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Below are some of the victims and relative of the Dana plane that crashed in Nigeria on June 3, 2012  

By Channels TV An official of Dana Airlines who does not want to be named has just confirmed to Channels Television that the ill-fated Dana Air flight 0992, MC Donnell Douglas (MD 83) was faulty shortly after it left Lagos and stopped over in Calabar. She alleged that the Indian owners of the airline threw caution to the wind and ...

A Nigerian graduate at the Lehman College, the City University of New York (CUNY), Olu Onemola, has received seven awards at the university’s 2012 graduation ceremony. He received the awards during the graduation ceremony held on Saturday in New York. Olu is the son of Bukun-olu Onemola, Nigeria’s Deputy Ambassador at the United Nations in New York. A graduate of ...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday visited the Lagos crash site of Dana airliner that ploughed into a Lagos suburb, killing all 153 people on board. He pledged action to improve air safety. Jonathan had to go from the airport to the site of the crash by road instead of by helicopter, perhaps due to the densely populated nature of the ...

A court in France has sentenced a Guinean couple to a total of two and half a year in jail for circumcising their four daughters aged between 11 and 20 years. As the judges of Nièvre in central France delivered their judgement, the four girls ran towards the judges in tears and attempted to interrupt the announcement of the verdict. ...