₦airaland Forum

HNosegbe: Yeye journalism.

How can Nigerian carriers pay 300,000 dollars and foreign carriers pay 4,000?

I think the real figure is 300,000 Naira, and the editor(s) was/were too lazy to review.

Not surprised though.

NB: I don't support this policy.

nwaniSOC: THIS GUY IS A SINCERE IDIOTA. HE HAS LOST BOTH SENSE OF DIGNITY AND THAT OF SHAME. I DEY SOUTH-EAST FULL GROUND. NOW I KNOW THAT ALL YOUR POSTS, ABOUT ALL THE PLACES I'VE NOT BEEN OPPORTUNED TO VISIT, ARE WHITE LIES.
THE REASON THE SOUTH-EAST CAST A 'BLOCK VOTE'; AND MAY STILL CAST AGAIN, FOR GEJ IS BEYOND THESE JUNKS U POST HERE. MORE PATHETIC IS THE FACT THAT THEY ARE PRODUCT OF UR SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.
UR JOBS WORTH NO 'PAY', I'M SERIOUS.

4 Play: @OP, they better be paying you well for this image laundering.

kingoflag: Seriously, how much do they pay you to come waste your life and sell the future of generations away on here?

ashybabs: Its funny how you claim logic and your falling prey to it following the arguments between you and this person, yours by far lack logic, and u cover up with curses, wivout justifying your points.
Prove me right and do same, but don't ever mention logic if u don't kno nofing bout it!

To everyone whose gullible enuf to belive in this statistic. Embrace this truth
if u belive everything you c on cnn and tv, your in too deep.
A fact is not dictated by news or statistics, it would suprise you how these folks come up with these things!
Shakespeare once sed the skeptics husband the truth from decay.

No news or statistics can tell me bollocks!
Ps nigeria or fg dosent make anyone, this favourable envoiroment to me is simply sort of a shadow, it goes two ways: we take wat we are given(roads light etc) or get what we have to(wealth) no govt does jack for u.

Thanks btw its my first comment

Pastor Kun: The fact that Obj instituted the local content policy is an indisputable fact.

ba7man: No investor/Manufacturer will ignore a market base of 160 million people. Its common sense.

That's was what attracted them, not what G.E.J told them.

GodhelpNaija: This handlers/marketers will not seem to disappoint us more.Until the truth is been told, i doubt if GEJ will leave any legacy.
OBJ has opportunity to give Nigeria a working system, but alas, personal ego will not allow him. All his legacies is been destroy in his eyes by his successor.

Let start from Local content in oil and Gas that empower uncountable youths in this country, The policy is gradually been eroded. The only big design project that could have created lot of jobs is taken to South Korea.Those that are in the sector are not secure talkless of new employment.

Telecommunication is another great sector that is gradually been messed up,All operators instead of employing now , they are converting their staff to contract employee and mass redundancy. yet somebody is talking about ''favourable condition for job explosion''

Banking job is another no go area, down sizing in thousand, yet somebody is shouting fresh air. I hope GEJ will understand these before it is too late.people are suffering , no job, no policy to encourage job opportunities. Please open up power sector, this could make a great difference this trying time.

All these deceits and propaganda will not move the country forward.

awodman: There is this saying that no matter how far LIES have travelled the TRUTH will eventually overtake it...Let the PHCN be handed over next week(Oct 2 precisely),then we will even witness more positives...

Gbawe: Illiterate. Did I write the article? I spoke based on the expectation that what was stated in the article is factual. Get that into your thick head and stop this simple-minded obsession with fellow Nairalanders.

Gbawe: Laughing at those who were screaming and tearing off their own robes because Soludo was schemed out of things in Anambra. What makes things even more comical is that it is the same set of clannish people who call APC all manners of negatives daily on this forum without realising that the greatest strength of the APC is the reality of how, beyond the lies and immature name-calling, it is a Party that will always endeavour to help Nigeria's best and most meritoriously-endowed hands gain power instead of frustrating them openly as others do without shame.

