harmony5: Hey mr Akpabio ass licker, I want to suggest u go get a life, this place was beautified during the administration of gov. Attah. I guess there are no more tangible project again(mostly roads) for the akpabio lapdogs to showcase even with a budget of over N500b, No why they are now resorting to showing past administration's achievement as his, just to cover for his incompetence and fraud and also a desperade bid to keep him relevance in the media.. I say S H A M E! on Y'all.

Your situation is quite unfortunate, how you easily get hyper about everything Akpabio is beyond me. Every sane people who reads my post will see that my message centres on how much beautiful the place is now compared to what you have here. Didn't you read where I gave credits to Attah for the ones posted above?

@op your current pictures of ibom connection are still like 4years old, the place is even more beautiful than this now thanks to Akpabio, what u have dere is how Obong Attah left it, which is still beautiful

bashy_demy: Sorry Which Akpabio are you talking about? that useless thing that dont know diffrent between 16 and 19? show us his achievement with proof abeg

Guy are you a learner? what more proofs do you seek? can't you use google?

Sgtkoselupa: This is another waste of our hard earned money. Govt should just provide enabling environment like airports and regulatory authorities. Investing even 1% into the new airline is lack of focus. Or is it another elephant project to fund PDP campaign for 2015?

omonnakoda:
Nigeria that borrowed $2billion this week will buy 50 aircraft next year . I hope say no be Winch for Mohammed broom dem wan buy sha

thoth:

Please who are this private investor partners and what is their share in the whole deal? what is the FG investing and what are the Private Investors Investing ? we need numbers and information.
It will just be like the telecom and power sectors where the FG provides 90% or more of the capital and the company runs and takes 95% of the revenues.

Nairalanders with jumping to comment even before reading the article. Didn't you people see the part that says the FG is not putting in a dime into this project? It's very glaring that you guys are only after abusing this administration and talking down every step it makes. Smh

Mekky2010: National Carrier to Begin Operations with 50 Aircraft

 Stella Oduah, Aviation Minister

Chinedu Eze

The federal government and its private investor partners may have concluded that the new national carrier, known as Nigeria One, would start operation with 50 aircraft that would be delivered before the end of next year.

Among the aircraft types that would be operated by the national airline include Embraer, Bombardier and Boeing.

THISDAY gathered from authoritative sources on Wednesday that while Embraer short haul aircraft types would be used for domestic operations, medium haul Bombardier would be used for regional services and Boeing planes would be used for long haul international flights.
All these aircraft would be delivered from the manufacturers, but it is not known yet whether they would be leased or they would be acquired by outright purchase.

As government is planning on how to establish the airline, it is also brainstorming on route development and THISDAY learnt that right now the body set out to establish the airline is meeting with some airlines for possible code share and other partnership with the future airlines, and in recognition of this the federal government is streamlining its bilateral service agreements with individual countries, aware that it would soon have its national carrier.

As the Ministry of Aviation has reiterated, the federal government does not intend and will not fund the establishment of the airline as it has designed an arrangement where the airline would be funded on public private partnership (PPP).

The private sector will drive the airline while government intends to own less than 25 per cent equity while significant percentage of the equity would be sold to the core investor, which is an international carrier, that will also influence the establishment of a maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO facility) that would be completed shortly after the take-off of the national carrier.

THISDAY learnt that an international carrier from the Middle East has indicated interest to partner the airlines and an international business tycoon may put his money in the airline as a significant investor.

In spite of the bleak history of airline operation in Nigeria and the failed Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Nigeria partnership, the plan to attract foreign investors for the new national carrier attracted surprising enthusiasm from overseas.

This is attributed to the burgeoning air transport market in Nigeria, which an insider from one of the major airlines said would explode when effective and consistent competition crashed the fares to domestic destinations, “which a successful national carrier will do.”

The source told THISDAY, “We have concluded plans to acquire 50 aircraft. Yes, it is good to start small but we don’t want to do that; we want to hit the ground running because we know the market is there. I know that it will surprise you to know that an international airline from the Middle East has invested in the national carrier together with other rich investors from outside Nigeria. Our strategy is that it will be operated on PPP. FG is not investing any money but will not have many shares.”

On how organisations and individuals are investing in the new airline, the source said, “What we are doing is that we are selling shares on paper until the company is incorporated and the shares are being sold in percentages. After buying the shares you will then know the authorised shares.”

Many Nigerians are sceptical about the planned national carrier; very few are giving it the chance to succeed due to hind sight, including the parlous history of Nigerian Airways, but the source told THISDAY that such cynicism was to be expected because “It is a typical Nigerian attitude because of the people that ran organisations aground in the past. They lacked expertise and they did not want to seek expertise. They were not really sincere but this one is different.”

