Corporate Social Responsibility: HAVE YOU LOST LUGGAGE(S) WHILE TRAVELING WITH ANY ...

Corporate Social Responsibility: HAVE YOU LOST LUGGAGE(S) WHILE TRAVELING WITH ANY ...: Seated in an aircraft soon after the plane has taken off the voice you hear would be the Pilot "Welcome on board XYZ Airways flight A...

HAVE YOU LOST LUGGAGE(S) WHILE TRAVELING WITH ANY AIRLINE?

Seated in an aircraft soon after the plane has taken off the voice you hear would be the Pilot "Welcome on board XYZ Airways flight A58 with Captain Edward your Pilot/King Co-pilot. This flight takes five and half hours. We expect to land at Heathrow airport 7 pm local time. As soon as we get to a convenient level you'd be served your meal. Thank you for flying XYZ Airline". Typically while the announcement was going on you take a quick inventory of your check-in labels, tickets, receipts and others boarding documents. And you assured yourself that everything is in place ready for your landing and smooth check out. Very often this presumption becomes an illusion. During one of my trips to and fro abroad as a student, I lost luggages that I claimed for. Unfortunately, it did not only take a long time to process but I also failed to recover anything including the cost of pursuing the remedy. The lost luggages, airline and claims were domiciled in Nigeria. Unless you take direct flights to your destination chances that you lose your luggage(s) and you file lost luggage claims at their customers service department or call center. How to make claims for luggage(s) lost while traveling with an airline. Airlines are responsible for lugages of their passengers using tracking systems. Make sure you have your ticket numbers, receipts and baggage labels intact. According to Washington Post report from January to September 2019 2 3 million bags were either lost or damaged. During the same period in 2021 the figure was 1.36 million Although luggage policies of airlines differ, most of them pay compensation 24 hours after the report of the missing luggage. The sum may be cost of checking the luggage, contingency expenses or the value of the lost luggage but don't expect the market value. Some airlines pay $50 a day for the first five days of reporting the loss. The airlines are under obligation to pay monetary compensation for delayed, lost or damaged luggages, which may be up to $3,800. However, international flights have different rules applying to them even though their liability may as high as $1,780. The bargain of airlines could higher but not compellable by law. In 2007, Mr Prince Ikem Orji passenger of China-bound Emirates Airlines lost his hand luggage containing$1.63 million cash. When the airline failed to trace it the Federal High Court in Lagos ordered the airline to pay the sum lost to him. Does that add to your travels knowledge? Okay, don't take these for granted; your position is enhanced by purchasing insurance cover. Please if there's any airline's passengers care/services that have exceeded the standards adopted in this report DM such updates. Safe journey God is in control. Ikechukwu O. Odoemelam Esq Legal Practitioners of the Supreme Court of Nigeria Corporate Attorneys/Consultants http://www.corporateleadersboard.blogspot.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/iyke-ozemena-07b53453 http://www.amazon.com/author/iykeOzemena

MIKHAIL GORBACHEV: A LEGENDARY LEADER

Leaders emerge through crises and times of uncertainty. Though late erstwhile Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev never contemplated to dissolve USSR as a communist ideological block against the free-market world, he inadvertently did so ultimately. He could have chosen for USSR to continue in isolation and remain at cold war with the West and entire market economy OR liberate over 700 million Soviets stuck with national pride intoxicated by obselete communist ideology that was heading towards a third World War. Through the process of series of legislation he ended cold war; brought USSR into the mainstream of market economy of the entire world, a dream Sony, Pepsi and Visa failled to realize earlier on. That was what most people were proud of him, among all his achievements. Like many visionary leaders going through phases of challenges, he articulated his thoughts about how to resolve them to achieve national growth, development and transformation. Since communist administration and economy were by their nature closed and controlled by a central and ideologically monolithic undemocratic government, he thought that demolition of citizens' mental barriers would create a huge support of the people for it's forthcoming policies. This idea of transparency (Glasnost) had totally been absent till then. Glasnost, is the equivalent of freedom of speech, information and association in a democratic environment. You must realise that these 'freedoms' were luxuries in the communist enclave during the cold war. Glasnost changed the narratives. When citizens became excited by this novel instruction he introduced his book titled 'Parastoika' - restructuring. All his experiences from the Politburo to the delegate of deputies and Presidency created by him and occupied only by him were documented. This 'restructuring' were necessary changes coming from a visionary leader. The thrust of the changes prescribed was that the future of USSR belonged to the youth. By that book he sentenced communism to death. Of course glasnost which had become powerful vehicle of mobilisation enabled the ideas and disseminated the policies, not only within USSR but also eastern Europe that had been under communist rule and the rest of the world. Like a bridge linking two isolated communities, Mikhail Gorbachev's presidency ended communism and supervised Soviet's transition to free market economy. It was not without a price. His actions of being a pro-West good fellow created enimies. He stepped on powerful toes of the elite of the Soviet establishment. At a time he was under house arrest with his family. As a consequence the fall of Berlin wall, communist Eastern Europe block followed suite and the rest is now history. Adieu comrade. Ikechukwu O. Odoemelam Esq Legal Practitioners of the Supreme Court of Nigeria Corporate Attorneys/Consultants http://www.corporateleadersboard.blogspot.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/iyke-ozemena-07b53453 http://www.amazon.com/author/iykeOzemena

Corporate Social Responsibility: DO AIRLINE INSURANCE COVER TRAUMA?

