GraciousWords:




Was it all or only part/some of the money that was taken out of the POF account/investment?

If part/some, maybe try and use 25% of pension to shock what is missing (if PFA money is not already part of the POF).......otherwise........I no know...... maybe do a gift deed as others have suggested and hope for the best....

LOE is dicey, it may work for a clement VO who understands COVID era difficulties but may not for a strict VO.

A few people will get asked to send an updated 6-month bank statement and if the visa officer is not satisfied with the story they'll send a procedural fairness letter

mrvitalis:
Oga governor shut up ...it's well known that the eastern regional government as at that time spent millions of dollars prospecting oil

Infact the agreement nnpc use today was agreement between shell n eastern region government

Cocoa didn't found oil exploration alone
Cocao from cross River ( largest cocoa producers in Nigeria ) and abia/imo ...

rubber from bayelsa ,cross River ,akwa Ibom ,rivers , abia .....

Cashew nuts from Abia , Enugu , cross River

Palm oil from the whole eastern region ( akwa Ibom , ogoni , etche have the best oil )

These things made the eastern region fastest growing region in the world ...but some people allowed propaganda work on them and here we are

Oil exploration is a capital intensive activity if these economic activities generated so much money to fund the exploration of oil why are the other states not generating money from these sectors?

Dele is businessman. He is friends with / has access to Nigeria’s elite and will use this as an opportunity to raise campaign funds . Some of the funds will be spent on the actings and visits while the rest will be his profit

flemsy15:
I don't know his whole story but with a PhD, he should not find it too difficult getting a lecturing job (if he wants to lecture) with all these private higher institutions springing up.

In trying not to be biased I will like to know more about his profile. How many papers has he published on international journals ? Has he put his knowledge into use or he follows whatever direction the money goes ? I say this because when I completed a bachelors + masters in computer science and moved to nigeria as a youth corp member many (family members) made fun of me for refusing to listen to them. I was trying to get a software development job as a youth corper but they said I must teach. By the time I came back from camp I had an offer letter (contract) from a tech company. A friend later came to advise me to get in touch with an uncle who was senior at NNPC to get me a job there as I was wasting my time with this tech thing that doesnt work in nigeria. Within a few months many of them began to question my source because they felt I was doing far better than they expected. Many times I wrote to potential employers I told them about some of their problems and how I intended to solve it. I once met with a bank director (one of the big five) and told him how they needed to unify their software systems across the different countries where they had recently bought over other banks and how I had done a similar project in the past. He was impressed and asked if I could bring up to 4 people with me to form a team. An offer came a few days later but I had to turn it down because the offer required my fulltime presence which I wasnt ready to commit to.

My point is that as individuals we need to overcome our fears and face challenges as they come. If I had listened to my family members 5 years ago I'd have abandoned computer science and gone into the immediate next thing that paid some money. One of my friends back in university was someone I saw as a potential top virologist. She was so good and earned a masters in virology with an option to continue to PHd. While this offer was on the table her uncle in Atlanta assisted her in securing a fellowship at US CDC in atlanta in 2015. Her parents asked her to return to Nigeria and get married as she was nothing if she wasn't married. She moved to nigeria , got married and never went back to the field of microbiology/virology. She's now into bead making/sewing.

Nigeria has a way of killing people's dreams and most times the people we hang around with influence our decisions . There is so much quest for money among nigerians that people tend to face the direction of the money. A commissioned army officer will not leave his job after a few years to go and become a security man in mobil because they offer him more money. I know a doctor in training who abandoned the field to go into the business of buying cows in the northern region and taking to sell in the eastern region. His reason was that it paid him more money than he will earn as a doctor in training. This is the kind of society we live in where its all about the money

Are nigerians not tired of poverty and hardship ? Why all this noise about zoning zoning zoning. Cecil Rhodes a british imperialist forcefully imposed crude measures on south africans and built a country for them that no african country can match today. He was hated but was a british man. Today nigerians cannot even easily secure visas to visit south africa. He died at the age of 49 and was a sickly being. He wanted to construct a railline from cape town to cairo a feat I believe he would have achieved if his life was not cut short . All these noise about zoning means nothing to me as nigeria is a shithole and none of these crop of presidential candidates have what it takes to positively change the fortune of Nigeria.

