₦airaland Forum

okpara ugo: You are just a table top critic who achieves nothing year in year out. I give Enugu airport 10 years to topple Lagos airport in flight schedules...

10 years. Wow!! That's a decade. I love your honesty and hope.

theoctopus: Your bitterness is really eating you up. I feel sorry for you right now.

Have you ever heard of the law of demand and supply? British airways et all will surely start to fly the Enugu route as it progresses. The airport will also be expanded as it progresses. They havent even finished the international wing yet. You go get ulcer oh. Quit the jealousy bro.

as i said, no need arguing with someone who has turned his opinions to facts, let's wait till that time. Let's wait and see how many international airlines will land their boeing dreamliners or airbus 360's on a one runway airport in one economically redundant city.

woodcook: Haha guy, why not start rice farming? At least that would be your own contribution rather sitting in your office and point fingers. Until you give up that your white collar job ( or white collar dream ) and start doing the things you expect FG to do in your own little capacity otherwise you are not different from FG that you are trying to paint black.

i should go and start rice farming in what environment? Has the government created an enabling environment? If today the government takes over a large expanse of land and start rice farming, build a milling plant to refine and package the rice, introduce made in nigeria rice to the nigerian market, restrict rice import to a certain minimum in other to create space for our homemade rice, introduce nigerian made rice to our african partners and they start importing, and then sell off those farms and plants to private folks. Have'nt they created an enabling environment? Have'nt they created a brand name "made in nigeria" rice which will make it more profitable for individuals to go into rice farming?

You want a private individual who is profit oreinted to spend billions on rice farms and plants and they fight for survival and tipid gain in a country flooded with thai parboiled rice. Common sense ain't common.

theoctopus: You are spewing balderdash! I dont care if it is world class or junior class. We need development in other regions, simple. Lagos is not the only place in Nigeria. Lagos has had her fair share of the oil money. Quit trying to push your jealousy. It is fallen on deaf ears here. There is a revolution coming. deal with it

okay, i see there is no need exchanging words with someone who has turned opinion to facts, let's just wait until british airways, air france, quantas, emirates,etc..start landing and taking off from enugu to jfk, heathrow, liguardia,etc...remind me, how many runways does enugu airport have, how about gates? Terminals?

okpara ugo: Your mentality is sick..

You are surely a looser. Very soon, Enugu airport will displace lagos as the busiest airport in Nigeria... You guys have prided yourselves with development coming from other zones in the country because of the early opening of lagos by the federal government.

If Onitsha gets a deep sea port as Enugu gets an International airport, i dont see your likes insulting igbos anymore...

The southeast welcomes the world...

chineke, see my trouble. Why has tribalism blinded you so much. It is now a debatable that lagos is the commercial capital of nigeria? Enugu airport is nothing compared to lagos airport, lagos airport is amongs the lowest in the world. So who is the winner here? Rather the country keep fooling around with money.

theoctopus: Sorry, we are diversifying now. No more lopsided development in favor of Lagos state. It is the turn of other regions now. Thanks but no thanks!

diversifying what? Belive it or not, 70% or all arrivals in nigeria is through lagos and the rest is abuja or port harcourt. Yet non of those airports are amongs the best worldwide. And you're going to revamp enugu airport. Waste of money.

How does an airport in enugu help the nigerian economy? As of now, no nigerian airport ranks amongs the best in the world but they keep building the useless things. How about spending all these money on a new MMA with more terminals, runways,gates,etc...so at least we can have "one" airport befeating our status as an african leader.

This a bangkok airport in thailand. A country we enrich by importing rice that we can grow ourselves.

Maybe his age did'nt matter to the PDP because he is young at heart, i mean check out his shirt and face cap. He cool young and cool...lol.

