Lagos RWY lighting system stolen...
 

Not good at all...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66168466

TIA………

My F.I.L. worked in Lagos for a time, trying to set up an inspection unit to calibrate the soon-to-be-installed ILS.
From memory, in two years of work they got two runs in. Theft was extremely common. There were other causes of delays, too, but theft was right up there.
Of course, at the time, nothing was ever officially stolen, it was marked as simply "unavailable".

A souvenir he brought home was an aluminium serving spoon, purchased for a few cents from a market. It was made from landing light surrounds.The spoon wasn't fit for purpose; it bent under the load of itself full of food or soup.
Seems the Nigerians are extremely good at "adding value" to such things.

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It was much the same back in the 1960s!! Copper wire stolen to make bangles.

You wouldn't believe it would you. As if they would steal!

Ahhhhh……..only in Lagos!!

Here, among us honest brits, my local supermarket has stopped having their reusable plastic carriers available on hooks. You now have to get one from an assistant. The reason? People were stealing them. You buy a load of shopping, and baulk at paying for a carrier to take it home? They cost 30p!!

This is Nigeria, after a period of disuse which probably left it unattended, almost surprised that the runway is still there!

Happiness is.................?

V1 at..........?

Give that man a coconut! It was true in 1978 (and am sure for long before that) and no doubt will remain so.

I always thought true happiness was PNR out of.....🤣

Would anyone actually notice it gone ?

Over in the African Aviation forum, someone has stolen the highly entertaining "Only In Africa" thread.

Yep, the *only* thread I can see is "Air Peace, Nigeria".
My Dad, an old "African hand" you might say, would ask people about to go there, why you would find defunct light bulbs on sale in the market?
The answer: if you had a job where you had access to *working* light bulbs, you'd swap one of them for your non-functioning one. Then someone else would come along and replace it.

Reminds me of the story of the Ouagadougou VOR in the end 1960s or early 70s , the VOR was "offered" by France and on the opening day by the authorities appeared a large article on all the majors newspapers praising the work done by a local company in laying a 1Km long coper cable from the VOR to the nearby power station. In the same night the whole cable was dogged out, stripped, and cut into pieces for resale in the local market to make small copper statues that the Europeans that were happy to buy as souvenirs when going back home.

Only in Africa!

There's an article here about how Nairobi locals are smashing electrical transformers in order to use the cooling oil inside for frying cassava, chips & fish

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2...for-fast-food/

As a member of an aerospace chat group I donated £25 to another member collecting for a well and water system for an African village.
Some eighteen months later I asked how this water project had turned out, only to be embarrassingly told that it had been broken up and sold for scrap.

Have you looked for older posts in that forum? Hint: use the Display Options to show threads with posts older than one month...

Oh no! Logic only ruins the humour :}