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Another air disaster was averted at the Nnamdi Azikwe Airport, Abuja on Monday as a Med-View Airlines aircraft from Lagos suddenly took to the air again at the point of landing in Abuja.

The pilot told the passengers that he took to the air again to avoid a collision with another aircraft on the tarmac.

The airline Flight VL2104 took off from the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos at noon and was scheduled to land in Abuja at about 1.05pm.

The pilot had already announced final descent into Abuja and asked all passengers and cabin crew to fasten their seat belts but the pilot suddenly took off to the air again with barely 30 seconds to touch ground.

The plane had 150 passengers on board. A correspondent of The PUNCH was one of the passengers.

After about three minutes of gaining altitude, the pilot announced that he decided to take off again to avoid colliding with an aircraft that was on ground.

He said that after he had been granted clearance to land, it was later discovered that the other aircraft was not fast enough, hence his decision to take off.

The aircraft hovered for another 20 minutes in the air before finally landing at about 1.30pm.

While the drama lasted, the passengers were panic-stricken, especially when the plane entered into turbulent weather on air.

The PUNCH correspondent said that among the passengers were five different complete families.

One of the passengers, a nursing mother, who was breastfeeding her son at the time the pilot took off again reportedly withdrew the breast from the boy’s mouth and started praying profusely while the baby’s cry rented the air.

When the plane finally landed, the passengers struggled to disembark.

“Are you still sitting down? Let me rush down in case it will suddenly take off again,” a middle-aged man was heard teasing one of his co-passengers.

The incident came less than a month after an Embraer aircraft operated by Associated Airlines with registration number SCD 361, conveying the corpse of a former Governor of Ondo State, Chief Olusegun Agagu, from Lagos to Akure for burial, crashed on October 3 shortly after take-off at Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos.

Thirteen passengers in the crashed plane were killed, including a commissioner in Ondo State, Deji Falae.


http://www.punchng.com/news/another-plane-crash-averted-in-abuja/

I swear too, I don't know the problem of an average Nigerian, if a public officer does anything wrong, you'll see their kinsmen defending their action as if they have any direct benefits from the loot. All tribes in Nigeria are guilty of this, we need to change our ways.

1wolex85: and what stops Jonathan from investigating FFK? I'm really fed up with nigerians i swear. If you people feel FFK stole billions, your 'kinswoman' oduah can easily get someone to write a petition to efcc and let FFK be investigated, tried and if found guilty jailed. I just cant get my head around the fact that some people tribalise corruption!!!! Geeeze!!!! Is there any hope for my country? Tomorrow, you may find this same Oduah and FFK in the same party, that is how these politicians are. You can support any politician you like because she is from your place, but if you think they really care about you, I'm sorry for you. Yorubas, hausas and igbos are at the top stealing money and you are here tribalising the whole issue? I swear, I just dont get it!

The wise one, have you ever seen any of my kinsmen supporting him publicly?

Promhize: Ode what have u done about FFK who stole billions?

Morning Casey, how was the night?

Granma, is that you

Mondisweets: ^^

^^How you?

You wonder why Nigeria is still backward and with a 'kinsmen' like you, Nigeria is on a long thing

JMOI: Frustration kills faster than a silver bullet. You are clearly frustrated.

I won't be surprised either, this is Nigeria where anything under the sun is possible?

gurnam: Am sure those cars come with brain-box and flying wings...

Awon were gbogbo!

Indispensable my foot, I can see clearly her performance in acquisition of those anti-missile cars and I hope she's immuned to natural death.

JMOI: Oduah is one of the top 3 performing ministers in the cabinet today, that is why she is indispensable. It is clear that all you anti-progress tribalists have failed.

Corruption has been deleted from their dictionary I guess!

jeffizy: We're talking large scale corruption, they are talking of okada.
Laughable , I tell you.

I feel bad reading this, but God knows best and he will do a great thing in your life soon.

Tbaby4real: Thank you all... Now we've confirmed that no heartbeat, hmmmm what can i say than to thank God more. Thank you all for your prayers and support. we will be going to the hospital tomorrow morning to take the medication that will put me to labour. I pray non of you will go thru this, may you all carry to full term. Thank you all for your support.

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...And here is an article written by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde.


[size=14pt]Jonathan And His Kinsmen[/size]

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"In spite of this reality, Jonathan, a man who claims to come from a humble background and poor parentage and lacking shoes and modern amenities, does not see it fit to do anything about the abject condition of his people? What nonsense! How much will it cost to build two major highways and eight connecting roads in and around the Niger Delta? No more than four weeks’ worth of oil export! How much will it cost the oil-producing states to build first-class schools and hospitals, and to provide potable water and clean environment? Less than thirty percent of their yearly budgets! How much will it cost these states, in concert with the federal government, to industrialize the region? Less than twelve weeks earning from oil export."


