₦airaland Forum

Luckydubby7:
Everything about Nigeria is to suffer the poor.
Imagine rail transport that supposed to be cheapest among other means of transportation.

You are very ignorant. Intercity rail transport is not the cheapest all over the world. It is certainly more expensive than air and road transport.

Koulture:
Sentiments and patriotism aside,iweala is not qualified to lead the WTO.
The job requires someone with vast experience in trade issues.The south korean candidate Yoo myung hee who for over 25yrs worked as a trade negotiator and trade policy maker would have made a perfect pick.

The job requires someone with real,hands on experience in the field.

You are an educated illiterate! So you know better than the EU who adopted her for superior technical capabilities after interviewing the two candidates!

ANYONE

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gazilion:
Peter Obi for VP?
Peter Obi though, he is thrift and smacks of a corrupt free politician (as far as I know),
lacks the political sagacity to galvanize the votes of the southerners in a national election.
He is better with a given parastatal appointment than a national elective position.
I'll prefer prof Soludo (for his economic insights) or go to the south west.

Spot on. Boo would have been good as an adviser and not as a VP candidate. This slot should have been given to Chukwuma Soludo. That's one power house brain we need to unleash prosperity on the nation.

Weything the man sabi wey dem dey do there?

Achorise:
Some of us making noise on social media wouldn't have had such opportunity if not for Jonathan, who sign the freedom of speech bill.
Do you think Buhari would have allowed that?
Even ObJ kicked against it.
Thanks to GEJ.

Ignorant fellow...'Freedom of Speech bill'? Big nincompoop. Jonathan signed freedom of information bill to enable th public have access to government records. What has that got to do with 'making noise on social media'. Olodo!

Very ignorant people. Smoking in the western world is cultural and it's like taking tea or coffee. If you have ever been to a western country, you would see that there is no correlation between smoking and irresponsibility or reverence for God.

BEIN Sport USA showing on Mobdro showing.

notttty:
You are very wrong on this.. .lemme school you a bit and maybe u will understand.
Yes other countries airport or either privatized or concessions and they are getting good result, we all agree to this but in the case of Nigeria, it can't work because of our government insincerity. On average faan generate eight billion naija in a month and collect maximum 4billion naira not because they can't collect all the sum generated but because of govt interference. By the type you pay over heads and contractors, what's left to save for maintaining the airport. We are all aware of the money the federal govt release for maintain and upgrading the airport, it was diverted by the former minister and the money was and rubish was done and it couldn't stand or rather made the airport worse. The rest was used to buy bullet proof BMW by the former minister and that's why she left. We all know that story. When chidoka came we thought oh well it's a new era but instead it was worse. From staff strength of 4,800 he employed his stooges and we rose to 6000 all those he brought were on big levels and that's more money going into salaries and all. This are all before the introduction of TSA. Fast-forward to 2015. The minister talked about concession and promised no job will be lost except those above 30 years in service and all the airports will be concessions and people that need to leave will be paid and younger people will be employed. That said we were waiting and instead of walking the talk, they went behind and employed over 2000 withing 2015 and august 10 2017. What do u call that? We were struggling with paying salaries and pensions and you brought in more people to overwhelm the already thin collection we gat. Still we maintain our cool. Now from all the 22 airports, you decided on your own that only two are good to be concessioned that the rest can't attract investors which are Abuja and Lagos airport. What will now happen to the remaining 20? From lir little savings the minister squandered so much money to upgrade kaduna airport giving over blotted contracted to his Connie's, we kept quiet. Now after upgrading the airport to your own taste why can't you try and use it as a case to of concession and run it to see if it's profitable? Why remove the two most profiting airports for concession? Tell me where the sincerity is. He went ahead and upgrade Katsina airport to international airport but he didn't look at the traffic there but instead wasted another billions just because it's his home town. Faan has spend over 31 billion to upgrade the MMIA to ICAO standard in the last 8months to enable us meet the international standard and ll dues collected because the airlines claim they can't lay some dues due to the fact we don't have that ICAO certificate that satisfy us as an international standard airport. Faan did all that from her pockets. Still without government intervention funds. Nkw you brought in your friends from turkey to run our airport, how good is Turkish airport. May I remind u that as at 2009 serika the minister of aviation was a contractor to faan. Do I need to mention that he was the one that handled anambra international airport. Yes he was the one stella odua have the contract. Judge honestly how well did he do it? Till date ARIK AIR is owing faan about 13billion which we can't collect still because of their paddy paddy dealings with the government before it was liquidated. HAK AIR owned by HADI SERIKA os ping faan. He maintain a private jet hangar beside QUITS AVIATION. how honest can such a man be. We are open for concession cos it's going to be a win win for us but we must see the sincerity. You can't concession MMIA that bring in 75% of faan revenue and leave the rest. We say no. Yes you are right govt has no business in business but that's other countries cos if we allow this thieves they will sell it all and fly private jets and u and I trust me will see the end of this airport. What has ever been concessioned in Nigerian that didn't get worse? They will concession but not until they come out transparent and we see their hands and it's not gonna be just two but all the airports. That's just few that I can type. .. Point if corecgion guys. After FIRS faan has the highest number of efficient workers. You want to debate? Ministry of character commision can help u. The facts are there to see. Staff audit 2016 report will help u. Takia in your judgement. FYI am an accountant working with faan. I'm chartered and I'm on top of my job.