Keyamo, totally new to politics, gains what he wants without prolonged rancour or "do-or-die" wahala. This is beautiful to see and , for me, the salvation of Nigeria. This, as we continue to say, is what makes the APC special. Anybody can join the Party but its important positions, i.e those that affects the lives of ordinary Nigerians, will be reserved for proven performers.

The acceptance of Keyamo indicates what is at the core of the change Nigeria needs i.e replacing garbage with the best Nigeria has to offer unlike other Parties that openly shuns, undermines and disgraces performers to give Nigeria individuals who are indolence, corruption and incompetence personified. Congratulations to Festus Keyamo. Another 'good guy' enters the arena courtesy of the APC the natural destination of the best in Nigeria.

The Goodluck Jonathan administration touts the re-emer-gence of train services in the country as one of its major achievements in the last two years. The rail sector in this country has indeed been in a comatose state for nearly two decades, despite talks-and failed efforts-by previous administrations of reviving the sector.

Even though the trains recently seen on the rail lines are nowhere near what things were in the past, it is nevertheless something to be hopeful that progress is now being made in the revival of this key transport sector, which would have a revolutionizing effect on the national economy and society once it is fully revived and modernised.

[b]The rail revitalization project, as outlined recently by Transport Minister Senator Idris Umar, is part of a 25-year programme to rehabilitate, modernize and stabilize rail transport in Nigeria. This ‘strategic vision for railway development’ includes the rehabilitation of existing narrow gauge lines, construction of standard gauge lines and linking all state capitals by rail, much like the Trunk A road system. When fully achieved, the impact that these could have on the national economy would be tremendous.

So far, there are signs of progress in this plan, though a lot still needs to be done. It is perhaps in this sector that intervention by SURE-P has been most noticeable. According to Umar, so far 90 percent of the existing 3,505kms of narrow gauge rail line in all parts of the country are at various stages of rehabilitation. As a result, the Western rail corridor of Lagos-Kano saw the kick-off of passenger and freight services in December last year while rail services are expected to kick off in the Eastern corridor of Port Harcourt-Maiduguri by year’s end.
Currently, intra-state mass transit rail services have begun in Lagos, Kaduna and Kano-Challawa routes, while inter-city passenger services operate in Lagos-Ibadan, Kaduna-Minna, Kaduna-Kafanchan and Kano-Nguru. An Offa-Kano Express Train Service is also started. Rehabilitation of Apapa port rail line has been completed while other ports are to be linked by rail. In the last two years, Nigeria’s rail carried 4 million passengers and 561,000 tonnes of cargo. This is a small figure compared to what things were decades ago; but it is an encouraging sign at least that the traffic may improve.
This country has been proposing the building of a standard gauge rail line for four decades now. The plan was actually incorporated into the Third National Development of 1975-1980 but was never done. This time, construction of the 187km Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge line is underway and is expected to be completed by the end of next year, according to the government’s projection. Construction of the 274km Lagos-Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri standard gauge line is 80% complete while Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge work was recently started as part of what the Transport Ministry said is a long-term Lagos-Kano standard gauge line. All these projects are welcome signs that there is positive movement in the rail sector for the first time in two decades.[/b]

In recent weeks, controversy has trailed the award of contracts for conducting feasibility studies for the national network of standard gauge lines. The purpose of the feasibility studies, as government officials explained, is to attract private investors under the terms of a Private Public Partnership [PPP] project. This is understandable because the costs involved and the demands of other equally important sectors. The studies will establish the technical, economic and viability models of the projects; provide proposals for alignment and connections to urban and commercial settlements and identify potential train stations and workshops all leading to submission of preliminary and final engineering designs.
The problem, as critics have alleged, is that these rail feasibility studies contracts were on the high side, even though officials have explained that they were advertised in 2011, that the bids were evaluated by SURE-P, Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission and Transport Ministry; the Bureau of Public Enterprises [BPP] issued ‘no objection’ certificates before the Federal Executive Council approved them. However, such controversy should not derail these all-important national projects. If there are corrections to be made, the National Assembly through its relevant committees should step in to examine them. In all cases the rail modernization programme should be pursued as a top national priority. Much of Nigeria’s future economic and social life rests on it.

