₦airaland Forum

The British didn't establish any hierarchy there so they probably melted in better, unlike in Lagos where their heads were inflated and others were trying to integrate with them.

ezeagu:
I'd struggle to find an Igbo man named 'Alfonsus, Alloysius, Longinus, Donatus, Adolphus, Reginald', just like finding a Yoruba man by those names. Unlike Yoruba, I would struggle finding an Igbo man whose surname is Wellignton.

I was actually told that in order to fit into the Krio elite in Lagos and other urban areas, many native Yoruba changed their surnames to European, Krio sounding names

omoekoni:
I'm sorry to say this but Nigerian men(especially those that haven't experienced another society or country act like man whores. We know that men like to have sex always but please try and compose yourself and stop drooling and barking at any and every woman. Have some dignity

do not judge, if u cant handle it, u have a problem

omoekoni:
Female bankers in Nigeria are the best thing that ever happened to a guy. I visited Naija last year summer, and i walked into a branch of a Nigerian bank to open a domiciliary account. I met with the Head of the Customer Service, she was 37 and hot, two days later she was at my house, in my bed, it was absolutely fantastic. Didn't know Naija babes where like that, she didn't want any money, time or emotions. She just simply wanted to have fun, it was great. I have to admit i'm use to other girls being like that but i never expected that from a naija babe,  I LOVED IT. I hope they will all be like that some day.

United Kingdom based Immigration officer and lawyer, Hadjia Monsurat Sunmonu


Sunmonu, who holds an LLB intermediate of the London University , was, before her election, an astute member of Oyo Defender Union-UK, a town union in the Diaspora which supports development projects in Oyo Township , her native place of birth.

She said she decided to join politics after witnessing the adverse effect of government’s neglect of infrastructure – fatal accidents on road, while on a trip home. “So, on getting back, I told myself, why don’t we get involved in governance to positively affect our people” she told Daily Sun.
The former immigration officer is bringing the benefit of her overseas exposure to bear on governance. She says she was heading for the house “to assist underprivileged people, small business people and get employment for the youths”. Also to concern her are the cardinal manifesto of her party, ACN – vis: free education, infrastructure provision, agricultural development and environmental sanitation.

Over 30 unemployed but licensed Nigerian pilots and engineers have protested the influx of expatriates in the aviation industry and stormed the office of the Nigerian Association of Aircraft and Pilots (NAAPE) where they demanded that government should step in before the sector is taken over by foreigners.

The protesters took their case to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, where they demonstrated, lamenting that the incursion of expatriate pilots and engineers in the industry had rendered them jobless despite the fact that they are qualified personnel.

The industry exceeded its expatriate quota in spite of the dearth of manpower in the industry, one of the reasons why the Nigerian professionals are unemployed.

One of the protesters who did not disclose his identity alleged that aeronautic graduate engineers who are not even type rated on any aircraft are given employment by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to issue licence to aircraft maintenance engineers.

The aggrieved protester also accused the regulatory body of not conducting any licence examinations for upcoming aviation practitioners for almost a year, stressing that the situation was not good for the development of the sub-sector.

“With a deeper research, by design of their profession, aeronautic personnel are supposed to be in the factory where aircraft are being manufactured. Aeronautical engineers are destroying the future of the licensed aircraft maintenance engineers in the country.”

But the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority said that it does not have expatriates in its employment, disclosing that the only expatriate working in the organisation is being paid by the World Bank.

The regulatory body dismissed the allegation that its aeronautical engineers are not type rated, saying that NCAA was rated 93 per cent compliant by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).

The protesters called on President Goodluck Jonathan to appoint a technocrat from the industry, preferably an air traffic controller, cabin crew personnel, pilots and engineers as the minister of aviation in this dispensation.

“In the air transport industry, aeronautical engineers belong to the designers and the manufacturers of aircraft, they have little relevance in the airline operation because they are not licensed to practise. In Nigeria, we only fly and maintain aircraft and the core professionals are the aforementioned professionals that are licensed.”

Addressing the aggrieved personnel, the National President of NAAPE, Engr. Isaac Balami, urged the protesters to be patient with the government and assured them that President Jonathan would listen to the voice of stakeholders and professionals in the industry by appointing core aviator as the next minister of aviation.

He said, “As far as NAAPE is concerned, you should be patient, because this agitation commenced not too long ago and we should not raise any dust in the sector. NAAPE and other professionals are trying to canvass for the appointment of aviation professional as the Minister of Aviation and I’m sure we are on course.”