Thank you for your analysis. Nice to have an inside view of things. However, all the points you made in your submission is the more reason why the airports should be concessioned. Both Faan and the FG have proved incompetent in managing the airports. Let me ask you...if the airports were your personal property, would you manage it the way Faan is doing presently? Let's not be emotional about this, the airports are in a terrible state, this model of the government running the airport has not worked and we should try private sector management instead.

Now we know the detractors amongst us. For years, all these government agencies have been managing these airports, yet, all we have to show for it is serious ineptitude, gross decline in customer services, derelict infrastructures and massive corruption.

Time and time again, the Nigerian government and it's agencies has shown it has no capacity to run any venture or business. It's time to concession the airport now, and hand it over to someone that can effectively manage it, render top notch services to the users of the airport and even pay concession fees and taxes to government, yet, these incompetent government workers are there complaining.

Anyone who is conversant with the airports in Nigeria would agree with me that the best airport we have today is the MMA2 and that is because that airport was concessioned to Bicortney!

Any government worker that intends to block this should be sacked with no gratuity! After all, the government taking the decision to concession is your employer, that's got the power to hire and fire!

WotzupNG:
When they thought they have become enlightened, they abandoned Christianity to embrace atheism. What they don't know is that mankind was created to worship and to worship YAHWEH only. The moment they abandoned Christianity, they exposed themselves to other forms of worship e.g atheism (worship of self) and even satanism.

The vacuum left behind by the reducing Christianity in the West is now getting filled by Islam and it's murderous tendencies. They ditched Christ, now they have no choice but to enjoy terrorism. The sad part is that they have been so blinded to the point of even supporting the mass influx of Arabs and their barbaric ways into Europe.

Christ is the only Salvation for mankind.

Illiteracy, ignorance and warped way of reasoning.With all the faith and religion you profess, they live better than you do. Even their dogs are treated better than your country treats you. Just take a trip to a western country, and you would understand what it means to live a worthy life! Crude and barbaric man!

Apoztl3:
The Truth behind Operation Python Dance.

Let us not be fooled.
This operation is not targeted on Nnamdi Kanu as it seems at the moment. The siege on the Palace of Kanu is just a diversion to the intent of the operation. If they want Kanu they wouldn't have come blowing siren on their way coming and would have gone in and take him and before ipob forms a ground they are gone.

Let me explain.
Read carefully!!

You are also aware that all the Security heads in the Country are from the North and hence any security meeting concerning anything in the country is a decision of the North. The igbos can never know anything discussed in any National security meeting.