Allegory:

I saw a guy on Canadavisa that used giftdeed for updated pof but I don't know what his outcome was. But if you search the internet well, I'm pretty sure you'd find people who have been in your shoes that can give you advice. Did you spend the entire pof and how long were you given to submit.

You never can tell who will receive a request for updated POF. Best bet is to leave the funds untouched all through the application process. If you are taking out of it limit it to just a little such that you can easily replace within the 7 days or 30 days that they ask you to respond. Normally the process took 6- 8 months but with covid it is now taking 2 years for many. Implication is that PCC, medicals and POF may need to be updated for many

EzegeNdiigbo:
ABJ

Do you have a work permit for south africa ? If you have a work permit and a desirable skill I can tell you for free that life in south africa as a middle income earner is more comforting than life in any part of nigeria

BigBashiru:


But how come all the foreign airlines all take off and land on time. United Nigeria takes off on time and lands on time as well. My brother I humbly appeal to you to shun all these excuses.... tell me all the airlines cant come together make the airport to work. once theres a will theres a way. We cant just say "thats just how it is" and fold our arms....

Foreign airlines land in lagos or abuja , spend three hours and return to their home countries. For the local airlines I'll try to summarize the issues.

1. A single aircraft is scheduled to operate 6 - 10 flights a day. Take an arik or airpeace for instance. They have flights originating out of MM1 lagos at 7am - 8am daily. MM1 has only one screening point and one/two boarding gates. Attempt to board 10 flights at about the same time is impossible. Some of those flights end up getting delayed due to delay in boarding passengers. This problem is from FAAN as they ought to have a slot system in place to manage things better.

2. Assuming the first aircraft of arik departs on time from lagos and gets to abuja on time. After disembarking passengers the plane is scheduled to board passengers to yola after 50 mins. The flight dispatcher informs the captain that yola airport is not equipped to land an aircraft under the high winds they are experiencing and they have to wait till things are clear. By this singular act , abuja to yola passengers are delayed by 2 hours. Yola to abuja passengers are also delayed by another 2- 3 hours. The same aircraft is scheduled to convey passengers from abuja to lagos after its return to yola . Those passengers will also be delayed.

3. An airpeace flight departs lagos to akure. While boarding they are informed by their supplier at akure that there is no jet fuel on ground. Thus they offload some bags and fill up the aircraft in lagos with enough fuel to take the aircraft to akure and back otherwise the aircraft will be stuck in akure till jet fuel is available.

4. An aero flight has just been delayed due to VIP movement in abuja . The effect of this delay is that aircraft will need to land at warri airport at 7pm. But as warri and many other airports in nigeria have no facilities for night landing the airline adjusts its schedule without notice to enable it convey passengers flying to airports without airfield lighting ahead of the 6pm deadline. The result of this adjustment is a long delay on others.

5. An aircraft snag has been identified and fixed by the airline's engineering team. They need an NCAA inspector to inspect and sign off. NCAA is currently short-staffed with few inspectors unable to meet the demand. The result is the aircraft will be grounded for another day or two and about 6 flights will be cancelled.

6.An aircraft develops a fault in kano. Azman is based in kano and have their engineers there. The policy does not allow an azman engineer to fix up a max air aircraft. Max air engineer has to come from lagos to fix the problem no matter how little this is.

7. Dollar scarcity

The issues are many. I've also been a victim of the inefficiencies of nigerian airlines but have also looked at the issues and asked people knowledgeable enough and the complains are similar. If airlines operated into only abuja, enugu, lagos airports delays would have been minimal. United nigeria is a new airline with just 4 aircrafts operating into 5 cities. When they scale up their operations and start operating into 10 or more airports under this same conditions you'll begin to complain about their services.

All nigerian airlines start well but as they expand they begin to find it difficult to cope with the toxic operating environment and maintain their reliability & on-time performance

BigBashiru:


Keep making excuses for them until they start canceling flights....all these things u mention can be overcome by airpeace. No excuses.

It cannot be overcome by any airline. Even virgin Atlantic backed virgin nigeria was incompetent in on-time performance. Same with arik, aero now Airpeace. Once they start operating into multiple airports their service standard drops

BigBashiru:


Air Peace is no longer that good.... their flights never take off on time.....

