of the IAEA which watches out for the production of U-235 or plutonium for dirty bombs.

Believe me if we are sold an old plant which is impossible, the world will know immediately and make a lot of noise about it. They will not even believe we wanted it for electric power.

planetx:
Solar energy can never supply enough electricity for Nigerias massive population. It is either nuclear or keep relying on generators.

Solar can actually. A space just 900 hectres can match the total capacity of all our present plants combined if filled with PV panels. Just 25 percent of the Sahara desert can supply the power required on earth.

I am all for renewables. The problem with solar is the 14 hours of sub-optimal sunlight. Storage is prohibitively expensive so nuclear can bridge the gap at night and relax during the day.

Mikkyroberts4:
abeg go read about Chernobyl disaster.

Those types of reactors are no longer in operation. Those were 40's and 50's type designs which require multiple layers of cooling and few redundancies. Modern reactors don't have such issues. Moreover the problems of Fukushima related to the location (close to the ocean) and technical failures in the design of back-up power systems which were placed below sea level.

Nuclear power is completely safe and has done far, far less damage to humans and the environment than oil, coal and even hydro power in the storied history of power production.

There have been only three major incidents in over 70 years of commercial nuclear power, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukuoshima but as air transport and air tragedies are in the sphere of transportation accidents, publicity and the press rules over common sense and bare statistics. Air transport remains statistically the safest means of transport just as nuclear power remains the safest means of generating electricity.

Nuclear technology has improved in leaps and bounds over the decades and future technology points to reactors that donot require continuous cooling or control rods. France is the most nuclear power dependent country in the world and it hasn't suffered a single accident or suffered a single fatality in its history. We can get them or their peers to BOT nuclear plants safely and economically for decades to come.

Moreover we should all be concerned about the levels of carbon-dioxide and sulphur-dioxide coal and oil plants churn out. If you stay in Portharcourt and experience the pollution from bootleg refiners then you will understand where Nigeria is headed to if it decides oil and gas will be its only energy resource.

Nothing at all wrong with nuclear.

And we want to attract investment. Tell me what kind of business can survive this logistical nightmare and stay competitive with offshore rivals.

We are staring our issues directly in the face completely ignorant and paralysed to the solutions so we shut our borders to make our failings psychologically tolerable. Of course it is the fault of other better run countries that we cannot make anything a success.

Just like those who choke to death on the fumes of the power generators they sleep side by side with because of the viscious cycle of ignorance and vice so Nigeria stews in the cocktail of its debilitating self circumcision.

Barbara Broccoli and her crew urgently need the wits of ace storytellers to keep this franchise alive. Another reboot in the offing of 2006's Casino Royale is overdue if not fans might begin to fidget.

That is why we like the Premiership unlike some other leagues when you spend a hundred million and dominate the league for decades winning 5, 6, 7 titles in a row.

The Premiership has obviously got Pep's pin number and we can hazard a guess that the title is all but over long from Christmas.

My oh my. The trumpets of heaven are blaring and the saints that are slept are gathered to receive one of God Almighty's greatest generals.

You will surely be missed here on earth but your legacy stands eternal. Rest in the reward of the Lord so much deserved.

At the very top they know they donot have the solutions but the 'Nigerianess' in them won't permit an admission.

Shameful.

Adakintroy2:
The PROBLEM With This Team Is Not defence As People LIkE to think but attacking midfeild.

(Right,left and central)

Key position in any team a determine factor on how long a team may hold down possession.


We let Ramsey go and replace him with a rooky who could not make Madrid second eleven and his support cast is wilnock. A youth graduate.

We sold experience like iwobi and brought pepe. Maybe it's the price tag we still looking but pepe has lot b of learning to do to be anywhere near a premiership level. And the left flank ..well nothing we ration between obameyang and ozil. Non of which are natural strong wingers.

It's a shame how far this arsenal board has,let this club slip due to greed and their reluctance to spent on quality coaches and players.

You know very little about football. Even a kid behind sunshades can see clearly that the problem is central defence and you like Arsenal continues to emphasize about the front.

You spend 80 million on a winger, bring in a Real Madrid player, all for forward play but who do you buy for security at the back, a washed up Brazilian from the Chelsea scrap heap (Brazilians are not reknowned for producing great defenders anyway) and a rookie from the Scottish league. Having lost a frustrated Laurent Kolciesny (pardon me) in the summer.

Then you tell me the problem is not at the back but in front? Did you hear the commentary which clearly stated that Arsenal's problem starts and ends when the team IS NOT WITH THE BALL, meaning in defence mode.

Liverpool had this same issue a few years ago. They were always strong going forward but lost key matches to a comedic defence but Klopp saw the problem and brought in Van and just see how the young man has changef the fortunes of the club singlehandedly.

He is the reason why Liverpool won the UCL. Defence wins you trophies. Something Arsenal has never recognised since the days of the great Tony Adams and the mighty Patrick Viera.

It is defence that makes all the difference in football. Even Barca with Messi will not smell another UCL until the club addresses it aging defence.

OyiboOyibo:
Arsenal should employ you asap

Don't think so. The club is in denial... at the highest levels.