Nearly 200,000 people have had to prematurely withdraw from their pensions due to job loss over the last 5 years. These are official figures from PENCOM that demonstrate the disaster of BAT and their party yet APC folks want you to disregard this in favour of bogus macro indices.
Boarding back to front feels efficient and it's the reason you're still standing on the jet bridge. It loads an A320 in 31 minutes. The fastest known method does it in 11.
Boarding speed is a luggage problem. A plane fills only as fast as people can lift bags into bins, and just a few can do that at once without standing in each other's swing space. Walking to your seat is a rounding error.
Load the last rows first and twenty people pack into the back of the cabin reaching for the same bins, each one blocking the person behind, while the front half sits empty. Back to front nails the variable that barely matters and wrecks the one that decides everything. That's how the tidiest looking method becomes the slowest.
The fix came from Jason Steffen, an astrophysicist who measures planets orbiting other stars. He got stuck in a jet bridge in Seattle in 2005, went home annoyed, and pointed his exoplanet optimizer at the problem. The answer: seat everyone in line exactly two rows apart. 12A, 10A, 8A, 6A. Now nobody is ever stowing a bag in front of the next person, so the maximum number of bags go up at once and the aisle never clogs. A 2011 test with real volunteers and real carry-ons confirmed it.
Even random boarding (17:59) beats back to front, by pure accident. Scatter people and they spread out, so more bags go up at once.
No airline runs Steffen for the same reason it works. It means splitting up families and boarding strangers one at a time in a fixed order, and a gate full of people won't comply. So the math sits on a shelf and we keep boarding the slowest way because it looks the most organized.
After my wife's birthday celebrations today, a friend took all the balloons home because she teaches in Children's church and needs to keep the kids excited tomorrow.
I made a small prayer for her in my heart that at the end of all things, God considers here a good and faithful servant.
The way she faithfully took them down and did the arduous walk down the stairs, fitting them in her Uber safely and will do the same run tomorrow morning.
And to you who thinks God doesn't see you, I promise you his eyes are not weak, they are continually rested on the righteous.
Thank you my president. For a football crazed country of 200 million naturally athletic people to not be able to find 11 men to get us into the world cup twice in a row despite the expansion to 10 African teams points directly to a leadership failure.
We need a leader who will lead by example and demand accountability for failings like this that pervades every single sector. You're exactly the man for the job.
🏆 Referee announced for 2026 #SuperCup!
We're pleased to share that Somali referee Omar Artan will officiate the highly anticipated match between PSG and Aston Villa in Salzburg.
One million and one advise for Obi you go think say na him be president. Oya vote for am na make him for fit implement your advice seeing as the corn for your pocket no dey gree you advice your current president wey dey dish out shege to all and sundry. Nigeria will be OK!