Tag: Passengers
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FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN: Nigeria unable to trace 158 passengers aboard plane with Coronavirus infested Italian
The Lagos State Government said it was yet to trace the 158 passengers aboard the Turkish airliner that flew in the Italian who is Nigeria’s index case of the virus. It restated that while some of the passengers had travelled to other states in Nigeria, others had gone back to Europe. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu stated…
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Passengers stranded as petroleum tanker explodes on Lagos-Ibadan expressway
A large number of motorists and commuters were yesterday night held up in a gridlock caused by petroleum tanker explosion near the Kara Bridge, outward the Lagos end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. While the motorists could not abandon their vehicles, many commuters, however, resorted to trekking on the other lane inward Lagos. The tanker fell…
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Two Diamond Princess passengers die of coronavirus in Japan
Two passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship have died after contracting the new coronavirus. An 87-year-old man and an 84-year-old woman, both Japanese, died after being brought to hospital from the ship, Japanese broadcaster NHK reported on Thursday, citing government sources. It brings up the number of deaths from the virus to three in…
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JUST IN: 321 British Airways passengers stranded in Abuja
Some passengers of British Airways enroute London and United States of America (USA) to Lagos, Nigeria have called for compensation from the airline for abandoning them in Abuja. Some of them who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday, described the development as `unacceptable’. Mrs Chinelo Etiaba, a passenger from…
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135 passengers escape death in another plane accident
A Caspian Airlines plane skid off the runway onto a highway on landing at an airport in southwestern Iran on Monday. But all passengers were evacuated without injury, Iranian state media reported. “It ran out of runway when landing at Mahshahr airport with no casualties,’’ state news agency, IRNA, said. Some other Iranian media outlets…
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Coronavirus: FG orders screening of passengers at airports, borders
The Federal Government has ordered that passengers coming into the country through the airports, borders and other points of entries be thoroughly screened. This is to prevent the spread of the new deadly virus, coronavirus (2019nCoV), currently ravaging China. The government directive was in a public health advisory on the coronavirus (nCoV) issued yesterday in…
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Coronavirus: FAAN advises passengers on safety measures
In an effort to protect passengers from the Corona Virus epidemic ravaging some countries in South East Asia Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria has urged passengers and other airport users to comply with all quarantine procedures at the nation’s airports. FAAN said the new move became necessary to prevent the spread of such communicable disease…
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All passengers, crew members on crashed plane dead
There was no survivor in the Ukrainian Airlines plane that crashed few minutes after taking off from Tehran’s international airport on Wednesday. All the 176 people on board, including nine crew members died, Iran state media reported. The Boeing 737-800 had left Tehran’s international airport bound for Kiev, semi-official news agency ISNA said. “Obviously it…
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Gunmen kidnap 10 passengers on Akure/Ikere expressway
Some passengers, including the driver of a commercial eighteen- seater bus, were reportedly abducted along Akure/ Ikere Ekiti road by unknown gunmen. It was gathered that the incident happened on Tuesday around 5pm within Iju/Itaogbolu axis. The occupants of the commercial bus were said to be travelling from Akure to Ado-Ekiti before they were waylaid.…
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UN aircraft lift over 58,000 passengers in Nigeria in 2018
The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) successfully transported over 58,000 passengers by both helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft between January and November 2018 in support of humanitarian efforts in Nigeria. The UNHAS fixed-wing service focuses on Borno and Adamawa states, two of the three states most affected by ongoing conflict in the Northeast of Nigeria,…