This is really commendable! Pls keep innovating, Nigeria can't afford to remain behind anymore!

The staff of Arik Air, which once advertised itself as Nigeria's biggest airline, have been reduced to panhandling from passengers, as they are being owed a backlog of salaries. In addition to not being paid, the staff are working under horrible conditions similar to what obtains in slave camps.

Sources in the aviation company told SaharaReporters that the Chairman, Johnson Arumemi-Ikhide, has been terrorizing staff and sacking them arbitrarily. He is said to have studiously avoided discussing with staff on how to pay salaries, which stretch back to July.

The Chairman, sources added, is more concerned about activities lined up for the airline's 10th anniversary.

He is said to sack staff on mere hearsay or text messages sent to him by traitorous staff desperate to do their colleagues in. Those involved function as spies, who invent allegations of wrongdoing and pass them on to the Chairman.

Last week, a female staff, Julia, was sacked for calling one of Arumemi-Ikhide's spies "Chairman's baby."

He also suspended another staff for braiding her hair. In August, he sacked one Captain Obot because he refused to fly, having not being paid for two months.

At the Murtala Mohammed International Airport said company sources, staff have had to board passengers in darkness. While the staff of other airlines have internet facilities, Arik staff, airport sources said, are forced to personally provide internet facilities for the company's use.

"The situation has turned many of us into corporate beggars. We rely on passengers for crumbs to feed and cater for our family. Our aircraft cannot be regarded as safe because pilots are traumatized by not being paid," said a staff.

She added that the company has not reviewed salaries in over seven years. Staff pensions and taxes, she added, are not remitted.

Also, the staff disclosed that Arik owes insurers and all types of suppliers and vendors.

Some of its cabin crew members, said another source, have been locked out of hotel rooms due to the airline's inability to pay. Sim slots for pilots, he further said, are canceled because the airline cannot make payments for the simulator.

The airline is also a place of industrial apartheid. Its expatriate staff, who do exactly what Nigerians are doing, to routinely recycle meals that should be thrown away are paid in dollars and usually seven times the amount Nigerians earn. The security department is said to have two different salary grades for graduate staff.

"We don't have work tools. We buy our own rain boots, torchlight and pregnant security staff sleep on the tarmac for night duty.

"We even pay for our uniforms. The last time Arik Air gave us clothes was seven years ago," an angry staff said.

Another issue with the airline is that it recycles meals that should be routinely thrown away, our source said.

"If meals are not eaten on the plane, they are put back in the freezer for another time. This can lead to food poisoning," said a catering department staff.

Many members of staff disclosed that they are currently being overworked and under enormous pressure.

One of them told this medium that some staff were sacked for registering as members of one of the aviation workers' unions. He explained that the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) is aware of what is happening in Arik but turning a blind eye.

The Managing Director, Mr. Chris Ndulue, his deputy, Captain Ado Sanusi, and Chief Pilot are said to be too timid to confront the chairman.

https://secure.saharareporters.com/2016/10/20/unpaid-salaries-arik-air-becomes-slave-camp-staff-beg-passengers-money-work-terrible

jnrbayano:


Both.

He is God the son and Son of God.

Hiyan!

EHMIR:
Now that u ve brought it to the table of nairaland council of members,what do u want us to do..invade adenuga's tower...send online thugs to beat up their customer care reps or what..or wait..

Borrow 2k nd above frm them,do ur regular sub,copy ur contacts to phones..brake d sim,..go back nd retrieve it then copy the contacts back

Criminal!

schumastic:
i concur, funny enough some ladies do no bra day but if you ask them to do no bra day which is today and send to you, they will insult you, meanwhile tomorrow they will snap without bra n put on IG n other social media app for everyone to see ( what will you call that )

Reverse sensing!

schumastic:
i concur, funny enough some ladies do no bra day but if you ask them to do no bra day which is today and send to you, they will insult you, meanwhile tomorrow they will snap without bra n put on IG n other social media app for everyone to see ( what will you call that )

Reverse sensing!

sashx:
210km/hr Benz C230. 180 on 406 sports.

Yes that's about right! I did 207km/hr in my C280. Could've done more but borrowed myself sense

The maximum I attained was 207km/h in my 2007 Mercedes Benz C280 4MATIC. It was along Ilorin ogbomosho expressway in June this year.
Its the smoothest road I've known that still exists for over 10 years.

But trust me, I burned 15 litres of my tank for 40km, which would normally take me from Lagos to Ibadan with AC at an average speed of 80km/h

And the only tokunbo tyre I had got twisted after the whole adventure which cost me another 35k to change!

Utchgirl:
Kikikikikikiki

kikikikikikiki

kikikikikikiki


Mr kworuption fighter !

Plz whn are u showing us ur certificate?Whn wil u stop hiring SANS 2 defend u in court because u r certificateless ?

Plz, whn wil ur wife be travelling 2 d USA ? Jus to prove Fayose wrong.

