4 Minutes Dana Plane Crash

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The ill-fated flight Abuja en-route Lagos was four minutes from the landing when it crashed into the heavily populated Iju area of Lagos.

These words hits me hard each time i read it. Reminding me of how powerful time is and can be.
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In just 4 minutes the plane would have landed safely.
Just 4 minutes and there wont be any need to mourn.
Just 4 minutes and families would receive their loved ones at the airport
Just 4 minutes of thorough safety checks and the crash would be averted and lives saved.
Just 4 minutes of convincing the airline management not to fly that plane
Just 4 minutes and I wont be seating here unable to comprehend how on earth do Nigerians settle for less.

The flight was over 25 years. In less than a year the same flight would not be suitable for commercial use by International aviation standards for flights over 30 years.

How many of us would travel in a car over 29 years yet flights over 30 years are flown in this country.

I can recall in 2010, the Nigerian government banned all use of aircraft over 20 years of age, so what happened to this ban? Did they just un-ban it over night?

Evidently in just 4 minutes a lot would have changed. Now history has it that on June 3, 2012 a Dana airline MD-83 flight 0992 carrying 153 passengers crashed into the heavily populated Iju area of Lagos four minutes from the landing.

Time for Nigerians to Rethink in 4 minutes.

In 4 minutes, the Nigerian president can declare war against corruption.

If it took less than four minutes to withdraw the Dana airline license, then in 4 minutes the president can order the arrest of all corrupt civil servants mentioned in the fuel subsidy probe.

We all know there is a natural cycle in life where every corrupt practice has a multiplier effect that transcends one sector of the economy to another.

In 4 minutes I will stop writing because the Power holding company might cut off electricity.

ReThink Naija!!!

Now what do you think?

Drop your comments or join the discussion @IamChiJosh on twitter.

Man Dies During Intercourse

Peace Idorenyin, a commercial sex worker in Cross River State, has been arrested by the police in connection to the death of Ete Samuel, 30, a resident of Calabar, who allegedly slumped and died on Sunday while having sex with her.

Samuel, who until his death resided at 14, Ekpo Abasi Lane in Calabar South, allegedly went with Idorenyin to a motel on Atu Street for an evening sex session before the incident happened.

The owner of the motel, who did not want his name published, said that he was drawn to the room when he heard a shout. “When I got there, I went into the room and saw a young man on the floor with foam coming out of his mouth and I called the police who came and took the corpse to the mortuary and the lady to Atakpa Police Station,” he said.

Idorenyin, when contacted, said she was not the cause of the death of Samuel, adding that this was not the first time they had sex. She said she noticed that Samuel was shaking and she thought he was about reaching orgasm, “but when he did not make any move of coming down from my body after some time, I pushed him and saw that he was foaming in his mouth.”

“I did not kill him as many men have slept with me and they did not die and this was not the first time Ete Samuel was doing it with me,” she said. “I could have escaped, but since I know I am not the cause of his death, I had to wear him his trousers before calling people to help me.”

The state’s police spokesperson, Hogan Bassey, said investigation was still ongoing in the matter and that Idorenyin was still in custody so as to provide more information “on how the man died.”

Source: Dailytimes

Dead Obese Woman Set Building On Fire During Her Cremation

Austrian crematorium officials have blamed a deceased woman's obesity for causing a blaze which had to be tackled by firefighters.

Firemen in the southern city of Graz were covered in thick sticky soot as they tried to prevent the blaze from taking hold of the building.

The case has been widely reported in Austrian media, including in the ORF - the country's equivalent of our BBC - and has ignited calls for a weight limit on bodies to protect against future fires.

Firemen whose clothing was left covered with a layer of sooty grease were snapped as they tackled the difficult to extinguish blaze in special breathing gear to avoid inhaling the fumes.

Some countries such as Switzerland and the UK already have facilities which cater for extra large bodies, in line with the growing trend of expanding waistlines.

Speaking to the Daily Mail online, funeral director Christea Bogdan, of Gillman Undertakers, Tooting, south London, said he had never before in his career heard of such an event.

'I have never come across such a case,' he said.

An expert report on the Austria fire has revealed that the woman being cremated weighed more than 200kg - or 31st 7lbs - and her size had caused the oven to overheat.

