Day: September 17, 2019

Air Rage: Dealing With Emerging Challenge For Airline Industry

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By Wole Shadare Indeed, air rage has become a global problem. Such unruly behaviour, threatening safety and security, adversely affects the travel experience of compliant passengers and disrupts operations that may result in flight delays, cancellations or diversions. Airline personnel have, increasingly, found it necessary to deal with unruly and disruptive passengers, some of whom display violent behaviour. This behaviour can result in serious injury to staff and passengers and can compromise the safety of the aircraft. Termed ‘Air Rage’, this phenomenon enjoys regular media attention and airlines, unions and…

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Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General To Open 74th Session

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*Antonio Guterres, the Secretary General making a point at a previous function ——————————————————————————————– United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Antonio Guterres is set to open the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in New York today. The UN chief will welcome the incoming General Assembly president Tijjani Muhammad-Bande of Nigeria to his new role as head of the 193-member body. As is tradition, the new session begins one week before the assembly’s high-level debate kicks off on September 24 with the participation of world leaders. In a fast-changing world where…

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Rush Hour In Hong Kong: Train Derails, Injures People

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According to reports by AFP, a passenger train derailed during the morning rush hour in Hong Kong on Tuesday leaving eight people injured, authorities said. Images from the scene showed three carriages had left the tracks and were zigzagged across the rails near Hung Hom station in Kowloon — a busy interchange that provides services to mainland China. Passengers had to leave the train through a broken door and cross tracks on the East Rail line to make their way to safety. Five hundred passengers had been evacuated from the…

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Government Plotting Another Genocide In Abia – IPOB Claims

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Media and Publicity Secretary of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Emma Powerful has raised a strong allegation, which claims that there is a plot to attack the home of its leader, Nnamdi Kanu, in Abia State. The statement also claimed the Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, was spearheading the plot. The statement therefore called on international community to stop Ikpeazu. According to the statement, “Another round of genocide looms at the front of our leader’s compound in Isiama Afara Ukwu Ibeku, Umuahia, Abia State by Fulani terror group. “IPOB’s…

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Marginalisation: Igbo Nation Drags Buhari To United Nations

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Information reaching us has it that Igbo in Nigeria has formally taken their case of marginalisation and exclusion allegedly orchestrated against them by President Muhammadu Buhari-led to the United Nations (UN). The group urged world powers to pressure Buhari to re-write the wrongs meted against the Igbo ethnic nationality. They also alleged that there was a grand plot to deny the South East the nation’s presidency in 2023. It is no longer news that Tinubu is nursing the ambition of succeeding Buhari come 2023 and the group believes that because…

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