Those who live in glass house shld nt be throwing stones. I'm nt supporting d gov'nors nt 2 be paying dia workers salaries.Bt Bubu shld stop claiming 2 be a saint because he is kworupt.For crying out loud,he is a leader,and shld be leading by example.


Dnt quote me negatively biko.

OK who you pep?!

queencalipso:

Hey honey! I didn't ask you or any1 else to take me serious that's entirely your choice and am cool with it. My point is in an argument pple could say anything out of anger that doesn't necessary mean that they meant their words. His about what he said to her?

And that's why when you get angry you walk away so you don't say hurtful words that are hard to erase. In any case that's women. I have mine and I know what I face with her. You ladies are just so aaaarrrgghhhhhh!!!

Dollyak:
What's more important is for the land to be cleaned up. It's a big shame everyone has politicized the whole thing despite the best of intentions from this administration regarding the clean up.

Everyone should take a step back and be objective for once.

God bless you!!!

midolian:
"change the change"

Note: The jonathan government can share anything

Including blood co-shared by Patience Jonathan!

modath:
Starts with A pple ends with O range!! Someone's about to be " juiced" & gulped down..

Hmmm op *raises hand*....eeerrmm I think it is Akpabio!!! Pls don't say I'm wrong sir!

Prophets of doom, they never see anything good to prophesy. I no know who send them work, bullshit!!!

marxweller247:

Always read b/w d lines, 2yrs 4 each count charge of 77, there4 2 X 77 = 154,
Many folks here dont know how to read

Abeg op dem don confuse me sef! Me Na 2x77= 154 I understand oooo! Which one be dat wey dem dey shout only two years!

I normally spend 5,500 to fuel my car and still within that same budget even with fuel scarcity! The thing is, I don't ever buy black market except in emergency! 2500 fills my jerrycan and with 500 tip for the fuel guys so I spend about 8500 per week.

onexile:
Buhari's brothers again...!

This Allah that is sending these people must be a blood thirsty Oliver Twist.

You're so pathetic!

Pooh my gosh! You just got me laughing hard meeehn....any day the barber comes around is always a day of drama! I hated this thing ehn. It pulls your hair more than it cuts it!

My brother pls just stay where you are now and park well in the mean time. Your story already show how much success abounds for you in the nearest future. First make sure there's a concrete agreement with your boss about the new benefits so he won't turn around and say he didn't say so. Then work and develop yourself first in that place, see it as a stepping stone to a greater place.
Remember, it's not all about the money, 100k difference working in a Lagos means so little, trust me so it's not worth leaving abuja for.

'Chase excellence first, success will chase you pants down'...

All the best bros

This is Sharia law in Delta State!

Hmmmm orishirishi na e we go see for this naija! Make dem pay up sha about make dem give up the company for better managers!

stankezzy:
Do we even have a president?

ask google...

kendrick9:
every thing about this buhari disgusts me... can't wait for 2019 for us to boot this buffoon out of power.. possibly the most useless president i've seen..can't stand him at all

Yeeeah...you better not dare stand him! He will deal with you and your pipeline vandals until you surrender! Oniranu omolokun!

Wailers and IPOB youths be like.......

Austindark:
what are they going to borrow for.... is it to finance the 2016 budget? that is really a bad move

Please come up with a better idea. But until then, shut d f**k up! Gerrit!!!

That's very true! My Former boss once had to replace his iphone 5 screen at their place in Ikeja sometime ago, only for him to get to South Africa and got an embarrassment of his life when the centre discovered it was fake screen he had on. He was lucky his phone was not impounded because he was a big man and changed screen right there and then. BEWARE OF SLOT! A lot of criminals doing business in Nigeria!

goodmorning40:
These people Don come again, they will not leave this man alone

So when it came to T.B. Joshua now they should leave him alone abi! But you people can call for Saraki's head because he's not a 'man of God'! By the time these men of God will be done with Nigerians ehn, it would have been too late!

drss:
buari dullard, nigeria's oyel minister who does not understand subsidy has finaly succeded in shifting blame from GEJ to oyel marketers. so it is no longer nnpc to blame bah was it not d dullard dat made nnpc d sole importers of oyel in a bit to spite anytin GEJ, buari revoked d arrangement where independent marketers import d bulk of d nations oyel needs by making nnpc (one organization dat cannot maintain refinery) d sole importers of fuel, hence d result is fuel scarcity ravaging everywia. d worst scarcity eva in d history of d con3. buari's system of making inefficient nnpc sole importers of fuel was d same system dat existed during military days where fuel scarcity was a normal tin. n somebody dey talk say buari get experience for governance
GEJ may have been removed through voter card, but come 2019, buari dullard will be chased out of aso rock with cutlass.

D.A.F.T!!!

odinese:
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Nigerians paying tax is the same as dashing the government pocket money, cos they won't use it to do anything. [/size]

But they will thief it nau!

babdap:
Bad news for ....

WAILERS joor!