An Ethiopian Airlines flight carrying 149 passengers and eight crew members crashed early Sunday shortly after departing from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, en route to Nairobi, Kenya, the airline said. A spokesman for the airline told state television that there were no survivors.

The plane was identified by its manufacturer, Boeing, as one of its newest models, a 737 Max 8. The cause of the crash was unclear, but a Lion Air flight using the same model of plane went down in Indonesia in October, killing all 189 people onboard. Officials are investigating whether changes to the Max 8’s automatic controls might have sent that flight into an unrecoverable nose-dive.

The flight on Sunday took off from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa at 8:38 a.m. local time and lost contact six minutes later, the airline said. The plane is believed to have gone down near Bishoftu, southeast of Addis Ababa, the airline said in a statement.

The vertical speed of Flight 302 was unstable after takeoff, according to flight data published by FlightRadar24 on Twitter.

“I came to the airport to receive my brother but I have been told there is a problem,” said Agnes Muilu, at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, The Associated Press reported. “I just pray that he is safe or he was not on it.”

The flight was carrying passengers from 33 countries; a spokesman for Ethiopian Airlines said that the dead included 32 Kenyans and 17 Ethiopians. The Global Times, a state-run Chinese newspaper, said that eight Chinese citizens were onboard.

The office of Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian prime minister, expressed condolences on Twitter, as did President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya.

The Kenyan transport secretary, James Macharia, said his country was setting up two emergency response centers to assist those who had friends and relatives on the flight.
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A country deserves its leaders, cos they are picked from the citizens.

What a senseless statement coming from a man that has revoked over 15,000 visas and denied over 87,900 visas in just 12 months.

Why not advise Trump first, your lunatic boss who is busy tweeting and preempting the next U.S election coming up in 2020 thereby causing hatred and divisiveness. Your boss is raging like a mad bull on Twitter insulting everyone that does not say nice things about him and your jobless and joyless racist is here issuing a stoopid statement. Your own shame is coming. Watch out!

This is goodnews to Nigeria where it is estimated that every 5 out of 100 persons (5%) has HIV/AIDS.

Speaking from the Rose Garden, President Trump confirmed he will declare a national emergency in order to secure funding to build a wall at the southern border.

He argued that his actions are consistent with those of his predecessors.

"I'm going to be signing a national emergency, and it’s been signed many times before. It’s been signed by other presidents from 1977 or so it gave the presidents the power," Trump said. "There’s rarely been a problem. They sign it, nobody cares. I guess they weren’t very exciting."

The President argued that he is doing so to address "an invasion of our country with drugs, with human traffickers, with all types of criminals and gangs."

"We don’t control our own border," Trump said. "We’re going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border and we’re going to do it – one way or the other we have to do it."

Trump went on to repeat his past talking points about "tremendous amounts of drugs" crossing into the US from the southern border -- even though the majority of those drugs come through ports of entry -- and addressed the issue of human trafficking.

He once again reiterated his claim that El Paso is safer because of the border fencing, despite statistics showing violent crime rates did not go down as a result of the construction of fencing there.

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Buhari ruled your grandfather, ruled your father, ruled you and about to rule your children. Dem swear for you

We are all born Ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Fayose the nonentity. Buhari really taught the fool a lesson.

He was in your box, you did not answer him and he found someone else!!!

What an eediot this lady is.

Politics left England as Governance, arrived America as a tool of keeping Slaves and ended in Africa as Oppression.

Na lie, if you don't do night shift in Yankee you can hardly get anything done. Night shift makes you plan your life better.

HIS ways are not our ways. Only HIM knows the mystery of the human palm.

Education should be free at all levels in Nigeria.

Dangote can do it, the man that built the largest Church Auditorium in the world can do it, ONE PERSON CAN DO IT.

What a waste of land called a country.

How is Nigeria still surviving?

Car has no Vehicle Insurance. Home has no Rental/Property Insurance. Never seen set of people with No Brain like Africans.

Why did the British grant Independence to Nigeria for God sake?

I have given Nigeria a positive view in my work place. My colleagues want to visit Nigeria because of my actions, classic dressing, softness, attitude and finesse. I wish everyone can be like me.

I will choose him over Ronaldo and Messi any day. Not to mention he made millions of Arsenal fans cry for many seasons.

Where is the voluptuous body? This is misrepresentation of facts.

Meanwhile, China with no Religion loaned Nigeria $328 million. Nigeria has over 35,000 churches and over 14,000 mosques.

The Owners and Managers of Arsenal are like APC and PDP combined government. They claimed to be making profits but no one can understand or see it.

May your soul Sojourn well with the Lord dear.

I do not see any future in this Country.

My experience in 2 countries:

New Country; Good morning sir : Please don't use sir for me. Let's go grab a coffee first.

Old Country; Good morning sir : How are you? Have you briefed your team? Are funds available? What time are they setting out? Okay cool, see me later.

Moral of the story : Africans are too obsessed with power.

America on the edge.

The Gun Violence Archive has recorded a total of 47,472 gun violence incidents so far this year in the United states, leading to 12,056 deaths, this is an unprecedented year in America.

At least 12 people were killed and perhaps a dozen others injured late Wednesday at a packed Southern California bar when a gunman dressed in black burst in, tossed smoke grenades and fired off dozens of rounds, witnesses and authorities said.

Police said they responded to the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, about 40 miles west of Los Angeles, just before midnight local time.

Hundreds were inside the bar at the time.

"The gunman was throwing smoke grenades all over the place," John Hedge told ABC Los Angeles station KABC. "I saw him point to the back of the cash register and he just kept firing. I ran out the front door."

"I hear chairs being thrown out the window -- people were trying to get out of the window," Hedge said. "I don't know how I didn't get shot."

Initial reports from officers said about 30 shots were fired.

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Nairaland moderators thank you for making us smile Even though its not worth Front Page but you sha want us to laugh.

Apologies. Send me a message.

CheapDataGuy:


Yesterday u avoided my mention.
Pls what shud be my budget, if i want to go to Yankee or Canada legally, and were do i start from.
I am trying as much as possible to avoid all these agents. Some of them are fake.
I'd be glad if you reply