Graz-based fireman Otto Widetschek said: 'Crematorium officials need to be more responsible and not just automatically put everybody in to be cremated.'

He said that in Switzerland there were moves now to make sure that XXL bodies were routinely shipped to a special crematorium able to deal with the extra heat caused by larger bodies.

Source: Dailymail

PHOTO OF THE DAY

Still wondering what on earth is going this dudes head??? :/


Please help me out!

History of Airplane Crashes In Nigeria

November 20, 1969 – The first plane crash in Nigeria occurred. Government-owned DC-10 aircraft from London crash-landed in Lagos killing and all 87 passengers and crew on board.

January 22, 1973 – Royal Jordanian Airlines flight 707 carrying 171 Nigerian Muslims returning from Mecca and 5 crewmen died in crash in Kano, Nigeria.

March 1, 1978 – F28-1000 a Nigeria Airways aircraft crashed in Kano killing 16 people.

November 28, 1983 – Nigeria Airways F28-1000 crashes on approach in Enugu killing 53 on board.


December 3, 1988, Nigeria Airways Forker-28 crashed in Enugu, killing 103 passengers while in December 1988,a Skypower Brandeironte aircraft overshot Ilorin Airport runway and killing all passengers on board.


February 24, 1991 British Helicopter crashes in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, killing all nine people on board.

May 21, 1991 An Okada Air Bac-11 also crashed in Sokoto on killing three people.

July 11, 1991 – Nigeria Airways DC-8-61 crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from system failure killing all 261 on board.


June 26, 1991 Cessna Citation 550 of Ashaka Cement, Hombe, crashed killing all on board.

September 26, 1992 – Nigerian Air Force A C-130 plane crashes minutes after take-off from Lagos killing all 200 on board amongst who were 157 military officers.

June 24, 1995 – Harka Air Services Tupolev 34 crash-landed in Lagos killing 16.

November 13, 1995 – Nigeria Airways Boeing 737-2F9 crash-landed in Kaduna killing 9.


17 January 1996 Ibrahim Abacha, first son of then Head of State, late General Sani Abacha, and 13 others were killed in a plane crash .

November 7, 1996 – A Nigerian ADC( Aviation Development Corporation ) Airline Boeing 727-231 flying from Port Harcourt to Lagos with 142 passengers and 9 crew members crashed on landing, plunging into a lagoon with all on board killed.

January 31, 1997 – SkyPower Express Airways Embraer 110PIA crashes on landing in Yola killing 5.

September 12, 1997 A NAF Dornier 228-212 in Nguru, Borno State ran into a ditch during the take off, none of the 10 people died.

January 5, 2000 – SkyPower Express Airways Bandeirante 110P1A crashes on landing in Abuja killing 17.

October 26, 2000 A Dornier aircraft plunged into a thick bush in the Niger Delta, the 6 occupants sustained injuries.

May 4, 2002 – Nigerian EAS Airlines’ BAC 1-11-500 plane from the Kano airport en route to Lagos carrying at least 76 people crashed and burst into flames into buildings in a poor, densely populated suburb of Kano. The 76 on board were killed, including 72 on the ground bringing it to a total 148 dead.


March 20, 2003, 100 people on board an ADC Boeing 737 from Calabar Airport which skidded off the runway escaped death.

December 29, 2004 A Boeing 727 of Chanchangi Airlines and A Kenya Airlines aircraft crashed- landed at the Muritala Mohammed Airport (MMA) on same day with the later attributed to gear fault.

July 26, 2004 A Pan African Airlines’ helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in Escravos, Delta State killing 4 people on board.

January 28, 2005 Nigeria Air Force fighter plane crashed into a farmland in Yar Kanya, Kano State.

February 25, 2005 ADC’s B73 aircraft had its tyre burnt while landing at Yola airport.

March 27, 2005 A Boeing 737 of Bellview airlines had one of its engines caught fire.

June 12, 2005 A Boeing 727-200 aircraft belonging to the domestic Chachangi Airlines overshot the runway at Muritala Muhammed airport in Lagos, while yet another overshot the runway at the Jos Airport the day before.

