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abayomi27:
Don't do drugs and don't do 3sum. Do the rest with moderation. Shalom

Why is the “don't do 3sum” part necessary?

Una no go join navy?
Nobody dey drop comment for here now o 😂😂

issyeddy12345:
They said, they will restore by 6pm. and your write up says 4pm. which one do we go for?

That’s what they posted on their x page

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, Mrs Olubunmi Onabanjo-Kuku, has disclosed that Nigeria recorded more than 18.8 million domestic and international air passengers in 2025, making it the fourth-largest aviation market in Africa.

Onabanjo-Kuku revealed the figure while delivering her welcome address at the ACI Africa Regional Conference and Exhibition 2026 in Abuja, where she spoke in her capacity as Vice-President of Airports Council International Africa.

According to her, the passenger volume represented an 11.9 per cent year-on-year increase, underscoring Nigeria’s growing importance in the African aviation market.

“Our aviation market now ranks as the fourth-largest in Africa, with over 18.8 million domestic and international passengers recorded in 2025, representing a year-on-year increase of 11.9 per cent,” she said.

The conference, themed “Next-Gen Airports: Driving Performance and Resilience,” brought together airport executives, aviation regulators, financiers, technology providers and other industry stakeholders from across Africa and beyond.

Onabanjo-Kuku described the theme as more than a conference slogan, saying it reflected an urgent need for African aviation stakeholders to prepare the continent’s airports for a rapidly changing industry.

“This gathering of minds, this convergence of vision, could not have come at a more consequential moment for African aviation. The theme before us, ‘Next-Gen Airports: Driving Performance and Resilience,’ is not merely a conference title. It is a strategic mandate. It is a call to action,” she said.
She cited recent industry data indicating continued expansion in African aviation, including International Air Transport Association figures showing a 6.4 per cent year-on-year increase in international passenger demand among African airlines in July 2026, against a 0.1 per cent decline globally during the same period.

Overall passenger demand in Africa also rose by 5.2 per cent during the period, she said, adding: “This is not a marginal improvement. This continent is on the move.”

She noted that Nigeria was contributing significantly to that growth, with increased scheduled airline capacity and renewed interest from international carriers.
The FAAN boss said the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, recorded the fastest growth in scheduled seat capacity among Africa’s 10 largest airports in September, with a 24.1 per cent increase. Nigeria’s total scheduled airline capacity for the month stood at 1.19 million seats, representing a 37.4 per cent increase over the corresponding period of the previous year.

She attributed the expansion partly to currency reforms, new aircraft leasing arrangements and increased confidence among international airlines.

She said, “Since the current Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development took office, several airlines have resumed operations in Nigeria, and more are expected soon,” she said.

But beyond the statistics, Onabanjo-Kuku said the industry’s growth had a human dimension. “These figures are not abstract. They represent millions of Africans connecting with family, doing business, accessing healthcare, and exploring opportunities. They represent livelihoods. They represent economic growth. They represent the future we are building together.”
Reacting to the development, industry expert Samuel Caulcrick said domestic airlines were not benefiting from the year-on-year increase in passenger traffic. He argued that increased traffic alone would mean little if Nigerian airlines remained commercially disadvantaged against foreign carriers.

According to him, the fundamental problem was not necessarily airport charges but the cost of capital available to competing airlines. Caulcrick said, “Without protectionism, Nigerian airlines are not protected against foreign carriers that dominate the market. Both pay the same charges, but foreign carriers have one decisive advantage: lower cost of capital. That is the entire imbalance.”

Onabanjo-Kuku also cautioned against interpreting rising passenger numbers as evidence that Africa’s aviation problems had been solved. Despite its huge population, she noted, Africa still accounts for only about one per cent of global air traffic.

“In Nigeria alone, with a population exceeding 220 million, we record approximately 19.5 million passengers annually across 28 airports. The potential is vast, but the gap between where we are and where we could be remains substantial. This is not a reason for despair; it is a reason for deliberate, strategic action,” she said.

She identified funding constraints, infrastructure deficits, high operating costs, fragmented connectivity and the challenge of maintaining affordable airport charges while delivering modern facilities as persistent obstacles.

