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AIR CRASH RESCUE NEWS:
July 26, 2005 - Lufthansa Plane Overrruns Runway in Lagos
LAGOS, Nigeria - Less than three weeks after a cargo plane belonging to Uganda's Almiron Aviation overshot the Lagos runway, another plane owned by Lufthansa overrran the runway on Sunday at the touch down zone (the same spot where the former happened) of the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos.
THISDAY checks reveal that the plane wearing the inscription- A330 Airbus -with registration number D/AIKH had overrran the runway following a sudden hydraulic problem which it developed with its system, forcing it to land. It was while landing that the same runway where temporary repairs had been effected last week, gave way immediately because the repairs were just make-shift arrangements which had no enduring features.
It was gathered that the plane which is a 300 series had a total of 193 passengers on board, includng four infants. The breakdown showed that while 78 plus 2 infants were Lagos bound, the remaining 115 and two infants were Accra, Ghana bound. The A330 was flying straight from Frankfurth, Germany. Sources said no live was lost and no one sustained injuries in the incident.
It would be recalled that about two weeks ago, the same Lagos runway was overshot by a cargo plane reportedly owned by Uganda's Almiron Aviation, exactly a month after a similar incident by Chanchangi Airlines and EAS Airlines,respectively.
The aircraft in question at that time with the inscription, "Natali" was sold January 2005 to the new Ugandan cargo airline, Almiron Aviation, and before commencing operations in April 2005, was parked at Entebbe, International Airport for about four months. Its first operation was from Dubai to Lagos and the aim was to operate in Europe, Asia and the rest of Africa.
But yesterday's incident which occured at about 5 pm paralyzed activities at the Lagos airport for over one hour. Rescue team was said to have arrived later from the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria(FAAN) which cleared the runway before normal business was restored at the airport.
Sources hinted THISDAY that immediately the plane had problems with its hydraulic system, a situation which caused it to overrun the runway, the mood of passengers on board was tense as they scampered for safety while the plane was emmitting smoke from its hydraulic system, fuelling fears that the plane was about to be engulfed by fire.
Said a source who witnessed the incident: "Inmmediately the thing happened many passengers scampered about for safety because there was smoke because of the problem the plane had with its hydraulic system. So it took about an hour to tow it away. It has been cleared now and normalcy has returned to the airport as I am speaking to you now."
It was gathered that temporry repairs had indeed been carried out at the the very spot where yesterday's incident occured. Aviation Industry sources said that the potholes at the touchdown zone of the lagos runway were repaired last tuesday and wednesday, respectively by FAAN officials. But they were just temporary arrangements.
The Aviation industry has been hit by tales of woes in recent times. For instance EAS Airlines had on June 11, 2005 overshot the runway at the Jos Airport while Chanchangi Airlines also overshot the runway in Lagos June 12, 2005.
Similarly, barely three weeks ago, some cows were shepherded across the runway at Port Harcourt airport, leaving an Air France pilot with no other option than to ram into them.
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) which oversees the nation's airports have complained seriuosly in the past that there is need for far-reaching repairs at the nation's airports. There are 22 airports scattered across the country, 18 of which the Authority says are not viable and have to be sustained from revenue generated from the viable four which are Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos; Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano; Port Harcourt Airport and Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja.
LAGOS, Nigeria - Less than three weeks after a cargo plane belonging to Uganda's Almiron Aviation overshot the Lagos runway, another plane owned by Lufthansa overrran the runway on Sunday at the touch down zone (the same spot where the former happened) of the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos.
THISDAY checks reveal that the plane wearing the inscription- A330 Airbus -with registration number D/AIKH had overrran the runway following a sudden hydraulic problem which it developed with its system, forcing it to land. It was while landing that the same runway where temporary repairs had been effected last week, gave way immediately because the repairs were just make-shift arrangements which had no enduring features.
It was gathered that the plane which is a 300 series had a total of 193 passengers on board, includng four infants. The breakdown showed that while 78 plus 2 infants were Lagos bound, the remaining 115 and two infants were Accra, Ghana bound. The A330 was flying straight from Frankfurth, Germany. Sources said no live was lost and no one sustained injuries in the incident.
