Happy new year fam, sorry i have not been posting regularly. I ended the year on a sad not last year. I am back stronger so expect new posts very soon....
Have a great year.
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Just a flight of stairs!
Just a flight of stairs!
Has brought us so much tears,
Just a flight of stairs!
Has brought forth our inner most fears,
Just a flight of stairs!
Has taken away a rare Gem,
Just a flight of stairs!
Has Slashed an Iroko right down its stem
Just a flight of stairs!
Has brought down an Angel in its prime
Just a flight of stairs
Many fear it may have been a Crime
Just a flight of stairs
It doesn't help the situation
Just a flight of stairs
Conspiracy theory ? Or plain complication?
Just a flight of stairs
We'll miss your beaming smile
Just a flight of stairs
Your loss tastes like bile
Just a flight of stairs
Keeps me up at Night with a stern stare
Just a flight of stairs
Has Shown we truly Care.
Has brought us so much tears,
Just a flight of stairs!
Has brought forth our inner most fears,
Just a flight of stairs!
Has taken away a rare Gem,
Just a flight of stairs!
Has Slashed an Iroko right down its stem
Just a flight of stairs!
Has brought down an Angel in its prime
Just a flight of stairs
Many fear it may have been a Crime
Just a flight of stairs
It doesn't help the situation
Just a flight of stairs
Conspiracy theory ? Or plain complication?
Just a flight of stairs
We'll miss your beaming smile
Just a flight of stairs
Your loss tastes like bile
Just a flight of stairs
Keeps me up at Night with a stern stare
Just a flight of stairs
Has Shown we truly Care.
Monday, 21 November 2011
Waiting on Esther....
Its just a few hours to our resumption Esther,
I'll take today's briefing so don't bother,
Please show up early don't be LATE!
I know you'll oblige me, I have faith!
I've been inundated with calls, texts & pings,
All sorts of stories, different things,
Telling me you're not coming tonight!
It gave me a crazy fright,
Who gave you a day off?
I'm ready to call your bluff!
Who am I to hassle about eating late at night?
Or why you didn't close the flight?
In all things, you brought a listening ear,
And I sense you really did care,
A teachable spirit!
My chest hurts, I can still feel it
I really wish I could hug you now!
Even if you squeeze your face or frown
Please Esther come, don't be LATE!
I'll wait up for you by the gate.
I'll take today's briefing so don't bother,
Please show up early don't be LATE!
I know you'll oblige me, I have faith!
I've been inundated with calls, texts & pings,
All sorts of stories, different things,
Telling me you're not coming tonight!
It gave me a crazy fright,
Who gave you a day off?
I'm ready to call your bluff!
Who am I to hassle about eating late at night?
Or why you didn't close the flight?
In all things, you brought a listening ear,
And I sense you really did care,
A teachable spirit!
My chest hurts, I can still feel it
I really wish I could hug you now!
Even if you squeeze your face or frown
Please Esther come, don't be LATE!
I'll wait up for you by the gate.
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Oga Prof even you?
Good day people, i know i have never done posts back to back before but i would be off work for a few days so here is today's post, a sort of Part 2 of the last post. This is titled: Oga Prof even you?
Sitting in his University of Portharcourt office, Prof. was visited by the wife and son and they told him that they would like him to accompany them to Cotonou for a few days.
They may have seen the amount of stress he had undergone in the last few years and thought it wise he came along on the holiday. He was reluctant as he claimed, but they kept on piling pressure on him to come along.
Eventually, he succumbed to the pressure, but told them he wasn't packed for the trip (PHC-LOS-COO). The wife and son volunteered to go home to help him pack, and come by the office to pick him up to the airport.
As they packed for him, picked him up at the office and headed to the airport, they must have been excited being able to get the whole family on the trip. The first leg PHC-LOS was a local flight and that went smooth.
They were all checked through and had boarding passes for the LOS-COO sector. So they didn't need to present themselves at check in for the international leg LOS-COO.
The Question: Even you sir?
During the boarding of the flight, with a few passengers to go, it was noticed that Prof. had on him the outdated passport (not the e-passport). Subsequently, he was informed that he would not be boarded.
Observation:
How did you get to the boarding gate sir? Did the immigration officers stamp your passport?
The wife and son eventually went on the flight, and we had to take the Prof. back through immigration to the departure level. The normal procedure is to get the passenger back to immigration so his outward stamp is cancelled.