Against this backdrop, FAAN had concentrated on the basics such as safety, capacity and infrastructure while simultaneously pursuing digital transformation. “We have focused on the fundamentals: safe runways, functional terminals, and reliable systems,” she said.

She highlighted the rehabilitation of a major runway at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, terminal upgrades and improvements to airfield lighting, all undertaken while airport operations continued.

FAAN is also deploying digital systems, including faster check-in processes, automated e-passport gates, enhanced security systems and passenger-data analytics.

She said the authority also achieved ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certifications in January 2026, which Onabanjo-Kuku said reflected its commitment to quality management, environmental responsibility and continuous improvement.

“More than 3,500 FAAN personnel,” she added, “had undergone training and certification through International Civil Aviation Organisation and ACI programmes,” the FAAN boss added.

Also speaking at the conference, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, said the next generation of airports must be built around resilience rather than simply expansion.

“The airport of the future cannot simply be a larger terminal building. A next-generation airport must be safe, efficient, financially sustainable, technologically enabled, environmentally responsible and capable of adapting to disruption,” Keyamo said.

He said airports must be prepared for pandemics, geopolitical tensions, economic shocks, climate events, cyber threats and infrastructure failures. He added, “Resilience therefore cannot be an afterthought. It must be designed into our airports, our systems, our business models and our institutions.”

Keyamo also stated that technology should serve passengers rather than overwhelm them, arguing that the ultimate test of an airport was the quality of the journey it provided.

“Technology is only meaningful when it makes a person’s journey safer, easier, faster and more dignified. We must therefore build smart airports with human hearts.”

The minister said the Federal Government was pursuing reforms aimed at strengthening safety, infrastructure, investment and connectivity, while citing Nigeria’s 91.45 per cent Effective Implementation score following the 2026 ICAO Coordinated Validation Mission.

He also pointed to the rehabilitation and expansion of Terminal 1 at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, describing it as an effort to transform a historic gateway into a modern and passenger-centred facility.

“An airport is not simply a place where aircraft land and take off. It is an economic ecosystem. It creates employment, supports tourism and logistics, attracts investment, facilitates trade and connects businesses to markets.”

He insisted that Nigeria was encouraging greater private-sector participation in airport infrastructure and services while supporting the development of Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul facilities, aircraft leasing, cargo infrastructure and other parts of the aviation value chain.

The minister, however, called for stronger intra-African connectivity, arguing that it should not be easier to fly from one African city to a destination outside the continent than to another African city.

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Source: https://shomek.gt.tc/topic.php/749/nigeria-s-air-passenger-traffic-rises-11-9-to-18-8m

The Transmission Company of Nigeria has announced a scheduled power outage in several parts of Abuja to allow for preventive maintenance on a major transformer.

In a statement released on Wednesday, TCN said its maintenance crew will carry out routine checks on a 100MVA power transformer and its associated switchgear at the Central Area GIS 132/33kV Transmission Substation.

“The maintenance exercise will enable TCN engineers undertake routine preventive checks on the transformer from 10:00am to 4:00pm on Wednesday, September 23, 2026,” the company stated.
As a result, the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company will be unable to supply electricity to customers in Wuse Zones 1–7, the Sheraton Hotel area, the Central Business District, Utako, Jabi and surrounding areas during the period.

TCN added: “TCN apologises for the inconvenience this planned outage will cause electricity consumers in the affected areas.”The company noted that the exercise forms part of its ongoing efforts to maintain the reliability of the national transmission network.

Source: https://shomek.gt.tc/topic.php/748/aedc-to-halt-electricity-supply-in-key-abuja-areas-for-six-hour-maintenance

NOTICE OF ANNUAL PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE AT CENTRAL AREA GIS 132/33kV TRANSMISSION SUBSTATION

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) wishes to inform the public that its maintenance crew will carry out a scheduled maintenance exercise on a 100MVA power transformer and its associated switchgear at the Central Area GIS 132/33kV Transmission Substation.

The maintenance exercise will enable TCN engineers undertake routine preventive checks on the transformer from 10:00am to 4:00pm on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.

Consequently, the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) will be unable to off-take power supply to customers in Wuse Zones 1–7, Sheraton Hotel, Central Business District, Utako, Jabi and environs during the exercise.

TCN apologises for the inconvenience this planned outage will cause electricity consumers in the affected areas.

