You
gotta pity Goodluck Jonathan sometimes. He simply cannot catch a break
from a section of Nigeria. The man got tired of the Nigerian heat,
packed his bags and flew to China. But, as hes enjoying the original
Chinese friend rice in Beijing, Nigeria blows up with tall tales about
the first lady.
It seems Nigerians cant live with a peaceful presidency. A few weeks ago, you would think the countrys governors, most of who slept through arithmetic class in primary school, were going to set the country on fire. And, for some weird reason, the president who is not a governor was fingered as the man behind it. You wonder if these powerful Nigerians also missed social studies class in primary school and somehow think the president is indeed the governor of Nigeria and must be a secret member of the governors forum.
And, before that, the rave was about the president not performing. But trust the silky-voiced president who may have a career in public speaking after the villa, he told Nigerians they would bow when they buy some special glasses next year and take a really close look at his record. Strangely, a nation of impatient people decided to buy patience. Literally.
They moved on to the poor first lady whose only sin is that she is the madam of the villa. They accuse the Dame of sublime things like holding traffic up as if she has a giant magnet in her wallet that keeps all the metal contraptions at bay.They accuse her of ridiculous things like breaking the electoral act by launching campaigns. What campaign? In a nation where the national leaders endorse a candidate and asks everyone else to jump in the lagoon!
You would think Nigerians will attack the main issue, like madam, this dame title, how did it come about since Oga is not knighted? But, that would be opening a cesspool because this is Nigeria after all where a title is a ticket to the front-page news. Every governors wife is a dame these days and we wonder why the British keep hurling insulting policies at us. Its because well eat it up!The way its all coming across, everything has gone from Dame, damn! to damn, Dame! Same words arranged differently. Dame, damn is an exclamation of appreciation with a tinge of jealousy C like a when you see a gorgeous girl strolling down the marina as the sun sets. Damn, Dame! is serious bad belle.
I was content to be patient as the accusations flew at the first lady like balls of amala. But, this week, I finally hit the roof. The poor woman is in her home state on a vacation or whatever it is First Ladies do when they travel which I assume is not far from what they do when they are at their base.Now, the woman is at home jeje, watching the television and probably thought she was watching a reality show as a bunch of lawmakers were busy breaking the law with blows and slaps in the Rivers State House of Assembly. Suddenly its her fault. She brought the wahala from Abuja!
Haba! Enough is enough! First of all, the first lady can count. You dont get that fabulously wealthy and have properties all over the place without being able to count them. The First Lady is not like his brother governor who believes 16 is greater that 19. She knows five is not greater than twenty-seven. These things are easy for women and metrosexuals, people! A one-hand manicure is less than a full manicure, pedicure and eyelash treatment. I know because Im in a salon right now.
If this sounds like a defense of the first lady, thats entirely your opinion. If you think Im scared of women, you are right. Women scare me. They do things to you that make you think youre in heaven. And when you piss them off, they do things that make you wish you were in hell. And, these are not powerful women who fight their former friend and predecessor for an office building.Me, I like Patience. I have a sister called Patience. When she was younger she used to beat up the boys on the street. I suspect she spared me because of that thing they call respect. In a very eerie way, every time I see a picture of the first lady, I see a lot of my sister in her. With the way no one respects traditions these days, Im not messing with that.We Engrave rtls for YOU.
And these band of critics should stop too, especially those of the male specie. Which of them do not have a wife or sister everyone calls fire? Which of them doesnt open the fridge and grab a cold one every time the said wife leaves the house? Do they think because Jonathan is the president he doesnt have a fridge or the lack of fire is part of the good luck?
"That was a watershed year that scared the bejeezus out of the airline industry," said Mark Gerchick, an aviation consultant who has just released a book, Full Upright and Locked Position. Even as ticket sales were sliding, jet fuel prices were shooting to historic highs."Suddenly, everyone's thinking changed in the industry," he said. Rather than try to provide a single price for comprehensive service, airlines started charging fees typically $15 per bag to boost revenues.The feeder is available on drying parkingsystemequipped with folder only.
