Travel Tips for Comfortable and Interesting Tour in India

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How old is a newborn to travel abroad?

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Wormysmom77 Question : What is your age newborn to travel abroad
I want some general guidelines regarding the age of the child must be in travel. I just gave birth to a month before we are due to go abroad and I think it may be too early for a child voyager.Meilleure reply:
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Carol Anne
I think it would be nice. My son was 9 months when we made our first trip on an airplane and he was fine. ii done before, but I wanted to be with his family at Christmas. if you are sure to take off and land a bottle or breastfeed your baby to the ears popping. I brought my son a soft pillow to sleep and we can keep as many children as possible to keep the contents.

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TRYING TO TRUST JONATHAN AND HIS MEN

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Trying to trust Jonathan and his men
By Sammy Etuk jr
Friday January 27, 2012

The Nigerian economy will cave in if oil subsidy is not removed, that is the way the common man on the street understands the present situation, true or false? Or that is the way our President Goodluck Jonathan and his lieutenants want us to see the present decision taken to abrogate oil subsidy or deregulate the oil sector. Few days ago at a women’s village meeting, a heated debate ensued when they suggested ways of ameliorating the suffering among their members during the deregulatory period.

The chairman, in her introductory speech, started with a swipe at the government: “But the economy will not collapse if we continue to award contracts for building of the orchestrated infrastructure at exorbitant rates, far above the real contract value, increase allowances of legislators, political appointees and others, who enjoy free supply of petrol or Premium Motor Spirit, PMS. Each of them has more than five cars and we continue to buy them more, build quarters for them. We still believe in that colonial mentality which is hinged on exploitation. They use gas, while the man on the street uses kerosene, a Premium Motor Spirit product also affected by subsidy removal.”

One woman shouted “this is the best time for street talk not the high flying economic jargons, tainted by jaw breaking grammar from economic professors and bumptious politicians. They should understand street talk because they don’t seem to hear our cries.” Probably, the government is yet to fathom the plight of the masses or really know the true state of Nigeria’s economy. Methinks, they do not know anything, let’s do street talk. The convener, a 67-year old in my village, Etinan, in Akwa Ibom State, wanted to know if the Minister of Finance ever visited her village to enquire about the standard of living and cost of commodities. The import of her question did not sink in immediately until she started explaining.

Let’s call her, Mama Peter (the son will not forgive me for using his name): “My son, I learnt you have been assisting young people to start business, why don’t you teach us subsidy. This is why we invited you because this subsidy debate has broken my backbone. Yes, my backbone is old and there is no spare part for its replacement. This is my point. Instead of allowing poor people like us to suffer, they should study Nigeria economy forward not backward. Come to think of it, my son told me that in the USA, if such a decision is taken, farmers would have been given subsidy to alleviate the expected suffering: that the prices of foodstuff and groceries would have been reduced in the market, thus reducing pains and agony. In Nigeria, everything hangs on petrol. Increase in its price affects every sector of the economy adversely.

“Do you think they had figured out that removal of subsidy will skyrocket prices of commodities and other items that even a shoe shiner, who pays more for transport will increase his tariff from 50 naira to 150 naira per shoe shinned. I’m talking about common economics of Nigeria, my son. The leaders in government are always taking us for a ride. Yes, they’re masters just like in China including the Ministers. One of them, a lady said fuel or petrol is cheaper in Nigeria than elsewhere. Fine. If this is true, did she consider other variables in these countries, that there is no VAT on foodstuff or groceries in those countries? There is subsidy for farmers and producers of such products to make them affordable to consumers. We always come up with this evaluation without looking at those things like unbroken electricity supply. They don’t use generator, the only fuel consumed by an individual is for his or her car, this is common street economics.

