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It’s the stuff of disaster films – to be left on board a plane mid-flight, without anyone to fly it. John Wildey who found himself in the predicament after the pilot collapsed has been praised for taking over in the cockpit of a light plane flying over Lincolnshire. The passenger ...

A recently-elected Kenyan politician is keeping his job as a toilet attendant and “shoe-shine boy”, a report suggests. Business Administration graduate Moses Gichangi has apparently been looking after the loos in Nakuru, in the northern Rift valley, for six years. And the Daily Nation says he chose not to give ...

A female pilgrim from Bauchi State has fallen from the 11th floor of a building and died in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Vice Chairman, Bauchi State Amirul Hajj team, Alhaji Yahaya Miya, confirmed the incident in Bauchi, Monday, at Hajj camp in Games Village, while fielding questions from newsmen before the ...

After 33 years of Neglect, and the president’s visit to the Police College Ikeja, it now wears a New look. Demolition, reconstruction, refurbishment, and furnishing of the dilapidated Police college, Ikeja is completed and it will officially be opened for use in the next few days. This is good news

A 9 year old boy did the unthinkable in the US last week; he went through airport security with other passengers, and hopped on a flight to Las Vegas on his own without a plane ticket. The Transportation Security Administration officials said they are still trying to figure out how ...

There seems to be continuous case of unresolved issues with Dana Air as the Federal Government has suspended its operations three days after the Associated Airlines crash.(Their license has been suspended too) The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, said on Sunday night that Dana has been suspended for precautionary measures ...

Chief Leonard Uchendu, the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) candidate for the forthcoming Anambra governorship election has been kidnapped. He was kidnapped in the early hours of Sunday in Awka the state capital; a development confirmed by his party. Incidentally, the NNPP had on Friday raised the alarm over alleged ...

A Navy SEAL team seized a senior leader of the Shabab militant group from his seaside villa in the Somali town of Baraawe on saturday, American officials said, in response to a deadly attack on a Nairobi shopping mall for which the group had claimed responsibility. The Seal team stealthily ...

No fewer than 400 pilgrims heading to Saudi Arabia escaped death on Saturday morning when the tyres of their aircraft burst while taxiing for takeoff. BBC Hausa Service reports that the aircraft belonging to Kabo Air was taking the pilgrims from Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano to Saudi Arabia when ...

Late Olusegun Agagu‘s burial took place yesterday despite thetragic air crash that occurred. Top Ondo government officials, former governors, and prominent businessmen attended the burial.

An associated�airline plane�carrying 30 people to Akure has crashed this morning in Lagos. divThe engine failed and it crash-landed and burst into flames. No airport authority has confirmed that the crashed plane was carrying late Agagu’s body. More details later.UPDATE: Agagu’s body was on board. His family members and friends ...

Fellow Nigerians, 1. Today marks 53 years of our Independence as a nation. First and foremost, I would like to say congratulations to us all. Through thick and thin, we have built this country together. Through triumphs and trials, we have developed a Nigerian identity in our own way. 2. ...

Gunmen suspected to be members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect struck a packed college in the early hours of Sunday killing at least 50 students of College of Agriculture, Gujba. The school is located about 50 kilometers south of Damaturu, the state capital. As at the time of filling ...

The terror�attack on�a Kenyan�shopping centre�that has left 68 dead was being led by the white English widow of a 7/7 bomber, it was claimed last night.According to a report by Dailymail, Soldiers said a white woman wearing a veil was shouting orders to gunmen�in Arabic�during the bloody massacre inside the ...

The Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi, has sacked all his commissioners, assistants, and advisers. He announced the dissolution of his cabinet moments ago. Details coming. Source: Premium Times

Over 50 shoppers were killed, another more than 150 injured after gunmen stormed an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya yesterday in what could possibly be a terrorist attack. The terrorists had stormed the Westgate Mall and sprayed shoppers with bullets. Witnesses said the attackers told all Muslims to leave ...

Health officers in Sapele, Delta State, caught kpomo sellers in Sapele market who confessed to using embalming fluid to fatten kpomo. According to them, they inject the kpomo with the embalming fluid (used in�Mortuaries), after which they soak the kpomo in water for a period of time. This process fatten ...

Just yesterday 142 bodies were discovered and evacuated from the highway and surrounding bushes in Borno state by officials of�the Borno State Environmental Protection Agency (BOSEPA) after travelers were ambushed, removed from their cars and killed on the Maiduguri/Damaturu highway on Tuesday Sept 17th by Boko Haram members who�dressed up ...

Desperate to halt a probe into his finances, Nigerian governor James Ibori tried to bribe former anti-corruption boss Nuhu Ribadu in 2007 with $15 million in cash in a bag so heavy one man alone could not lift it, Ribadu told a London court on Thursday. Ribadu said he pretended ...

Unknown gunmen dressed in military clothes, this morning,�Friday�September 20 stormed an uncompleted building at Legislator’s Quarters in Apo, Abuja killing over 10 people.FCT Police spokeswoman, DSP Hyelhira Altine Daniel has confirmed the incidence and said that investigation is on going.The people killed were said to be living in the uncompleted ...