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Henry120: The eight presidential jets are not all for the presidents use alone.

Apart from "eagle one" which is the official presidential jet and a dasult falcon x, the other jets are used by the vice president, senate president, house of reps speaker and the service chiefs.

So in the true sense, the president uses only 2 jets of the 8 in service. While the use of the other 6 are as follows:

*The presidency, which in this case includes the vice-president, senate president and house of reps speaker.

*The service chiefs( chief of defence staff, chief of army staff, chief of air staff, chief of naval staff, IGP police and DG SSS) only on official assignment

*The 3 ministers of foreign affairs also use jets from the presidential fleet.

the senate president and house speaker use the president's planes under extraordinary circumstances. Security chiefs use military jets. Only the vice president uses some of the president's plane. Also eagle one is used mainly for foreign visits. When travelling within the country, the president uses a gulfstream or falcon.

homesteady: ^^^
Okay!! Thanks for the Info!!
but why is the president house a top secret?? Is it because of security issues??

i guess it the nigerian secret service choose to keep it secret because people's inability to know how the place is makes it more easier for them to protect it. But i hope it changes soon. Nigerian kids should be able to go on a tour of their president's house. The sss have to improve. The white house is the most secured building in the world but i can google it's floor plan.

You're right. Aso rock villa is a sprawling area. Infact according to abuja's plan, aso rock villa is an illegal structure. Aguda house was suppose to be the presidential residence but was taught to be unsafe. So it was used as a guest house for foreign visitors. Queen elizabeth ii stayed there when she came to nigeria for the 2003 commonwealth summit in abuja. But now it's the official residence of the vice president.

HELICOPTERS
the nigerian presidency runs a total of three A139 choppers. They are used by the president when taking short trips or visiting unmotorable areas also to save time and limit traffic disruptions associated with motorcades. President jonathan unlike his predessesors has really favoured this means of transport, using this means amny times. The choppers are maintained by the nigerian airforce.

PRESIDENTIAL COTTAGES(obudu cattle ranch)
since assuming office. President jonathan and his wife have shown great love for the obudu cattle ranch in cross rivers state. Due to their regular visits and conferences they hold there, special cottages on the ranch have been preserved for the presidency. Though this has never been confirmed by the presidency. Sources say it is now one of pres. Jonathan's holiday and weekend hangouts.

STATE HOUSE,MARINA.
The state house in marina is a british style built mansion in lagos marina. The mansion has served as home to nigerian leaders since tafawa balewa. Though some military heads of state preffer to stay at dodan barracks. It remained the venue where foreign heads of state were recieved. Today the house is the lagos home of the nigerian president, pres. Obasanjo and yar adua hardly used it but pres. Jonathan and his wife appear to have fallen in love with the home. Visiting regularly and enjoying it's beautifull gardens and other aminities. First lady patience jonathan was resident in the marina state house when the dana plane crash happened.

JETS
the nigerian presidency operate a total of 8 jets but the flagship carrier is the "EAGLE ONE". Eagle one is a boeing 737 buisness jet and is marked NAF-001. The words "NIGERIAN AIRFORCE" are tagged on the top and the seal of the nigerian president is embossed on the tail. The plane is painted green and white, the colours of the nigerian flag. The plane seats between 25 to 50 passengers in luxurious fashion, it includes a master bedroom, a washroom with shower, a conference/dinning area and living area. Other jets in the presidential fleet include, a gulfstream v-sp, a gulfstream 550, two falcon 7xs, a DO228-200,two falcon 900s.

CARS
the nigerian president is driven around in a mercedes benz s-class. It is custom made, bulletproof and bears the seal of the president as the linscence plate. It has the nigerian flag on the right and the flag of the commander in chief on the left. The car is driven in a motorcade of 30 cars which includes 10 police escote bikes and a fully equiped ambulance. The presidential car is driven within a chain of 6 identical s-class full of sss agents. This is done to sheild the car from any attack and make it virtually invisible in transist. The car is driven by an experience sss agent. There are road blocks alone the routh of the presidential motorcade will take and alternative rouths are planned incase of an attack.

If you were goodluck jonathan the president of the federal republic of nigeria. You will also be dancing considering all that is associated with your office. I've gone through a lot of stress to put together the perks our president enjoys at our expense.

SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES.
Officially the president of nigeria earns 3,514,705 million naira. While the state house has a budget of 18.3 billion naira.
Salary:3,514,705
closet and material supply:477 million.
Refreshment and meals:293 million.
Official trips: 1.7 billion
office running and stationaries: 1.3 billion.
Drugs and medicals: 314 million
teaching and instructional materials: 11 million.