Signed:
Management
Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN
23/9/2026

#tcnnigeria
#electricity

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Sirchiboy:
Men who don't smoke, womanize, watch football, drink or have a woman in their life, what exactly makes you happy or no such man exist?
All of you that are not planning to marry, how are you going to cope at old age?

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Bayoonanuga:
She get yansh for front and back

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ChristCee:
Do not mind all these people that love to over complicate things and build apps/websites they can't scale or manage on the long run. PHP still runs over 70% of the web! The rest 30% is fragmented between over a 100 programming languages.

The versatility of PHP for web and mobile projects is unmatched especially with serious support and compatibility with frontend languages like vanilla js, css, etc.

Till today, I build powerful and serious projects in Vanilla PHP. It's awesome, fast, highly scalable, etc.

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toamutiltech:
At 11:47 PM, the office lights of a small fintech startup in Abuja were still on.
Most of the team had gone home hours earlier, but Daniel remained in front of his laptop, staring at a dashboard full of red alerts.
Daniel was the backend developer responsible for the company’s payment system.
And something was very wrong.
The transaction queue was growing rapidly.
Normally, the system processed payments in seconds, but tonight the delay had climbed to almost two minutes per transaction.
In fintech, two minutes might as well be two hours.
Customers were already complaining.
Daniel opened the system logs.
Thousands of payment requests were coming in through the API, and the server CPU usage had jumped to 95%.
At first, he suspected a DDoS attack, where attackers flood a server with fake requests.
But the requests looked legitimate.
They were all coming from real users.
Daniel leaned back and thought.
Earlier that week, the team had released a new feature: automatic wallet transfers between users.
The idea was simple.
A user could schedule recurring transfers, and the system would execute them automatically.
The feature worked perfectly during testing.
But production traffic was a different beast.
Daniel opened the code responsible for processing transfers.
The logic worked like this:
Receive transfer request
Check sender balance
Deduct amount
Add amount to receiver wallet
Record the transaction
Everything looked correct.
But something bothered him.
He noticed the system was performing multiple database queries for each transfer.
One query to check the balance.
Another to deduct funds.
Another to update the receiver’s wallet.
Another to log the transaction.
Under heavy load, this meant the database was handling thousands of separate operations per second.
The database wasn’t under attack.
It was simply overwhelmed.
Daniel quickly wrote a script to simulate high traffic locally.
Within minutes, the same slowdown appeared.
He had found the problem.
The transfer process needed to run inside a single database transaction.
A database transaction ensures that multiple operations happen as one unit. If one step fails, everything is rolled back, keeping the data consistent.
More importantly, it reduces the number of database calls.
Daniel refactored the code.
Now the process looked like this:
Start transaction
Lock sender wallet row
Verify balance
Deduct funds
Credit receiver
Record transaction
Commit transaction
This approach ensured that the system handled transfers atomically and efficiently.
He deployed the fix.
For a moment, nothing changed.
The queue was still long.
Then slowly, the numbers began to drop.
1200 pending transactions.



Finally, the dashboard turned green.
The system was processing payments in under 300 milliseconds again.
Daniel smiled and stretched.
Just as he was about to close his laptop, a message popped up from the CTO.
“Great work tonight. Monitoring shows the system stabilized. What happened?”
Daniel replied:
“Database bottleneck. Too many queries per transaction. Fixed using transactional processing and row locking.”
A minute later she responded.
“This is why good backend engineers are hard to find.”
Daniel shut down his laptop and stepped outside.
The city was quiet.
Most people would never know how many things had to work perfectly for a simple payment to succeed.
But Daniel knew.
Sometimes the difference between chaos and stability was just a few lines of better code.
And tonight, the server could finally sleep.

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Shomek is a founder, full stack developer, electrician, and digital innovator driven by a clear mission: to build solutions that create real impact. Known for his ambition, versatility, and hands-on approach, he represents a new generation of builders who are not limited to one industry or one skill set. He combines technical knowledge, entrepreneurial vision, and practical problem-solving to create systems that work in the real world.
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press9jatv:
The laptop is still much available for sale. Kindly reach out to me on WhatsApp or call me on my line above. The price is negotiable. Chat me up and let's discuss. Happy new month of February in advance.

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