That’s a function of the environment they operate in. As an airline in a sane climate all you need to do is buy the right aircraft & hire the crew. Roll out your schedule and kick off operations with the relevant licensing . But in Nigeria airlines deal with lack of FX to purchase spares, scarcity of aviation fuel , Ill-equipped airports making it impossible for aircrafts to land when they need to, issues with customs withholding aircraft parts & airports like Lagos that have few screening machines/passenger facilitation mechanisms. All these make it impossible for an airline to operate efficiently without delays and disruptions. New airlines with few routes and aircraft usually seem efficient but once they scale up operations to operate multiple aircrafts into multiple airports the lapses of the system begin to manifest . For me I use only morning flights to minimise the risk of delays but even at that flights to port harcourt tend to be delayed in the morning these days because of low visibility

Information is power. Last week Airpeace brought in two additional A320-200s on wetlease and I was wondering why they are doing this in January when travel demand is usually low. Now with this news I understand why they did that. They obviously had inside information about the upgrade and got themselves prepared. Looking at their schedule they are deploying a mid-body aircraft to anambra from Thursday.

Ovo200:
I can't believe Nigerians are still interested in candidates like tinubu, like WTF shey we come this life come suffer?
Don't we deserve better?
For those saying tinubu developed Lagos, where exactly did tinubu developed In Lagos?
If you are someone conversat with Lagos you will know it's places the colonial masters and where the presidential villa was when Lagos was the capital of Nigeria are slightly developed. Go to other places Lagos is garbage, no good raod system, no modern facilitated hospitals ( if tinubu had developed Lagos why do he not stay in Lagos owned hospital for treatment, why don't his children attend Lagos tertiary institutions, even MC oluomo children aren't in Lagos university but Lagos is develop).
The most crazy tinubu election campaign promise; I will pay for all Nigerian Waec fee crazy as you think, is he going to use his personal money? Or tax or profit from Nigerian institutions? Another view, why do you want to pay for my child Waec fee? Oooh so you will keep me in poverty so much that I can't pay my ward Waec fee, what do this people takes us for

Oooooh I won't blame them dem don see Nigerians finish.

This coming election let look beyond tribe and religion let vote for man that has great achievable plans for Nigerians


I will vote for Ambode, fashola, over tinubu just to show how useless tinubu is.
Ambode has great plans for Lagos but tinubu and his urchins don't want greatness for Lagos, hw can they desire greatness for Nigeria?

Tinubu is overrated in my opinion and I agree with the senator. Lagos was not a virgin land when tinubu became governor . It was a city built by the colonial masters and he was not able to even maintain what was designed/built in the colonial days. Its just that most nigerians are deprived of knowledge and exposure otherwise a simple visit to Johannesburg or Cape Town will make one to reject tinubu and all his successors in Lagos

tctrills:

Airpeace money no fit finish. With over 30 daily flights within Nigeria, the company's revenue is over 100 million every day. It's actually one of the richest companies in nigeria.

airpeace as of september/october was operating 96 flights daily. Assuming they generated 4 million on each flight their daily revenue from domestic passenger flights and cargo can be placed at 400 million naira daily. Now since then they've increased capacity receiving two aircrafts in november 2021, one aircraft in december 2021 and now 2 aircrafts in january 2022. If they don't lose focus and manage the company well, 2022 will also be a good for them

Animal talk from an actress that wants to trend lol Not sure she even knows the meaning of crash-land

lumley:
Hello house

We got our PPR in November 2020. However, while we were waiting to travel, my wife had a new baby. We informed IRCC. We got a request for baby documents and updated forms after some time. We also got a request for remeds which we did and passed. Does anyone if they are going to ask for new proof of funds to cover the new family size?

I have a feeling that if you had enough money in your first submission (sufficient to meet the additional requirement) they will not ask for it

lexy2014:


It seems that u didn't read the law u quoted. Pls which duty was the CP on as at the time he visited the estate?

What has street patrol got to do with the discussion?

Meanwhile, What violation of law did the CP see that was ongoing in the estate that he wanted to go inside the estate to intervene?

