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The Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has released the preliminary report on an Associated Airlines plane that crashed nine days ago shortly after take-off from the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, killing 15 persons.  Briefing newsmen on Friday, the Head of AIB, Usman Mukthar, said the analysis of flight 361 recorder showed that the pilot flew the aircraft with a faulty right engine. Muktar said the wind was calm as at the time the flight 361 was cleared for take-off by the Air Traffic Controller on runway 18 left of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA) Lagos. However, about four seconds after…

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PRELIMINARY REPORT ON ACCIDENT INVOLVING ASSOCIATED AIRLINE EMBRAER 120 AIRCRAFT REGISTERED 5N-BJY WHICH OCCURRED AT MMA ON THURSDAY 3RD OCTOBER, 2013.   The following information has been determined from preliminary readout and analysis of flight 361’s flight recorders.   Flight 361 was equipped with both a COCKPIT VOICE RECORDER and a FLIGHT DATA RECORDER.  Both recorders were replayed at the Accident Investigation Bureau’s recently acquired flight recorder laboratory located in Abuja.   International flight recorder experts from Canada who designed the laboratory assisted the investigation team with the readout and analysis process along with representatives from the aircraft manufacturer and aircraft operator,…

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The period is tough when the bread winner cannot help himself. When everyone, as it were, appear like Rice then there is a problem!!! You are aware that Rice are of or near equal in length and diameter; therefore it appears none can support the other. At the moment, it is a question of individual survival, because even the rich, wealthy, movers and shakers of society cannot help themselves, the Rich are really crying and the poor mimic the cry! I pray that Allah shower His Mercy and blessings on us as a Nation, Amin. It is important to realize…

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Minister of Trade and Investment, Olusegun Aganga has kicked against the move by the Senate to encroach on Presidential powers to appoint the chairman and board members of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). Speaking on Thursday at the public hearing organized by the Senate on the proposed amendment to the Company and Allied Matters Act CAP C20, the Minister insisted that assuming such responsibility would amount to an encroachment on the powers of the President to appoint competent professionals as both chairman and board member of the CAC. He said further that the proposed amendment would infringe on the powers…

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The Chairman of the Nigerian chapter of the Nigeria-Cameroon Trans-Border Security Committee, Major General Babatunde Samuel, on Thursday said both countries are working out the modalities for joint border patrol to curb the activities of Boko Haram insurgents along the border.   He disclosed this while submitting its committee report to the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr Nurudeen Mohammed in Abuja. The Minister said the report will be forwarded to President Goodluck Jonathan for urgent action.   According to the chairman, the committee has discovered several porous routes being explored by the insurgents to carry out their nefarious…

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As the senior National Football Team, the Super Eagles, puts finishing touches to preparations for Sunday’s Brazil 2014 World Cup crucial qualifying match in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) under the leadership of Abubakar Kawu Baraje has urged the team to do the nation proud by winning convincingly thereby making the return leg in Calabar a mere formality. We are proud of the tremendous progress which the present Super Eagles squad has made under the tutelage of Chief Coach Stephen Keshi and his backroom staff. Apart from wining the coveted Africa Cup of Nations in February in…

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A group of southwest politicians resident in the United Kingdom has taken a swipe at the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu over his comment on the proposed national dialogue. Mr. Tinubu had been widely reported to have described the proposed national conference as a deceit. The Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP-southwest) in the United Kingdom, Yemi Ayodele Ayeni, described the comments as “unpatriotic”. In a statement, Mr. Ayeni said “it is very disheartening that the APC’s stalwart in Nigeria, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu has demonstrated a high level of hypocrisy and dissembling competence…

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Sequel to the dismissal of the case filed at a Lagos High Court by the leadership of the new Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the splinter group of the ruling party has appealed to its members to remain calm, saying ‘no cause for alarm’. An Ikeja, Lagos State High Court on Thursday dismissed the suit filed by Abubakar Kawu Baraje-led faction of the PDP against the Bamanga Tukur faction for want of jurisdiction. Justice Oludotun Adefope-Okojie, of Ikeja High Court, Lagos had on Thursday held that the Court had no power to assume jurisdiction over a matter, which originated outside its…

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President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday in Abuja urged African leaders to do more to fully develop and exploit their countries’ comparative economic advantages over other parts of the world, for the benefit of their people. Speaking at an audience with Botswana’s new Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Louis Matshewenyego Fisher, President Jonathan said that African countries must evolve and implement policies that will maximize their economic potentials to move away from current “dependency” partnerships with the industrialized nations of the world. The President urged the continent’s leaders to focus more on building domestic capacity around the strengths of their economies, instead of…

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