•Abuja airport A Boeing 737 passenger jet belonging to Aerocontractors Airlines crash-lands at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja today. Although no injury or fatality was recorded, the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau, an agency of the federal government, confirmed that the aircraft got involved in a “serious accident” around...
•FMC inspection by Reps panel The House of Representatives Committee on Health Institutions has vowed to take necessary steps to reverse the brain drain in the health sector and the medical tourism to reduce the outflow of Nigerians seeking medical care abroad and doctors travelling outside the country to seek greener pastures. The committee h...
•The protesters at Abuja airport Many top government officials, their armed escorts, business guests and hundreds of other Nigerians have been prevented from entering the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja. As of 9.15 am when our correspondent approached the vicinity of the Airport, scores of vehicles carrying stranded air passengers r...
Fire has broken out at the High Commission of Canada to Nigeria in Abuja’s Central Business District. Confirming the incident, the Head of Operations of the FCT Fire Service, Amiola Adebayo, told our correspondent in a phone interview that two people were fatally injured in the incident, while about three or four other victims had […]
Not fewer than eight persons, among them students, were crushed to death when a tipper conveying sharp sand suffered break failure in Mpape, a settlement close to the Maitama District of Abuja. The incident, it was gathered, occurred yesterday around 4 p.m. before the Keke NAPEP Park along the road that leads to Mpape junction, […]
•Protesters Protests broke out in Lagos and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja yesterday as youths decried the allocation of Sport Utility Vehicles for members of the National Assembly. The youths who gathered in their numbers in the Ikeja area of Lagos held placards and chanted ‘Fund education not SUVs, ‘Pay living wage not SUVs, ‘Return [&...