We will never agree on this because you still regard that place as an estate. As far as I am concerned what happened is synonymous to some guards stopping a police officer on limpopo street in maitama or glover road in ikoyi and telling me he cannot go beyond a certain point. Nobody has such right. There is no estate in magodo. Every resident either bought/developed their land or rented their place of residence. Mounting a gate on a public road and attempting to stop a police officer from going beyond the gate will not fly in any sane society. If the residents have an issue they van sue the police and I'll be anxious to see the outcome.

lexy2014:


Can u quote the exact law that says that if u disrupt a police, u can be arrested?

What violation of law did the CP see that was ongoing in the estate that he wanted to go inside the estate to intervene?

What you call estate or brook's estate is not an estate. Its a section of magodo area where some residents decided to mount a gate on a public road. It is within the rights of the CP, you and I or any other person to go there. Unfortunately many have accepted the narrative that it is a private estate which is far from fact.

Back to your question : Section 39 of the police act states this regarding obstructing a police officer in carrying out his duty. Mind you patrolling the streets is part of the duty of a police officer:

39. Assault on police officer
Every person who assaults, [b]obstructs [/b]or resists any police officer in the execution of
his duty, or aids or incites any other person so to assault, obstruct or resist any police officer or any person aiding or assisting such police officer in the execution of his duty,
shall be guilty of an offence and, on summary conviction thereof before a magistrate,
shall be liable to a penalty of fifty naira or to imprisonment for a term of six months.

oodua1stson:
and all that you said warrants their arrest? Oloriburuku ni e

If you disrupt the police you can be arrested. A police officer is on duty 24/7. Even if he is having lunch with his family and sees an ongoing violation of law and order he has every right to intervene.

festacman:
People get overly emotional and even hypocritical over this issue because a police officer is involved.

1. The Commissioner of Police Odumosu didn't need to give advance information of his coming to the Estate security men because it would be stupid to for him state his movement. Of course, giving such information would require the CP's security details to secure the Estate gate security until he arrives.

2. On arrival at the Estate gate and having PROPERLY identified himself as CP of Lagos State, he ought to have been allowed in immediately. Keeping him at the gate is unnecessarily exposing him to possible attack by criminals. Even a military formation would know better than keep a properly identified CP exposed to danger at its entry point.

3. CP Odumosu didn't need to tell the Estate security men the exact house he was going to before being allowed in. That's a classified information until his details secures the house for his safety.

4. Deliberately tagging the CP's visit as social to denigrate him is pure IGNORANCE because even a 'common' DPO is always listening to his radio equipment and giving directives anywhere he is. The fact is that when not on official leave, a CP is at work everywhere and every time.

5. I doubt if the police singled out that widow for arrest for nothing. She may have jumped into the matter and said unsavoury things. Being a resident in an Estate, I am familiar with some 'radical' busybody residents that would jump into issues without complete knowledge.

6. The truth is this incident was avoidable if only the Estate security was more professional and less power-conscious. Their unprofessional attitude activated power-tussle mode in the OFFICIAL state police force to show their constitutional superiority. The irony in this drama is that when armed criminals show up at the Estate, it is the official state police men that are called in to risk their lives.

7. By the way, is an estate which has individually-owned houses a private property or a community? If Magodo Brooks is NOT owned and rented out by one person as its private owner, is there any difference between this Estate and for example Ajegunle in the eyes of the law?

8. Yes, Nigeria police has many outright criminals as members but it is still the only one we have to enforce law and order and maintain security.

Thank you. Even if he wasn't a police commissioner nobody has the right to deny anyone access the use of a public road. It is wrong. Even in private estates where a developer buys the land and gates it certain essential service providers like the police, fire services responders , ambulance/medics , PHCN workers... have every right to access without being questioned. People just believe living in a gated community is a form of status symbol and are now inconveniencing the public to satisfy their motives. LASG should come out clearly and take a position on this issue. The main roads in lekki phase 1 have become a traffic spot because the inner roads have all been converted to gated communities where only residents of the street can access meanwhile they are public roads

Lagos state government should come out clearly and take a position on this rubbish residents have turned many neighborhoods into. Where I live in Lekki 1 I woke up one day and saw them constructing/mounting gates all over the place sometime in 2020. Then one day came I was headed home and was stopped by some men in blue who asked me where I was going to and the access code. I got annoyed and told them I knew nothing about this rubbish of a thing as this is even a public road and it was wrong to mount a gate on it. The man asked me to call a number if I was truly a resident and I told them if they didnt open the gate I'll leave the car there and walk away. Cars began to queue up due to my insistence and they let me in after insulting me and calling me names. I called the so-called association and they told me I had to pay 15k monthly for a sticker and they'll be sending access code weekly via sms. I told them that will never happen as I was never informed or a party to this non-sense. I and other residents of the rock drive became known for causing chaos at the gate thus they have been reluctantly letting me in.