This President – President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan -- has six sets of problems. First, he is not suited for party politics. Second, he has a limited and provincial worldview, which makes it difficult for him to grasp complex domestic and global issues. Third, in the political arena, at least, he is not loved, feared, or respected. Fourth, he may have steely nerves and the heart of a lion; but outwardly, he is weak and cowardly and scared. Fifth, he lacks the skill to effectively articulate and execute his plans – assuming he has any. And finally, he is not to be a good judge of character. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have appointed seventy percent or more of the men and women he has so far brought onboard.


I intend to return to these observations in the very near future. Here and now, however, my interest is on the president and his kinsmen: men and women from the Niger Delta who are members of his inner conclave. Many – very many of these folks are enemies of progress and growth. Individually and collectively, they have refused to tell the President the whole truth. They failed to tell him the complete and unadulterated truth. The truth they should have told him some six to nine months into his presidency was this: resign or get your acts together! The Ijaw among them should have been more vocal, more direct, and more honest. As a result of their failing, Jonathan and his presidency has been curse to our collective aspirations.


Instead of being honest and patriotic, they urge him on; they sing his praise; they make him believe he is good for the country; they make him believe the country needs and want him; and then they feloniously gloss over his deficits and incompetence. Lately, they’ve been whispering in his ears: “2015-2019 is yours, ordained by the God of Abraham!” What a disservice! What evil! For the Ijaw among the president’s kitchen cabinet, several decades of isolation and exclusion and poverty seem to have severely damaged their humanity and their sense of self to the point where, today, it is all about self-aggrandizements.


Many of the honest and sincere voices among the Ijaw have been silenced. The forward-looking ones have been excommunicated. Those who object to and make their objections public have either been severely frustrated or alienated. The Jonathan Praise Singing Project does not want or need Ijaw men and women who genuinely want the president to succeed. Critics are not wanted. Gadflies are not needed. Rationale minds are not welcome. What the Jonathan Project wants are attack dogs and character assassins. They embrace pathological liars and neurotic cheats and pipe dreamers and snake-oil sellers. In their minds, Nigeria now belongs to them and them alone. Therefore, in Nigeria’s vernacular, “it is time to chop and chop.” And they plan on chopping until 2015 or 2019. After 2015 or 2019, they intend to revive the Niger Delta Crisis.


The questions I have, and have had since Jonathan’s ascension are these: What are we to do about the sorry state of the oil-producing communities? What are we to do about the larger Niger Delta? How do we prevent a reoccurrence of the Niger Delta Crisis? What are we going to do when we run out of oil? What do we do when the lands are no longer able to sustain farming, and the rivers so polluted that fishing is almost impossible? And even if we don’t run out of oil, what do we do when the world discovers alternative source of energy? How do we move Nigeria forward? And who, in the name of the almighty, is going go clean and restore our terrible and sickening environment?


If Jonathan – a son of the soil – does not pay serious attention to the region, on whom should the Niger Deltans place their hopes? If Jonathan does not develop the riverine areas, what right would the Ijaw have to cry on the shoulder of the next president who, definitely, will not be an Ijaw? Since the late-1970s at least, oil has been the dominant earner of foreign exchange; and more than eighty percent of the nation’s budget has come from petro-dollars. Yet – yet – there are no travelable roads and bridges and hospitals and enviable human development and what is commonly referred to as Federal Presence.


In spite of this reality, Jonathan, a man who claims to come from a humble background and poor parentage and lacking shoes and modern amenities, does not see it fit to do anything about the abject condition of his people? What nonsense! How much will it cost to build two major highways and eight connecting roads in and around the Niger Delta? No more than four weeks’ worth of oil export! How much will it cost the oil-producing states to build first-class schools and hospitals, and to provide potable water and clean environment? Less than thirty percent of their yearly budgets! How much will it cost these states, in concert with the federal government, to industrialize the region? Less than twelve weeks earning from oil export.


And so, while Jonathan and a section of his kinsmen (and governors from the oil-producing states) are chopping and misappropriating public funds, they should remember that they will not be in power forever. They may lose elections. They may be impeached. They may become incapacitated by mental or physical sicknesses. They may die. Yes, they may die! And of course, death is a great leveler. And especially in the case of Mr. Jonathan -- whether he remains in power beyond 2015 or not -- he is likely to be the most reviled man in the history of the Niger Delta; and certainly, may become the most despised after General Olusegun Obasanjo.


What Jonathan’s kinsmen should have told him or what they should be telling him is this: “if you can’t effect change and improvements in the economic and political space don’t make it worse; and secondly, stay away from the 2015 presidential elections.” It’s that simple. It is this simple because, as we approach the halfway mark of his presidency, one can hardly point to quantifiable achievements at home and abroad. Especially at home! The Ijaw ethnic group – spread over six states – is still waiting for Jonathan to positively impact their lives. In so many ways, not much has changed in the riverine areas since the Portuguese and the British first set foot in that part of the world more than 700 years ago. The larger Niger Delta region is also waiting. Indeed, the entire country is also waiting.

