EXCLUSIVE: Inquest Begins on Associated Airline Crash

Four months after the Associated Airline Aircraft conveying about 20 persons to Akure, in Ondo State crashed minutes after taking off from the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos, an inquest has begun I can authoritatively report.

The inquest was initiated at the demands of Femi Falana Chambers to bring to light the cause of the crash which claimed the lives of about 16 of the passengers including the airline crew of the ill fated plane.

To kick start the sitting, 15 deponents were selected for the inquest at the Senior Magistrate Court 5, Abule Egba, in order to begin the long process of unraveling the true cause of the crash.

Some of the deponents include the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority  (NCAA),  Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Accident and Investigation Bureau (AIB), Channels Television, the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and the Oshodi/Isolo Local Government where the incident took place.

Patience is a Mere Domestic Appendage-Soyinka

The wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, has been accused of getting away with murder in the country and of being used as a political tool, with the tacit support of her husband.

Making this allegation Thursday during an international press conference on the state of the nation, Nigeria’s Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, who alongside human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), pointedly identified the first lady as being neck deep in the political crisis in Rivers State, added that her “seizure of Port Harcourt for 11 days with full security apparatus in tow, indicated that there is something about that madam herself.”