Many may argue that the CP was overzealous but I feel its about time the government takes a position on this nonsense where a few residents mount gates on public roads and begin to harass innocent citizens. On the rock drive there is a hospital (olive hospital) and you need access code to get into the street to get to the hospital. I have never seen a society like this.

Jostoman:
You were not invited to an event and you want to enter there by force just because you are a CP. Oga CP release those security guard because they are doing their job and stop abusing your power.

I want a similar action to be taken against the security in lekki phase 1 where gates have been positioned on public roads by some resident associations making it impossible to drive around my neighborhood freely. The police and other essential service providers should not be denied access to anywhere in line with the nature of their job

GraciousWords:
This Canny waka...it's never over until you land.

Judicial case below is a must read for single, separated or divorced applicants with accompanying children.......

.........ensure you have full custody with court papers to prove it or be 100% certain that the consent provided by the other parent is legit....

.......they were about to land when the CBSA officer says husband has alerted the embassy that she is running away with the children. The children's PR visas were cancelled.....the court says they should never have even been issued PPR since the ex-spouse made a complaint a year prior....also the parental consent she provided during her application may not have been genuine....

.....poor children

https://decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisions/en/item/516783/index.do?q=permanent+residence+federal+skilled+worker

Read through the attached link and it is a known fact that children are always the main victims of a divorce or separation. Sadly parents have decided to take their matter to a canadian court to settle probably ignoring all other available means of coming to a compromise. From the father's perspective its obvious that he was worried that he would never see his children again. The whole idea of him doing this because she denied him sex is funny but I doubt. From the mother's perspective Canada is best for their children and nothing else should matter. Migration is tough decision and even a single person like me sometimes worry about the decision I am making. It is more difficult when you have kids. There is a possibility that the consent form she submitted was fake. In 2006 my aunty took her two sons to USA on vacation (that was what she told her husband) but concealed the fact that she had secured a green card and was relocating them. I will also not exonerate the mother for challenging the father's position in a canadian court when they could have settled the matter amicably. As it is now the kids will return to nigeria and they either settle amicably or continue the battle in nigeria.

OreMI22:


All these arm-chair critics that know how America and Singapore developed, but cannot develop a hamlet. Typical Nigerians!

That is why my best friend in school always sang Victor Uwaifo's Joromi for these types of people that always raise their hands quickly to answer all the teacher's questions to prove they are the most intelligent in the class, but will always give beautiful nonsense as answers each time. Which exposes their ignorance of the topic. People that know why every airline succeeded or did not succeed, but cannot run one Keke napep profitably TYPICAL NIGERIAN E-RAT!!!

For those who do not understand the meaning of "Joromi" response to these types of people that confidently type beautiful nonsense. The Joromi song is about a man who confidently narrates a pipe dream / impossible tale that only makes sense to the dreamer, who cannot differentiate dreams from reality. What the English call "Stranger than Fiction." Yet, they confidently speak or write their narrative as though they have some special real knowledge or real facts on the topic.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EDrH-HS7tA

Yes I wrote what I wrote. Call me whatever you like.

christejames:



Forget your assertions, Enugu still remains the headquarters regardless and it's been doing fine in that regard, and mind you Lagos is not part of the airline major offices but rather Enugu and Abuja where he equally has lots of investment.

Other airlines are already using Lagos, Dr Okonkwo wants to be unique and his uniqueness is paying off.

You guys will be mentioning Lagos as if no state in the nearest future will come up to topple or rival its economics power.

