by Femi Falana The aviation minister and her cohorts who should have been fired by President Jonathan have the timerity to insult Nigerians by threatening to deal with those who leaked information on their criminal activities. In January this year the Channels Television broadcast disturbing stories on the dilapidated state of the Ikeja Police College.... Read More
by Feyi Fawehinmi My instincts are for people to simply stop flying until serious changes are made in how air safety is regulated in Nigeria – when the airlines get hit in the pocket, they will put pressure where pressure needs to be put. In December 2012, the great economist, Albert Otto Hirschman passed away. By all... Read More
by ‘Jola Sotubo The aviation ministry and its officials have begun a manhunt for the official that leaked information about the purchase of expensive bullet-proof cars for the Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah. [READ: Ministry of Aviation justifies purchase of BMWs worth $1.5million for Minister] The cars, reportedly bought for 255 million naira, were acquired for... Read More
by ‘Jola Sotubo Following the recent revelation that she had acquired two bullet proof vehicles, the Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, has said that the purchases became necessary due to threats that she had been receiving. Mrs. Oduah reportedly said that the aviation sector reforms she had been overseeing had ruffled some feathers and as... Read More
by Hauwa Gambo His is tainted with malice, with evil, with the basest of human sentiments support of tyrants and dictators, advocacy for wars and genocides, destroyer of marriages and relationships, cauldron of hate and wickedness. Why, in the name of all that is good and decent, do human beings take Femi Fani-Kayode seriously? Why do a succession... Read More
The Federal Government on Thursday cited non compliance with security procedures as part of the reasons why it grounded a Kenyan aircraft that brought in three Nigerian deportees to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. The aircraft has been detained by security agencies since June 3 under the directive of the Ministry of Foreign... Read More
by Dele Momodu “Now all these things happened unto them for examples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” – Corinthians 10: 11-12 Your Excellency, please permit me to intrude into your busy schedule again today.... Read More
by Isi Esene There are indications that President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet might, this month, see some form of rejigging. Vanguard reportssay four ministers are likely to be affected in the reshuffle with Elder Godsday Orubebe, Labaran Maku, Stella Oduah and Bala Muhammed getting mentioned. The ministers are said to have expressed their interest to contest... Read More
by Feyi Fawehinmi The thing about a crisis is that it’s always an opportunity to do the truly radical things that could never be done when everyone was coasting and vested in the status quo. Looks like a good time to talk about aviation so I will weigh in with my 2 cents. So I... Read More
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by Rachel Ogbu The Federal Government has threatened to prosecute the Rivers State government for forgery over the clearance documents for its Bombadier aircraft. Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, on Thursday said in a press statement that “The presentation of false information or forged documentation to regulatory authorities in the processing of official approvals or... Read More
by Joe Obi All the talk about sack of staff of the Yoruba stock is not only unfounded and baseless but ultimately diversionary. I can bet that neither Sobowale nor Babalakin cares a hoot about the well being and welfare of Yoruba personnel in the Aviation Ministry and its Agencies… “In almost twenty years of... Read More
by Eze Onyekpere There is no empirical evidence showing that there are 10 million farmers in Nigeria who need telephones and how the ministry arrived at telephones as the priority of farmers is best left to the imagination of the minister alone. The beauty of democracy is the ability of its institutions to take steps... Read More
by Reuben Daba If Adams Oshiomhole can do it, so can Stella Oduah. The Aviation minister paddled a canoe to her ancestral home after floods swallowed the road. We don’t know if it was a combination of this and the submerging of the Otueke road that caused Aso Rock to act which culminated in yesterday’s... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola Nigeria’s minister of aviation, Princess Stella Adaeze Oduah, has gone on the offensive against Arik Airlines in a story that continues to astound watchers of the aviation sector in Nigeria. On Thursday, Arik Airline had claimed that its current challenges with the authorities and the hostility of the Ministry of Aviation towards... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola In case you missed it, President Jonathan’s Strategy and PR team led by the inimitable Oronto Douglas, this week released a new 155-page book titled Sure and Steady Transformation: The Progress Report. It was a brilliant piece of agitprop (now that’s a fine word for you.) The brilliance of the work was not... Read More
by Stanley Azuakola A Federal Government delegation comprising Nigeria’s minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Bala Mohammed, and minister of State for Works, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda were in China, where they obtained a loan of $1.1 billion (about N176 billion) from the Chinese Exim Bank,... Read More
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