Today, fees are not only the norm; they are heading higher still. Checking a bag now costs $25 to $35 on most domestic flights, and roughly three times that amount on many overseas flights. And on any given flight, just about everything comes with a price tag from 2 more inches of legroom to a can of Coke.One carrier, Denver-based Frontier Airlines, has announced it soon will begin charging up to $100 for a single carry-on bag for any customer who fails to book through the company's own website.
Having people book directly online eliminates payments to travel agents and "is a big cost saver for us," Frontier spokeswoman Kate O'Malley said. And, of course, it also generates yet another stream of revenues.Now United Airlines is trying a new approach, offering annual "subscription" fees to allow customers to prepay a year's worth of baggage fees, seat upgrades or airport club access.We Engrave rtls for YOU. The plans start at $349 and allow you and your family to check up to two bags per flight.
Gerchick said the ever-onward march of fees reflects the impact of a single idea that took hold in the summer of 2008. Carriers realized they would have to "unbundle" the air travel experience charging passengers for each service, such as checking bags, changing tickets, getting a snack box and so on, he said.
Fees have allowed the airline industry to reshape its business model. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, in 2012, U.S. passenger airlines collected $3.5 billion in bag fees and an additional $2.6 billion in reservation-change fees.We offer a wide variety of high-quality standard granitetiles and controllers. That totals $6.1 billion in fees and as luck would have it, airlines made a profit of roughly $6 billion. In other words, airlines just break even on flying their customers; they make money by dreaming up fees.We are one of the leading manufacturers of parkingassistsystem in ChinaIn this age of fees for everything, nudists may feel their lifestyle now makes more sense than ever; they're comfortable traveling light. But most people do need to bring along some clothes when they head out of town.
Gerchick says that need has set off a game between travelers and airlines. "It's like the 'Spy vs. Spy' cartoon in Mad magazine," he said. Passengers attempt to cram everything into carry-on bags, and airlines use sharp-eyed gate attendants to watch for "non-complying" bags.The typical size allowed onboard is no more than 45 "linear" inches, that is, 22 X 14 X 9 inches in size, and no more than 40 pounds in weight. If a traveler tries to hoist a "non-complying" bag into the plane's overhead bin, she might be forced to pay a "gate bag fee" for having to check it belatedly.
That has a few people trying out "wearable luggage," i.e., loose jackets and vests that feature huge pockets. Rather than pack a bag, a traveler can stuff clothes, makeup, an electronic tablet and whatnot into the pockets of the puffy outfit and get onboard without having to pay any bag fees.However, a recent test of wearable luggage at Washington's Reagan National Airport taught one NPR journalist this lesson: Security guards will look very hard at anyone trying to get into the gate area while sporting a bulging vest.Doesn't this sort of fee-avoidance effort to say nothing of the fashion statement take the fun out of traveling?
For some, yes, but most people seem to understand that they and the airlines are trying to outsmart each other, and they have come to accept the fees game as part of today's traveling experience, Gerchick said.The latest customer polls reflect that acceptance. Passengers' overall satisfaction with air travel has risen to the highest level since 2006, according to the J.D. Power & Associates airline satisfaction study for 2013."With each year, passengers are increasingly more accepting of carriers unbundling baggage and other fees," Ramez Faza, a senior manager at J.D. Power & Associates, said in a statement.
Another recently released survey, called the American Customer Satisfaction Index, shows customers hate airlines' cramped seats but are adjusting to the other realities of today's air travel experience. In fact, satisfaction has risen for two straight years a time when fees were sharply increasing.Ironically, the improvement in customer satisfaction to some degree reflects the positive impact of higher fees on baggage handling, Gerchick said. Over the past five years, passengers have been cutting back on checked bags, which means airline employees are better able to handle their workloads, he said.
