Tales from the survivors of Abuja ADC Plane Crash

I've just read a report from the BBC as captioned, about the survivors of Sunday's plane crash. While it is still sad news for Nigerians everywhere, people everywhere are furious with Aviation Minister Babalola Borishade who, before any investigation or consultation with industry experts, decided to publicly place the blame with the pilot of the aircraft.

Experts from Boeing have just arrived to investigate the crash, and reports from eye witnesses and survivors indicate that the plane was on fire and out of control before it hit the ground suggesting that the problem was mechanical.

According to one early report Borishade has today been ordered so swap roles with Culture and Tourism Minister Femi Fani-Kayode.


A new Sultan of Sokoto has been named as 53-year-old army colonel Sa'ad Abubakar, brother to the late Sultan.

Let us all hope things improve from this tragedy.

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Back in Lagos

I'm back in town after finalising my visa arrangements on Friday and navigating the British Railway Networks to the airport. I would have liked to have said the train journey was good, and that the poor reputation of the railways is undeserved. However, finding a flea sucking blood from my arm while sat in a First Class coach of a First Great Western train, I decided there and then that I would not be praising them. Despite being almost on time.

So I arrived here yesterday morning, and made it out of the airport by 6:15am to be able to reach home before the Environmental curfew started which is 7am-10am Last Saturday of each month. Most of Saturday is a blur as I didn't sleep well on the flight and I was dozing on and off most of the time.

Today I hooked up my laptop and checked my email and received this story from a Nigerian friend of mine about the unswerving confidence of Nigerians. Not long after reading it I saw another headline come in from the BBC. Plane crash near Nigeria capital. Since then some of the names of those that perished on board have been revealed, including the Sultan of Sokoto, seen as the leader of all Nigerian Muslims.

After the crashes of last year, and the crash in September, one wonders if anybody in the Nigerian Government actually cares that their procrastination, inability to make simple rules stick and inefficient methods are costing the lives of the people that they are there to serve and doing untold harm to the economy along with it.

How to survive a plane crash.

As I prepare for my exam tomorrow, I came accross a distraction that I thought I'd share.

The tale of an Expatriate surviving a plane crash in Nigeria, in 1983.