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/national-carrier-to-begin-operations-with-50-aircraft/153099/

Capnd143: nice one, bt am seriously looking forward to progress report on the uyo olympic stadium

I'll be in Uyo by next week and I'll do all I can to snap and upload pictures of the Olympic size stadium project. The last time I visited the site about 3 months ago, construction on my own accessment could be put at about 30-35 percent completion, Julius Berger no dey dull.

aminho:
Y must we always buy things from the us that means we can't fight them cuz they know our defence capability

Of all countries na US u wan go fight shey..issokay

sureteeboy: I wonder what kind of church that Anglican is. Is the guy trying to bribe God so that he can win the election? That #5 million should have been distributed to the poor. Not to a church that's rich already. The money needed in the church is mainly for evangelism, but, I don't know what the church had become

I wish to God you know what it really cost to organize an effective evangelism anywhere in the world. I doubt you have the slightest idea because you would have known that 5m naira is barely enough to foot for just the lighting bills in a big crusade.

This has been discussed before.

https://www.nairaland.com/944805/why-lagos-motorists-drive-headlamps#10897546

Efikman: ANOTHER BIG LIE!!!! ON THE AVERAGE, EACH NAIRALANDER HAS ABOUT 5-6 MONIKERS OR ID'S. SO IN REAL SENSE, THE NO. OF MEMBERS NO GO PASS 300,000

sorry i'v got just one bro

ZUBY77: Isn't Fashola more popular than Rotimi Amechi in Lagos?

Is Jonathan more Popular than Obama in USA?

wrong analogy! what hapns to the remaining top 6 sites that are more popular in Nigeria even tho they are not Nigerian owned??

Akwa Ibom babes rock!!

with the pictures am seeing, 2baba rilly dey serioz for this marriage so?

Things will only get better in Nigeria. Chikina!

hahaha what a joke! the same corrupt governors migrating to the so-called progressive party, who's deceiving who? make dem park well jare

how about they let him be for the period of his tenure to complete these laudable projects and after then he could be arrested, tried, and prosecuted if found guilty...no doubts, this man is an achiever

yh, it's nice for the governor of a rich state like Akwa Ibom to be benevolent, but i still feel that the governor often goes above board on some of this spendings...quite alot of it are usually unnecessary!

nice play guys, at least not like ur senior colleagues who almost gave someone a hrt attack dis evening

beautiful couple

naija no try at all

Afam4eva:
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Not quite an excuse tho, let pple with d required spec on their system enjoy it at least. Facebook neva saw dat as a hindrance so Nairaland shdnt

Oh no!!! wat were the kenyans thinking

Rest in Peace great prof!

The Federal Government on Monday restated its offer to dialogue with members of the fundamentalist group, Boko Haram on the condition that the group renounces violence.

The Federal Government on Monday restated its offer to dialogue with members of the fundamentalist group, Boko Haram on the condition that the group renounces violence.

The National Coordinator of Counter Terrorism and Counter Insurgency in the office of the National Security Adviser, Major General Sarki Bello (rtd) made the offer at the National Defence College in Abuja.

The event was a visit by the capstone course of the National Defence University in the United States.

The Coordinator of the national counter terrorism and counter insurgency office told the visitors that Nigeria is making significant progress in the fight against terrorism and is doing more to ensure that insurgency is effectively curbed.

Major general Bello said a national counter terrorism policy has been put in place with a plan to set up a national counter terrorism centre to curb terrorist activities in the country.

He also announced the establishment of multinational strategies with Niger, Chad and Cameroun following intelligence reports that Boko Haram camps are in these countries bordering Nigeria.

General Bello expressed optimism that the ceasefire recently declared by the Islamic sect may be effective. He however said members of the sect must renounce violence before any dialogue with the militants.

Speaking on Nigeria’s operation in Mali, the Deputy Commandant of the national defence college said beyond restoring the territorial integrity of Mali, key to Nigeria’s participation in Mali is to contain the in-flock of extremists back in to Nigeria.

While the Nigerian government appreciates that more need to be done in the fight against terrorism, it believes that everything is on course to win the war against terror and extremism.

source: http://www.africaeagle.com/2013/02/nigeria-federal-government-agrees-to.html

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A man truly sent by God for this generation, I salute you Sir!

Happy birthday my life coach, I appreciate you today! Remain blessed sir!

So sad that this is my first comment on Nairaland and it had to be dis I mean how can I load my own phone with my own money and then cannot connect a single line successfully for more than a week now arghh!! To hell with their bonanzas, MTN network has been more than terrible here in Uyo since last week. If they would rather focus all these resources towards upgrading their systems, I think that will be better appreciated