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Monday, June 4, 2012

List of the deceased from Dana Air plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria

Onyeka Anyene

Harry Lawal

Mamuna Anyene

Berkisum Yindadi

Ebuka Enuma

Oluchi Onyeyiri

Sunday Enuma

George Moses

Ogechi Njoku

Noah Anyene

Kamsiyonna Anyene

Stamford Obrutse

Kaiyenotochi Anyene

Okeke Hope

Kayimarachi Anyene

Rev. Ayodeji Cole

Ngozi Cole

Noah Anyene

Ailende Ehi

Oluwasegun Funmi Abiodun

Shehu Saad Usman

Alade Martins

Onita Jennifer

Onita Josephine

Ike Ochonogor

Joy Alison

John Ahmadu

Aquade Roger

Osunbade Aderogu

Akowe Fatokun Anjola

Fatokun Olaoluwa

Fatokun Ibukun

Bukhari Maikudi

Amina Idris Bugaje

Ajani Adenike

Ike Abugu

Adijolola Abraham

Obot Emmanuel

Otegbeye Hadiza

Ehioghae Sonny

Onwuriri Celestine

Abikalio Otatoru

Norris Kim

Eyo Bassey

Njoku Charles

Anibaba Tosin

Okocha Christopher

Shobowale Femi

Phillip Chukwu -Ebuka

Sparagano Lawrence

Somolu Oluwakemi

Ariyibi Temitope

Mecha Eke

Ojugbana Amaka

Ojugbana Christopher

Hnuna Walter

Coker Olumide

Lilian Las

Mutihir Itsifanus

Yusuf Ali

Lt. Col. Jumbo Ochigbo

Eribake Wale

Zhai Shutao

Wang Yu

D. Awani

O. Awani

N. Chidiac

Rijoel Dhose

Li Huizha

Apochi Godwin

Kang Yi

Inusa Ahmed

Faysal Inusa

Mojekwu Adaobi

Ibrahim D

Bamaiyi Adamu

Ifekawa Jones

Peter Nosike

Anthony Nwaokoagbara

Mahmudu Aliyu

Nnadi John

Akwaeze Elizabeth

Dorothy Adedunni

Echeidu Ibe

Maria Okwulehie

Jennifer Ibe

Oloko Tunji

Sarah Mshelia

Ahmed Mbana

Okonji Patrick

Oyosoro Rajulie

Oyosoro Ugbabio

Kaikai Farida

David Kolawole Fortune

Eyinoluwa David Kolawole

Kaltum Abubakar

Dakawa Mahmud.

Patience Sunday Udoh

Asuquo Ini Obong

Onemonelease Aimanehi

Onyeagocha Chidinma

Onyeagocha Ogechi

Ike Okoye

Amaka Raphael

Ijeoma Onyijuke

Garba Abdu

Aisha Abdu

Benson Oluwayomi

Anthony Opara

Taiwo Lamidi

Awodogan Olusanmi

Obi Chinwe

Shaibu Memuna

Major I.G Muhammad

Nagidi Ibrahim

Attah Anthonia

Shaibu Sam

Ifeanyi Orakwe

Obinna Akubueze

Li Rui

Xie Zhenfeng

Okor Eseoghene

Chukwuemeka Okere

Adekunbi Adebiyi

Ibrahim Matankari

Wasa Ruth

Wasa Awiyetu

Ojukwu Alvana

Lawal Anakobe

Nabil Garba

Mohammed Falmata

Ibrahim Jangana

Okikiolu Olukayode

Komolafe Olugbenga

Dike Chinwe

Dike Chukwuezugo

Olusola Arokoyu

Adekola Ayoola

Akinola Olumodeji

Olukoya Banji Saka Otaru

Adeleke Oluwadamilare

Yusuf Ibrahim

Ikpoki Obiola

Aikhomu Ehime

Levi Ajuonuma

Mbong Eventus.

