The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has confirmed a near accident involving an Overland flight 1186, an ATR 72 aircraft with Registration number 5N-BPG from Abuja airport to Ilorin. The Aircraft was carrying fifty nine (59) passengers and four crews and veered off the runway at low speed after a normal landing at the Ilorin Airport. According to Frank Ndubuoke general manager public affairs of NCAA the incident which occurred yesterday (Saturday) 29th November at 4.45pm recorded no casualty. He said, the Accident Investigation and Prevention Bureau (AIPB) have launched an investigation into the cause of the incident. The authority…
Author: orientalnewsng
By Yemisi Izuora-Lagos The FCMB Limited has entered into partnership with Cornerstone Insurance Plc to offer a maximum of N1million insurance coverage to its commercial customers. The product, which was launched in Lagos is accessible to traders and merchants with business and personal accounts in an event of fire and flood. Speaking on the benefits of the product, Executive Director at FCMB Mr. Olufemi Bakre said: “As a bank, this is one of our products we are showcasing when you talk about customer focus. This particular product is expected to take care of traders and merchants because when trading, there…
y Yemisi Izuora-Lagos Insurance Brokers in the Northern Nigeria have been counselled to be more creative in product marketing in order to survive the current challenges confronting that part of the country. This charge was given by the President of Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers’ (NCRIB), Mr. Ayodapo Shoderu at the investiture of new executives of the Kano Chapter of the council. Shoderu lamented the challenges posed to insurance and the economy generally in the North following security challenges in the region. He specifically told the brokers who are professional intermediaries in the insurance value chain, to study…
By Yemisi Izuora- Lagos Nigerdock Nigeria Plc has completed the fabrication of the jacket and associated decks for the Domestic Supply Obligation, DSO, Meren GGCP and Sonam NWP project, belonging to Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, operator of the NNPC/CNL joint venture. At the load-out ceremony for the jacket and associated decks Thursday in Lagos, Mr. Anwar Jarmakani, the chairman of Jagal Group – owners of Nigerdock – described the success of the fabrication work as one of the accomplishments of the Local Content Policy, which both the government and Nigerians should be proud of. This, he stated, was because the…
By Yemisi Izuora The director general of the securities and exchange commission Arunma Oteh has sought engagement of capital market operators to recommend initiatiatives that will help creat wealth for Nigerians. Oteh who spoke at the technical session opital market retreat in Abuja said if proper plan is in place the capital market will be a major investment platform for Nigerians and serve as a catatic tool to alleviate poverty. She said poverty is a major challenge in Nigeria but government is tackling it with creative reforms and the decisions taken by capital market experts on the Nigerian Capital Market…
President Jonathan SIXTY-three senators as of Thursday have signed up to the plan to impeach President Goodluck Jonathan in the upper legislative chamber, The PUNCH learnt in Abuja. One of the arrowheads of the move to remove Jonathan in the Senate showed our correspondent the list containing the signatures of the senators. The source said eight Peoples Democratic Party senators were among the signatories to the planned impeachment notice. There are 109 members in the Senate. An All Progressives Congress senator from the North-West zone, who asked not to be named,told our correspondent that the lawmakers’ major grouse was the…
Olisa Agbakoba All Progressives Congress, some Senior Advocates of Nigeria including Olisa Agbakoba, Yusuf Ali and Niyi Akintola, have called for the removal of the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Suleiman Abba, over his refusal to acknowledge Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal as the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The APC in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said Abba had shown that he was ‘partisan’ and would not be able to ensure a free and fair election next year. The statement partly read, “‘Abba is presiding over perhaps the most-partisan police force ever in the…
The Aviation Master Plan has been described as a paradigm shift in the formulation of aviation policies by the Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Engr. Saleh Dunoma at the just concluded seminar organised by the League of Airport and Aviation Correspondents (LAAC), at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja. Eng Dunoma stated that “never before have aviation policies in the country made such immediate impact on the airport landscape and the economy than we are witnessing today”. He also acknowledged and applauded the vital contributions that LAAC had made, over the years, in the development…
What started as a mild argument over money turned tragic between a couple in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State after the wife stabbed her husband to death. The incident happened on Wednesday, last week, on TK Balogun Street, Igbo Olomu, Ishawo. PUNCH Metro gathered that the woman, Folashade Sodiya, 27, killed her husband, Jude Igbinedor, 39, around 2am after heated argument over money. They were said to have been in a seven-year relationship, though the union had not been consented to by the parents. They reportedly got married without approval of their parents and started living together two years…