June 24, 2005 A Russian aircraft belonging to Harka Air crashed on landing at the Muritala Muhammed airport(MMA). All the people on board died.

July 6, 2005 Air France A330 plane crashed into a herd of cattle at Port Harcourt airport sustaining serious damage and killing many of the cows. The airport had no perimeter fence and herdsmen usually take their cattle across the tarmac, sometimes abandoning them there.


July 13, 2005 A Ugandan-registered cargo aircraft, belonging to Almiron Aviation, overshot the runway at Murtala Muhammed airport. There were no casualties.


July 23, 2005 A Lufthansa aircraft crashed on landing at Lagos airport and was badly damaged with no life was lost.


October 22, 2005 – A Nigerian Bellview Airlines Boeing 737 airliner with 117 people on board crashes and disintegrates in flames shortly after take-off from Lagos killing everyone on board were killed.

December 10, 2005 – A Nigerian Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in Port Harcourt, killing all 103 on board. Among those killed were 62 pupils of the Loyola Jesuit School Abuja, who were returning to Port Harcourt for the Christmas holiday. Pastor Bimbo Odukoya, Lagos based preacher also died in the crash.


September. 17, 2006 – A Nigerian 18-seater Dornier 228 Air Force transport plane with registration number 228-212, carrying 15 senior army officers and three crew members crashed leaving only three survivors that sustained serious injuries. The plane crashed in Oko village in Vandeikya local government area of Benue State, northern part of Nigeria at about 10:30 a.m local time.

October 29, 2006 – A Nigerian ADC( Aviation Development Corporation ) Airline Boeing 737 with 104 on board crashes minutes after take-off from Abuja’'s airport during a rain storm. All but 6 perished in the disaster. The spiritual leader of Nigeria’s Sunni Muslims, His Eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Maccido was among the dead.

August 2, 2007 Bristow-owned helicopter crashed inside ExxonMobil facility in Port Harcourt.

March 15, 2008 Beechcraft 1900D plane marked 5N-JAH, belonging to Wing Aviation crashed in the mountainous forest of Busi in Cross River State on its way to Obudu airstrip. The wreckage was not found until 6 months after the disappearance of the aircraft. All 4 man crew on board died.

March 14, 2012: A Helicopter belonging to the Joint Task Force (JTF) crashes in Kabong, Jos, Plateau State killing all members onboard including 4 senior Police officers.

June 3, 2012 Dana Air flight carrying 153 passengers from Abuja en-route Lagos crashed into residential buildings in Iju, near Lagos killing everyone on board and 40 others on ground. Among those confirmed in the ill fated Dana Air flight was Mr Levi Ajeonuma of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC).

Psalm 91

Woman Killed Her Son, Ate Part Of Brain

A woman accused of beheading her 3-week-old infant son used a knife and two swords in the attack and ate some of the child's body parts according to the San Antonio police.

William McManus, San Antonio Police Chief told reporters on Monday that Otty Sanchez's attack on her son, Scott Wesley Buchholtz-Sanchez, was "too heinous" to fully discuss.

According to him, Sanchez ate part of the newborn's brain and bit off three of his toes before stabbing herself twice.

Police say the 33-year-old Sanchez told officers who were called to her house early Sunday that she killed her son at the devil's request.

Sanchez is charged with capital murder and is being held on $1 million bail. She is recovering from her wounds at a hospital.

Source: AP

Unilag Renamed M.K.O Abiola University

Although I'm not a grad of UNILAG but this is one big update that annoys me badly. Reason beyond comprehension.

President Goodluck Jonathan has announced the renaming of the University of Lagos after the acclaimed  winner of the June 12 1993 Presidential election, late Chief M.K.O Abiola.

Announcing  the decision in his Democracy Day broadcast on Tuesday morning, President Jonathan said it was meant to honour Abiola for his contribution to growth of democracy in the country.

However, thousands of students of the University of Lagos came out in protest over the change of name of the school announced this morning in a nation wide broadcast by President Goodluck Jonathan to mark this year's Democracy Day.

Notwithstanding  there's MKO Polytechnic, MKO stadium, MKO Streets, MKO Cultural Centre etc 

How about renaming Silverbird galleria??? LMFAO