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President Goodluck Jonathan declares 3 day mourning for victims of Dana Air plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria

Passenger plane crashes into building in Lagos, Nigeria

Sunday, June 3, 2012

President Goodluck Jonathan declares 3 day mourning for victims of Dana Air plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria

President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday declared three days of national mourning for those who lost their lives in a Dana plane crash in Lagos, according to a statement from Aso Rock Presidential Villa.

The Dana Air flight from Abuja to Lagos crashed a few kilometres to the airport with 147 people on board, according to an airline official.

The statement said Jonathan had cancelled all his public engagements scheduled for tomorrow and had also directed that the Nigerian flag be flown at half-mast for the three days of national mourning.

The President has also ordered the “fullest possible investigation’’ into the crash.

The statement said that In compliance with the President’s directive, the Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, had already left Abuja for Lagos to oversee the crash investigations and present an interim report to the Federal Government as quickly as possible.

“The President joins all Nigerians in mourning all those who lost their lives in the plane crash which has sadly plunged the nation into further sorrow on a day when Nigerians were already in grief over the loss of many other innocent lives in the church bombing in Bauchi State.

“President Jonathan assures air travellers in the country that every possible effort will be made to ensure that the right lessons are learnt from the tragic loss of valuable lives in today’s plane crash and that further measures will be put in place to boost aviation safety in the country.

“He prays that God Almighty will grant the families of the victims of the plane crash the courage and fortitude to bear their irreparable loss,’’ said the statement signed by Dr Reuben Abati, Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity.

Meanwhile, a spokeman for the airline, Mr Tony Usidamen, said that 147 people were on board the plane, 139 of them passengers.

In another development, investigations into crash have begun, the Director-General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Dr Harold Demuren, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on phone on Sunday in Lagos.

Asked if they were survivors among the passengers on board when the plane crashed, he said: “We don’t believe there are survivors.

“I am talking to you from the scene of the crash. Right now our thoughts and prayers are with the families.”

Rescue efforts are being hampered by a huge crowd of onlookers, miscreants and sympathisers.

NAN correspondents at the crash site at Iju, on the outskirts of Lagos, report that the inaccessibility of the site has made it difficult for rescue teams, which include the police, Red Cross, Army, FRSC, Nigeria Air Force and Fire Service to get to the plane.

The General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Femi Osanyintolu, told NAN that the building on which the plane fell must be demolished for any rescue operation to take place.

He also said that they had to be cautious in demolishing the building because of its location in a residential area.

In a related development, a contract staff with the British American Tobacco Company, Mr Isaac Daniel, who resides in a two-storey building where the plane crashed, said he had lost everything to the incident.

Daniel said that he resided at the ground floor of the building with five members of his family.

He said that all his family members survived the crash but lost their certificates to the fire that engulfed the plane, adding that he was not at home when the incident occurred.

Eyewitnesses said that three lifeless bodies had been removed from the building.

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Passenger plane crashes into building in Lagos, Nigeria

List of the deceased from Dana Air plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria

Passenger plane crashes into building in Lagos, Nigeria

A passenger plane has crashed into a two-storey building in densely populated Lagos city, Nigeria's commercial hub.

A source at the national emergency management agency said the aircraft belonged to privately-owned domestic carrier Dana Air and had 147 people on board.

Femi Oke-Osanyinpolu, Lagos state emergency state manager, said on Sunday that casualty numbers are unknown.

Harold Denuren, head of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, said the flight was heading from Lagos to Abuja, the capital. "I don't believe there are any survivors," he said.

It was unclear how many people were on board the plane or in the building, located just north of the airport.

An Associated Press reporter saw parts of the plane's seat signs scattered around. The rest of the plane was cratered into the apartment building.

Firefighters tried to put out the smoldering flames of a jet engine and carried at least one corpse from the building that continued to crumble. Thousands of people looked on.

Two firetrucks and about 50 rescue personnel were at the site about an hour after the plane went down. A military helicopter flew overhead.

Lagos airport has been shut down and passengers awaiting further flights told to go home.

Al Jazeera's Yvonne Ndege, reporting from Abjua, said people on the ground in Lagos believe it may have hit a power line and crashed into a building. She said there are pictures on the internet of huge plumes of smoke across the Lagos skyline.

