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Algerian authorities have stated  the missing Air Algérie-operated flight carrying 110 passengers and 6 crewmembers has crashed over northern Mali. Information on the manifest indicate that a Nigerian was onboard the ill fated flight. Breakdown of those on board were given as follows: 1 Nigerian, 6 Algerians, 51 French, 24 from Burkina Faso, 1 Malian, 1 Belgian, 2 from Luxembourg, 5 Canadians, 1 Cameroonian, 8 Lebanese, 1 Egyptian, 1 Ukrainian, 4 Germans, 1 Swiss, and 6or 7 members of the Spanish crew. Reports indicate that the plane’s pilots requested to change course of the flight to avoid bad weather before the plane lost contact with ground communication. The plane is reported to have crashed near the town of Tilemsi, in the Gao region of northern Mali. Malian President, Mr. Ibrahim Boubacar Keita also confirmed that the wrackage of the missing Air Algerie flight had been spotted in the country’s desert north. “I have just been informed that the wreckage ha...

Trial of former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Vincent Ogbulafor was stalled Thursday over the ongoing nationwide strike by judiciary workers.  The former national chairman of the PDP was docked before the court alongside one other for allegedly defrauding the federal government of the sum of N170 million while serving as Minister of State for Special Duties in 2001. He was said to have conspired with others to float three fictitious companies, with which they perpetrated the fraud. The trial judge, Justice Ishaq Bello of the Abuja High Court had last June scheduled judgment in the matte for Thursday after entertaining final arguments from parties. However, due to the ongoing industrial action, proceedings in the matter could not hold. The court's  entrance gates were under lock and keys with unfriendly looking security personnel on duty. They said the court will remain locked until the strike called by the Judiciary S...

Just as bodies of victims of the MH 17 Malaysian Airline were being flown to their native homes, Taiwan's Central News Agency reports that a plane has crashed in a failed emergency landing, killing 51 people and seriously injuring seven others. The report cites the Civil Aviation Administration as saying the flight crashed Wednesday with 54 passengers and four flight crew and was operated by a Taiwanese airline, TransAsia Airways. The report says the plane likely crashed when an attempt to make an emergency landing in the city of Magong. All this is happening as Isreal is moving to secure a reversal of the directives issued yesterday by the Federal Aviation Authority in the United States directing American Airlines from going to Isreal in the wake of a Hamas launched rocket which detonated very close to Ben Gurion Airport, one of the biggest and busiest airport in Isreal. As at Wednesday, European regulators have also followed the cue from the FAA and had directed ...

Fair Play Africa: FOI: Kano Govt Demands Statement Of Contribution T... : Kano state government on Tuesday secured leave from a federal high court siting in Abuja to institute an action seeking for a judicial revie...

Kano state government on Tuesday secured leave from a federal high court siting in Abuja to institute an action seeking for a judicial review of the refusal of the Ministry of Finance and Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, to disclose to it how much had been deducted from the state's statutory allocations since 2005 for the Petroleum Support Fund, PSF, in line with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Since its inception in 2005, the Petroleum. Support Fund has been funded specifically by the 3 tiers of government in Nigeria through direct deduction from source.  The Kano state government contend that since inception of the PSF, that no account had been rendered to it in respect of the monies deducted from its statutory allocations as well as those of the local governments in the state. The PSF is a pool of funds from the national budget applied for the stabilization of domestic prices of petroleum products so that volatility in international crude oi...