Nigerians lead when it comes to acquisition of jets. Or which country has over 100 individuals buying jets in one year? And the Naija people are simply unstoppable. According to the president of the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers,the acquisition of private jets by Nigerians, for business or pleasure, has increased in the last three years. 'In the last one year, the number of private jets acquired by wealthy Nigerians have more doubled. 123 Nigerians which includes billionaire business men like Mike Adenuga, Ifeanyi Ubah, Aliko Dangote, Bishop Oyedepo, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Peter Odili, Nduka Obaigbena, ex bank MDs, politicians, business moguls, oil companies and banks have spent over N500 billion buying very expensive private jets.' In the last one year, at least five Hawker 900 XP jets have been bought and each cost $14.9million. Five 800 XP at $13 million and at least two Hawker 4000 at $21 million have been bought. Many of these private jets are parked at the apron near Arik Air hanger and at the General Aviation terminal near Aero Contractor's terminal. It costs at least N80 million to maintain these jets annually and over 500 expatriate pilots and engineers working on these private jets.
Kemunto Cutler, a Kenyan designer based in the UK flew the country's flag high during the finals of the Britain's Top Designer competition held at Westbury Hotel,London. The designer who owns Kemunto fashions finished fourth place. She announced her feat on facebook ,'Wow! Got to the final top 4 at Britain's Top Designer Competition last night at Westbury Hotel, London. Thanks all my friends who came to give me support & also at the London Fashion Week.' Britain's Top Designer is a cutting edge fashion designer competition that aims to find the best designer in Britain. Organised by Fashions Finest a leading fashion and entertainment lifestyle magazine and multi award winning Fashion event company, who provide professional production & management of catwalk shows, award ceremonies and launches for a wide variety of UK and international clients.
Uganda on Thursday arrested a British theatre producer for staging a play in Kampala about a gay man despite a temporary ban by the country's media authorities, a police spokesman said. Producer David Cecil was sent to prison until a bail hearing on Monday after being charged in a Kampala court, an AFP reporter said. "There are two charges preferred against him, one of disobeying lawful orders contrary to the penal code and another of staging the play which was still under review," Ibin Ssenkumbi, a spokesman for the Kampala police, told AFP. The groundbreaking play -- titled "The River and The Mountain" -- was performed at several venues around Kampala last month despite an injunction by Uganda's media council, the government media authority, which had placed a temporary ban on the play pending review of the script.