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An airline belonging to Aero Contractors airlines early hours of today was almost involved in a crash due to loss of pressure.. The aircraft Boeing 737-500 with Registration No 5N-BLC, operated by Aero contractors managed to land safely at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos, following loss of pressure in one of the tyres. Passengers on board the plane screamed for their lives as the pilot was struggling to land the plane, a passenger tells NewsWireNGR.. The passenger who does not want his name mentioned said, "We all screamed Jesus and Allah depending of who your God is as the pilot managed to land the plane"… "I call on the authorities to go through the planes we fly in this country, we cannot be risking our lives flying planes that are not properly checked by the Aviation authorities. Confirming the incident, Yakubu Dati, Coordinating General Manager Aviation Parastatals in a statement issued noted that the aircraft which landed at 10.50am had a total o...

An unidentified flying object crashed into a building in Ibadan, Oyo state, and is believed to be a US drone, the Sunday Tribune reports. Considering the registration number, TX 5803, inscribed on a black battery under the craft, a source said the space craft must have taken off from  NASA base in Texas in the US, stating that the battery attached to the spacecraft powered it and enabled it to move around so that it could do the bidding of those who sent it. Though many aviation sources said that the object could be a device used in espionage, another source, however, believed that the craft was a "nondescript aviation device". The craft, which was said to have dropped down from the orbit, flew into a toilet in the house of Ashipa of Awotan, Chief Tajudeen  Adetoro, a few minutes after his grandson, Afeez  Adewale and daughter-in-law, Adikat, left the toilet where they had gone to answer the call of nature. According to Chief Adetoro, the mysterious aircraft...

There are clear indications that police officers are working to undermine investigation into the case of Alexandra Ossai, the woman who was allegedly kicked in the stomach by her Lebanese manager, Kaveh Noine, causing her to lose her seven months old pregnancy. When PREMIUM TIMES visited the Gracious Mercy Hospital in the Fagba area of Lagos, where she is currently receiving treatment, Saturday afternoon, plain cloth policemen were seen prompting the tired-looking and agonising woman to make statements, ignoring the concern from her lawyer that she is not in the right state of mind and too physically battered to talk. Mrs. Ossai, 34, was a supervisor at a Lebanese owned printing firm, Toppan printing Company, where she earned a paltry N12,000 monthly salary. On December 13, Mr. Noine allegedly assaulted her for not properly discarding a used carton. The alleged assault was so vicious that it was said to have broken her placenta and damaged the face of her seven months old foetus. She u...

A 22-year-old Connecticut man has admitted to police he used a fire poker and then a buck knife to ruthlessly gut his own mother and pull out her intestines on Thursday. A chilling police report shows that Robert Owen Rankin of Deep River didn't know exactly what all the guts and gore he pulled from his mother Margaret Rohner, 45, were, but he knew why he was doing it. 'I don't know exactly what the stuff was, like octopus tentacles,' he would coolly recount to police. 'I killed my mother because she is pretty much responsible for everything that has gone wrong in my life.' Rankin said he woke up with a plan to snap his mother's neck, reports NBC Connecticut. He said she began to scream as soon as he'd wrapped his arms around her throat. When that didn't work, he said he fetched a fire poker and hit or stabbed her in the neck before continuing to choke her. He said he stabbed her at the belly button with a buck knife and sliced upwards. Once...