Sincere 9gerian: Where is the hypocritical @Gbawe? His usually long epistle is needed here urgently.

Gbawe: Laughing at those who were screaming and tearing off their own robes because Soludo was schemed out of things in Anambra. What makes things even more comical is that it is the same set of clannish people who call APC all manners of negatives daily on this forum without realising that the greatest strength of the APC is the reality of how, beyond the lies and immature name-calling, it is a Party that will always endeavour to help Nigeria's best and most meritoriously-endowed hands gain power instead of frustrating them openly as others do without shame.

Keyamo, totally new to politics, gains what he wants without prolonged rancour or "do-or-die" wahala. This is beautiful to see and , for me, the salvation of Nigeria. This, as we continue to say, is what makes the APC special. Anybody can join the Party but its important positions, i.e those that affects the lives of ordinary Nigerians, will be reserved for proven performers.

The acceptance of Keyamo indicates what is at the core of the change Nigeria needs i.e replacing garbage with the best Nigeria has to offer unlike other Parties that openly shuns, undermines and disgraces performers to give Nigeria individuals who are indolence, corruption and incompetence personified. Congratulations to Festus Keyamo. Another 'good guy' enters the arena courtesy of the APC the natural destination of the best in Nigeria.

eGuerrilla: taharqa,

@omanzo02 is absolutely correct here. It is one thing to celebrate the establishment of this laboratory but quite another to succumb to bombast, when we know that few countries actually carry out these complex investigations on their own.



Footnote: something needs to be done about Accident Investigation Bureau website and fast.

omanzo02: Op,

It's not rosy yet. There are different categories of airplanes blackbox analysis laboratories, though it's nice to have one to acquire more experience but Nigeria still lack the indept expertise to handle complex blackbox investigation. Even some developed countries still seek assistance from countries with vast experience.

ba7man: If i hear "Fresh Air"!!!!......Nigerians and investors in general have gotten smarter, they've embraced the spirit of entepreneurship and are focused on delivering goods and services to the teeming population...........Some are trying to atribute it to G.E.J.

As long as we keep fumbling with the 2600MW of electricity, those ancient trains and the snail paced reconstruction of the economic corridor of Nigeria, his efforts remain.....#Fresh pubic hair#.

gramci: Where is Gbawe?

amiskurie: thank God,not jona.

pandriod: To start with, I think BEREM should replace Sexkilz.

In this interview with NKEM OSUAGWU, Commissioner, Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB), Captain Muhtar Usman highlights some challenging and significant achievements in AIB since he came into office in December 2011.

Sir, what have been your major achievements and challenges in office?

As usual, when you come into a new office, you have to first assess the environment even though, I was an insider. So, I know some of the areas we needed to work on; the human capacity and equipment in particular. In the area of human resources, we intensified our trainings; we tried to improve a lot in terms of training because the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) recommends that a body like ours should be a body of professionals and the quality of the people that are to be employed as investigators should be of international standards. It is recommended that we should attract and retain qualified and experienced personnel in sufficient number and everybody knows that to attract and maintain aviation professionals is not cheap.

[b]We tried as much as possible to attract and retain them by improving the welfare of the staff members and also give them the relevant training because training is a tool for them to be able to perform.

On equipment, when I came in, we did not have that in place even though the process had started acquiring what we call the black box decoder. This is a flight safety laboratory, which is used to download and analyse recordings from aircraft involved in accident. In terms of equipment, we have the flight safety laboratory in place now, which has the capability of downloading, analysing flight recorders from aircraft whether involved in an accident or not. If it involves an accident, we use it to determine the cause of the accident and we can make recommendations to avoid future occurrences and we can use it proactively because the focus of AIB now is accident prevention.

In addition, the laboratory has the capability to animate those data that we collect, present them in a form of graphs to know what the aircraft was actually doing.

Furthermore, an approval has been given and the construction has already started for wreckage reconstruction hangar that is used to store, analyse wreckage from accidents. Our main focus now is to prevent an accident from happening and if it does happen, we should be able to know the cause and make safety recommendations to prevent other accidents from happening.