It would be recalled that about two weeks ago, the same Lagos runway was overshot by a cargo plane reportedly owned by Uganda's Almiron Aviation, exactly a month after a similar incident by Chanchangi Airlines and EAS Airlines,respectively.
The aircraft in question at that time with the inscription, "Natali" was sold January 2005 to the new Ugandan cargo airline, Almiron Aviation, and before commencing operations in April 2005, was parked at Entebbe, International Airport for about four months. Its first operation was from Dubai to Lagos and the aim was to operate in Europe, Asia and the rest of Africa.
But yesterday's incident which occured at about 5 pm paralyzed activities at the Lagos airport for over one hour. Rescue team was said to have arrived later from the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria(FAAN) which cleared the runway before normal business was restored at the airport.
Sources hinted THISDAY that immediately the plane had problems with its hydraulic system, a situation which caused it to overrun the runway, the mood of passengers on board was tense as they scampered for safety while the plane was emmitting smoke from its hydraulic system, fuelling fears that the plane was about to be engulfed by fire.
Said a source who witnessed the incident: "Inmmediately the thing happened many passengers scampered about for safety because there was smoke because of the problem the plane had with its hydraulic system. So it took about an hour to tow it away. It has been cleared now and normalcy has returned to the airport as I am speaking to you now."
It was gathered that temporry repairs had indeed been carried out at the the very spot where yesterday's incident occured. Aviation Industry sources said that the potholes at the touchdown zone of the lagos runway were repaired last tuesday and wednesday, respectively by FAAN officials. But they were just temporary arrangements.
The Aviation industry has been hit by tales of woes in recent times. For instance EAS Airlines had on June 11, 2005 overshot the runway at the Jos Airport while Chanchangi Airlines also overshot the runway in Lagos June 12, 2005.
Similarly, barely three weeks ago, some cows were shepherded across the runway at Port Harcourt airport, leaving an Air France pilot with no other option than to ram into them.
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) which oversees the nation's airports have complained seriuosly in the past that there is need for far-reaching repairs at the nation's airports. There are 22 airports scattered across the country, 18 of which the Authority says are not viable and have to be sustained from revenue generated from the viable four which are Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos; Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano; Port Harcourt Airport and Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja.
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Lagos Airport major runway shut for repairs
THE only functional runway of the Lagos Airport will be shut today for repairs.
Minister of Aviation, Prof. Babalola Borishade, who disclosed this yesterday also gave the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) the mandate to sanction any operator or service provider who errs on safety issue.
The minister disclosed that the newly completed ISR runway will be used by airline for only day operations as it lacks airfield lamps.
The implication of this is that both domestic and foreign airlines will make use of the runway only at day time, pending the complete patching of potholes on the closed runway.
Speaking to reporters at the NCAA's Ikeja head office after deliberations with parastatals' chiefs, Borishade noted said after re-patching the bad spots, it would be allowed to dry before the runway is reopened to traffic.
However, a notice to airmen (NOTAM), according to the spokesman of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Alhaji Adamu Abdulahi, has been issued by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) to both domestic and foreign airlines on the closure of the ISL runway of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
According to him, the time was chosen because that is when normal flights are operated.
Abdulahi stated that the management of airlines like Emirates Air France, KLM, Lufthansa, Virgin Nigeria, Virgin Atlantic went to the runway to certify it.
Explaining the incident involving a Lufthansa flight 564, which ran into a pothole at the runway, the minister said, "the place was repaired and by coincidence, the plane landed on that same spot before it dried. All the engineers were there at the runway yesterday and we agreed that we want to repair it. By tomorrow, everything will be fine. But the long term is that the second runway, we have finished marking it. We will start to use that for daylight flight."
He, however, admitted that the spate of incidents recorded at the nation's airports were not encouraging and was capable of denting the nation's image.