Their Youth have issued a quit Notice which will be enforced come October 1st. The Nigeria government run by Northerners knew very well that once their youth attack the igbos on October 1st as they instructed them, there will be a reprisal attack in the South east.

Hence they have sent troops to South east in preparation of October 1st massacre in the North to stop our reprisal attacks and use it as an opportunity to kill Biafrans and quench the agitators. They are making it look like they came for Kanu now. This is just to divert our attention from the real mission or why else will they sent troop to peaceful civilians. Armies don't go for arrest. Police do, so they didn't come for Kanu now. Armies don't station against a peaceful people, they are only sent to stop violent attacks thus they didn't come for ipob but why are they here?

Their mission against Kanu and ipob is in October.

When the reprisal attack will start, they will apply the tactics used against the Shittes Muslims in the North to kill Ipobs and arrest Kanu or kill him. They forgot that Python doesn't dance in igbo land.

As it stands now, there first intent is to provoke the ipob to pick up arms against the military so to have a ground to send more troops to the region. If this fails, the plan B will be Oct 1st attack.

If their mission is not as mentioned above, why not sent the troops to North to protect our people come Oct 1st?

Make no mistake, they are here to kill us. This is a call to war. In as much as I condemn war, I plead on all Igbos who love their life to vacate the North before October 1st. Don't be fool.

Biafra is the only Hope for the Igbos, argue on your wall if you don't believe it.

Can the DSS Please mark this guy out for making hate speech. Nairaland moderators, please discretely supply this fellow's details to the DSS for necessary follow up. He has an idea of an impending prognom and he should have a chitchat with the authorities on it

Nigerians are quite ignorant. I am not too surprised, we are all a product of the failed Nigerian education system. Distilling issues has become a big challenge for so many people. This is neither a PDP or APC issue. This issue speaks to the very core of the rot in the Police Force. This practice predated the PDP or the APC, and it has been used by successive IGPs to corner billions for personal use.

The Senator must be commended for bringing to the fore, this particular issue. Make no mistake, the Senator as a former police officer, knows what he is talking about. Now, let me try to enlighten people on the crux of issue.

Given the negative security situation in the country, businesses and most rich people, require extra police services as personal armed escorts, to carry out their daily activities. A typical big company may require the services of minimum of 15 armed policemen. This should give us an idea of the scope of these deployments.

When the requests for these policemen are made, the police force would only accede to the request, after certain amount is paid by these companies. Trust me, these policemen do not come cheap. The police force usually collect millions before these deployments are made. Even at that the police force would always request these companies to make monthly payments for the services of the deployed officers. Guess what? The police force collects cash from these companies and do not issue any invoice for the money paid.

Now what the senator is saying is that......all these cash payments made for all these deployed officers trickle up to the IGP. I know for sure that when a new IGP is appointed, the first thing he gets to do is to withdraw the services of these deployed officers, and the companies would be speedily invited to "revalidate" their services through the payment of millions of naira. If you doubt what I am talking about, check the books of a typical Nigerian company, you will scream when you see how much has been spent on security services, with no invoices or documents to back up the transaction. This is not limited to the police alone, it cut across all the security agencies.

It beats me hollow, that the Police PRO can come on live TV and lie about this entrenched practice. Now, that the Senator has exposed this scam, the FG should commence an extensive audit on the police force, to determine the extent of this fraud. I am certain, the country will be stunned at the extent of billions being talked about.

Enough said.

PokeTotoBoy:
Wrong again, when the driver came out, his mates were already suppressing the fire from the security post (which would have stopped when the car moved further ahead). The other robber was flanking and sustaining fire. So he could come out of the car and cover his role (the flanking robbers role) in the operation which was to acost the gang leader get the money from the trailed victim.

The flanking robbers mistake was thinking all in the room had been gunned down, to hos dismay.., which shows another good strategy from the gallant officer by playing dead.

