Update On Air Algerie Plane Crash

The French President, Francois Hollande has said that there were no survivors from the Air Algerie AH5017 passenger jet that crashed in Mali.

He said one flight data recorder had been recovered, after French troops reached the crash site near Mali's border with Burkina Faso.

51 French citizens were among the 116 passengers on the Air Algerie flight.

Jihadists Group ISIS Orders 4 Million Girls & Women In Iraqi City To Undergo Female Genital Mutilation

Its been reported that militant group ISIS, may have last night ordered for the compulsory Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) for all women and girls in a region in Iraq where they have control over.

The extremist group has seized large swathes of the troubled country's northern regions and is now said to be imposing its hardline Sharia rules on the population.

The United Nations expressed deep concern yesterday at reports all girls and women in and around city of Mosul are to being forced to undergo FGM procedures.

A UN spokesman in Geneva said that they were seeking clarity and trying to establish the facts.

Video Of The Day

So here's the Video of the day! It's titled "Money"  by King Special. It features so many of your favorite Nigerian Artistes. Imagine Davido selling ice-cream, Burna Boy cutting grass, Patoranking selling groundnuts... My Opinion, it makes sense. Enough said, biko enjoy the video!

Sad News: Algerian Plane Disappears From Radar, 116 On Board

This is a very very very sad news. This July seems to be a black one. First it was MH 17, then it was a Trans Asia Airways, just today an Air Algeria Passenger flight MD-83 flying from Burkina Faso to Algeria with 116 people on board has dropped off radar.

The pilot had asked for permission to change route because of a sand storm around 20 minutes into the flight, said Burkina Faso Transport Minister Jean Bertin Ouedrago.

Swift air (operators of the airline) said the aircraft took off from Burkina Faso at 1.17am local time and was supposed to land in Algiers at 5.10am local time but never reached its destination.

Onboard the jet were 51 French citizens, 27 Burkina Faso nationals, eight Lebanese, six Algerians, five Canadians, four Germans, two Luxemburg nationals, one Swiss, one Belgium, one Egyptian, one Ukrainian, one Nigerian, one Cameroonian and one Malian. And six crew members all Spanish.

FG Declares Next Week Monday and Tuesday Public Holiday

The Federal Government has declared Monday July 28th and Tuesday July 29th public holidays in order to commemorate the Eid-el-fitri Salah celebration.

A statement was issued yesterday July 23rd in Abuja by the Ministry of Interior on behalf of the Federal government, All Muslim faithful and Nigerians in general was encouraged to extend the spiritual benefits of Ramadan.

Chidoka Inaugurated As The New Aviation Minister

The new Minister of Aviation (former Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Osita Chidoka), has today been inaugurated by the President Goodluck Jonathan.

Chidoka replaces Stella Oduah, who got sacked by Jonathan on February 12th, 2014 after a series of investigative reports which exposed her involvement in a web of certificate scandals, as well as the scandalous purchase of two BMW armored cars for $1.6 million as reported by Sahara Reporters.

After swearing in Chidoka just before the Federal Executive Council’s meeting began, President Jonathan announced the replacement of Chidoka as FRSC boss with Boboye Oyeyemi, who until now was Deputy Corps Marshal.

Dr. Suleman Abubakar was also named as the Minister for National Planning; Abubakar was   lecturer at the University of Abuja. He will also simultaneously work as Deputy Chairman of the National Planning Commission. 

Victims Of The MH17 Crash Begins Their Journey Home

Today is a day of mourning in the Netherlands for the 298 victims of MH17 that was shot down. As the first planes carrying bodies from flight MH17 have left Ukraine for the Netherlands.  

Pro-Russian rebels have been widely accused of shooting down the Malaysia Airlines plane on 17 of July. The Rebels have also been accused of exaggerating the number of bodies transported from the crash site to the town of Kharkiv on Tuesday. They had claimed 282 bodies had been loaded on to a train, but experts said only 200 could be verified.

Experts will begin to identify the dead, most of whom were Dutch. The first 40 coffins were slowly loaded on to two military planes at Kharkiv airport on Wednesday morning by a military guard of honour.

Death Toll Of Chibok School Girls Parents Hits 11

According to The Sun and the Associated Press (AP), nearly a dozen parents of the more than 200 kidnapped northern schoolgirls will never see their daughters again.

Since the mass abduction of the schoolgirls by Islamic extremists three months ago, at least 11 of their parents have died and their hometown, Chibok (Borno State), is under siege from the militants, residents report.

Seven fathers of kidnapped girls were among 51 bodies brought to Chibok hospital after an attack on the nearby village of Kautakari this month, said a health worker who insisted on anonymity for fear of reprisals by the extremists.

At least four more parents have died of heart failure, high blood pressure and other illnesses that the community blames on trauma due to the mass abduction 100 days ago, said community leader Pogu Bitrus, who provided their names.

Bornu NMA Chapter Shuns General Strike

It’s been reported that the Bornu State Chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has ignored the ongoing nationwide strike embarked upon by the national body of the association.

According to the local NMA chapter this move is to allow medical doctors in the state to attend to victims of the five-year-old Boko Haram insurgency in the state.

According to  THEWILL it was disclosed to them that medical doctors in neighbouring Adamawa and Yobe States are also shunning the general strike to enable them attend to victims of Boko Haram insurgency.

The source however said that though the doctors did not join their colleagues in the strike, they align with the demands of their other colleagues, maintaining that the decision was made in line with the ethics of the profession which demands a sacrifice for the life of patients.

Is this a good move?

I think it is!!!