And since 2008, the biggest carriers have merged, leaving the airline industry more financially stable. That means carriers can afford to invest in new services that customers want, such as better luggage-tracking technology and more Wi-Fi on flights.
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It seems Nigerians cant live with a peaceful presidency. A few weeks ago, you would think the countrys governors, most of who slept through arithmetic class in primary school, were going to set the country on fire. And, for some weird reason, the president who is not a governor was fingered as the man behind it. You wonder if these powerful Nigerians also missed social studies class in primary school and somehow think the president is indeed the governor of Nigeria and must be a secret member of the governors forum.
And, before that, the rave was about the president not performing. But trust the silky-voiced president who may have a career in public speaking after the villa, he told Nigerians they would bow when they buy some special glasses next year and take a really close look at his record. Strangely, a nation of impatient people decided to buy patience. Literally.
They moved on to the poor first lady whose only sin is that she is the madam of the villa. They accuse the Dame of sublime things like holding traffic up as if she has a giant magnet in her wallet that keeps all the metal contraptions at bay.They accuse her of ridiculous things like breaking the electoral act by launching campaigns. What campaign? In a nation where the national leaders endorse a candidate and asks everyone else to jump in the lagoon!
You would think Nigerians will attack the main issue, like madam, this dame title, how did it come about since Oga is not knighted? But, that would be opening a cesspool because this is Nigeria after all where a title is a ticket to the front-page news. Every governors wife is a dame these days and we wonder why the British keep hurling insulting policies at us. Its because well eat it up!The way its all coming across, everything has gone from Dame, damn! to damn, Dame! Same words arranged differently. Dame, damn is an exclamation of appreciation with a tinge of jealousy C like a when you see a gorgeous girl strolling down the marina as the sun sets. Damn, Dame! is serious bad belle.
I was content to be patient as the accusations flew at the first lady like balls of amala. But, this week, I finally hit the roof. The poor woman is in her home state on a vacation or whatever it is First Ladies do when they travel which I assume is not far from what they do when they are at their base.Now, the woman is at home jeje, watching the television and probably thought she was watching a reality show as a bunch of lawmakers were busy breaking the law with blows and slaps in the Rivers State House of Assembly. Suddenly its her fault. She brought the wahala from Abuja!
Haba! Enough is enough! First of all, the first lady can count. You dont get that fabulously wealthy and have properties all over the place without being able to count them. The First Lady is not like his brother governor who believes 16 is greater that 19. She knows five is not greater than twenty-seven. These things are easy for women and metrosexuals, people! A one-hand manicure is less than a full manicure, pedicure and eyelash treatment. I know because Im in a salon right now.
If this sounds like a defense of the first lady, thats entirely your opinion. If you think Im scared of women, you are right. Women scare me. They do things to you that make you think youre in heaven. And when you piss them off, they do things that make you wish you were in hell. And, these are not powerful women who fight their former friend and predecessor for an office building.Me, I like Patience. I have a sister called Patience. When she was younger she used to beat up the boys on the street. I suspect she spared me because of that thing they call respect. In a very eerie way, every time I see a picture of the first lady, I see a lot of my sister in her. With the way no one respects traditions these days, Im not messing with that.We Engrave rtls for YOU.
And these band of critics should stop too, especially those of the male specie. Which of them do not have a wife or sister everyone calls fire? Which of them doesnt open the fridge and grab a cold one every time the said wife leaves the house? Do they think because Jonathan is the president he doesnt have a fridge or the lack of fire is part of the good luck?
"That was a watershed year that scared the bejeezus out of the airline industry," said Mark Gerchick, an aviation consultant who has just released a book, Full Upright and Locked Position. Even as ticket sales were sliding, jet fuel prices were shooting to historic highs."Suddenly, everyone's thinking changed in the industry," he said. Rather than try to provide a single price for comprehensive service, airlines started charging fees typically $15 per bag to boost revenues.The feeder is available on drying parkingsystemequipped with folder only.