You have been watching too much movies. Hear yourself...witness protection in Nigeria? Truth is that dude became vulnerable when he made a run...he did it on impulse and to escape being cornered in that gate house. Most likely he was hit and he's dead as reported by Punch.

I have a token for the family as well, dude died in active duty and I am certain the NPF will abandon his family like they have done to a lot of families before this one.

Amarabae:
nonsense,so he should come and work for you ungrateful lots in this country,so that at the end,you people will try to disgrace him,just like you people tried it with arunma oteh,okonjo iweala etc
soludo is an Igbo man and want to work for his people, anyone not happy with that should make use of the lagoon.

Just take a look at your response? More like an embarrassment to your profile and your good self.

Next time, make your points devoid of diatribes.

You claim to be the wife to a king, please act like one!

Funnicator:
Shutr the fvck up. So pledging allegiance to the development of one's identity/tribe is now termed ethnocentric? He is Igbo first before being Nigerian. You are crassly ignorant. Ahmadu Bello of North and Awolowo were renowned ethnic bigots but celebrated all over Nigeria today. What do you say of El-Rufai who commented;"any man that takes life of a fulani will payfor it in this world", or buhari who moaned "an attack on boko haram is an attack on the north", yet you still find these bigots on the helms of national affairs, but when a patriotic Igbo man decides to do same, contributing his knowledge and wisdom to development of his region, he is called ethnic bigot, make thunder wey gym for the best stadium in the world strike you there. Iranu!

You are an ignoramus, whose comments should be equated to zero.

Last I checked, we all have freedom of expression devoid of physical or verbal assault. You could have made your point without resorting to diatribes.

I will not dignify you with a response, any further. Oloshi Omo Irankiran!

Soludo should not turn himself into a regional bigot. Prof is a national treasure that ought to be careful with all these motion-without-movement cum appointments that would only damage his reputation and taint him as an ethnocentrist individual.

Sometime now, Mazi whoever that is leading the group will start canvassing for donations around, issues of accountability would rear it's head, and Prof's hard earned reputation as a technocrat would be further sordid!

My 2 cents to my mentor!

It's down here in the UK as well.

See as the guy gentle. Wow. Prison can humble anyone o.

Nwachineke1980:
'Jonathan is corrupt'but he does not own a university.GEJ is corrupt but he does not own a farm as big as a local government.GEJ is corrupt but he does not own a presidential library.GEJ is corrupt but he does not own a hilltop mansion
.Ibori stole money and ran to Dubai ,yet the UK police was able to present documents,which were used for his extradition to the UK.Why can't the EFCC do the same thing on Diziani?Truth b told Nigeria was a better country under GEJ than Buhari

Sir, you are a nincompoop. What about the billions of dollars that were frittered away under his watch? Nigeria earned more petrodollars, borrowed more under that clueless one and the didinrin left the country worse than he met it.

How can you defend such a guy? Hear yourself....he has no university, yet the excess crude account was milked from 22 billion to 2.2 billion in a period when crude oil sold for 120 dollars and the highest benchmark of oil in the budget was $75??

Ask yourself...Obasanjo that built those reserves when oil price averaged $40 billion, was he a fool? This same Obasanjo paid off the countries debt in his time from the meagre oil price?

Yet the man that has no university to his name, came afterwards, desaved all the savings, spent the excess income earned, plundered the excess crude account, with nothing to show for it.

Enough said!

This is disheartening.

Is this not the Minister that prophesied that Nigeria would be sufficient in pencil production by 2022?

He should have enlightened the aboki on the danger of planking a car or motorcycle engine and why it is one big HSE risk.

Onu has lost it!

Nigerians and their self righteousness?

Could she not have dressed that way because of the very hot weather? If someone has lived in Europe for a long time, visiting Nigeria may be quite challenging and in the face of inadequate cooling systems from epileptic power supply, one may be tempted to dress very light when outdoors.

