₦airaland Forum

BOOOMNAIJA:
ANTY, HOW ARE WE SURE THIS IS NOT A GIMMICK TO GET UR BROTHER A JOB?

NinjaMetahuman:
can someone tell this goat that election is over.


and why nairaland keep promoting this goat?


does he have a stake here or something?

dierich:
u may not understand why I'm seeking for advice. and besides, u don't need to say some people need psych evaluation. who knows maybe u need 1 too.
those that understand me will know y I'm looking for the best way to table it down without causing anything..

gisthabit:
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Travelling out of Nigeria for most people, especially the first time travellers is a worrisome experience. To be fair, I think the process of checking-in at any of the international airports to the point of boarding the aircraft is more tedious, stressful, energy consuming and frustrating than the process of getting the travel visa itself.



For most cases, the passengers cannot move one point to another without parting with cash as in the form of bribe.

The presence of enormous security personal and unnecessary screening points is quite embarrassing and time-consuming. These extra screening points aside the normal screening machine are illegal according to the Executive Order signed sometime in 2018 by the Vice President Yemi Osinbanjo (GCON).

In this article, I want to express some of the troubles and headache Nigerians, in particular, go through whenever they want to leave the country through any of the international airports.

The bunch of problems travellers face at Nigeria’s International airports

#1. Unbearable Traffic congestion

This is a peculiar problem with the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja-Lagos. Nowadays the traffic congestion being experienced at the airport road is unbearable and has led to so many missed flights.

It is so bad that you can spend over 3-hours on the airport road for a trip that normally take 5 to 10 minutes. For most passengers that travel light, they are normally left with the option of taking a bike to the terminal building to avoid missing their flights while for those who cannot avoid travelling with lots of luggage, they mostly resign to their fate and hope that they meet up

#2. Impatient car towing officials

If you are a regular at the airports particularly Lagos airport you will agree with me that the towing van company that operates there are inhuman.

Your vehicle wheels can be clamped for just stopping at a bus stop within the airport to ask someone for directions. They will waste no time to impound your vehicle and tow it to their office while you are forced to part with the sum of N50,000 as a fine for the supposed wrong parking.

Nowadays, they disguise themselves inside private cars normally parked somewhere around the supposed no-parking areas (even though there will not be any sign to indicate that), thereby attracting other motorists looking for a parking space.

They will watch you park and turn off your car engine before one of them will jump out of the car in which they have taken as their hideout and the next thing that will follow will be that your car will be impounded.

#3. Frustrating law enforcement officers

Where do I start? Is it the police that stationed at some points in the airport stopping motorists and travellers at will or is it the Nigerian Customs officials that are in the terminal building waiting for the slightest opportunity to extort money from travellers going for their business.

Do I talk about the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) officials who even after ransacking your bags but couldn’t find any incriminating substance will still keep and delay you just to break you to the point that you will feel delayed and possibly part with cash to appease them?

What about the Nigerian Immigration Service officials that will fling your passport back to you the moment they realize that you didn’t tuck in some cash in your passport before submitting it.

How can I forget the State Security Service (SSS) officials that are waiting to know how much dollars you are travelling with as if they were the ones that paid for your flight ticket. The very moment that you are travelling with a large sum of cash they will start expecting their cut most times in hard currencies.

All the mentioned law enforcement officials intimidate passengers and make them part with their hard earned monies at any slightest opportunities. They carry out these acts with great pride and strength as it was legal.

#4. Unconducive terminal building

I understand that Nigeria is still a developing country but the state of our terminal building (Lagos in particular) is appalling.

It is far from an airport terminal building. The Power outage has become a norm, the whole terminal building stinks and the cooling systems are not enough any longer to sustain the increasing number of travellers.

I want to believe that this will be addressed soon when the new terminal building under construction finally comes alive.

#5. Overzealous airline and airport officials

Sometimes I wonder if the so-called airline and airport officials realize that they are in the aviation sector to offer customer service.

What we see is far fetch from what is obtainable from other international airports all over the world. All the quest of trying to make a traveller part with cash, the airline officials go as far as delving into issues that are beyond the scope of their job.

These days you see airline officials trying to ask questions about past travelling records even though it clearly has nothing to do with the current situation. They go as far as declaring you not-qualified to fly even when you have a valid visa and air ticket.

All these gimmicks are targeted towards outing the traveller into panic mood so that you can be willing to do anything just to fly.

It is quite disheartening that travellers don’t only face these challenges when departing Nigeria. Some of these issues and many more have now become a norm both when departing and arriving in Nigeria.

So far, the Federal Government together with the Airport Authority has tried in their efforts to see that the airports become more user-friendly. But they both need to up their game and see that all the highlighted issues are addressed in due time to save the airport users from all these stress and torment.



Source: https://gisthabit.com/the-problems-travellers-face-at-nigerias-international-airports/

Starboytwo:
GGMU

LIKE for UNITED, SHARE FOR OLD TRAFFORD, SWEAR FOR barca...

EmmyBlogs:
A suspected armed robber nicknamed Power has succumbed to the superior firepower of policemen in Lagos, along with another member of a 7-man gang in Ojo area of the state.

Before the suspected armed robbers were killed in a shootout, the gang had allegedly killed a victim identified as 32-year-old Obina Efenkandu of 124 Imude Road, Gafaru bus stop in Ojo and left two other victims – 26-year-old Collins Ichu and Abdullah Niger, 40, with gunshot wounds.