Corporate Social Responsibility: DO AIRLINE INSURANCE COVER TRAUMA?: DO AIRLINE INSURANCE COVER TRAUMA? Ikechukwu Odoemelam Esq A few days ago one of my learned friends that attended the Bi-Annual Bar Conf...

DO AIRLINE INSURANCE COVER TRAUMA?

DO AIRLINE INSURANCE COVER TRAUMA? Ikechukwu Odoemelam Esq A few days ago one of my learned friends that attended the Bi-Annual Bar Conference held in Lagos, escaped death when their aircraft accidentally developed malfunctions and later figured out a safe landing. After thanking God for the rare escape, it quickly reminded me of similar incident that I went through in one of Nigeria Airways flight in the '90s. A Lagos-bound flight that took off from Port Harcourt airport began to loose height gradually. When the pilot made the announcement it wasn't quite audible so I couldn't comprehend what the issue was. Passengers close to the cockpit were talking to each other. I was busy reading one of the in-flight magazines and wasn't perturbed. When I saw that a lot of passengers were talking to each other I looked out from the window and saw that we were cruising past towns, houses airview. Even at that time it never occurred to me that that was the aircraft's inability to gain height, a symptom of crashing. Shortly another announcement was audibly saying about to land at Port Harcourt airport where we took off. In few minutes we landed safely and there was this mad rush by passengers as if the aircraft was catching fire. Now at Port Harcourt airport what next? Don't talk about refund of ticket fare; I was so restive that I couldn't ask what rights I had over ticket fare. The following day was census day in Lagos, if I could not fly into Lagos before the next day I wouldn't have been counted. Flight shortage became real because of failed/postponed flights and safety regulations. Hustling and struggling for next available flight ensued. By this time we've spent hours after our aborted flight and it's already evening and passengers were sorting out how to spend the night. Suddenly a small contractor flight came from Lagos as last flight. I didn't know how he got the hint that Lagos-bound passengers were stranded since afternoon. The pilot decided that any passenger willing to get to Lagos that night should get on board. That's how I got the noisy flight without any light with about seven passengers. Knocking at a Lagos gate leading to residential area about midnight could only be by a desperate individual who narrowly escaped death through two rickety aircrafts. I never thought about remedies because dead men don't have the luxury of what is available for the living. Today my friend's encounter reminded me to ask, all these hassles from airlines do their insurance coverage include physical/psychological trauma? I made few searches and found that none of the insurers offer such cover. However, Arik insurance came close to answering my inquiry, not sure 'medical expenses' includes trauma. But the detailed finding is as follows: "The policy provides cover against accident resulting in damage to baggage, missing bags, flight cancellation and delays, medical expenses, permanent disablement or bodily injury, within 90 days of the occurrence of the accident. A passenger whose flight is cancelled or delayed for more than eight hours gets N20,000 per trip. Emergency medical expenses attracts up to N50,000, while mishandled and missing baggage will attract N20,000 per passenger." Please if there's any airline's passengers insurance coverage that's richer than Arik's DM such updates. Safe journey God is in control. Ikechukwu O. Odoemelam Esq Legal Practitioner Corporate Attorney/Consultant http://www.corporateleadersboard.blogspot.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/iyke-ozemena-07b53453 http://www.amazon.com/author/iykeOzemena

Corporate Social Responsibility: EPITOME OF CSR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN ALUMINA

Corporate Social Responsibility: EPITOME OF CSR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN ALUMINA: Copied "The acting Dean of Medical College, University of Ibadan,Prof Adebola Ogunbiyi ,invited all the old students who are now doctor...

EPITOME OF CSR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN ALUMINA

Copied "The acting Dean of Medical College, University of Ibadan,Prof Adebola Ogunbiyi ,invited all the old students who are now doctors produced by the college to a zoom meeting. The reason for the meeting was not farfetched. The professor was sick with worry about the infrastructure decay and rot at the medical college she oversees in Ibadan. She is aware that the Nigerian government is too broke to fund it, so she came up with a master stroke, which was to tap into the resources and social capital of the alumni produced by the medical college scattered all over the world to give the medical college a facelift. A Zoom meeting was fixed on Monday, two days ago, and the link was sent to the former students of the medical college. Starting off the meeting, Prof. Ogunbiyi narrated the challenges and plight the current medical students at the college are facing. The current medical students of the college need a new hostel and their classes also need to be refurbished. The acting Dean of the college ended her speech by appealing to the alumni of the college to support her in rebuilding and restoring the lost glory of the medical college. Her speech opened the floodgates of donations from the medical doctors produced by the Medical College, University of Ibadan. The donations were coming in trickles. 1 million naira here 200,000 there. Until it got to the turn of Dr. Philip O. Ozuah(attached in the picture), an old student of the college who is currently the President and CEO of Montefiore Medicine in New York. Philip Ozuah did not say too much as he went straight to the point of making a donation of $1,000,000 (700,000,000). In his words, UI’s medical college shaped and refined him into the man he is today, so he has the duty to give back to the school. When Dr. Philip announced the $1,000,000 donation, all of the old students in the zoom session began shouting, "Wow!" Wow, like an ambulance’s siren. Even the dean, who called the zoom meeting, was speechless as she did not see that coming. None of the old students of the medical college could donate again since Ozuah had set a standard they could not match. From shouting Wow! Wow! The Zoom fundraising meeting came to an end with the closing prayer said immediately. It should be noted that Ozuah had his medical degree certification at the University of Ibadan and did his internship at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital before he proceeded to Southern California for his Master's program and got his PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Let no one deceive you; legit money is good and makes life very easy to live and navigate. Copied