RESIDENCES
the nigerian president has two official homes and a few unofficial once. The most famous and foremost is the aso rock presidential villa. Which is a massive white mansion located at the three arm zone in the capital city of abuja. The mansion is also the office of the president and also living quaters. The mansion features elaborately decorated state rooms used to welcome foreign heads of state, the federal executive council chamber, a beautifull garden with a magnificent view of zuma rock, a bunker, a chapel, a press center, banquet hall and many more. The mansion has been very private over the years so not much is know about it by nigerians.

One does not comment on primitivities like the deeper life bible church.

k2039: They can as well close their eyes, why pee on somebody's room in the first place, lol.

exactly..someone commented that what were those passing doing when they looked into the window. And rather than miding their business or better still tap on the window and tell them to cover up the curtain they called the police. They are just fustrated because they have'nt gotten any action in a while.

It is now common knowledge that parents protect their kids so much from sex on the media. Infact sex in a taboo, any parent will fume with rage if they walked in on their kids watching a movie with a sex scene but when it comes to violent movies, it's not the same, parents watch violent movies with their kids and even take them to cinema's to watch them, they buy games like call of duty, homefront,medal of homour,etc..which allows this kids to kill and kill in front of a telly for hours. And research has shown that kids who watch violent movies and games are more likely to be violent.

But sex is a part of humanity. Your kids will surely do it someday and without even watching sexual movies, when they get to puberty. The urge comes. While violence is not a part of humanity.it is learned. So why do parents protect their kids so much from sex but violence is allowed?

Mynd_44: How can anyone say they did nothing wrong? What if kids were passing when the incident happened?

but they were indoors..that is the arguement people are making. For the fact they committed the act in the privacy of hotel room even if the windows were open...tomorrow the police can arrest another couple for moaning loaudly when having sex in privacy of their home.

Lordave: you are such a clever dc!k. Could the capacity of Dana crash be compared to this one?
Did Dana crash at the airport?
SMH...

dana overshot the runway, that means it was'nt far from the airport, how long does it take airport fire service to get to the crash site? Sosoliso crashed in port harcourt airport and burnt for a long time, killing those who even survived. Were was the fire service then?

dominique: I think the cup contains water for rinsing their mouths. I also wonder where a spat out o.

no.the cup is for spitting. They rinse their mouth afterwards. You can rinse your mouth after brushing but must spit while brushing.

A boy Skeeter,19 and girl andre,20 a couple who were having sex in a hotel room in the u.s state of south carolina have been arrested after neigbours and pedestrains called to cops to report the incident which was going on before their eyes. The couple was arrested an charged with public misconduct and intoxication....but many have condemn the move as wrong because the couple were having sex in the privacy of a hotel room not minding if the curtains were closed or not and rather those who called the police should be arrested for peaping while some support the move. What do you think?
Skeeter(boy)-2nd pic. Andrea(girl)-first pic.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2354872/couple-arrested-having-sex-INSIDE-motel-drapes-open.html

This culture of jonathan wearing military uniform is getting too much and it is wrong. This is a democracy and one of the greatest symbol of that is a civilian commander in chief to ordering a uniformed armed forces. Even north korea with all it's propagander and gosses stepping soildeirs, their leader does not wearing military atire.

Wrong!!! There is a governour who pratically lives in aso rock and his name is governour dickson from bayelsa. The bayelsa state governours lodge in abuja is currently undergoing massive refurbishment as he is planning to move there and run his state from abuja. The deputy governour will then move into creek haven.

Yomieluv: If this has happened in Nigeria,so people would have been ranting rubbish blaming FAAN,FG,and so on,now it happened in oyinbo land,all we can say is "Thank God,no life lost". Imperial colonization mindset.

minutes after the crash, the fire truck have put off a the fire thereby saving lives, how long did it take the nigeria fire service to get to dana crash scene? How many times did they stop that their tank is empty and the needed to go and get more water?

Hours after the crash..the reason, manifest, and other vital details of the crash are already started coming out, up till today where is the full report on the dana crash?

dom: emmmmmmm. have u all wondered where they all spat out.

look closely at the pic, each kid has a little red cup.

Ignorance is spreading like wide fire on this forum. Look at how reasonable people are dumping on this kids for accomplishing something through togetherness. I have withnessed the world record for the largest pillow fight amd it was done by u.s school kids in a stadium. Does that make them any less smarter? Those of you saying trash should be ashamed.

I got a voucher,free mean and hotel room for a cancelled flight from berlin to new york but had to pratically fight my way through a long crazy line to get back my money from aero when they cancelled my flight from port harcourt to lagos.

