DamnnNiggarr:


Those who spread falsehood against my principal, thinking that he will respond to them nor hold malice against them will wait till the second coming of Jesus Christ.

They will continue to wait till thy kingdom come

Peter Obi silence treatment to them is truly golden

aderadio1:
So what did we celebrate last week or earlier this week? Am confused right now.

Confused as well

Tinubu, Bayo Onanuga and his fellow BATerians thrive in tribal and ethnic bigotry

Under this Calamitous Tinubu regime, he will still have his Job

EreluRoz:
Ikegwuru to most of these eastern governors , you'll never hear anything good about them but yet asiwaju is still the problem even when their state governors is dishing out wickedness to their workers.

Otti's own shock me pass. Learn to hold your state governors accountable, this is bad.

Is Abia a cursed state because they've never had it good in terms of governance.

It obvious you are not informed

EcoNews:
State Ike Abia Anambra are the foolish state paying a grown man or woman 18K.

18K can not even cool soup for a family of 4 weekly nowadays. Those governors are truly wicked

I say make I remind you

Hotfreeze:


It is 18k and he is owing 3 months salaries out of every 12 months.
Cummulatively, he is owing 11 months salaries.

Children of the slaves he's owing are here to defend him.

I say make I let you know

NIGERIA’S aviation industry has run into dark stormy clouds. A significant number of Nigeria’s domestic airlines aircraft are grounded. Air ticket prices have gained unprecedented altitude such that passengers are forced to pay a king’s ransom as racketeers take over sales. Airlines appear to be taking advantage of a bad situation to the detriment of the flying public.

Recently, medi.a reports suggested that domestic airfares have exceeded international flights within the West African sub-region, This is an anomaly.

Local return flights on popular routes such as Lagos to Abuja, Lagos to Port Harcourt, and Lagos to Kano are quoted by airline and travel agency portals at N260,000to N300,000 per return ticket for economy class.

Passengers buying at the counter on flight days can pay up to N250,000 for a one-way ticket. During the Eid-el-Kabir holiday, passengers who did not purchase tickets in advance paid as much asN280,000 for an economy ticket on the Lagos-Abuja route.

Comparatively, Africa World Airlines indicated that a one-way flight from Lagos to Accra costs about N233,000 for a Thursday flight, but about N300,000 for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last week. This includes a $100 (N160,000) passenger service tax imposed on international travellers.

While the situation reflects the huge operational and financial challenges domestic carriers face, it also indicates that they might beexploiting passengers who have supported their business. Elsewhere passengers are rewarded for loyalty not punished.

The current problem concerns severe seat shortages that have plagued the industry since April when the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority grounded Dana Air over safety concerns. Many airlines also have aircraft stuck at maintenance facilities abroad while they struggle to obtain foreign exchange to pay repair bills.

Airline operators and travel agencies attribute the escalating cost of tickets to the forces of demand and supply. A year ago, a return ticket for a Lagos–Abuja flight cost N100,000.

Airlines have long complained that they contend with multiple taxes by industry regulators focussed on revenue generation rather than offering commensurate services and support for local carriers.

Recent calculations indicate that domestic airlines deal with taxes, charges, and fees which amount to 32.7 percent of domestic gross revenues in an industry with an average operating margin of 2.6 percent.

Until recently the industry suffered a high mortality rate with an average lifespan of 10 years. At least 40 domestic airlines have collapsed within the last 20 years. Arik Air and Aero, once industry favourites, are under receivership.

Infrastructure and technical support at local airports are woeful. Most are no better than bus parks with primitive check-in, airline, and passenger support facilities. Out of 22 airports managed by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, only six have airfield lighting to enable flights to land and take off after 6.30 pm. Only Lagos, Abuja, and Port Harcourt are commercially viable per FAAN.

In addition, the cost of aviation fuel is prohibitive. In April, aviation fuel jumped to N1,300 per litre. Media reports indicate that fuelling is the largest cash guzzler in airline operational costs at 45 per cent. A litre increased to about N1,500 in Lagos and N2,000 in Kano and Maiduguri later.

However, in late April, the Dangote Refinery offered a respite by announcing a litre of aviation fuel at N940. This has yet to reflect on prices, even moderately.

However, for all their woes, exploiting passengers is a bad business practice. Many passengers have resorted to travelling by road as airfares become increasingly unaffordable.

Airlines must stop staff colluding with touts and racketeers who mop up tickets only to resell them to desperate time-pressed passengers. How can they explain how their portals indicate sold-out seats on flights only for such seats to become vacant close to flight time and sold for up to 50 percent premium? Passengers sometimes board so-called fully booked flights only to find several seats empty. Some are forced to buy expensive business-classtickets, yet spaces abound in the economy.

The resurgence of ticket racketeering indicates weak regulations that have defined Nigeria’s aviation industry for eons.

Some industry experts have suggested that air ticket purchases should be linked with passengers’ Bank Verification Numbers to make bought tickets non-transferable. This should be considered to end the untold hardship passengers have been subjected to.

A one-hour London to Manchester air ticket can be purchased for £35 (N74,000) on low-cost carriers. There is no justification for the N200,000 tickets from Lagos to Abuja. The exploitative practices by airlines highlight why the government should accelerate the provision of good alternatives by fixing roads and rail infrastructure. A Lagos to Abuja fast rail link is long overdue.

On many occasions, the Federal Government has attempted to ameliorate the crisis by establishing a public airline. The government-owned Nigeria Airways crashed due to gross mismanagement and corruption. So, it is not the way forward.

Air transport is a key business facilitator supporting 87.7 million jobs worldwide. Aviation enables $3.5 trillion in global GDP. It also has social benefits – facilitating connectivity, leisure, and cultural experiences.