Although the united nations define a youth as between 15-24. It appears not to be the case for the PDP where a 62 years old as been made the new youth leader. Some quaters of the PDP have fired back saying alhaji umar is 60, 59. Not 62 but critics says it makes no difference. The issue has been a piont of scorn and laughter for the opposition as people like femi fani kayode and nasir el-rufia has been touting it around twitter. El-rufia twitter. "PDP appionts 62 year old as youth leader, what next? Beaded old man as women leader? More info below.

http://saharareporters.com/news-page/party-gerontocrats-pdps-national-youth-leader-60-years-old

With a GDP of 111.88 billion dollars, no where near the 400 billion dollars nigeria has lost to corruption or the nearly 500 billion naigeria has recieved in aid money(more than what the u.s spent in reconstructing the entire western europe after world war 2) this are trains in MORDERN trains in bangledesh and MORDERN trains in nigeria.

taharqa: Oh! SHUT tha trap you call mouth, Clown. Apart from Rehabilitating/Reconstructing more than 3000kms of Dead Rail tracks, GEJ has almost completed d laying of tracks in d New MODERN Abuja-Kaduna Standard Rail whose construction was began in 2011 (meaning the Modern Rail wud be finished in just bw 2-3 yrs ie in early/mid 2014). The same GEJ has also completed d laying of tracks on another STANDARD Rail line, Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Ore-Warri track (pending Navigational/Signals aids and Train Stations completion, which shld also be finished early next yr)- a Modern Rail track that was started in 1987 but which subsequent 6 diff Administrations have failed to complete. GEJ has also revived d Abuja InterCity Train Line which was started by OBJ but abandoned b4 he came into office- today, rail tracks, stations, culverts and bridges, are bn extensively constructed again along that line (though I don't know d present Completion rate of d ongoing work). Preliminary work has also began in d Modern Lagos-Ibadan Double Standard Track, just as Feasibility Studies on 10 other possible Rail routes for Standard Tracks across d nation is currently going on..... You 'people' wud die as more and more of these projects, in this sector and others, come to completion. And, trust that some of us wud throw it at ya faces here on NL, and watch to savour d Intense Confusion that wud follow yr faces..... CHEERS

hey idiot, by modern standard rail, what do you mean? How many km/h does it do, is it a semi high speed rail. Is it as fast as amtrack? Most of these project were signed by the obasanjo government in 2006 especially the lagos-ibadan. Was there any enhancement done on the plan? Please how many km/h does your "modern" train do?

gerald09: Yeah even if it does, (I hope it doesn't) d good news is dat change is happening, cos life my brother is bout change, I don't really get what ur issues bout, u vexin cos it took Nigeria dis long to achieve dis or ® u vexin cos he did it @ all cos if its d former den am sorry u feel dat way. its great we start from somewhere Nigeria is not a developed country heck!! Africa aint a develop continent but what made d west/east develop it cos dey started somewhere so my bro we can not be like dem, we can neva be like them by y? Cos they have like 300 years on us. Nigeria have seen d bottom of d under development pit s*hit! We built the pit, n nw thanks to GEJ a little lite is showin n as TESCO says "every little helps". So don't sit dere n compare. If u talk about dubai dey to started from d bottom n nw dey badest! Abeg oh!

stop this talk about the west being older than us. If that is how myopic you view this country that means we will always be behind the west. Since america is older than us by 200 years, in 200 years time, we will be in the current stage that they are and by then they will be another 200 years ahead of us. What a plonkish narrative. Why don't gulf states like qatar and dubai make such assumptions?

ocelot2006: oh please zip it! So you'd prefer we totally abandon the old rail network for new high speed rails? Does that sound logical to you? And did you even bother to consider the cost implication? The Americans, British, Indians, and Chinese all built on/upgraded old existing rail lines, and we're basically towing the same line. The TGVs/MAGLEV/Bullet trains will come later.

ignorant you. So after all the billions are spent on this lomotives whoes life span is very short, futher billions will now be spent in the future to re-upgrade them to semi high speed. When everything could have been done now at a fixed lower price and save time. I suspect your thinking faculty is what the jonathan government works with.