Malaysia, singapore and dubai among others rivaled and overtook Lagos over time. It can be done and has been done before. Nevertheless, this crop of airlines in Nigeria will not do it. They want quick money (profit) and nothing more. In 2020 united nigeria airlines acquired four ERJ 145 aircrafts. Each of those aircrafts were 19 years old when they were acquired. There is nothing unique about Dr. Okonkwo's airline. That is one pattern of airlines that are not here to stay but out there for the quick cash. In the weeks leading to decmber 2021 there was high demand for tickets and united nigeria went to the market to wetlease another 20 year old A320 aircraft. This is not how the singapore airlines, etihad, emirates or malaysian airlines started & operated. Look at ibom air and you'll see that they are doing things different from others. Lagos airport is not even competitive in africa but it's huge market is the reason why foreign & local airlines are there. We are approaching the Single Africa Air Travel Market (SAATM) era and I dont see any nigerian airline (except ibom & airpeace) being able to compete in SAATM where likes of rwandair, asky, ethiopian are well equipped with modern aircraftsand structures.

globemoney01:
The amount of private jets that will soon be operating from the Anambra Airport will be crazy. Wait until a VIP hosts an event. I hope United airlines and Airpeace are already planning on bringing their operational headquarters to Awka. I was very happy with United Nigeria for citing his headquarters in Enugu instead of the usual Lagos. Now we need all of them back in Anambra. We need all the jobs and revenue

On paper united nigeria may have listed enugu as it's HQ but in reality its HQ is in Lagos. The lagos aviation market is already developed and most businessmen in Nigeria are out there to make profit and only profit. Nothing more. In USA bill gates wanted to make profit, build a technology hub out of the state of Washington (Seattle),build a world class brand and many more. This facilitated Microsoft's heavy presence in Seattle. Here it is profit and only profit. Some arab visionaries built an aviation hub out of desert dubai . It wasn't easy but they did it. When you say enugu is your headquarters but you have only two flights out of enugu daily and have more than 10 flights out of lagos then your hub/HQ is lagos (in my opinion).

Allegory:

Seriously. I just had this news pop up on google and I had to click to be sure I'm not seeing double cos this year feels like they landed just 3 people.

Canada breaks all-time immigration record by landing 401,000 immigrants in 2021

https://www.cicnews.com/2021/12/canada-breaks-all-time-immigration-record-by-landing-401000-immigrants-in-2021-1220461.html#gs.kaolaz

When I look back I wonder why I didnt apply for this program in 2018 or 2019. I had everything then (masters degree, 3 years + work experience, under 30..). It only occurred to during the 2020 lockdown when I clocked 30 even then I was slow. I wrote IELTS scoring L8.5 R8.5 W7.5 S8.0 and missed the October 14, 2020 draw due to what I still cant explain lol. Was at the endsars protest/funfare at the lekki/ikoyi toll plaza when my friend from CA called to ask if I had received ITA. Told him I didnt have my IELTS TRF number and moved on. October 30th came and there was no draw which got me a bit worried. Draw eventually happened after November 4 and cutoff was 478 which was above my score. Nevertheless I received ITA at the November 18 2020 draw. Considered rejecting the ITA because my POF was not complete then but later got encouraged not to reject it and I saved money aggressively (salary, allowances, bonus) from then onwards till I submitted my application within the 90 days timeline. Looking back at the CEC + PNP only draws I would have been full of regrets if I didnt apply.
On the other hand, the both those waiting for an ITA and those who have received ITAs + submitted are having it tough. I submitted my application almost one year ago but have no idea when it will be processed. In the meantime I've had to keep $13,000 in an account resisting the temptation to use out of it when my other account goes low. Uncertainties here and there. Those waiting in the pool are losing points due to age and having their language test results expire. A number of people I know who moved to UK/Ireland have lost interest in canada after waiting more than one year.

Regarding your post I see it as political even though my opinion doesnt matter as regards issues of canada and canadians. They sent emails to temporary residents who met some preset requirements(virtual landing) change their status to permanent immigrants.

odinson1:
When we warn you Men not to Ever Be unfortunate enough to get married,you won't listen. You are lucky you haven't married her YET. You have now experienced first hand, what men Face in marriages today,a Modern Feminist non-vigirn woman who would sit on The couch like an over sized elephant,cross her legs and watch Africa magic channel all day while the Foolish husband is slaving himself away at work for him to be able to provide for her and HER CHILDREN.
Those Men chose their cross,and they are still carrying it till today and probably until the day they Die.

Do you want to carry such a Cross? Or are you Joseph of Arimathea? Be a smart man and stay single, develop yourself Physically and financially. Take care of your BLOOD RELATIONS. Look out for your friends who had your back when you were down.

