Tag: passenger
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SAD! Passenger plane with 19 people aboard crashes
A passenger plane carrying 19 people crashed during takeoff in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu on Wednesday morning, with fire crew working to douse the flaming wreckage. The Saurya Airlines plane crashed at around 11:15 am (0530 GMT), Nepal’s military said in a statement. “Rescue work is going on” with the army’s quick response team lending assistance,…
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Air passengers snub Lagos to Anambra/Asaba routes as fare hit N300k
… only six passengers booked There’s currently a trend of empty flights shuttling the country’s airport and commuters have started posting clips of how scanty popular airlines have become during local trips. Few passengers now enjoy the status of flying as if they’re in chartered flights. A passenger who experienced this development, Zeus posted photos…
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Tragedy: 2 die in early morning accident in Akure
Tragedy struck at dawn on Wednesday in Akure, when a commercial motorcyclist conveying a passenger to the hospital crashed into a stationary truck resulting in the death of the two. The accident, which occurred at 5.45 a.m., on the Airport Road, Oba-Ile in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, later attracted motorists, commercial…
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Mike Tyson cleared of charges for punching plane passenger
Former boxing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson will not face criminal charges after punching a man multiple times before a flight out of San Francisco last month. The announcement came on Tuesday following an investigation by the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office. It says the circumstances preceding the April 20 confrontation led to the decision.
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Missing Lagos BRT passenger is dead, body found on Carter Bridge
The 22-year-old lady, Oluwabamise Ayanwole, who got missing in transit on Feb. 26 while on a BRT bus in Lagos has been found dead. Police spokesman in Lagos State, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu, said in a statement issued in Lagos on Monday that Oluwabamise’s corpse was found on Carter Bridge by Ogogoro Community on the Lagos…
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Woman, policeman kill two commercial motorcyclists, passenger in Ondo
There was pandemonium in Akure, the Ondo State capital on Wednesday after three persons were mistakenly killed by a woman and policeman.
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Pandemonium in Ogun as truck driver crushes okada rider, passenger to death
Two persons were crushed to death by a truck on Friday evening along Dangote- Ibeshe road in Yewa North Local Government area of Ogun. Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Spokesman, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), confirmed the incident to the in Abeokuta on Saturday. Akinbiyi, quoting eyewitnesses, said the truck driver drove recklessly, left his…
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COVID-19: FG increases international airlines capacity to 200 passengers
The Federal Government has increased available seats on the flights of international airlines to 200 passengers per aircraft operating into the two designated airports, Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. Capt. Musa Nuhu, the Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) disclosed this in a statement in Lagos…
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Search for passenger who jumped into Lagoon continues on Tuesday
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency said it would on Tuesday recommence the search for a 21-year-old man, Daibo Davies, who plunged into the Lagoon from the Third Mainland Bridge inward Adeniji Adele, Lagos Island. It had been reported that Davies, a resident of Sosanya Street, Soluyi, in the Gbagada area of Lagos, on Saturday…
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Police officer heavily beaten by mobs for shooting passenger
A Divisional Crime Officer (DCO), SP Opawoye Adetunji allegedly shot a bus passenger at Alapere area of Ketu on Sunday. Adetunji, Divisional Crime Officer of Sagamu Road Police Division, Ikorodu, was said to have been attacked by a mob, who beat him to a pulp after the incident. The police officer was reportedly rushed to…