On approach of the immigration point, the immigration officer inquired as to what transpired (<--hahaha) . After explanation, he made attempt to collect the passport to cancel the stamp. Alas, the passport was never stamped!! So if we had boarded the passenger, there would never have been a record of him leaving the country!
My Suspicion:
He must have realised his mistake at some point and approached an immigration officer to 'Help' him out. Money must have changed hands and off to the gate he came. He had not been stamped out of the country!
He claimed that the immigration officers said it was 'fine', since it was just COTONOU!
He had to sleep in the Airport till the next day, then took a flight back to Portharcourt.
Pay attention to details when travelling people.... PAY ATTENTION!! @lereboy
Sitting in his University of Portharcourt office, Prof. was visited by the wife and son and they told him that they would like him to accompany them to Cotonou for a few days.
They may have seen the amount of stress he had undergone in the last few years and thought it wise he came along on the holiday. He was reluctant as he claimed, but they kept on piling pressure on him to come along.
Eventually, he succumbed to the pressure, but told them he wasn't packed for the trip (PHC-LOS-COO). The wife and son volunteered to go home to help him pack, and come by the office to pick him up to the airport.
As they packed for him, picked him up at the office and headed to the airport, they must have been excited being able to get the whole family on the trip. The first leg PHC-LOS was a local flight and that went smooth.
They were all checked through and had boarding passes for the LOS-COO sector. So they didn't need to present themselves at check in for the international leg LOS-COO.
The Question: Even you sir?
During the boarding of the flight, with a few passengers to go, it was noticed that Prof. had on him the outdated passport (not the e-passport). Subsequently, he was informed that he would not be boarded.
Observation:
How did you get to the boarding gate sir? Did the immigration officers stamp your passport?
The wife and son eventually went on the flight, and we had to take the Prof. back through immigration to the departure level. The normal procedure is to get the passenger back to immigration so his outward stamp is cancelled.
On approach of the immigration point, the immigration officer inquired as to what transpired (<--hahaha) . After explanation, he made attempt to collect the passport to cancel the stamp. Alas, the passport was never stamped!! So if we had boarded the passenger, there would never have been a record of him leaving the country!
My Suspicion:
He must have realised his mistake at some point and approached an immigration officer to 'Help' him out. Money must have changed hands and off to the gate he came. He had not been stamped out of the country!
He claimed that the immigration officers said it was 'fine', since it was just COTONOU!
He had to sleep in the Airport till the next day, then took a flight back to Portharcourt.
Pay attention to details when travelling people.... PAY ATTENTION!! @lereboy
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Never overlook details!!
Good day people, so sorry i haven't been up to date with my postings. Since i started this blog for fun, many things took my time and attention off it. To my utmost surprise, i have been getting messages via twitter, facebook and bbm concerning this site. So i would make it a point of duty to post more often.
The Error:
This Lady had apparently worked with the Immigration service in Ghana and risen to the very top before retirement so coming into Nigeria (or leaving Ghana) with a cancelled passport was not expected from her. Alas the passport she left Ghana with was CANCELLED! she had to be deported.
Today's post is about people that have to suffer just because they don't pay attention to simple details or would i say information as contained in their passports.
The Woman:
Towards the close of my last day shift i was called by the immigration service to their office to sign up forms for a woman about to be deported back to Ghana! i was quite surprised as Ghana is a west African country like Nigeria, so i don't expect a Ghanaian to be deported from Nigeria.
As i approached the office, the Lady was not there, she was at a different corner making frantic efforts to get top government officials to wade into her situation as it was eminent that she would be deported. She was in Nigeria on the invitation of a high powered agency and was even on phone with top immigration officers in Abuja where the meeting was to be held.
Towards the close of my last day shift i was called by the immigration service to their office to sign up forms for a woman about to be deported back to Ghana! i was quite surprised as Ghana is a west African country like Nigeria, so i don't expect a Ghanaian to be deported from Nigeria.
As i approached the office, the Lady was not there, she was at a different corner making frantic efforts to get top government officials to wade into her situation as it was eminent that she would be deported. She was in Nigeria on the invitation of a high powered agency and was even on phone with top immigration officers in Abuja where the meeting was to be held.
The Error:
This Lady had apparently worked with the Immigration service in Ghana and risen to the very top before retirement so coming into Nigeria (or leaving Ghana) with a cancelled passport was not expected from her. Alas the passport she left Ghana with was CANCELLED! she had to be deported.