And as for children,look at Davido,is he Married




Like seriously! Women have almost succeeded in "Castrating" The men of This Generation. Take for example,A Nairalander woman here Named Mercychen who wanted to Literally "Castrate" her husband after their first child, because of Family planning. She brought up the idea of only having one kid,then she proceeded to ask her Fiancee to have his manhood rendered obsolete After the first child.

The men of this Generation are in for a Long ride

I believe people marry for many different reasons. But in my opinion the average nigerian man sets up himself for a life long journey of struggle till the very end. Not all are fortunate to be born into comfortable families but as a man you have to struggle through whatever situation you find yourself in. A man struggles and struggles through life and the first financial breakthrough that comes is used to marry a woman (liability in some instances) and the struggle continues. In some cases the man is responsible for the woman's expenses and that of her family members. The struggle continues till the end and when they are old they move their problems to their young children who may also be struggling to make it through the harsh economy. The cycle continues and many end up living a life of constantly enslaving themselves for others

Richdoh:
I'm a young hard work guy who's planning to settle down someday. I have a girlfriend whom I have gone to see her family with my own family , as in, we have done our introduction, what was remaining was for us to fix a date for our wedding.

But this girl started showing some nasty attitude. There was a day she came to spend weekend with me and I gave her some money to buy some food stuffs to cook, that day i received the greatest shocke of my life , my fiancee warmed me never to send her message like that again that she is not my slave.

As if that was not enough. Another day she came to spend some days with me but when she got to my house I was not at home that day. She went to the bathroom to get some shower but unfortunately there was no water running in the bathroom because we didn't had light for 2days so we couldn't pump water. Normally when there's no water like that we usually fetch from the next compound. Though I live in a room and parlour self contain with water running in my kitchen and bathroom.

To cut the long story short, my fiancee refused to fetch water for herself to take her shower. She had to call me on phone to come home and fetch water for her to take her shower. When I eventually got home at late hour, I took the bucket went to fetch water for her to bath just for peace to rain. I later asked her why she had to call me to come and fetch water for her to bath knowing fully well that I was not around. She said in her house, she does not fetch water that her dad usually call Aboki's and buy water from them. She told me that she can't leave a suffering life of having to fetch water, she can never do it.

Please nairalander is this a good sign or bad sign to watch out for?

All these are factors of the harsh Nigerian environment and culture thus I will not use it as a parameter to comment on the character of your fiancée. This is 2021 and availability of water should not be an issue in an African city. Secondly, I don't know your backgrounds but I cook with my partner. We are both working thus issue of money for food is not there. I drop money in the safe and sometimes she also drops money in the safe. We spend together from their although most times I use my card anywhere a POS is available due to change issues. But so far money has not been an issue (thanks to almighty) and the idea of giving her money to cook has not come up.

The average worker in the nigerian aviation sector is a unionist and has a unionist mindset. Even the pilots with their trainings are sometimes no different from the ground handling counterpart. You work for arik a company in receivership and you are absconding from duty. If you have any issue with your bosses or organization you go and sort it out with them. Arik is in receivership and its death is only a few months or years away.

Reminds me of 2020 when pilots at airpeace protested and engaged in strike action shortly after they resumed operations after 4 months of covid induced ban. One of them said airpeace was as good as dead as almost all their 737 aircrafts were unserviceable. The airline returned after a difficult 2020 and increased their staff salaries . They took delivery of 7 aircrafts in 2021 (5 directly purchased and 2 wetleased) and some of the unserviceable aircrafts were returned to service.

Arik is a major airline in Nigeria and if it does well it will pay the pilots more. Most of the nigerian pilots who joined legacy carriers such as emirates, ethiopian, flydubai ... were once at arik. It gave them the opportunity to fly new generation 737s when no other airline in nigeria operated such.

MPESA:


Thanks so much Sir/Ma , though I never undermined Airpeace infact I mentioned that Airpeace and two other Airlines are the only one can fly locally fly due to their new AIRCRAFTS and hunger to succeed because a Rome wasn't built in a day , it took ET , Ethiopian Airline 72 years to be giant of Africa birds on Air.... So both Ethiopian Airline and EMIRATES can't be compared with AIR PEACE.

