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All hai‘true Nigerian commando’

Passengers aboard a Port Harcourt-bound flight panicked on Friday after a yet-to-be-identified man climbed the aircraft while it was about to take-off at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Ikeja.

According to a video shot by one of the passengers in Lagos, the man illegally gained access to the airside with a piece of hand luggage. The video also showed that the man climbed the aircraft wing and deposited the bag inside one of the engines.

Mrs. Henrietta Yakubu, General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, who confirmed the development to newsmen said the man had been arrested.

LOL. See wetin Next Level don turn Nigerians into, hanging on an aircraft like say na molue. Pitiful.

 

CAN, practise what you preach!

The Christian Association of Nigeria has endorsed the open letter written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Muhammadu Buhari, describing it as “timely”.

The body said Buhari should curb the insecurity in the country. Responding to questions during a news conference in Abuja on Thursday, CAN President, Rev Supo Ayokunle said, “CAN is interested in the letter being treated with all sense of responsibility and accountability as a country because of the issues raised init. I think the aim of the writer is to call the attention of the nation to things that are capable of setting the nation on fire.

“We think that every Nigerian has the right to caution the leaders.”

But according to una, we can’t caution religious leaders too, can we? Mtcheew.

 

Prison breakthroughs

The Principal, Ikoyi Prisons School, Mr. Ibikunle Idris, has described the performance of inmates who participated in the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, as encouraging and signs of better things to come.

He noted that one of the inmates gave a good account of himself with a score of 246, adding that of the 25 inmates registered for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board examination, the least score was 175.

“This is a sign of good things to come as far as education behind bars in this country is concerned and we are all very excited at this development,” Mr. Idris said.

This is great news. Who says nothing good can come out of Nazareth?

How to let a sleeping tiger lie

A female tiger which fled a wildlife park in India’s flood-ravaged state of Assam was found relaxing on a bed inside a local resident’s house.

She is believed to have fled the Kaziranga National Park, where 92 animals have died in recent days amid heavy flooding. Officials from a wildlife conservation group arrived at the house and created a safe escape route for her.

She was guided in the direction of the jungle.

Ah! God knows I will vacate the house for that tiger. I don’t like roommates.

The future in the present

The French army is to create a “red team” of sci-fi writers to imagine possible future threats.

A new report by the Defence Innovation Agency (DIA) said the visionaries will “propose scenarios of disruption” that military strategists may not think of. The team’s highly confidential work will be important in the fight against “malicious elements”, the report states.

It comes amid efforts by the French to innovate its approaches to defence.

Nigerian Army will not see this one o. Anyone sha, who wants to work for outfit whose highly-treasured ‘drone’ looks like a kite?

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