Satellite data shows hijacked Malaysian plane was last seen flying towards Pakistan

Investigators say the missing Malaysia Airlines jet
was hijacked, steered off-course and could have
reached Pakistan. A Malaysian government official
said people with significant flying experience could
have turned off the flight’s communication
devices.

The representative said that hijacking theory was
now ‘conclusive’, and, as a result, police have
raided the luxury homes of both the captain (right)
and the co-pilot (left)

The search operation has now been focused on
two ‘corridors’, one which extends from  north
west from Thailand to the Kazakstan-
Turkmenistan border and the other which opens
out into the southern Indian Ocean. Continue…

Cuntries in the plane’s potential flightpath have
now joined a huge diplomatic effort to locate the
missing passengers, but China described the
revelation as ‘painfully belated’.
While Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak
refused to confirm that flight MH370 was taken
over, he admitted ‘deliberate action’ on board the
plane resulted in it changing course and losing
connection with ground crews.

The plane’s communication system was switched
off as it headed west over the Malaysian seaboard
and could have flown for another seven hours on
its fuel reserves.

It is not yet clear where the plane could have
been taken, however Mr Razak said the most
recent satellite data suggests the plane could have
headed to one of two possible flight corridors.
Countries in the plane’s potential flightpath have
now joined a huge diplomatic effort to locate the
missing passengers, but China described the
revelation as ‘painfully belated’.

While Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak
refused to confirm that flight MH370 was taken
over, he admitted ‘deliberate action’ on board the
plane resulted in it changing course and losing
connection with ground crews.

The plane’s communication system was switched
off as it headed west over the Malaysian seaboard
and could have flown for another seven hours on
its fuel reserves.
It is not yet clear where the plane was taken,
however Mr Razak said the most recent satellite
data suggests the plane could have headed to one
of two possible flight corridors.

The last radar contact was made at 8.11am on
March 8 along one of the corridors, seven hours
and 31 minutes after take off, but the plane could
have deviated further from these points.
U.S. investigators have not ruled out the
possibility that the passengers are being held at an
unknown location and suggest that faint ‘pings’
were being transmitted for several hours after the
flight lost contact with the ground.

NASA has also joined the international search
operation, analysing satellite data and images that
have already been gathered.

Malaysian authorities and others are urgently
investigating the two pilots and 10 crew members,
along with the 227 passengers on board.

Source: Daily Mail UK

6 die in stampede at immigration employment tests venues across Nigeria

The Nigerian Immigration Service decided to
conduct a test for 3,000 vacant positions and the
number of Nigerian Youths that went to the various
test locations was overwhelming! Above is a
collage of the crowd at the respective venues of
the Immigration Service Test carried out in
stadiums across the country this morning.

The Abuja stadium which is to sit not more than
60,000 people had well over 80,000 youths and
only one entrance to the stadium was opened for
the applicants. It’s being reported that at least six
people died during a stampede at some of the
venues of the poorly coordinated test. The dead
are mostly from the Abuja venue. I hear a
pregnant woman was among the deceased.

The dead applicants have been taken to the
National Hospital Abuja morgue. May their souls
rest in peace…Amen.

It’s important to note that these applicants paid
N1,000 registration fee and there were over 2
million applicants…you do the calculation, that’s
about N2billion. We need the Minister of Interior
and Comptroller General of Immigration to address
what happened today. Continue to see more pics…

Source: Lindaikeji.blogspot.com

Confab: N4m Monthly Allowance For Delegates Too Much – CACOL

The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL)
has reacted to reports that the Federal
Government plans to pay each of the 492
delegates to the national conference slated to
begin on Monday, a princely sum of N4 million
monthly, throughout the three-month duration
of the exercise.

The amount, according to CACOL Director, Mr.
Debo Adeniran, was too much, adding tha each
group should sponsor its delegates to the
conference.

Adeniran said CACOL was opposed to
government spending N7bn on the conference.

He said, “The hosting of the conference itself
is too expensive than it is supposed to be.
They have budgeted about N7bn, and if each
delegate will be paid up to N4m per month, that
accentuates the profligacy going on in the
National Assembly, where members who are
doing part-time jobs are taking more than full-
time salary.

“Every section of the society that sends a
delegate should have been asked to fund their
delegates. It is not supposed to be a money-
making venture to the extent that bribery and
corruption will now pervade the atmosphere”.

Adeniran argued that monetizing the
conference would make the delegates
compromise the stand of their people for the
stand of the authority paying them.

However, the Executive Director of the Civil
Liberties Organisation, Mr. Ibuchukwu Ezike,
who is also a delegate to the confab, called for
restraint because the purported amount to be
paid to delegates was still within the realm of
speculation.

Immigration Stampede A National Disaster – TUC

AN OFFICIAL OF THE NIGERIAN IMMIGRATION
SERVICE CARRYING ON HIS BACK, A FAINTED
FEMALE APPLICANT DURING THE SERVICE’S
RECRUITMENT IN IBADAN ON SATURDAY
(15/3/14).

As reactions continue to trail the death of
scores of job-seekers during a stampede at
the recruitment exercise conducted by the
Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, on Saturday,
the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has
described the incident as a national disaster
that shows the critical state of Nigeria’s
unemployment.

The TUC also called for full-scale investigation
into the matter, while also commiserating with
the families of the dead.

At least seven applicants were confirmed dead
at the National Stadium, Abuja, one of the
venues for the tests conducted simultaneously
by the NIS across the nation yesterday.

TUC president Comrade Kaigama Bobboi, said
the medical bills of those wounded during the
stampede must be taken up by government.

He said, “There is also need to probe the
amount collected from these young Nigerians.
Because this is just Immigration. Whatever
you see now will be replicated in police,
customs and other government agencies.

“This goes to show the level of unemployment
in the country. Our heart goes to the families of
those who lost their lives. May God grant them
the fortitude to bear their loss”.