“They just woke up from slumber to propose palliative measures, soothing indeed. With my experience in recent times, the vehicles will end up in politicians’ backyard for sure. The sovereign funds will be stolen by one man one day, the committee set up to manage the trillions of naira from subsidy surplus actually consists of men of integrity, but they will not award contracts for the proposed infrastructure development. Government agencies with corrupt minds will do. The projects will not be completed in record time. Look at the railway reconstruction, go there and see the trumpeted success, it’s twaddle. Today, people in good countries are talking about modern rail tracks and fast trains. I saw one in Asia when I went for my medical check up last December. We are rehabilitating 1915 rails.

“Our leaders are either moribund or blind. I have never seen such a confused people before. In other countries they are using as sample, palliative would have come before the removal of subsidy. To show that their intention was bad, they are now looking for solutions to ease themselves out of the wrath of the people, it is mere afterthought.”

This conversation is true, captured in her own language. Mama is a London-trained retired nursing officer.

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NORTHERN CHRISTIANS REJECT NEW IG, MD, ABUBAKAR

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Northern Christians reject new IG, MD Abubakar
•Allege religious fanaticism, Jos crisis indictment
From NOAH EBIJE, Kaduna
Friday January 27, 2012

Twenty-four hours after appointing Muhammed Abubakar as the acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Christians in the 19 northern states and Abuja have rejected him.
In a statement signed by the Publicity Secretary of the Christian Association Nigeria (CAN), Sunday Oibe, it noted that all the Christians in the region were surprised at Abubakar’s appointment, citing alleged controversy surrounding his paramilitary career.

He was Assistant Inspector-General (AIG), Zone 12 before he was appointed on Wednesday by President Goodluck Jonathan to replace former IGP Hafiz Ringim, who had proceeded on retirement leave. The statement drew the attention of President Jonathan to the antecedents of the new acting IGP when he was the commissioner of police in Plateau State and his defence before the Justice Niki Tobi Commission of Inquiry into Jos crisis in 2001.

“The appointment of Mohammed D. Abubakar as the acting Inspector-General of Police came to us as a big surprise because this is a man whose career is trailed by controversy based on religious fanaticism. To us, the appointment of Abubakar is an extension of terrorism in Nigeria.

“Christians in northern Nigeria will not feel safe following his antecedents as the commissioner of police in Plateau State as documented by the Justice Niki Tobi Commission of Inquiry into the bloody killings in the crisis in Jos in 2001.
“To us, it is a licence given to him by the president to unleash terror on Christians and we reject his appointment as acting IG.
“The profile of Abubakar is not befitting of an acting IG of police. One begins to wonder why a man who was indicted for religious fanaticism by the Niki Tobi Commission, which equally recommended him for retirement and outright dismissal, could be allowed to remain in the police force.

“It appears that some unpatriotic characters, especially in the Nigeria police, are being allowed to have their ways in this country. We say this because there is similarity between Zakari Biu, a commissioner of police, who set free a suspected Boko Haram bomber and Abubakar, who supervised the killings and wanton destruction of lives and property in the 2001 crisis in Jos.

“We are calling on the Federal Government, whose duty is to protect lives and property, to look inward and appoint a liberal Nigerian as inspector-general of police and not a religious fanatic,” the statement said.

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ILLEGAL STRUCTURES ALONG LAGOS-IBADAN EXPRESSWAY FOR DEMOLITION – AMOSUN

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Illegal structures along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway for demolition – Amosun
By Our reporter
Friday January 27, 2012

Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State has vowed that no illegal structures located along Ogun State axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway would be spared. Addressing a Town Hall meeting organised by the Bureau of Lands with allottees of plots of land located at the HillCrest GRA, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta and Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the governor revealed that a Government White Paper on land allocation and management in the state would soon be published by the government. He said the White Paper would spell out the details of land allocation plans of the government, adding that the document would be immediately gazetted to give it a force of law.

Governor Amosun explained that he was surprised that despite freezing further developments “along the Lagos-Ibadan corridor, some people still go ahead and continue with development. Every day when you pass through that road, you see people developing the land after you have advised them to stop work. The unfortunate aspect of it is that many of those located on the corridor have not perfected their approval documents. Yet, they don’t bother to come to the government to perfect their papers.