His words: "All these incidents are challenging to us. All hands must be on deck. I have come to let NCAA know that they have responsibility to ensure that we don't wait for incidents to happen before we regulate. We must anticipate things before they happen and things that are likely to happen and prevent them from happinging. This is a learning process for us and I believe that with what has happened we have become a bit more conscious of the kind of role this organisation should do in the enforcement of sanctions".
Meanwhile, media consultant for Lufthansa German Airline Mr. Kayode Olaniyan has refuted media report that the airline's aircraft LH564 overran the runway on Saturday.
Rather Olaniyan said the aircraft from Frankfurt landed safely on schedule on runway 18th of the Lagos airport last week Saturday, stressing that some broken pieces of concrete on the runway surface hit the aircraft 1700metres from threashold of runway 18L, causing damage to some hydraulic pipe and the landing gear.
The aircraft, an A330-300, according to him, was later towed to its parking position, with no one injured while all passengers disembarked safely.
He added that subsequently flight LH564 to Accra and LH 565 Accra-Lagos-Frankfurt were cancelled while passengers to Accra were flown to their destination in a chartered aircraft, while flight services to Lagos and Accra, he reiterated, resumed on Sunday with the deployment of an airbus A340.
In a related development, officials of British Airways yesterday defended the action of the airline by diverting its Lagos flight to Abuja.
The airline stated that the nature if its equipment a B747 aircraft, considered very big could re-open the patched sport of the runway and as such would compromise safety.
The airline has, however, deployed B767 on the route which is considered much smaller than the jumbo B747.
For the operators and pilots, it has been a harrowing experience as the fear of recording incident becomes more palpable.
Once it is raining pilots have to decide which landing procedure to adopt to avoid disaster.
According to industry sources, when the runway is wet, pilots have opted for hard landing in which the aircraft is banged on the runway to reduce the speed and avoid overrunning the runway.
This, however, goes with the risk of losing one or more tyres.
The other landing procedure is the normal procedure, which entails that the pilots would contend with the problem of aqua-planning and the attendant risk of overrunning the runway.
The airlines lamented that when there is an incident as a result of flooded runway, pot hole or incursion it is the airlines that get the negative publicity, the financial implications and the adverse effect on their payload.
A source close to the ministry told The Guardian that NCAA had submitted damning report on the runway that indicted FAAN to the Ministry of Aviation and would have sanctioned the airport authority but was prevented by the former aviation minister.
THE only functional runway of the Lagos Airport will be shut today for repairs.
Minister of Aviation, Prof. Babalola Borishade, who disclosed this yesterday also gave the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) the mandate to sanction any operator or service provider who errs on safety issue.
The minister disclosed that the newly completed ISR runway will be used by airline for only day operations as it lacks airfield lamps.
The implication of this is that both domestic and foreign airlines will make use of the runway only at day time, pending the complete patching of potholes on the closed runway.
Speaking to reporters at the NCAA's Ikeja head office after deliberations with parastatals' chiefs, Borishade noted said after re-patching the bad spots, it would be allowed to dry before the runway is reopened to traffic.
However, a notice to airmen (NOTAM), according to the spokesman of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Alhaji Adamu Abdulahi, has been issued by the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) to both domestic and foreign airlines on the closure of the ISL runway of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
According to him, the time was chosen because that is when normal flights are operated.
Abdulahi stated that the management of airlines like Emirates Air France, KLM, Lufthansa, Virgin Nigeria, Virgin Atlantic went to the runway to certify it.
Explaining the incident involving a Lufthansa flight 564, which ran into a pothole at the runway, the minister said, "the place was repaired and by coincidence, the plane landed on that same spot before it dried. All the engineers were there at the runway yesterday and we agreed that we want to repair it. By tomorrow, everything will be fine. But the long term is that the second runway, we have finished marking it. We will start to use that for daylight flight."
He, however, admitted that the spate of incidents recorded at the nation's airports were not encouraging and was capable of denting the nation's image.
His words: "All these incidents are challenging to us. All hands must be on deck. I have come to let NCAA know that they have responsibility to ensure that we don't wait for incidents to happen before we regulate. We must anticipate things before they happen and things that are likely to happen and prevent them from happinging. This is a learning process for us and I believe that with what has happened we have become a bit more conscious of the kind of role this organisation should do in the enforcement of sanctions".
