Photo of the Day: 21^st Century Akanu Ibiam Airport Enugu

By Uche Nworah (info@uchenworah.com)

The guys at FAAN who run Nigeria’s airports really deserve a resounding ovation. Unlike what Bill Gates and his likes will have us all believe about the beauty of life in a digital age, the FAAN guys are actually helping Planet Earth by sticking to blackboard and white chalk to announce flight information in the year 2008 at the Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu.

You can see the beauty of their logic. This method of information is cost effective and environmentally friendly. No energy bills to worry about and no equipment breakdowns. The board could easily be sourced from the many trees lining the Emene road, while the chalk could easily be sourced from the many chalk pits in and around the state. 

This wonderful idea is also in the long term interest of the tax payers as it presents limited opportunities for awarding of contracts to electronic board manufacturing companies who could easily rip tax payers off with over-inflated contract sums to provide a service that costs nothing in its present state to provide.

Perhaps this should be the model for the future across all Nigerian airports, and who says we can not even export the same to other countries and exhibit a prototype at major fairs around the world. If only the Heathrow Terminal 5 (T5) project mangers had bothered to visit Nigeria before they commissioned T5, I am sure they would have learnt a lesson or two in energy saving techniques for modern day airports from the Enugu example.

You can see that with FAAN, our Vision 20-20-20 agenda is on full speed.

Applause please!

Photo Credits: Uche Nworah

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Robot  # 1 | 21.10.2008 04:25

Photo of the Day: 21st Century Akanu Ibiam Airport Enugu By Uche Nworah The guys at FAAN who run Nigeria’s airports really deserve a resounding ovation. Unlike what Bill Gates and his likes will have us all believe about the beauty of life in a digital age, the FAAN guys are actually helping Planet Earth by sticking to blackboard and white chalk to announce flight information in the year 2008 at the Akanu Ibiam Airport, Enugu. ...Read the full article.

akuluouno  # 2 | 21.10.2008 05:08

Dear Uche (Ezenwa Na Enugwu Ukwu), Why have you come to torment us when our time has not come? Why are u washing our dirty linen in public? This is satire at a morbid level. Comparing T5 with Akanu Ibiam International and they keep calling these contraptions high falluting names. Anyway it was the man who went and brought faggots that actually gave rsvp to Lizards both couple and sergeant (couple and sergent are the female and male lizards in biafra). Do not ask me how we acame about these names. Why stop at the chalk boards. More energy will be conserved if the aircrafts fly like the land jets of yore or awala awala that used to ply Enugu Onitsha roads in those days:D:D

izonboy  # 3 | 21.10.2008 05:54

Bravo. Who say Niaja no get genuises? Necessity is the mother of invention. I suspect the guys at FAAN visited some police stations in Enugu and got the bright idea of black board and chalk. Una too much eh!

UGOJIALOR  # 4 | 21.10.2008 05:57

Jehovah bu onye nazum dika atulu ( the lord is my shepherd). It is unbelievable that an airport in a major city in the former Eastern region is so low that it can't even afford a common digital flight information board.:o:o And those stupid dealers that are parading themselves as leaders are talking about acquiring nuclear technology from Iran? Abeg somebody should warn them o, petrol fire/plane crash is moi moi compared to a nuclear disaster.

RAYNOSA  # 5 | 21.10.2008 05:57

Uncle Uche, All i can say is a "BIG THANK YOU" for that photo.....................Please keep them coming. Photos don't tell lies you have indeed say it the way it is.Come to think of it don't be surprised how much Millons that was/have been budgeted for that "thing"... Yet people come here to say our government "Dey try"

bobokite  # 6 | 21.10.2008 06:26

:lol: :lol: :lol: person go laugh die one dey for the NVS O! :lol: :lol: :lol:

denker  # 7 | 21.10.2008 06:28

No COMMENT...for a SHAME....!

WaleAkin  # 8 | 21.10.2008 06:32

Uche, Wicked.................Thats wicked!! When i reported about 2 years ago that i saw a roadside Vulcanizer "doing" the tyres of a local airline-Villagers shouted at me! I also reported that one of the hydraulic flaps attached to the wings of the particular arircraft was put in place by a small log of wood cos i presume that the hydraulics were faulty and may not open on landing hence the "improvisation" FAAN rushed to the press about 5 weeks ago that all the Radar equipment are now working perfectly but thats a capital lie cos from a reliable source-They are still turned off at 9:45pm on Fridays till 6:15am Mondays when the first flight take off from Lagos! That simply means that all flights between early Saturday morning till the evening of Sunday are OTO(On Their Own) Thanks Uche for bringing this issue up again, maybe, this time around the FG will do something. Just maybe!!

RAYNOSA  # 9 | 21.10.2008 07:16

=akuluouno;281439>Dear Uche (Ezenwa Na Enugwu Ukwu), Why have you come to torment us when our time has not come? Why are u washing our dirty linen in public? This is satire at a morbid level. Comparing T5 with Akanu Ibiam International and they keep calling these contraptions high falluting names. Anyway it was the man who went and brought faggots that actually gave rsvp to Lizards both couple and sergeant (couple and sergent are the female and male lizards in biafra). Do not ask me how we acame about these names. Why stop at the chalk boards. More energy will be conserved if the aircrafts fly like the land jets of yore or awala awala that used to ply Enugu Onitsha roads in those days:D:D North,East,West,South and Middle Belt our leaders are all the same.The information board if any at Iddo luxury bus terminal would be better. I can imagine what the reaction would have being if this was at say Kano or Kaduna Airports. Anyway all i can say now is......"Nigeria we hail thee" and "Igbo Kwenu".

Sapele Man  # 10 | 21.10.2008 08:22

When you see something like this, you can't help but ask for the privatisation of all the airports in Nigeria.

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