gerald09: Am sad for people like u. Do u fink Rome was built in 1 day. I rather have these old railroad services dan no services @ all. With a little continuity he (GEJ) can reduce trucks on the road. Even if it take a million yrs to transport good, eventually an iboman will come up with a faster way (I trust them). People like u run away from Nigeria go to another country n deceive urself dat u are 1 of dem. Shame!!! GEJ carry go jarre make dem blood dey boil it call (having the cup half full).

rome was not built in a day and it was'nt built in a century either. While your government is busy rehabilitating colonial railways, others are building high speed, semi high speed rails. Maybe it will take nigeria a billion years to get there since rome was not built in a day.

The military has said it is employing the help of civilian female JTF to fight female members of the boko haram sect. The military has said that it is alarmed by the increased rate of women being used to the sect to transfer weapons,messages and gather info. The military says so so for male soildeirs not to be seen as manhandling or harrasing women, it has now employed the help of women to fight their boko haram counterparts.

http://leadership.ng/news/240813/civilian-jtf-women-emerge-borno-search-female-insurgents

Your pay must be really fat for all the propagander yoy spew here. How constitutional is your boss who has refused to abide by the industrial court ruling and pay health workers better? Today they are on strike and people are dying and suffering. Mr sincere 9gerian, make my day and tell me bothe the industrial court and health unions has been politizied.

When the two basic aspect of your country, education and health are on their knees because of strikes everyother thing you do mr president is hogwash, it's like a homeless man buying furniture and home appliances, where do you want to use them?

babyosisi: The doctors and nurses should be charged with negligence and murder should any of the babies die
That is never done

and what will the government be charged with? If they had respected themeselves and followed the ruling of the industrial court, all this won't be happening. Rather you are now blaming people who give all they have everyday to save the lives of others. What will it cost the government to pay this people better? Do you know how much government officials earn? Comments like yours show why the nigerian government has so much impunity to steal, because people like you don't hold them accountable, rather it is the people demanding their rights. Trust me, if i were a government official reading your comment i will relax and enjoy my 30 million salary because i know i am not being blamed or held accountable from this crisis, the striking workers are.

What a disgrace, so the excuse for this governments incompetence is the opposition. How convinent. A former university lecturer turn president cannot negociate with his fellow lecturers, then how can he handle the nation? And he is also playing dumb to a agreement signed in an administration where he was second-in-command...it's mind shattering.

This strike is about better welfare parkages for "people who save lives" and the government should not cloud it with all this position and medical doctor and med lab scientist rivary.

malele: Bro government not paying this people like they want is bad, but understand it happen in most jobs in nigeria, people that work in oil companies atimes protest because of salaries,
My point here is leaving those kids to die because u think u are not collecting enough money is sOoooooo bad, u are worse than the government, believe me.

if the country is really unable to pay the wages then the workers will be wrong. But the money is there and is rather shared amongs thieves. If the workers did'nt take the step of strike and continue humanitarianizing, the govt will expliot that and keep things the way they are. Now let the government see the consequencies of it's idiocy. A price must be paid for change to happen.

malele: So strike now is the solution to the problem.
Medical field is a humanitarian job its not about money.
Its so wrong to leave lives to die because u think u are not paid up to ur worth.
If u can't make a living with what Fg is paying, start a mini biz and combine it with ur job.
Bet me if there wants are met,it does not stop them from striking in the future.

healthcare is humanitarian? So the workers don't have farmilies to fend for? Bill to pay? Lives to live? Go find out what better nations pay first responders and health care personels. And the workers did'nt just go on strike, the sue the government and won, yet the govt. Refused to honour the terms. Reconciliation meeting were called and the govt. Ignored them. What do you expert? Don't you see anything wrong in a politician earning millions and a nurse earning peanuts? A price must be paid for change.

