My Thought On A Saturday ...

SOCIAL MEDIA & SMIs

First, anyone who knows that young lady from Ekiti State should congratulate her on my behalf. Incidentally, her parents gave her one of my best Yoruba names of all time - DaMi-LoLa.

@ChefDammy__ She survived and defeated the busy-body social media mob of 'double H' (Hate and Hypocrisy). It is not easy at all.

Whether her name eventually gets into Guinness Book of World Records or not does not matter, at least as far as I am concerned.

#NigeriaAir

“From 2016 to 2023, all of the money voted and budgeted for Nigeria Air is N5 billion. But all that was released was in the neighbourhood of N3 billion, not N85 billion, and not all of the N3 billion has been expended as of the time I left office." "What has been done with the money is nothing but to get special advisory services, the AOC processes, salaries, consultive services, and the maintenance of the office in Abuja. No contract was awarded by Hadi Sirika. These are the things the money was used for."

NIGERIA AIR: MUCH ADO ABOUT A "SCAM"
Some are running with the wind, shouting Nigeria Air is a "scam" & a "fraud", because the Ag MD of NA came clean with the Nnolim Nnaji headed House Committee on Aviation that the aircraft used for its unveiling belonged to Ethiopian airlines. Straight up, I don't support what the Minister did with the flight. If the carrier wasn't ready for final launch, there's no need for the show. Telling Nigerians exactly where the processes were wld've been enough cos a greater %tage of the work had been done by the Buhari Admin.

#NigeriaAir
Surely, They Do Not Know What They Are Saying ...

📌 They say the Aircraft belongs to Ethiopian Airline.

Well, Ethiopian Airline has majority ownership of Nigeria Air (49%). Nigeria Air is one of its subsidiaries. So why not? What is the issue there? 📌 They say it is an "old aircraft". Then they say the aircraft is 10 years old.

I ask: How is a 10 year old aircraft an "old aircraft"? What is the lifetime of an average Boeing aircraft? It has a lifespan of around 35 years or 90,000 flight hours. So what are they saying?

#StillOnNigeriaAir
If not arrogant ignorance, some folks would have hidden their faces in shame, kept quiet and maybe be enlightened, especially seeing that they have goofed. Sadly many of them are incapable of being educated. So they proudly exhibit their willful ignorance. The aircraft with the inscription 'NIGERIA AIR' that we saw landing at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja two days ago did not get there suddenly, by magic, accident, or by trick.

BRITISH AIRWAYS AND NIGERIA AIR COMPARED

BRITISH AIRWAYS OWNERSHIP
AIG (100%)
British Government (0%)

NIGERIA AIR OWNERSHIP
Ethiopian Air (49%)
Consortium of Nigerian Investors (46%)
Nigerian Government (5%)

Read More ... 🇬🇧 British Airways
British Airways is the flag carrier of the United Kingdom. Despite that nationalistic sounding tag, British Airways is not a state-owned airline.

BA was privatised in 1987 & is now wholly owned by IAG, an Anglo-Spanish airline consortium.

#DesperateNDDCCabal
Lauretta Onochie? Demand Exotic Cars, 18 Aides, Mansion?
These people truly do not know this woman that they are fighting one bit.
A woman who in one of our usual candid talks on general life issues, long before talk of any NDDC appointment came up, said to me that what a person needs is a shelter.

That if you have an accommodation and you can afford to pay your rent, that is all you need. Of course she was living in a rented apartment herself then even as aide to the president.