“That is unacceptable for us as a government. We won’t allow lawlessness, but since they flouted the order then, when we start checking the records, we won’t hesitate to demolish whatever they may have put on the land. Any structure that is illegal there will have to go,” he said. The governor also flayed allocation policy of the last administration.

He revealed that the area the immediate past government earmarked as Hill Crest GRA is in-accessible, adding that non-existing plots of land were allocated to unsuspecting members of the public who were made to pay for them. Senator Amosun who deplored the chaos that has been the lot of land allocation in the state, vowed to put in place an enduring process that will last the test of time.

According to him, “what we found on the ground is a rule of the thumb and haphazard arrangement where anything goes, and you can get anything so far you know someone up there. No definite pattern; no plans. But what we will do is to have a standard practice where all you need to do is go to Bureau of Lands and get things done without knowing anyone. The template will be system-driven.” Senator Amosun said, “The way they managed land was very wrong. They have no regards for the state master plan, which states where what should stand. For instance, in the Ogun State Master Plan, there are places designed for industrial and agriculture purposes, but they allocated residential lands in places designed for agriculture.

They even gave out some lands that contain limestone in Sagamu. “There is one case of a zone earmarked as suitable for rice plantation. They said the place could produce as much rice as Thailand, but without regards to all that, they gave it out for residential purposes. Where is the place of Agriculture that the late Pa Obafemi Awolowo used to develop the Western Region in all of that?” he said. The governor explained that he decided to rub minds with the stakeholders so that they will “ know the thinking of government and government will also be able to know their problems first hand before publishing any white paper.”

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…2012 BUDGET: OGUN EARMARKS 55% FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS

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…2012 budget: Ogun earmarks 55% for capital projects
By Our reporter
Friday January 27, 2012

The Ogun State is to spend 55 per cent of its budget in 2012 on capital projects. This represents an 18 per cent increase in the allocation for the previous year.
The state commissioner for Budget and Planning, Mrs. Oluwande Muoyo gave the breakdown during a breakdown session on the budget to major stakeholders in the state capital, Abeokuta.

For the 2012 fiscal year, the state government will spend N200b. Out of this, N110 billion will go to capital projects while N90 billion is for recurrent expenditure. The commissioner explained that the increase in the allocation for capital projects was to allow for massive Infrastructural development, which is one of the five cardinal programmes of the Amosun administration.

“The CAPEX/Recurrent Ratio for 2012 is 55:45 as against 37:63 in 2011.
“This is to pursue our objective of aggressively rebuilding Ogun State through priority for investment spending,” she said. While 33 per cent of the budget will be funded from internal sources, 67 per cent will be funded from projected inflow from the Federation Account (35 per cent) and capital receipts (32 per cent)

A further breakdown of the budget shows that 67 per cent of the budget will be spent on the administration’s five-cardinal program, (Education, Rural and Infrastructural Development/Employment Generation, Housing and Urban Renewal, Healthcare and Agriculture/Industralisatio). Education takes the lion share of N42.4 billion, representing 20 per cent of the entire budget, while Housing and Community Amenities will gulp N29.1 billion

The commissioner noted that the state government intends to pursue an aggressive Internally Generated Revenue for 2012, with an expected IGR of over N100 billion. This, the government expects to achieve by widening its tax net, especially the residency rule, improved collection mechanism and blockages of leakages in the system.

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COURT HEARS SYLVA’S JOINDER APPLICATION TODAY

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Court hears Sylva’s joinder application today
From GODWIN TSA, Abuja
Friday January 27, 2012

The legal tussle over the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Bayelsa State resumes today before a Federal High Court, Abuja Division, where Justice Gladys Olotu will hear the application filed by Governor Timipre Sylva seeking to be joined in the suit filed by the beneficiary of the controversial governorship primary, Seriake Dickson.
In the said suit, Dickson wants the court to declare him the lawful candidate of the PDP for the forthcoming Bayelsa State governorship poll.