Keeping a goat to guard your yam ban.

Sad breaking news from yobe says 29 students and a teacher have been killed in a attack on the boarding school. The islamic terrorrist group boko haram has claimed responsibility. Withnesses say some of the pupils were burnt to death and parents screamed in horror as they tried to identify their charred childrens bodies.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/30-killed-school-attack-northeast-nigeria

http://m.aljazeera.com/se/201376103410707610

Prowizy2: Retardeen..

all the insults on this gentleman is just silly. He just expressed his freedom of speech against his leader and if you belive your president is not retarded, then there is no need to hammer the lad, he is a politician and as one he has opened himself to critisims. He has been called worse but that has'nt remove a hair from his scalp. You folks should stop being thinned skin. This is a democracy for christ sake.

captainbraide: AMAECHI IS KIND OF LEADER THAT DOES NOT WANT ANYBODY TO CHALLENGE HIM.HE THOUGHT HE HAS CONQUERED RIVERS STATE AND HE WANTS TO GO FURTHER TO CONQUER ABUJA.HE FEELS NOBODY DARE TALK OR CHALLENGE WHATEVER HE SAYS IN RIVERS STATE

THE TRUTH IS,IF HE WERE IN THE SHOES OF PRESIDENT JONATHAN AS THE PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA AND JONATHAN WAS IN HIS SHOES AS GOVERNOR OF RIVERS STATE,HE WOULD NOT TOLERATE WHAT HE IS DOING TO JONATHAN RIGHT NOW,HE WOULD HAVE FORCED HIM OUT OF OFFICE WITHOUT REGARDING THE COURTS.

HE IS VERY LUCKY THAT OBASANJO IS NOT THE PRESIDENT,HE WOULD HAVE CUT HIM TO SIZE.I JUST THANK GOD THAT PEOPLE ARE COMING OUT NOW TO MAKE THINGS DIFFICULT FOR HIM AND HE IS LIVING IN FEAR OF EFCC,THAT IS WHY RIGHT NOW HE IS RUSHING SOME ROAD CONSTRUCTION JOBS.BUT,DEFINITELY,THE MONORAIL NONSENSE HE IS USING TI SHIPONE WILL CATCH UP WITH HIM.

what is this "THING" that ameachi has done that you all speak of. No one has been able to tell me. And calling obasanjo into this shows a level of ignorance on your part. If obasanjo was such a swift grim reaper. Were was his sword when atiku his vice was poking his finger in his eyes. What did he do to bola tinubu?

Now, i want to have a frank discussion with the ameachi's. What has ameachi done that qualifies as anti party activities? So a member of the PDP is not allowed to speak ill of the president? When did freedom of speech become anti party? Does one surrender their freedom of speech and association when they join PDP? To a large extent, i think this speaks to the immaturity in nigeria not just politics. How dooes this country expect to grow when desenting voice are silenced, when working or associating with the opposition is treason. What has this man, ameachi done that qualify as anti party?

What is going on in this country is very dangerous to democracy. Do not be blinded by sentiments. Sen. Joe manchin of west virginia in the united states openely speaks ill of barck obama, he has never voted for any of obama's bills, yet he is still in a democratic party, sen. Scott brown when he was in office was the greatest critic of his party but was never suspended or isolated. Gov. Chris christie helped pres. Obama win the 2012 presidential election against his party but openely praising and buddying up with obama days to the election due to hurricane sandy, but today he is still a respected member of the party.

Nigeria's democracy is very primitive. PDP today is silencing desent within it ranks and the nigeria people which the PDP exist to serve are not saying anything. Tomorrow when the PDP start silencing desent among the nigerian people, there will be no one to help you.

In the last few hours. It has been confirmed that the lady of the bb profile is not the baby mama in question but the publicist for p-square. Everyone who commented on this has been duped, and shame on the MOD for putting up on frontpage an unconfirmed news. Shame on you all.

Buisness men in bayelsa.

Lovely job mr president. And nice seeing gov. Amosu working with the commander in chief. It's great to know that opposition politics is'nt getting in the way of the growth and development of the country.

Over a hundred and seventy views yet no comment. Shows how useless this pic is, i bet some people are slaping themselves for clicking on this.

The african union has suspended egypt from the organisation following the military coup that removed it's democratically elected president, mohammed morsi. The actions of the egyptian military goes against african union rules which rejects military coups on civilian government, nigeria is taught to be one of the main instigators of the suspension following it's strong condemnation of the coup.

http://news.yahoo.com/african-union-suspends-egypt-army-overthrow-president-111939991.html