In Nigeria, the sector is depressed. According to the International Air Transport Association, aviation contributes a paltry 0.4 per cent to Nigeria’s GDP. In India, the sector is thriving, contributing 5.0 per cent to GDP. Accounting for 472,000 jobs, aviation contributes 3.2 per cent to South Africa’s GDP per IATA. In concrete figures, it is $9.4 billion in gross value-added contribution to GDP.

Nigeria should ordinarily be the aviation hub for Africa due to its geographical position, but gross mismanagement and corruption have derailed that. Airlines should know that the current ticketing regime is unsustainable.

Regardless, the government and other stakeholders address the aviation sector challenges to reduce costs and make flying affordable.

https://punchng.com/nigerias-airlines-must-stop-ticket-racketeering/

yarimo:
Obi is the one sponsoring the protest, the same way he is supporting IPOB terrorists

yarimo, try get sence at least once in your entire life

DesChyko:
Way to go NBA.

Results in real time. Real as can be.

There was nothing like system glitch

Creamypie:
Slave dey fight Master

Imagine that

slivertongue:
toh. Peaceful protest is part of democracy

Of course, and it will always remain a legitimate instrument of democracy for raising the voice of citizens.

BATerians will still blame Peter Obi for these protests against the worst regime to have ever emerged in the history of this country.

Bayo Onanuga and his fellow BATerians know this very fact but as usual, Peter Obi must be blamed for Tinubu's incompetence and cluelessness

Tinubu is not in control of his thought process

The emergence of the Tinubu administration is certainly the worst thing that has happened to this nation.

It's finished

yarimo:
the fraudster in agulu and Aisha Yusufu a married woman are shameless humans . Look at how he was comfortable looking at married woman boobs

While Tinubu was shamelessly and lustfully staring at another woman's boobs even with his wife, Remi, present.

tunde1200:


Am not
Am only trying to pass messages across to the haters and bitter ipobidients here on NL that it wound lead them anywhere.

You are

SadiqBabaSani:
The most incompetent Presidential spokesman making enemies for the administration daily instead of friends.

Nothing qualified him except been a chronic Bootlicker. Wanna be CIA

Bayo Onanuga is an ethnic bigot

Bayo Onanuga lacks integrity

helinues:
Make una stop this Reverse psychology.

Take the meat, una say na bone, okay return it back , una say some meat still dey inside.

If you people are not interested in the protest, why are you forcing/inciting others?

You are such a 🤡

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And he invaded Oba of Lagos palace, took away his staff of office and placed it on Jiji during the Endsars protests

raskymonojendor:

They are targeting the blue line for destruction.

Your southwestern brothers You mean because the last time I checked, Tinubu is the only politician on planet Earth empowering, sponsoring, and funding agberos, thugs, and hoodlums. In fact, he wears it as a badge of honor. Tinubu's only legacy in Lagos State is agberos, thugs, and hoodlums, making Lagos State the headquarters of agberosim and thuggery in the entire wide world.

helinues:


Don't be mischievous too

You are simply irredeemable

He said, “With all due respect, is it Peter Obi who goes to the market to buy a bag of rice and beans? Why are people not being fair to this man? This thing concerns every Nigerian. We are talking about hardship that is meted out to Nigerians by this government.

"Even they themselves are feeling the pain, because distant family members will continue to come to them for money due to the hardship. Is it Obi visiting their families to tell them about the rising cost of foodstuffs, including why a bag of rice suddenly rose to N80,000? If they are looking for a dog to give a bad name to hang, it is certainly not Obi.

"They should hold themselves responsible for the situation they put Nigerians in. It has nothing to do with Peter Obi. It is a reaction of the people, by the people, and for the people, which is allowed in a democracy. It is their inalienable right as Nigerians. This allegation is not true, and it is unfair. The APC government should look inward and find who to blame among themselves.”

The presidency should stop being mischievous. They should stop the blame game and look into the mirror. Tinubu is the one sponsoring these protests against his government through his calamitous economic policies that succeeded in inflicting premium hunger, starvation, high inflation rate, etc. on the citizens.

helinues:


South East, the Igbo's

Haven't you heard or seen the south-east and, by extension, the Igbos reiterating the fact that they are not part and parcel of any kind of protest? 

Or you just want to spread lies, falsehood, and bigotry because it's obvious you have the penchant for unwarranted bellicosity and belligerence.

helinues:


How come you guys don't want this protest to happen in your region but want to force others to protest by force.

Why?

Which region? Are you referring to the Northern region and the Western region? Because the last time I checked, these are the regions being so loud about these protests. The southeast region has reiterated severally that they are not part of any protests. 

So which region are you now referring to?

sIfioksq:
Tinubu's administration is focused on stability and progress for Nigeria. Protests can disrupt the positive momentum we need right now.

But Tinubu used it to disrupt the positive momentum of the Goodluck Jonathan government

HenryThegreat1:
The question is just tell me one single promised no matter small it's, this Tinubu led administration made that he 40% fulfilled.

Bro, don't you think you are being too generous with that?

Protests will always remain a legitimate instrument of democracy for raising the voice of citizens.

Tinubu and his allies sponsored and organised protests and civil disobedience, including threatening to form parallel governments against the Goodluck Jonathan government, and they did all these acts without being disturbed; no one called them ethnic bigots or brought ethnicity into it; no one threatened them or even charged them for treason.


Tinubu, as president of Nigeria today, is now afraid of protests, as these were the same instruments he, together with his allies, used against the Goodluck Jonathan government.

tunde1200:


Exactly
They just too bitter about the president and whole Yoruba race why.

Why are you bitter?