Today, fees are not only the norm; they are heading higher still. Checking a bag now costs $25 to $35 on most domestic flights, and roughly three times that amount on many overseas flights. And on any given flight, just about everything comes with a price tag from 2 more inches of legroom to a can of Coke.One carrier, Denver-based Frontier Airlines, has announced it soon will begin charging up to $100 for a single carry-on bag for any customer who fails to book through the company's own website.
Having people book directly online eliminates payments to travel agents and "is a big cost saver for us," Frontier spokeswoman Kate O'Malley said. And, of course, it also generates yet another stream of revenues.Now United Airlines is trying a new approach, offering annual "subscription" fees to allow customers to prepay a year's worth of baggage fees, seat upgrades or airport club access.We Engrave rtls for YOU. The plans start at $349 and allow you and your family to check up to two bags per flight.
Gerchick said the ever-onward march of fees reflects the impact of a single idea that took hold in the summer of 2008. Carriers realized they would have to "unbundle" the air travel experience charging passengers for each service, such as checking bags, changing tickets, getting a snack box and so on, he said.
Fees have allowed the airline industry to reshape its business model. According to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, in 2012, U.S. passenger airlines collected $3.5 billion in bag fees and an additional $2.6 billion in reservation-change fees.We offer a wide variety of high-quality standard granitetiles and controllers. That totals $6.1 billion in fees and as luck would have it, airlines made a profit of roughly $6 billion. In other words, airlines just break even on flying their customers; they make money by dreaming up fees.We are one of the leading manufacturers of parkingassistsystem in ChinaIn this age of fees for everything, nudists may feel their lifestyle now makes more sense than ever; they're comfortable traveling light. But most people do need to bring along some clothes when they head out of town.
Gerchick says that need has set off a game between travelers and airlines. "It's like the 'Spy vs. Spy' cartoon in Mad magazine," he said. Passengers attempt to cram everything into carry-on bags, and airlines use sharp-eyed gate attendants to watch for "non-complying" bags.The typical size allowed onboard is no more than 45 "linear" inches, that is, 22 X 14 X 9 inches in size, and no more than 40 pounds in weight. If a traveler tries to hoist a "non-complying" bag into the plane's overhead bin, she might be forced to pay a "gate bag fee" for having to check it belatedly.
That has a few people trying out "wearable luggage," i.e., loose jackets and vests that feature huge pockets. Rather than pack a bag, a traveler can stuff clothes, makeup, an electronic tablet and whatnot into the pockets of the puffy outfit and get onboard without having to pay any bag fees.However, a recent test of wearable luggage at Washington's Reagan National Airport taught one NPR journalist this lesson: Security guards will look very hard at anyone trying to get into the gate area while sporting a bulging vest.Doesn't this sort of fee-avoidance effort to say nothing of the fashion statement take the fun out of traveling?
For some, yes, but most people seem to understand that they and the airlines are trying to outsmart each other, and they have come to accept the fees game as part of today's traveling experience, Gerchick said.The latest customer polls reflect that acceptance. Passengers' overall satisfaction with air travel has risen to the highest level since 2006, according to the J.D. Power & Associates airline satisfaction study for 2013."With each year, passengers are increasingly more accepting of carriers unbundling baggage and other fees," Ramez Faza, a senior manager at J.D. Power & Associates, said in a statement.
Another recently released survey, called the American Customer Satisfaction Index, shows customers hate airlines' cramped seats but are adjusting to the other realities of today's air travel experience. In fact, satisfaction has risen for two straight years a time when fees were sharply increasing.Ironically, the improvement in customer satisfaction to some degree reflects the positive impact of higher fees on baggage handling, Gerchick said. Over the past five years, passengers have been cutting back on checked bags, which means airline employees are better able to handle their workloads, he said.
And since 2008, the biggest carriers have merged, leaving the airline industry more financially stable. That means carriers can afford to invest in new services that customers want, such as better luggage-tracking technology and more Wi-Fi on flights.
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