Definitely. Emirates are in a world of their own as they are state funded and part/parcel of dubai. Without emirates airline Dubai itself will witness a sort of recession thus they get all necessary support from the government and can even spend as much as $50 million on just upgrading the interior of their aircraft. On its part ethiopian is also a good airline but not as great as emirates in terms of comfort and this is partly because they are not as rich and wealthy. Ethiopian's success on the african continent was also as a result of the failure of other african airlines to do what they were meant to do (south african airways, kenya airways, nigerian airways all went south). Arik failed to take advantage of their position in nigeria to be a force on the aftrican continent and nigerians were left once again in the hands of foreign airlines. At a point aviation professionals became jobless in nigeria due to the collapse of major airlines.

Sometime in 2013 I was walking to board a dana aircraft at lagos airport and I saw two aircrafts with the livery discovery air and air peace. I quickly dissed both off as another packaged feat that would not last. But years later I consistently saw the fighting spirit of the airpeace CEO challenging all kinds of problems that are a threat to survival of airlines in nigeria. He is very much disliked for challenging the status quo from aviation consultants who make a living off foreign airlines undermining his efforts to FAAN officials to his competitors to the aviation ministry offcials to nigerian customs to his pilots and even the foreign airlines for their anti-competitive behavior. But today his airline remits the highest revenue to FG & its agencies among the domestic airlines which probably explains why the hostilities against his company seem to have reduced. I believe Nigeria is a hostile environment to operate in and thus when I see an airline going against strong winds I give kudos to them. Its not easy over 50 airlines have closed shop in this space

MPESA:



I'm not talking about being Rich here , you only try compare EMIRATES to AIR PEACE which doesn't hold water to me even ET , I mean Ethiopian Airlines that been in existence can't be compared to Emirates, you singled out only Airpeace to compare to Emirates is what I don't like, back home I don't like flying LOCAL because of NIGERIA LACK OF MAINTENANCE CUTURE OF NIGERIANS, to be candid I was in Enugu in December and I have urgent matter to take care off in Lagos when I saw the only available airlines that I won't mention their and was so cheap of 38k to compare 50-60k Airpeace and Akwaibon Airlines but I VOW NEVER TO ENTER THEM instead I in Entered road that night and get to Lagos next morning with traffic at Redeem that want kill me.... So you having your preference airlines is UNDERSTANDABLE BUT SHOULD BE DONE WITHOUT TRYING TO PULL DOWM OUR LOCAL START UP...
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I have two or three airlines that without them I can't travel LOCAL by AIR.... AIR PEACE, AKWAIBON AIR and of course UNITED NIGERIA AIRLINE, infact I was at a point hungry to enter Akwaibon Air due to their reputation of punctuality but to my greatest surprise some stories come dey fly up of late to the extent that it almost crashed this month abi na last month na fear make the hungry comot my body but it will not stop them been among my top three because even ET with brand new Boeing 737 MAX still crashed to the blessed memories of the departed souls, AMEN . So it can happen to any Airline as well.
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Why did I mention or choose THOSE THREE AIRLINES because they are relatively NEW AND BUY MOSTLY BRAND NEW AIRCRAFTS AS WE CAN SEE WITH AIR PEACE, AKWAIBON AND UNITED NIGERIA AIRLINE OR WET RELEASED FROM A REPUTABLE COMPANIES and I believed that have a better maintainace culture than others, you know when you marry a new wife or buy a new stuffs you will try to keep it in a better shape than your PREVIOUSLY owned.

To allay your fears Nigerian's airspace is safe. The narrative that nigerian airlines dont take maintenance seriously is just a perception . The same airpeace that is being bashed here went through the IOSA certification process thrice and passed. They went through the rigourous process of securing a commercial air transport license in China, South Africa and UAE. There boeing 777s are maintained by the Israeli
Aerospace company. As part of their deal with embraer they have personnel from embraer on ground maintaining their
aircrafts in LAgos. While everyone has the right to make their choice on what airline to chose to fly it shouldn't
get to the point of assuming that airline A is not safe and airline B is safe.

SouthWestBlood:


I understand your point. Like I mentioned earlier, I hate flying because I get really scared. But with Emirates, I feel kind of relaxed because of their record and standard. I'm not saying it's impossible for Emirates to crash either.

Oh okay.