Meanwhile, media consultant for Lufthansa German Airline Mr. Kayode Olaniyan has refuted media report that the airline's aircraft LH564 overran the runway on Saturday.
Rather Olaniyan said the aircraft from Frankfurt landed safely on schedule on runway 18th of the Lagos airport last week Saturday, stressing that some broken pieces of concrete on the runway surface hit the aircraft 1700metres from threashold of runway 18L, causing damage to some hydraulic pipe and the landing gear.
The aircraft, an A330-300, according to him, was later towed to its parking position, with no one injured while all passengers disembarked safely.
He added that subsequently flight LH564 to Accra and LH 565 Accra-Lagos-Frankfurt were cancelled while passengers to Accra were flown to their destination in a chartered aircraft, while flight services to Lagos and Accra, he reiterated, resumed on Sunday with the deployment of an airbus A340.
In a related development, officials of British Airways yesterday defended the action of the airline by diverting its Lagos flight to Abuja.
The airline stated that the nature if its equipment a B747 aircraft, considered very big could re-open the patched sport of the runway and as such would compromise safety.
The airline has, however, deployed B767 on the route which is considered much smaller than the jumbo B747.
For the operators and pilots, it has been a harrowing experience as the fear of recording incident becomes more palpable.
Once it is raining pilots have to decide which landing procedure to adopt to avoid disaster.
According to industry sources, when the runway is wet, pilots have opted for hard landing in which the aircraft is banged on the runway to reduce the speed and avoid overrunning the runway.
This, however, goes with the risk of losing one or more tyres.
The other landing procedure is the normal procedure, which entails that the pilots would contend with the problem of aqua-planning and the attendant risk of overrunning the runway.
The airlines lamented that when there is an incident as a result of flooded runway, pot hole or incursion it is the airlines that get the negative publicity, the financial implications and the adverse effect on their payload.
A source close to the ministry told The Guardian that NCAA had submitted damning report on the runway that indicted FAAN to the Ministry of Aviation and would have sanctioned the airport authority but was prevented by the former aviation minister.
Well now...I owe Chuks an apology....seems he was just staying trained up for rainy day landings. I should have known his professionalism was at work ....seems I am amongst those that sell this gentleman short.
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Anyone got an update on how the repair between 1000-1400 went yesterday (27th July)
I loved, that once the runway closed, some VFR air-test traffic announced that taking off on the taxiway was fine by him.
What a place.
I loved, that once the runway closed, some VFR air-test traffic announced that taking off on the taxiway was fine by him.
What a place.
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Hi, guys!
I heard about a certain Super 727 with a single-digit callsign having to line up off-centre for a Lagos 36R departure, to miss this very Lagos pot-hole, which had everyone laughing. I guess no one stopped to think that it might be dangerous, but then we have mostly adjusted to local conditions, with local expectations.
For instance, I used to look at those herds of cows drifting across the approach path in Port Harcourt and take that as just part of the scene. I guess I never bothered to ask myself if they all spent the night with their parking brakes engaged. As it was, Air France just spoiled their airplane without hurting anyone except those wayward bovines, but it could have been a real disaster . They actually had the right-hand wheels on the right-hand MLG out in the dirt, which must have been rather sporty.
Things are visibly crumbling under the strain at both Lagos and Port Harcourt. Lots of fine words, not much action. Want to bet the Lagos contractor is stalling until they get paid for the work? Even if it is an Irish company....
For instance, I used to look at those herds of cows drifting across the approach path in Port Harcourt and take that as just part of the scene. I guess I never bothered to ask myself if they all spent the night with their parking brakes engaged. As it was, Air France just spoiled their airplane without hurting anyone except those wayward bovines, but it could have been a real disaster . They actually had the right-hand wheels on the right-hand MLG out in the dirt, which must have been rather sporty.
Things are visibly crumbling under the strain at both Lagos and Port Harcourt. Lots of fine words, not much action. Want to bet the Lagos contractor is stalling until they get paid for the work? Even if it is an Irish company....