"NEMA (the National Emergency Management Agency) has been alerted to an air crash in the Ishaga area of Agege, Lagos," NEMA spokesman Yushua Shuaib said.

Witnesses said they saw the plane strike a building and burst into flames.

The weather in Lagos on Sunday was clear and sunny.

Lagos' international airport is a major hub for West Africa and saw 2.3 million passengers pass through it in 2009, according to the most recent statistics provided by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria.

In August 2010, the US announced it had given Nigeria the FAA's Category 1 status, its top safety rating that allows the nation's domestic carriers to fly directly to the US.

The Nigerian government said it also now has full radar coverage of the entire nation. However, in a nation where the state-run electricity company is in tatters, state power and diesel generators sometimes both fail at airports, making radar screens go blank.

This latest incident came after another plane crash on Saturday night in the capital of the nearby West African nation of Ghana, which saw a cargo plane overshoot a runway and hit a passenger bus, killing at least 10 people.

The Allied Air cargo plane had departed from Lagos and was to land in Accra.

Al Jazeera

President Goodluck Jonathan declares 3 day mourning for victims of Dana Air plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria

Nigerian tries to blow up U.S. airliner

Multiple car crash kills 32 in Abuja

Bomb blast at Church in Bauch, Nigeria - 9 dead

A suicide bomber who tried to drive an explosives-packed car into a church in northern on Sunday killed at least nine people, including himself, and injured 35, officials said.

The attacker sped his vehicle as he approached a checkpoint near the church in Bauchi State, which had heightened security following previous attacks in the area blamed on Islamist group Boko Haram.

“We have a checkpoint not far from the church which prevented the bomber from gaining access to his target,” said State police commissioner Mohammed Ladan.

“So he rammed the car into a security gate and the car exploded, killing him and eight other people. … Many people were injured but I can’t give you any precise number because the hospital is still trying to take a toll,” he added.

The head of the Nigerian Red Cross in Bauchi state, Adamu Abubakar, told AFP he counted 35 people injured at an area hospital.

Residents said that the explosion caused the church building to collapse, prompting dozens of people to flee seeking refuge, but some ran straight into a fire raging outside.

“There was confusion as residents and churchgoers tried to flee. Some of them out of fright fell into the fire caused by the explosion,” said resident Timothy Joshua.

Another witness, who requested anonymity, said a presumed accomplice tried to escape the scene after the blast went off and was later chased down and killed by enraged residents, although police could not confirm this account.

“The other bomber abandoned the car they came with and wanted to flee, but he was pursued by a resident and worshippers and beaten to death,” this witness said.

Boko Haram has claimed attacks killing more than 1,000 in Nigeria since July 2009, with some of the worst bloodshed coming in the northeast.

The group staged a daring jailbreak in Bauchi in September 2010 during which it said roughly 100 of its members were freed.

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Video - Bomb blast near Church in Suleja

Nigerian wins banker of the year

At the 6th edition of the African Banker Awards, under the patronage of the African Development Bank (ADB) on Wednesday in Tanzania, Mr. Olusegun Agbaje, Managing Director, Guaranty Trust Bank, Nigeria, was awarded the African Banker of the year.

He was presented with his Trophy by Tim Turner, Director, Private Sector Operations, ADB, at the picturesque Frangipani Gardens, where the Awards ceremony took place. Also, Ecobank beat tough competition posed by six other contestants in its category to come out on top as African Bank of the Year.

The Bank which was given particular credit for its continued expansion throughout Middle Africa as the pan African bank, got a strong endorsement when South Africa's Public Investment Corporation officially signed the $250 million investment agreement in the Group.

The Best Regional Bank category named a winner from each of the five regions of Africa: Attijariwafa Bank, Morocco, for North Africa; BGFI, Gabon, for Central Africa; Bank of Kigali, Rwanda, for East Africa; Access Bank, Nigeria, for West Africa; and BCI, Mozambique, for Southern Africa.

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Four Nigerian banks make it in top 500 banks of the world ranking