Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - International Airlines To Reduce Flights To Nigeria

Well, Ikhide, UI is still UI. But I want my children to look beyond
the rafters of our village hut. I want them to know that they are
citizens of the world. They had their educational foundation in
Nigeria, but must move to improve. After fending for them in my
territory, I have found the cause to howl and chase them away to
discover and establish their own territories in this goddam ecosystem.
Send your children, though. They need my spanking, as spoilt, fat American kids!
Thanks.
Obododimma.


On 12/27/15, 'Ikhide' via USA Africa Dialogue Series
<usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> I am beginning to like Buhari! *shudders* Imagine an internationally
> renowned professor like you, Obododinma Oha, your child does not attend your
> classes but is sent overseas to compete with my own child. And here I was
> just telling my two sons yesterday that they would be coming to the
> University of Ibadan to study under you.
>
> Imagine a situation where all our children were forced to study under the
> conditions that the children of the poor study at UI and other universities.
> We would have to fight for real reform - in the name of our children. Not
> every revolution is altruistic. Indeed the real ones, the productive ones
> are birthed by self-survival!
>
> Sai Buhari!
>
> - Ikhide
>
>> On Dec 27, 2015, at 4:50 AM, Obododimma Oha <obodooha@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The issue of parents possibly recalling their children studying
>> overseas is not only because of this reduction of the number of
>> international flights. Outbound Western Union and other legitimate
>> international money transfers, which some of us have been using to
>> send money to our children who are studying in other countries, have
>> also been suspended. Personally, I have explored other legitimate
>> alternatives of remitting money these few months without any success.
>> It's just so frustrating to live in Nigeria at this time! The
>> casualties of this "war" on corruption include innocent Nigerians who
>> are working hard and using legitimate earnings to improve their lot.
>> The real thieves go free.
>> -- Obododimma.
>>
>>> On 12/27/15, Kola Fabiyi <fabiyi@live.com> wrote:
>>> International Airlines To Reduce Flights To Nigeria
>>>
>>> By Oluwatobi Bolashodun
>>> Naij. Com
>>>
>>> Following Nigeria's slowing economy amid scarcity of foreign exchange,
>>> international airlines operating in Nigeria have reportedly planned to
>>> reduce the number of flights in and out of the country next year,
>>> Nigerian
>>> Watch reports.
>>>
>>> This is in response to the government's new directive limiting the
>>> ability
>>> of investors to repatriate profits they have made in the country.
>>>
>>> The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had earlier this month issued a new
>>> directive prohibiting investors from exchanging billions of naira they
>>> have
>>> accrued into dollars and repatriating it. This new measure automatically
>>> created a scarcity of foreign exchange and has limited Nigeria's appeal
>>> as
>>> an investment destination.
>>>
>>> The International Air Transport Association (IATA), unhappy about the
>>> directive, pleaded with the CBN governor, Godwin Emiefele to intervene
>>> in
>>> the matter and make dollars available to the airlines.
>>>
>>> International airlines have also met with the transport minister Rotimi
>>> Amaechi and urged him to look into their case.
>>>
>>> Exasperated with the government, the airlines have decided to act and as
>>> from March 2016, British Airways plans to reduce its flights to Nigeria
>>> by
>>> bringing in smaller aircraft.
>>>
>>> Other foreign airlines may either change their aircraft type or
>>> reschedule
>>> and reduce the number of flights to Nigeria. Those which are not major
>>> players in the Nigerian market may stop flights to the country
>>> altogether.
>>>
>>> A source from British airways said: "Some parents whose children are in
>>> school overseas are considering withdrawing them as our economy, which
>>> has
>>> become the strongest economy in Africa is grinding to a halt. We don't
>>> want
>>> to make our plan to reduce operations public because we don't want to
>>> cause
>>> any panic."
>>>
>>> The source also suggested that CBN should endeavor to provide foreign
>>> exchange to the essential service sector so that the economy would not
>>> grind
>>> to a halt.
>>>
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M.Sc. (Legal, Criminological & Security Psychology);
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University of Ibadan.

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