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NIAMEY (AFP) – “Armed bandits” have killed a Niger soldier and seriously wounded three others in Nigeria’s volatile north-east, a high-ranking Niger security official told AFP Thursday, in new violence to hit an area considered as the homebase of Islamist sect Boko Haram.

“A soldier from Niger was killed yesterday (Wednesday) around 7:00 pm (1800 GMT) and three others were wounded in an attack by eight armed bandits on Nigerian territory,” the official said on condition of anonymity.
The soldiers were part of a west African force based in Baga, a town located in Nigeria’s restive northeastern state of Borno.

The three wounded soldiers were taken to a hospital in eastern Niger’s Diffa, near the border with Nigeria.
Diffa-based private radio station Anfani claimed the soldiers were “ambushed by Boko Haram 10 kilometres (six miles) from the border with Niger”.

Boko Haram has said it is fighting to create an Islamic state in Nigeria’s mainly Muslim north, but the group is believed to be made up of different factions with varying aims.

The group has attacked churches, mosques, newspaper offices, the security forces, politicians and a UN building, among other targets.

According to an estimate earlier this year, Boko Haram’s insurgency has claimed more than 3,600 lives, including deaths caused by the security forces. The current toll is likely much higher.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/armed-bandits-kill-niger-soldier-wound-3-others-borno/

LAGOS — Failure of regulation may have been responsible for the crash of Associated Airlines plane at the Lagos airport yesterday, killing about 15 persons and injuring others.

Reports have it that 20 persons, including seven crew members, were on board the ill-fated plane, Brazilian made Embraer 120, when it came down.
Although Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, is yet to conclude investigations into the crash, circumstances surrounding the crash indicate that the aircraft was not airworthy and was not checked by inspectors of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, before take-off.
This is because it is unusual for an airliner that just took off from the airport to be unable to make an air return to base minutes after
Vanguard learnt yesterday that the plane crashed shortly after it took off for Akure, after allegedly losing one of its twin-engine .

Ideally, every aircraft is supposed to carry an inspector on board or at least certify that the aircraft is fit to fly.
Immediate past Director-General of NCAA, Dr. Harold Demuren, had always lamented that the agency lacked adequate inspectors to properly discharge its responsibility of auditing aircraft operating in the country for safety.
The reason Demuren adduced for this was insufficient funds to engage aircraft inspectors who are mainly retired pilots and aircraft engineers.
It was also the same reason he constantly prevailed on airline operators to remit the 5% passenger service charge, PSC, collected by airlines on behalf of the agency, which the airlines hardly remitted.
Since the exit of Demuren from office, there had been no sign to show that the agency now has adequate number of inspectors to certify planes for take-off.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/crash-another-instance-failed-regulation/

Mtcheeew
una knw were the camp dey since una no bomb til wen innocent people don die finish before una dey bomb.
God dey sha oh

I STILL WANT SHEKAU HEAD WHEATHER DEAD OR ALIVE

May her soul REST IN perfect peace amen

na wa for all dis bad news today oh

This one na first class killing oh

some people wicked sha oh, for were e wife dey for dat matter.

Dey should check if he is not a mad man to kil someone in alter

Waoh this is too much, no need for me to buy current affair

thanks alot

Nothing we nor go hear from china. Even snake wey get leg and small blind boy wey dey see only in the night

In my area they are always on strike, because there is no lit in my area for a week now...
So whats the difference, let them go on strike na

ASUU on strike
Doctors want to go on strike
Boko haram are killing
Phcn want to go on strike

INFACT NIGERIA AS A WHOLE SHOULD GO ON STRIKE

Na Wa For This My Country Oh...Na only God go save us

.........America is above 200yrs,while our own Nigeria is just 53yrs of age,yet u still compare us wit dem and say we dont have any recn 2 celebr8....nw 4 all of u who say we dont hav recn 2 celebr8,pleas try hav a re-think.HAPY BIRTH DAY NIGERIA!!!

I hope everybody is happy now,
especially dave