Bia Chukwuemeka, business has landed, Oduah kinsmen need shock absorber asap

The kinsfolk of embattled Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, have said they are surprised at the groundswell of public opinion running against their most prominent daughter.

The people of Akili-Ozizor in Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anamba State told Saturday PUNCH that as far as they were concerned, the minister is the best thing that has happened to them.

They said she has not only regularly empowered young people and widows, the minister has built schools and churches for them. They listed some of the projects she has done for the community to include the building of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, the rehabilitation of the Josephine Oduah Secondary School and the provision of a borehole.


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Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah


One of the chiefs, Boniface Osakwe, who is the Onya of Akili-Ozizor, told Saturday PUNCH that Oduah’s philanthropy extends beyond the community to the entire Ogbaru l Local Government Area, spanning all the towns located along the lower bank of the River Niger in Anambra State.

Osakwe wondered why she was being persecuted in an office that she will leave one day.

“Is it because she is a woman? Other people had been in that office. She will leave one day and another person will occupy it,” Osakwe wondered.

The President General of Akili-Ozizor Town Union, Mr. Chukwudi Igwe, simply said Oduah “is a very good woman.”

He would not be dragged into commenting on the raging car scandal circulating about the minister. “I don’t know about that. All I know is that she has been helping our people,” he added.

One young man from the community, Mr. Chidozie Ogbaekwe, said he was surprised about the car scandal. “If they bought the cars for her, she will use them now. Any problem with that?” he asked.

Ogbaekwe who said many indigent members of the community have benefited from scholarships from Oduah, however pointed out that the woman was yet to fulfil the promise she made to him about buying him a motorcycle.

“I am hoping that when she comes in December, she will give me my own motorcycle,” he said.

Oduah’s image looms large over the small and rustic community located on the bank of the River Niger. From Uga Junction, 30km away from Onitsha, where commercial motorcycles ferry people to Akili-Ozizor and other towns in Ogbaru, all the visitors need to tell the cyclists is take me to Stella’s House.

Her father, John Oduah, was the traditional ruler of the community. Her mother was the Omu, a title and office Stella has since inherited.

The only asphalt road veering off the main road in the community leads to her expansive estate, which she shares with the workers of her contracting company.

She is currently erecting a huge country home on about two hectares of land, not far from her older estate.

Last year, her entire home was submerged in the flood disaster that ravaged all the riverine communities in Anambra State.


http://www.punchng.com/feature/oduah-were-shocked-kinsmen

Thank God.

caseless: men, i dey oo. how hustle nau?

Where the party at?

caseless: na da lafiya sosai.....i get lafiya die. u must attend my farry..simple!

Mallam Yaro, lafia ko

caseless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atnuPu13BjM

i'm imbyting oll op u my brazaz and sisitas to ur aboki's zip-up ziff-uff farty(party), a gidan mallam Bala....

zhe names of guests are as pollows; caracta kwarakta, jekyll & hyde jekwaill and zhe haiz, vanneni banani, mondi cheek monzi mai ciki(pronounced chiki in hausa), bejahisky beje haski, itsmodella tsuntsun mozilla, cathaliya casaliya mai talia(spaghetti seller), brenda baranza, dont8 zont takwas, spike safaik mai shago(kiosk owner), ishsophe shi yayi sofa sosai, larride larai na larindai, lertee talatu, maria-goretti maryam gworeti aka mai gworo, idowuogbo izowu obo, xynerise sikinerais, albinoninja zabiya nenja and a pew ozha i hab nat mentioned, u are inbited by your mallam, caseless kesilas or kaishi last.....


abamu kida, kaaaaiiiiiiiii!

Kai Mallam Caseless, I've been around like forever. How u?

caseless: where have u been?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BpdNvSgjUY

You can say that again!

xule20: Guess da bushmeat finaly caught da hunter

Says who?

Don Magic Juan: Weed is not a narcotic.

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He's an antelope, he'll surely get the message

Tolexander: i didn't mean that o my bro!

Only got him a better way to say what he was trying to say.

You mean Mr. Antelope is drinking coffee with great Fela at the moment

Tolexander: my eldest brother don payeen and dey heaven!
Pretty sure that is where you belong and typing from!

Classic!

Tolexander: see pikin wey Fela casket old pass!

xynerise: Nope. If you are my son then you are a waste of sperm

Aren't you my fada

xynerise: Your fada

It's possible for an outsider to know more than you (sometimes) in a way, he wasn't even close to Fela as Seun and Dede were.

demelza: If Femi does not know, is it we the outsiders that would know?

Come to the okijashrine so I can tell you, antelope like you

xynerise: You tell me

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