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Welcome back Chuks !! As you can see, Sasless owes you beers (but since you don't drink I suppose I'll have to have those and you can have a soda water), so how's tricks ??
I haven't heard of any state of the art, cutting edge of technology German planes running off any runways, why might that be ? Special tyres perchance ?!!
Cheers,
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I haven't heard of any state of the art, cutting edge of technology German planes running off any runways, why might that be ? Special tyres perchance ?!!
Cheers,
NEO
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It gives me paws....
Not much does but the other day, as we were departing Port Harcourt....
You guys know the difference between a fairy tale and a 'sea story', right? The one begins, 'Once upon a time...' and the other begins, 'Now this is no sh1t...' So don't say you haven't been warned!
We were departing DNPO for Lagos with a left turn out, the long way around, to cross the VOR at FL070 or above. So far so good.
I was flying, so that I did all that jet pilot stuff they tried to teach me in school, using ROL mode to get turned around towards the fix and then going into heading select, meanwhile checking that we would make our crossing altitude by climbing in VFLCH.
There were two little blue blips on the TCAS which I blithely took for no big thing, since they appeared to be lower than us. Then with just 3.6 miles to run to the fix Approach told us that we needed to cross at FL090 rather than FL070. Huh?
Ah yes, a closer look at the blips showed a possible conflict. Turns out an inbound had been given the same crossing altitude.
Hmm, what to do? I had plenty of speed in hand so that I just got rid of the autopilot and pitched up. We crossed at FL090 plus with a 'TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC' TCAS alert and the traffic just 800 feet below us. I guess I misread the altitude of that traffic as 'minus' when it was 'plus' and missed the potential conflict.
There was very little time to play with the autopilot to make it climb the aircraft for us, so that is probably just as well that I do like to keep my hand-flying skills up.
This sort of thing happens all the time, actually. When you try to explain to Approach just why there is no separation between aircraft on different radials close to the fix, you often hit this barrier of total incomprehension. You are on the 280° and he is on the 320° so how can there be a problem if everyone is following orders? At five miles? Doh!
We had sighted the deadly Port Harcourt bovines the evening before the Air France cow strike, and we reported them to the tower as present on the approach end of the runway. They promised to 'do something.' Well, whatever got did wasn't enough, obviously. And this was not some big deal, 'Cows on the runway! Sound the alarm!' but just, 'Oh yeah, okay, thanks and cleared for takeoff.' That attitude almost cost a lot of people their lives, actually. Yet here it was treated mostly as an occasion for cheap humour.
Everywhere you look at most Nigerian airports there are bits crumbling, since years now. I remember when I first started flying out of Lagos, when every morning would see flush lights unbolted and carted away to be melted down for scrap value. Nowadays both Lagos and Port Harcourt have a certain gloomy quality at night, when you have to really know the place to miss the holes and find where you are going. God only knows how some stranger would be expected to operate there on a night arrival.
Even shiny-new Abuja has painted lines fading out with no one bothering to restore them. And a set of 'Stop' lights on the taxiway that until recently remained permanently lit, so that you had to either break all the rules and cross them or else sit there and wait for a few months.
There is some screwed-up mindset at work one could call false pride. The locals will not fix the problems but they certainly will not allow ICAO, for instance, to send outside experts to fix things for them. The infrastructure has gobbled millions in wasted investments while remaining very, very unsafe.
I like to think I 'know where the rocks are' but I could probably be caught out bv something overlooked. So how about someone who hasn't flown there for over 20 years?
The place is a high-profile accident just waiting to happen. You know, rip the gear off in an unnotified pothole, veer off the runway and send a fully-loaded airliner up in flames.
Come to that, the Hydro Air Cargo 747 has been left parked at the main terminal in Lagos, right out in plain view, ever since the accident. It is not as though these folks feel that they have anything to be embarassed about! All around Nigeria there are wrecked or junk aircraft parked right there on the ramps.
You guys know the difference between a fairy tale and a 'sea story', right? The one begins, 'Once upon a time...' and the other begins, 'Now this is no sh1t...' So don't say you haven't been warned!