malele: If u don't like ur work, u resign and look for another one, while close a hospital because dey didn't increase ur wage.

if you don't like nigeria, get out of the country to another country, why complain and make noise in other people's ear because the country is drowning in corruption?

malele: Nwanne God bless u.
People should stop calling FG, how can human beings( doctors for that matter) leave their patients to die because of money. Does life mean nothing to us nigerians.
If u think u are not paid much, resign and allow others to continue with their work, after all most people working for companies don't get paid well and dey don't abandon their jobs.
What is all these stupid news one hears from this country.
Really thinks are getting out off hand oo.
Please nobody should call the president, fashola did the same thing either last year in luth.
Really all these nonsense has to stop

i don't want to call you stupid. If every nigerian thinks like you, then this country is doomed. So they should keep quiet and suffer for extreme hardwork while government official live in opulence for little or no work. Let the president look into the eyes of those sick patients and tell them the nurses and doctors who take care of them on little salaries are the enermies and they, the government who earn millions in abuja and have constituted a state of hoi pollio in this nation are the good guys.

Zeeemo: The love of Money and Benefits over the lives of Innocent people...How Sad

will you feed their farmilies? What about the government's love for their personal salaries and it's wickedness to the workers. A nurse will work in a hospital on night shift with candle because the hospital has no light, every two minute a pregnant woman is in labour, a patient has gone critical...after all those stress at the end of the day she can't pay her kids school fees and provide food or pay her rent at the same time. If they continue to fane humanity and work, the government will ignore them and enjoy their millions in salaries and allowances. Let the nigerian people ask their government why a senator who attends sitting once a month, has recess all the time is earning 30 million while health workers who handle hundreds of patients in underequiped hospitals are earning peanuts.

Some of the comments here dumping on the health workers is really making me mad. These people save lives, they work in under equiped hospitals with so much work load. At the end they are not taken care of. But our beloved government officials who do next to nothing earn millions, plus allowances, official cars,etc....does that sound fair to you? Some nigerians are becoming complacent to their government's idiocy.

Joavid: why shuld these innocent babies suffer so
It is not fair atall.
and 1 thing i noticed is that govt paid health workers are very uncaring and callous to thier patient...just an observation

whatever your view about them, they save lives even under the most inhumane conditions!! And they deserve better. They get peanuts while government officials who sit in gaint offices and move in exotic cars get millions.

Eneze1: I think its not really right for health workers to go on strike knowing the critical position they hold, there should be a better way that can be used for this issue to be resolved but knowing Naija govt the only language they understand is strike, may God help us in this country

ma'am, i refer you to my above post.

Yomieluv: nawa ooo,seems the only way to get government attention now is strike.

but my textbook tells me that strike is the last option in negotiation.

the health workers demanded better welfare and the government refused, they then moved to the industrail court where they beat the government. The government refused to abide by the ruling, the same union that won kept on pleading with the government to abide by court ruling and even issued an ultimatum. The labour minister saw the severity of the whole issue and called for a meeting between the union members and the health ministry. The union leaders travelled from all parts of the country to abuja only to be snubbed by the health minister who did'nt attend. All the rancor over little pay rise for people who save lives while legislators and top government officials get over 30 million for doing next to nothing. What a nasty country.

Today, two of the basic sectors of nigeria. Federal health and education is on strike. No matter your political standing or bais, this should worry you and the government needs has a lot of explaining to do.

mitt romney married his wife, anne when he is 22 and she was 19. Today they have 5 boys and 21 grandchildren.

What jumped out to me is something i have been thinking for ages. "there are people deliberately sabotaging the nigerian refinaries rehabilitation so that they can keep making profit from fuel import. There is also a cartel sabotaging the power sector so that they can keep importing generators for profit. And i am inclined to belive this people are working together because generators also need fuel to work......so what is pres. Jonathan doing about this people? Because with them lurking, his "transformation agenda" will never be achieved, or are they his buddies?