Author: Chronicle Editor

A Lion Air Boeing 737 passenger plane with 188 people on board has crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. Flight JT 610 was on a scheduled flight to Pangkal Pinang, the main town in the Bangka Belitung Islands. It lost contact with ground control a few minutes after take-off, and was last tracked crossing the sea – it is unclear if there are any survivors. The plane was a Boeing 737 MAX 8, a brand new type of aircraft. “The plane crashed into water about 30 to 40m deep,” Search and Rescue Agency…

President Muhammadu Buhari, Senator Bukola Saraki and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa have all paid tribute to former chairman of the Board of Trustees of PDP

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The Buhari Media Organization (BMO) is mocking the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for claiming that former President Goodluck Jonathan financed the Port Harcourt airport. “We wondered how the party could even claimed that the PDP administration financed a project that the Chinese through the China EXIM bank provided a loan of $500 million to cover three other airports in Lagos, Abuja and Kano. The group dismissed claims by PDP on the Port Harcourt airport project as an attempt to water down the achievements of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. The opposition party had not only claimed credit for its…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said he has been an active practitioner of restructuring since his days as Attorney General of Lagos