The court had only last week granted an exparte order compelling the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to put Dickson’s name on the list of governorship candidate for Bayelsa State on the platform of PDP, an order Sylva described as “immoral, ungodly and pathetic”, saying it was “obtained by fraud in the dead of the night.”

When the case came up yesterday, counsel to Dickson, Joe -Kyari Gadzama (SAN) applied that the matter be adjourned on ground that he had just been briefed and therefore needed time to study the file to represent the interest of his client “properly and professionally.”
Gadzama insisted that under the rules of court he was entitled to seven clear days within which to respond to Sylva’s joinder application, submitting that his time was still running.

But responding, counsel to Sylva, Prince Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) argued that the application for adjournment was deliberately submitted to delay hearing of his application because they had already gained an advantage by “the extraordinary order of mandamus issued by the court.”

Fagbemi said he was convinced that if all the facts of the subject matter had been brought before Justice Olotu, including the pendency of the subject matter at the Supreme Court, she would not have made the order. “It is clear that the use to which the plaintiff sought to put this order was far beyond your contemplation when you granted it,” he submitted.

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N97 FUEL PRICE: PETROLEUM DEALERS THREATEN TO SHUT DOWN IN ENUGU, IMO, ANAMBRA

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N97 fuel price: Petroleum dealers threaten to shut down in Enugu, Imo, Anambra
From PETRUS OBI, Enugu
Friday January 27, 2012

Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) in Enugu, Anambra and Ebonyi states have threatened to shut their fuel stations if the affected state governments fail to disband all the task forces currently intimidating and harassing their members.

The association after its emergency meeting in Enugu, yesterday, also said it had given the three state government 24-hour to unconditionally release all its members detained by the task forces at different police stations and stop extortions and intimidation of its members in the guise of enforcing the new pump price.

Chairman, IPMAN Enugu Depot, Mr. Linus Mgbakaogu, lamented that the task forces, especially in Anambra State collected huge sums of money from their members which makes it difficult for the markets to break even in the sales of the fuel which he said was bought at exorbitant prices during the period of subsidy removal but are now being forced to revert to the new pump price.

He therefore, called on the state governments to quickly disband the task forces because of their impunity, stressing that their members had complied with the new pump price of N97 per liter but that if the state governments failed to release all their detained members and disband the task forces, it would within 24-hour commence strike in the states.  Linus Mgbakogu who addressed newsmen shortly after the emergency meeting at their Enugu secretariat said: “The resolution of the meeting is that we have accepted the N97 pump price and we are going to inform our members in the seven states even though our depot in Enugu is not working.

“What we want the governments to do is that they should withdraw all these people that go to filling stations and beat up people because we don’t know who is who, we only know the DPR.“Government is supposed to come there to collect their statuary levy and not to chase us around. So we are asking the state governments to stop the intimidation especially in Anambra State where they go about collecting N100, 000 and above, beating people up and putting them in cells.

“We are also asking all the state governors and commissioners of police to unconditionally release our members in their cells and if they don’t do that within 48-hour we will close shops.”

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HOW TO TACKLE BOKO HARAM –ORITSEJAFOR, CAN PRESIDENT

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How to tackle Boko Haram –Oritsejafor, CAN President
By SEYE OJO
Friday January 27, 2012

•Oritsejafor

Worried by the rising spate of insurgence of Boko Haram Sect, President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, has tasked President Goodluck Jonathan to reinvent and rethink Nigerian security agencies.

In an exclusive interview with Daily Sun shortly after this year’s annual thanksgiving service and awards ceremony of The Sun Publishing Limited in Lagos, he lamented that investigation had shown that some top officials of various security agencies in the country are supporting activities of the sect.

Oritsejafor warned that if the security agents who have compromised were not relieved of their duties, every effort to nip the menace in the bud might not yield positive result. The compromised officials, he said, might be the one leaking government’s information to the people behind Boko Haram.

“There is a serious problem in the sense that a lot of them are polarised along religious lines. There are some in the security agencies that are loyal and committed to their religion than to Nigeria and they need to identify such people, especially those in the higher cadre of the security agencies.

