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Nigerian Christian Pilgrims’ Plane Aborts Flight Due to Runway Accident
A Boeing 747 plane conveying intending Nigerian pilgrims to Israel narrowly escaped crashing at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. The plane, which was taxiing on the run way for take off in Abuja on Tuesday, hit one of the wings on the...
Somali Militants Set Fire to World Food Program Food Aid
Al Shabab extremists in Somalia have set fire to hundreds of sacks of food owned by the World Food Program (WFP) in the city of Merka, the provincial capital of Lower Shabelle region which is about 111 kilometers south of the capital Mogadishu, a regional...
Road Accident Kills 23 People in Northern Nigeria
With less than 24 hours to the Christmas celebrations, no fewer than 23 persons have been confirmed dead and 16 others injured in a motor accident on the Talata Mafara-Gusau road in Talata Mafara, north-east Nigeria on Wednesday. The accident occurred...
Soyuz Spacecraft Blasts Off to the International Space Station
NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi safely launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station on Sunday. Liftoff occurred at 3:52 p.m. CST from the...
Mobil Begins Clean Up of Oil Spill in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Area
Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) has started the clean up of the Atlantic shoreline after the December 4 crude oil leak from the Qua Iboe Oil fields which it operates in the Niger Delta. The oil firm had reported a leak on the pipeline on December 4, which...
Female Pilot Rescued After Light Aircraft Ditches Off Morecambe, England
At 12.15 in the afternoon Liverpool Coastguard were contacted by Air Traffic Control to inform them that a light aircraft had disappeared from their radars and was suspected of ditching off Morecambe Bay. The aircraft had been traveling from Guernsey...
Ministry of Defence Announces New Air Safety Authority
U.K. Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth has announced the creation of a new military airworthiness authority to ensure aviation safety standards are of the highest order at all times. The Military Aviation Authority (MAA) has been created as part of the...
Cat Saves Inebriated Owner From Fire in Russia’s Urals
Regional emergency services have reported that a drunk man in the Perm Territory in Russia’s Urals was saved by his cat when his apartment caught fire. The heavily inebriated man fell asleep with a lit cigarette, which started a fire, an emergencies...