Lagos State police spokesman, DSP Bala Elkana, revealed in a statement that officers, who were responding to a distress call on Alhaji Gafaru Street, off Imude Road in Ojo at about 5 pm yesterday “injured two suspects identified as Chinozo Felix aka Power, 29, and Ifeanyi Uche. Two other members of the gang were arrested.

According to Elkana, officers who engaged the 7-man gang recovered three Beretta pistols with three rounds of live ammunition and three expended ammunition.

The officers were drafted from the Police Anti Robbery Squad and Metro Patrol Teams.

Elkana stated that the gang was operating on motorbikes and one was allegedly seized from them.

He identified the arrested suspects as one 24-year-old Semiu Ibrahim and Francis Obi, 29.

The injured persons were allegedly rushed to the hospital.

See More: https://www.hgsmediaplus.com.ng/2019/03/notorious-armed-robbers-apprehended.html?m=1

donstan18:
Wey yooooou! Quiet you mouth there, my friend!!

Do you know Onitsha more than I do?

If you want to know what it means to be a strong man, go to Rivers state, Warri, Lagos and even Aba. You'll then know what it means for one to be strong in a sensible and educated way. Not breaking bottles and shouting every minutes of the day.

People of Onitsha are suffering from one thing---Illiteracy. That's why an educated Onitsha indigene will hardly reside in Onitsha.

buhariguy:
so real pastors enrich themselves illegally and call it Gods blessing. Idiotic pigs want buhari and osinbajo to be stealing like thief obj, thief atiku and ineffectual buffoon

LifestyleTonite:
A Nigerian lady has stated that her boyfriend's mother doesn't like her because she has tattoo.[s][/s]

According to the lady, the tattoo she got is a couples tattoo which means her boyfriend also got the same.
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However, she expressed surprise that her boyfriend's mother disliked her for it while she let her son pass.[/s]

[s]She tweeted:[/s]


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https://lailasnews.com/my-boyfriends-mother-doesnt-like-me-because-i-have-tattoo-lady-cries-out/[s][/s]

muykem:
What are we going to do now? You failed election and we asked you to congratulate winner you said no and went to court. You didn't allow court to sit before starting carrying why you will loose in court. OK in spirit of justice let Atiku personally take the case to US is he think the money paid to enter America has not expire.

Ejimagift:
This cra zy man wont tweet about the End of Saraki dynasty in Kwara. Had PDP won Lagos, he and Reno would have been disturbing the cyberspace with hypocritical congratulations. Useless pigs

AdomeNG:
Leaders of the opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP, today leads a protest march over the outcome of the February 23rd presidential election which concluded with the incumbent All Progressives Congress, APC’s candidate winning with a wide margin.

Citing several discrepancies especially in the North where bulk of the votes that made the incumbent victorious, the party leaders had in another tweet accused the APC and INEC of several cases of infractions and delibrate violations of the electoral law and guidelines.

Tweeting via its official tweeter handle, the Party tweeted


#NigeriaDecides2019 Protest March by @OfficialPDPNig leaders on the outcome of the Feb. 23, 2019 Election”

Source: https://afrilensnews.com/2019/03/05/leaders-of-the-opposition-pdp-lead-protest-march-on-the-outcome-of-the-february-23rd-presidential-election/

Dannyset:
Yea! Reno Omokriminal I can see that your doctored brain has really been looted. [/s]

[s]Any Amaechi audio for your gullibles? Mumu PDP errand boy. Your salary go stop now

Kingsleydr:
They didn't just walk up to Ebuka and started beating him !, dude even looks like a rogue . Stop going to white man's land and be acting like you own it just because you think they're soft ... just look at what y'all blacks especially Nigerians have turned Italy into just because they gave y'all that little freedom..which work the guy even go do for Greece.

KidsNEXTdoor:
That guy voted Buhari...

What do you expect

davillian:
If its here now its only Igbo people that will do the match as other tribes will look the other way.
See Greeks joining the match.
Injustice is injustice.
Can we ever get to this point in this country called Nigeria ?

Kingsleydr:
They didn't just walk up to Ebuka and started beating him !, dude even looks like a rogue . Stop going to white man's land and be acting like you own it just because you think they're soft ... just look at what y'all blacks especially Nigerians have turned Italy into just because they gave y'all that little freedom..which work the guy even go do for Greece.

AGNESikpuNNU:
Scammers everywhere ... arrangee name writing.

Alariiwo:
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[s]Do yourself a favor.. Fvck off!

Alariiwo:
That Secondus should be picked up by DSS..

we don't need mo.rons like him heating up the polity

deomelo:
He can not read, he's lifeless, but he's winning, he's already defeated your athiefKulooter lord and savior of ipob enclaves..


Abeg, hide your painment because you still have another 4 years of sifia pain and sorrow.


Are u a graduate...?
If yes u are a disgrace to educational certificate..
As for me my passport,naira n some usd will take me to Algeria

Thobiy:
My Guy, Kano Result Go Shock Pdp, Just Look At The Margin of Result In 4 Lgas (10000 Vote), A Single Lga Result Margin In Favor Of Apc In Kano Go Reach Like (30000 Vote)
Just Watch Out!!!

Nogodye:
And some mumu said Buhari win not see a single vote in Plateau...you can now see.

mmb:
Wicked Man.

All your atrocities against the APC regime can be forgiven but will never be forgotten.