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A brake failure has caused a jet to run into a fence at the General Aviation Terminal of the Lagos Airport on Friday. In the latest accident, the King Air Jet was reparking when the driver rammed into the fence, according to an eyewitness. The jet had no passenger on board with the pilot suffering no injury. “The accident happened around 10:00am at a tarmac beside Bristow Helicopter Hanger 3. “The brake of the jet was not functioning which led to the collision of the jet with the fence of Bristow Helicopter hanger,” the eyewitness said . It was gathered that officials of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority visited the scene of the incident to ascertain the cause of the accident. The King Air 200 jet with registration number 5N-HIS is being operated by Mobil Oil Nigeria-Wings Aviation. PlaneLogger   Travel Breaking News News AddThis :  Featured Image :  Original Author :  SaharaReporters, New York Disable advertisements :...

Embassy of Nigeria in RIyadh, Saudi Arabia A 25-year-old Nigerian woman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has accused Nigerian Consular-General in the province of chasing her out when she tried to seek refuge in his office. “I went to the consulate but the consular ordered me out of his office, saying that his office was not a refuge dump and he wasn’t the one who asked me to come to Saudi Arabia,” she told SaharaReporters. Embassy of Nigeria in RIyadh, Saudi Arabia Google The woman, who preferred not to be named due to fear of being victimised, said she ran out of the home of her last employer after being subjected to excruciating maltreatment for six months. A single mother and an illegal immigrant in Saudi Arabia since July 2019, the lady said she had been working as a maid and also depending on hand-outs from kind people. She said she was lured into travelling to the country by an agent, who promised her that she would get a job and earn a big sum of money as a domestic servant...

Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris. At least 32 agencies of the Nigerian Government made 213 transactions worth N9.61bn without indicating the purpose of payments in April and May, according to analysis of the data obtained by Civic Media Lab from the Open Treasury portal from the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation. More than a half of the transactions were conducted in April and about a half of all the payments went to companies. Thirty-five of the transactions were intra ministerial/departmental payments as well as from revenue collection agencies.  Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris. The rest to individual accounts. The Federal Polytechnic, Idah, Kogi State, made unexplained 156 money transfers to individuals. In 75 transactions, the police formations and commands paid out N2.09bn to 43 entities without describing the reasons for the payments. Similarly, the Nigeria Correctional Service failed to indicate the purpose of...

The Nigerian Bar Association, Dutse, Jigawa Branch, has threatened not to participate in the Virtual Annual General Conference of the NBA following the withdrawal of invitation earlier sent to Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el- Rufai. This was made known in a statement on Friday by Chairman of NBA Dutse, Garba Abubakar.  See Also Breaking News BREAKING: Nigerian Bar Association Withdraws El-Rufai's Invitation As Speaker At Conference Over Kaduna Killings 0 Comments 18 Hours Ago The group described as “frivolous” the allegations levelled against Governor el-Rufai, accusing the NBA of not giving him the opportunity to defend himself.  “A section of the country cannot therefore take us for a ride as we all have a fair understanding of the law.  “On the strength of this therefore, we call on the national body under President Paul Usoro (SAN) to reverse the decision with immediate effect else the Nigerian Bar Association Dutse branch will boycott the Virtua...

Kaduna State Governor Nasiru Ahmed El-Rufai Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has accused the Nigerian Bar Association of embracing a “one-sided narrative” after the lawyers’ body bowed to pressure and withdrew his participation from its forthcoming Annual General Conference. El-Rufai had been listed among speakers to take part in a panel discussion during the conference which is scheduled for August 26-29 but some lawyers opposed to his inclusion compelled the NBA to withdraw the invitation earlier extended to the governor. Kaduna State Governor Nasiru Ahmed El-Rufai BBC “NBA platform or not, these worthy conversations must continue. He will continue to make his voice heard on the things our country needs to do for its progress,” Muyiwa Adekeye, Governor el-Rufai’s aide, said in a statement. “While the decision about who speaks at its event is clearly the NBA’s, Mallam el-Rufai wishes to make clear that he did not seek the platform and is not agitated that he...