“They must identify them, take them out and remove them so that neutral people will take those positions, sensitive positions of information and all kinds of things because a lot of their plans always get to Boko Haram through such persons,” he stated.
Oritsejafor maintained that any security information that comes to such compromised officials would not be treated in order to shield because they love their religion more than their country.

His words: “When they get such information, they sit on it instead of sharing it and using it. To them, they are protecting their religion. These things I am saying are very hard things. I believe the Muslim elites, especially those who are clerics, must look for people who know these people. I have been saying it for a while.

“I was shocked when I read in newspaper few days ago that the leader of Boko Haram was saying the reason they have not bombed Kano all these while is because some clerics have been pleading with them.“So, who are these clerics who have been pleading with them? That is what I am talking about. They need to know them. I am not talking of government; I am talking about Muslim religious leaders. They need to identify these clerics; get to them, talk to them and get them to work with these boys because it is a problem of ideology.

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NIGHTMARE OF BENIN-ORE ROAD

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Nightmare of Benin-Ore road
By P. N. Obidike
Friday January 27, 2012

A section of the Benin–Ore– Shagamu Expressway is dreaded by most Nigerians every rainy season since the road was constructed. The problem occurs every year like Igwe’s Ofalla. As a young civil engineer in the Federal Ministry of Works in 1964, I led a survey team that carried out a survey through Onigbongbo bush and swamp that started at the present Maryland Junction in front of the Catholic Church in Lagos.

The route passed through very thick swamp where, in most cases, we could not find firm ground to stand the Theodolite. We were always in rain boots and other bush navigation equipment. We were to provide cross section levels at 100 ft. intervals and 100ft. wide cross-sections, 50ft. on each side of the centre line. The assignment was to connect two known points through an unknown route.

We completed the assignment and submitted the plotted centre-line and cross-sections to the boss- I do not now remember whether in the Design or Planning Department of the Ministry. Our work turned out to be one of the preliminary works that produced the Lagos Ibadan Express Way several years later. Similary, Ijora Cause Way in Lagos, from Railway Terminus at Ebutte Metta to 7-up factor in Ijora was under constant leveling, carried out about four time a year. The levels were plotted on a chart.

The objective of the work was to determine when the settlement of the soil would stop and the construction of a permanent road would be done. Meanwhile the road surface was on temporary interlocking blocks. It became obvious that the settlement would not stop in the foreseeable future. The road was eventually constructed as “deck-on pile” which means that the entire length of the road of about two kilometre was built on piles.

However, the road level lies on the ground level so that later visitors think it is a normal road at the ground level. Similarly, as you leave Lagos going towards Ibadan you see a section of the road as a very long bridge on dry land where no river exists. That is another deck on pile with the road surface well above the ground level. In this case, like the Ijora Causeway, the soil was found to be unsuitable to carry a road. The normal practice of cutting away top soil and replacing with good quality laterite imported from somewhere else could not be done.

That was because the depth of the unsuitable material for the entire distance involved was very high and it would be very uneconomical to replace it. Piling and heavy pile caps on them with the follow up piers to carry the Deck Road were seen as the best alternative. I think at that time, the government listened more to the professionals than is the case today. The suggestion of the Director Federal Highways, Federal Ministry of Works, was taken and we have no problem driving on that section of the road today.

Necessity is said to be the mother of invention. The 3rd Mainland Bridge in Lagos is today the longest bridge in Nigeria. It is about 6 or 7 kilometers long and wholly in water except for the three ends where it hits the ground at Lagos Island, Ebute Metta and Oworonshoki. It was built as a necessary road out of congested Lagos Island where there was terrible bottleneck in trying to get out and heavy loss of man -hours. The Benin-Ore-Shagamu Road is similar to it. However, a 4th landing is necessary now beside the University of Lagos to decongest traffic between Ebutte Metta and the road to Lagos University. Lagos State Government should consider this.

Let the experience gained from Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ijora Causeway and Third Mainland Bridge be applied on Benin-Ore Road.

Obidike

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