We were departing DNPO for Lagos with a left turn out, the long way around, to cross the VOR at FL070 or above. So far so good.
I was flying, so that I did all that jet pilot stuff they tried to teach me in school, using ROL mode to get turned around towards the fix and then going into heading select, meanwhile checking that we would make our crossing altitude by climbing in VFLCH.
There were two little blue blips on the TCAS which I blithely took for no big thing, since they appeared to be lower than us. Then with just 3.6 miles to run to the fix Approach told us that we needed to cross at FL090 rather than FL070. Huh?
Ah yes, a closer look at the blips showed a possible conflict. Turns out an inbound had been given the same crossing altitude.
Hmm, what to do? I had plenty of speed in hand so that I just got rid of the autopilot and pitched up. We crossed at FL090 plus with a 'TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC' TCAS alert and the traffic just 800 feet below us. I guess I misread the altitude of that traffic as 'minus' when it was 'plus' and missed the potential conflict.
There was very little time to play with the autopilot to make it climb the aircraft for us, so that is probably just as well that I do like to keep my hand-flying skills up.
This sort of thing happens all the time, actually. When you try to explain to Approach just why there is no separation between aircraft on different radials close to the fix, you often hit this barrier of total incomprehension. You are on the 280° and he is on the 320° so how can there be a problem if everyone is following orders? At five miles? Doh!
We had sighted the deadly Port Harcourt bovines the evening before the Air France cow strike, and we reported them to the tower as present on the approach end of the runway. They promised to 'do something.' Well, whatever got did wasn't enough, obviously. And this was not some big deal, 'Cows on the runway! Sound the alarm!' but just, 'Oh yeah, okay, thanks and cleared for takeoff.' That attitude almost cost a lot of people their lives, actually. Yet here it was treated mostly as an occasion for cheap humour.
Everywhere you look at most Nigerian airports there are bits crumbling, since years now. I remember when I first started flying out of Lagos, when every morning would see flush lights unbolted and carted away to be melted down for scrap value. Nowadays both Lagos and Port Harcourt have a certain gloomy quality at night, when you have to really know the place to miss the holes and find where you are going. God only knows how some stranger would be expected to operate there on a night arrival.
Even shiny-new Abuja has painted lines fading out with no one bothering to restore them. And a set of 'Stop' lights on the taxiway that until recently remained permanently lit, so that you had to either break all the rules and cross them or else sit there and wait for a few months.
There is some screwed-up mindset at work one could call false pride. The locals will not fix the problems but they certainly will not allow ICAO, for instance, to send outside experts to fix things for them. The infrastructure has gobbled millions in wasted investments while remaining very, very unsafe.
I like to think I 'know where the rocks are' but I could probably be caught out bv something overlooked. So how about someone who hasn't flown there for over 20 years?
The place is a high-profile accident just waiting to happen. You know, rip the gear off in an unnotified pothole, veer off the runway and send a fully-loaded airliner up in flames.
Come to that, the Hydro Air Cargo 747 has been left parked at the main terminal in Lagos, right out in plain view, ever since the accident. It is not as though these folks feel that they have anything to be embarassed about! All around Nigeria there are wrecked or junk aircraft parked right there on the ramps.
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'Cows on the runway! Sound the alarm!' but just, 'Oh yeah, okay, thanks and cleared for takeoff.' That attitude almost cost a lot of people their lives, actually. Yet here it was treated mostly as an occasion for cheap humour.
as sad as the whole situation is at least one good thing came out of it - the rapid succession of events did cost the Super Self Acclaimed Chief Aviation Satety Officer the ex-Honouable Minister of Aviation Mallam Isa Yuguda his job. Kudos to a great achiever.
But Nigeria being what it is there is nothing bad that couldn't become worse. After the Mallam now a Professor - that had already a shot at it before and was capable to demonstrate in a matter of months (when he was in the same seat at first) that he has nothing to offer.
I just hope that one day someone will get serious (may by that's wishful thinking) until then I wish all of us that nothing fatal will happen and we will all get out of the mess unhurt.