So how is this a problem, when your business at the mall is to shop and get back to your business or home on time? Talk about taking panadol for another persons headache.

Bunch of self righteous, unsophisticated people, who go about passing judgements on others, while living in a joke of a country!

And that's why our country is a big joke! With all the God we serve and the resources at our disposal, look at where we are, living like animals in the jungle.

Aeronautical engineering? In a country that cannot manufacture a car tyre from scratch to finish? Joke of the 21st century.

We have lost focus and we definitely don't know the areas where we have comparative advantage. Of what use is an aeronautical department and degree to a rudimentary economy like Nigeria that is deficient in relevant IT and infrastructure environment?

If you have ever schooled abroad and you have seen the kind of infrastructures in engineering colleges, you will know this venture from KWASU is dead on arrival.

So many ignorant people on this thread. You guys don't know we have many South Africans in this country, working under the guise that the African head office of most MNCs is either located in Johannesburg or Nairobi. Should Nigeria decide to retaliate, South Africa would hear it loud and clear.

Those black SAs have violence ingrained in their DNA, lazy and vengeful. I have been to their country in a professional capacity and even my SA colleagues feel intimidated when they see a bright young Nigerian and the next thing you'l see is an aggressive behaviour....

Beyond that, there ladies famx Nigerian guys a lot ( another reason why the male blokes get enraged) and until you tap that SA bxxty, your body count is not complete!

This country is a joke. Wike, Mr Project? That Sun Newspaper must be a clown. Ask any Rivers person what Wike has delivered in two year? Port Harcourt is basically in a terrible state, sanitation has gone to the dogs and this dude governs in a rudderless manner. All I observed is this dude contracted Julius Berger to repair Old and New GRA roads, fixed the street lights on Aba Road, reconstructing Trans Amadi Road ( this I must really commend him for, due to the strategic nature of that road) and he his building a Pleasure Park at Airforce Junction. Objectively assessed, a Governor with an IGR of about 15 billion per month ought not be called 'Mr Project' for delivering these cosmetics projects. The painful aspect is the bad sanitation in the town and the Governor is so unconcerned about it, probably because he has handed over that space to his ineffectual and incompetent PDP Chairman. Please note, I have no political affiliation and this is just my personal opinion.

Its time the death penalty is legislated for theft of public funds. Look at how people stacked raw ca ca home

[quote author=usmolad post=52240737]Don't say what you know nothing about. When did oyinlola appoint Ige son as a commissioner in osun? I'm very sure you are not in osun and knew nothing about osun and its politics[/quote

You are a very ignorant man. Ordinary Google of the subject matter would have disproved or confirmed that point for you.

You have the internet at your disposal and you are powerless in thought and incapable in intellect, to use it to advance your knowledge base.

It is a global village now and I do not need to be in Osun State to know what's happening there.

Very crude, ancient and anachronistic man!

Now Google Muyiwa Ige as a Commissioner in Osun State and see what comes up. Stupid nincompoop!

Don't mind the guy. Whips up such statement when it suits him. The government of Olagunsoye Oyinlola appointed him as a Commissioner for close to eight years simply because of the dad's pedigree, yet the dude could not get one single thing done.

Even when he was a massive failure as a Commissioner, the Governor left him out of respect for the late IGE.

Now, he's probably broke and he's saying those things for the current sets of leaders to remember him.

The government should sell off these assets as soon as possible. Presently, most of our national assets are badly managed and this has stiffled growth of these business concerns a deprived the country of the multiplier effect of associated employment opportunities for th teeming population.

Furthermore, year in year out, the country budgets and spends billions of naira on the overhead costs and maintenance of these assets albeit with no commensurate return on investment, further creating opportunity for politicians an civil servants running these enterprises to loot and corruptly enrich themselves.

When these assets are well run, government will earn good tax revenue!

Even Dr Innocent Chukwuma has fleets of Mercedes and BMW cars in his garage!

Abeg make I hear word!