The government of Ethiopia has suspended Visa on arrival for Nigerians, along with travellers from 41 other countries. This is coming barely two weeks after the country’s flag carrier, Ethiopian Airlines acquired 49 percent majority stake on the Nigeria Air…
Bodi no be wood: 2 pilots fall asleep while flying
Two pilots fell asleep at 37,000ft (11,000m), missing an airport runway before waking to safely land the plane, an aviation publication says. Air traffic tried to contact them after they overshot the point of descent into Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa airport.…
FG repatriates 289 Nigerians in 4th evacuation flight
The federal government has evacuated 289 more Nigerians stranded in the United States due to coronavirus-related border closure. An Ethiopian Airlines plane conveying the evacuees took off from New Jersey on Tuesday night and is expected to land in Abuja…
COVID-19: Ethiopian Airlines delivers Jack Ma’s medical supplies to Nigeria
An Ethiopian Airlines Freighter on Tuesday landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos to deliver medical supplies from the Jack Ma Foundation. The flight landed at 3:20pm, hours after the closure of international airports by the Nigerian Government.…
*Presidential order on Apapa gridlock: Enforcement suffers set back as trucks remain (Vanguard) * Lagos businessman’s decomposing corpse found inside Magodo residence (Punch)
Presidential order on Apapa gridlock: Enforcement suffers set back as trucks remain (Vanguard) Despite the expiration of the presidential order for the relocation of trucks from roads in Apapa and its environs, the enforcement is suffering set back following the…
Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 pilots ‘could not stop nosedive’ (BBC)
The Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed last month nosedived several times before it hit the ground, a preliminary report has said. Pilots “repeatedly” followed procedures recommended by Boeing before the crash, according to the first official report into the disaster.…
Writers gather today at Ouida to pay tribute to Pius Adesanmi
If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me (Psalm 139: 9-10). – Pius Adesanmi Professor Pius Adesanmi, award…
Families of Ethiopian plane disaster victims visit crash site (Punch)
Ethiopians clad in traditional mourning shawls and other black clothing gathered silently in a hotel conference room in Addis Ababa, local media reported on Thursday. Couples held each other, slumped forward in their chairs and gazing downwards. Some men held…
*Lagosians have spoken, says Sanwo-Olu (Nation) * Police inspector slumps, dies while going to work (Punch)
Lagosians have spoken, says Sanwo-Olu (Nation) Lagos governor-elect Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu yesterday accepted the mandate given to him to steer the ship of the state for the next four years beginning from May 29. Sanwo-Olu, who was All Progressives Congress…
Nigerian writers mourn Prof. Pius Adesanmi
The community of Nigerian writers, scholars and journalists announces with great shock and sadness the sudden and painful passing of our friend, colleague and brother, Professor Pius Adesanmi who was aboard the Ethiopia Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 that crashed…