I have been wondering where exactly the bug of national pride bit our compatriot Kiaffa Umaru Maina. I wonder again if the athletes from South Sudan, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Burkina Faso, Lithuania, Nepal, Kosovo, Mongolia, Georgia and finally the United States of America arrived Rio de Janeiro on their national airlines. I would really like to know.
People who have spent enough time at the upper echelons of the Nigerian Civil Service can attest to how a board and management is preselected for non-existent organizations even before a structure is put down on paper. The political class then proceeds to pressure their brother or friend in government (say in this case President Buhari) to then establish the said organization or company to be handed over to them. We have been on this sad road many times before. The end result always turns out the same. The company is stripped bare with no negative consequences to the culprits.
Maina wrote: "In 1963, the Nigerian federal government bought out the other shareholders and Nigeria Airways became wholly-owned by Nigerian government. . .
And from there everything went downhill. Is that not so?
And from there everything went downhill. Is that not so?
Talking about an airline flying the Nigerian flag, what exactly is Arik Airlines? Or the now moribund Air Nigeria? I don't get it.
I become scared when anyone with a cultural or political affinity with the mafia that killed off the hitherto vibrant textile and other industries in Kaduna and Kano starts offering us investment advice. This is truly "fantastic."
One philosopher, in the early years of the United States, stated that, "Patriotism is (often) the refuge of the scoundrel." I do not have anybody in mind. However whomsoever the cap fits, let him wear it.
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