The Explanaton:
As i approached her, to enquire of her return ticket and how this happened. She claims that she had an ECOWAS passport at home but didn't bring it. She also told me that she had no return ticket on her and that the ticket to go back to Ghana was waiting for her in Abuja. This was not so as all our tickets are electronic and i could not find her name on the flights for the next week when she claimed she had a ticket for.
As i approached her, to enquire of her return ticket and how this happened. She claims that she had an ECOWAS passport at home but didn't bring it. She also told me that she had no return ticket on her and that the ticket to go back to Ghana was waiting for her in Abuja. This was not so as all our tickets are electronic and i could not find her name on the flights for the next week when she claimed she had a ticket for.
The Options:
The options were few and far between as a flight just left to ACCRA as we spoke and made calls. She was about to miss the next and final one if we did not make moves to get her on a flight to Accra and fast, she would have had to sleep over in the Airport , and the Airline would have to pay a fine of $2,000 to the immigration service (which i was still trying to avoid) for bringing her in with invalid documents.
The options were few and far between as a flight just left to ACCRA as we spoke and made calls. She was about to miss the next and final one if we did not make moves to get her on a flight to Accra and fast, she would have had to sleep over in the Airport , and the Airline would have to pay a fine of $2,000 to the immigration service (which i was still trying to avoid) for bringing her in with invalid documents.
A ticket was priced for her 1 way to Accra and was told to pay. She claimed she had no money and that her ticket was in Abuja, when it started to dawn on her that she may sleep on a table in the Airport (considering her status) she opted to pay via credit card.
Eventually, she did pay for the ticket and was returned back to Ghana. She had therefore paid for 2 tickets ACCRA-Lagos-Abuja , and Lagos-Accra without stepping out of the Airport! Both tickets would have cost her upwards of $500. All she had to do was take time out at home or on her way to the Airport to go through her documents. Instead of flying 55mins to Lagos, staying in the Airport for 2hrs and flying out for another 55mins without leaving the Airport.
The moral of the story is......read- @lereboy
Monday, 5 September 2011
Cleaners of the Airport ("The Good")
Hello everyone, its been a while since i posted. The Internet service has been really poor of late. I haven't really gotten the hang of the whole word press thing. Today's post is the first of 3 parts namely
Cleaners of the Airport The Good (1), The Bad (2) & The Ugly (3)
The airport complex is very big and has so many people coming through on a daily / hourly basis. The amount of dirt that is generated in 24hrs can only be imagined. This means cleaning the airport is a major task that has to be done.
There are 2 types of cleaners in the Airport here, the first group handles individual airlines, while the second handle the actual airport premises open to all and sundry. Why are these cleaners "Good" ?, one may ask.
Primary Role: Their primary role which is to keep the Airport clean is a really good thing. I cannot imagine how it would look or smell like if the cleaners were off duty for 24hrs. The toilets would be a mess, litter would be every where, spills would be everywhere, it would be a complete mess.
But besides their primary role, they also have other "Unofficial Roles" like helping staff to buy food from the restaurants located outside the Airport premises.
They can also be called on to provide "Yellow Cards" which are required when travelling to certain (if not all) destinations. These yellow cards are suppose to be issued by the Airport Health Authorities, but have found their way into the hands of the cleaners.
Another "Good" that comes from the cleaners would be things like sellotape, jute bags, padlocks and other handy things that passengers may have forgotten to bring with them to the Airport for their travel.
At the boarding area, if you realise that you are low or out of credit, the Cleaners can be called on to provide some. A good number of them actually sell call credit at that side of the airport.
In all we can get almost anything necessary for travel with the help of the cleaners of the Airport so if you do travel, please show some respect to them.
Thank you,
@lereboy
Cleaners of the Airport The Good (1), The Bad (2) & The Ugly (3)
The airport complex is very big and has so many people coming through on a daily / hourly basis. The amount of dirt that is generated in 24hrs can only be imagined. This means cleaning the airport is a major task that has to be done.
There are 2 types of cleaners in the Airport here, the first group handles individual airlines, while the second handle the actual airport premises open to all and sundry. Why are these cleaners "Good" ?, one may ask.
Primary Role: Their primary role which is to keep the Airport clean is a really good thing. I cannot imagine how it would look or smell like if the cleaners were off duty for 24hrs. The toilets would be a mess, litter would be every where, spills would be everywhere, it would be a complete mess.
But besides their primary role, they also have other "Unofficial Roles" like helping staff to buy food from the restaurants located outside the Airport premises.