Parts of the challenges when we came into office was the absence of condition of service for our staff and we were able to get a temporary condition of service from the NCAA that was approved for us, which we have started implementing. We’ve been given the condition of service for two years pending the approval of the AIB’s own.[/b]



Why is AIB relocating to Abuja after the first attempt in 2008 failed?

First of all, I will like to say life is not static, two, as you noted, AIB was created in 2006 with the headquarters in Abuja. It was relocated to Lagos later and then there was a directive in 2008 for all the agencies in the sector to relocate their corporate headquarters to Abuja and the decisions were informed by so many things. There are several countries in the world which have their accident investigation department in their federal capitals. For instance, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), in the United States, which is equivalent to AIB, its headquarters is located in Washington D.C, which is the capital of the US.

The location of accident investigation agencies is not necessarily in an area where we have so many activities because we deal with research and development.

There are two sides to accident investigations; the onside and off-side investigation. The onside is what you need to gather as soon as possible and once you have a regional office that is nearby, they can always respond to it, the off-side is the one that you do in your office : analysis, interviews that you need to conduct in your office or even go to the operator or even the regulators and so on.

So, it is not really about where the most commercial activities are taking place, but a place that it is conducive to actually work. If you look at the number of times you have to get to Abuja from wherever you are to get things done, quantify the time, also quantify the cost, you will find out that it is much cheaper for the corporate headquarters of organisations to be around Abuja.



Was that why your management relocated the agency’s laboratory from Lagos to Abuja?

I don’t like the word relocate; I prefer to use the word locate. The laboratory was never relocated, but located in Abuja by the management. The practice worldwide is that the laboratories are located in the headquarters and I can tell you that since 2008 when the directive was given, the location of the laboratory started. If people are saying that we are now relocating to Abuja, it is a process that started way back in 2008. The laboratory was never located in Lagos, it was meant to be located at the AIB headquarters and it is located at the headquarters in Abuja. It wasn’t dismantled from here and moved to Abuja.



What are the major challenges of AIB?

Funding is a major challenge. government has been doing very well as I said, but we need much more because resources sometimes limit to accident investigation. Like in the case of Dana Air, we had to send the two engines out; the cost of shipping, the cost of doing the tear down to establish, cost a lot of money. People had to travel to other countries.

Before now, we used to do flight recorder outside Nigeria to decode the analysis, but government has come to our aid in this regards. We are the only country in Africa that has this capability now. That will save us time because the idea behind it is to cut down on time. As I told you earlier, accident investigation is a public service, they don’t charge for it, but then, you have to queue up to get your time. But if you have your own facilities, then, automatically, yours becomes a priority. That is the benefit we have by having our own and we are also able to support other people by bringing in their own recorder, we are also going to learn a lot and apply it in Nigeria because if we are able to see any hazard based on the data that we have from another country’s accident, we are automatically a party to an investigation.

shine eye: Look at this link and see testimonies from innoson drivers,talk about how sophisticated his SUV with latest technologies combine with low fuel consumption...


http://www.codewit.com/nigeria-news/7266-jeep-built-in-nigeria-by-innoson-group-nnewi-anambra-state

Amaaskia: Words of a deluded nonentity!
You're the most deluded person I've ever come across, thank your stars you're saying this online and not in my presence, gosh! I would have slapped you so hard, scratched that your bird sh.I.t face so well that even surgery won't reconstruct it.

You won't agree to be Nigeria's president even if you're paid a billion dollars to accept the position?

Yet you spend 24hrs on Nairaland? 'Nigerian site'. ? What a slowpoke!

Your existence is a pathetic waste! *spits*

afdynamic: She might be an economic illiterate but she is to some entent right. Nigerian economy is trully growin bt it's not developing. From developmental economic point of view, as economy grow, poverty is expected to decrease bt Nigeria's case is the otherwise where economy is growin and at the same time, poverty is on the increase and this is cause by majorly the source of nigerian economy growth which has remained the primary products which the country can only boast of. Until we started producin secondary products which cannot be achieve with the problems of infrastructures, education, good governance and their policies and so on.... The growth of the Nigerian economy will be seen as sometin that is only on paper if the growth cannot ensures a good standard of living of the populace.......