They can also be called on to provide "Yellow Cards" which are required when travelling to certain (if not all) destinations. These yellow cards are suppose to be issued by the Airport Health Authorities, but have found their way into the hands of the cleaners.
Another "Good" that comes from the cleaners would be things like sellotape, jute bags, padlocks and other handy things that passengers may have forgotten to bring with them to the Airport for their travel.
At the boarding area, if you realise that you are low or out of credit, the Cleaners can be called on to provide some. A good number of them actually sell call credit at that side of the airport.
In all we can get almost anything necessary for travel with the help of the cleaners of the Airport so if you do travel, please show some respect to them.
Thank you,
@lereboy
Tuesday, 9 August 2011
3 flights for the price of 1 - "Comedy of errors!"
I have decided to leave the Airport Authority out of today's post (abit at least), it is the story of multiple errors that sounds almost unbelievable. The real culprits here are Airline staff as well as MM2 (the new domestic airport) staff.
Scene 1: Mr A approaches "G Airways" to check in to Abuja. After the check in process, he is advised to proceed to the waiting area which is on the third floor of the new airport (MM2). While he awaits, various airlines are boarding at the same time and he just gets up to "Follow the Crowd" as all checked in passengers wait in the lounge till boarding is announced.
Scene 2: Mr A gets to Gate 3/4 (they both have the same entrance , and split within the Avio bridge to 2 different Aircrafts / airlines).
While "G Airways" to Abuja was boarding at Gate 3 , Gate 4 was occupied by "H Air" boarding to Calabar. He joins the right queue quite alright but misses his way in the Avio bridge only to find himself in the "H Air" flight to Calabar.
He only realised his error when he got to Calabar. He raised the alarm and had to be brought back to Lagos for free, and subsequently handed over to "G Airways" to connect to Abuja. He therefore flew 3 times Lagos - Calabar , Calabar - Lagos, Lagos to Abuja, (about 4 hours) instead of the 1hr Lagos - Abuja flight.
Comedy of errors you ask? Well, 1st was the passenger; "How did he board the wrong airline" their colours are different. 2, While boarding he should have noticed the uniforms. 3, before take off, an announcement of destination is always made!!
Airline staff that boarded the passenger at the entrance of the Aircraft with another Airlines' boarding pass made a grave mistake!! Secondly, how did the Passenger figure on board tally with the manifest? If "H Air" had 90 passengers going to Calabar, and an extra passenger (with G Airways boarding pass to Abuja) boards, the figures can NEVER TALLY, and that flight should never have been allowed to go!
And lastly, there is no security within the Avio bridges to direct passengers so a lot of passengers actually get lost within the bridge because all 6 gates are linked!
Remember, always pay attention to details, read signs and keep your ears OPEN!!
Scene 1: Mr A approaches "G Airways" to check in to Abuja. After the check in process, he is advised to proceed to the waiting area which is on the third floor of the new airport (MM2). While he awaits, various airlines are boarding at the same time and he just gets up to "Follow the Crowd" as all checked in passengers wait in the lounge till boarding is announced.
Scene 2: Mr A gets to Gate 3/4 (they both have the same entrance , and split within the Avio bridge to 2 different Aircrafts / airlines).
While "G Airways" to Abuja was boarding at Gate 3 , Gate 4 was occupied by "H Air" boarding to Calabar. He joins the right queue quite alright but misses his way in the Avio bridge only to find himself in the "H Air" flight to Calabar.
He only realised his error when he got to Calabar. He raised the alarm and had to be brought back to Lagos for free, and subsequently handed over to "G Airways" to connect to Abuja. He therefore flew 3 times Lagos - Calabar , Calabar - Lagos, Lagos to Abuja, (about 4 hours) instead of the 1hr Lagos - Abuja flight.
Comedy of errors you ask? Well, 1st was the passenger; "How did he board the wrong airline" their colours are different. 2, While boarding he should have noticed the uniforms. 3, before take off, an announcement of destination is always made!!
Airline staff that boarded the passenger at the entrance of the Aircraft with another Airlines' boarding pass made a grave mistake!! Secondly, how did the Passenger figure on board tally with the manifest? If "H Air" had 90 passengers going to Calabar, and an extra passenger (with G Airways boarding pass to Abuja) boards, the figures can NEVER TALLY, and that flight should never have been allowed to go!
And lastly, there is no security within the Avio bridges to direct passengers so a lot of passengers actually get lost within the bridge because all 6 gates are linked!
Remember, always pay attention to details, read signs and keep your ears OPEN!!
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