There is something about June in the life of Africa. Nigeria had her June 12 Democratic zeitgeist and South Africa had her June 16 Soweto Uprising. On the motherland, death and life are locked in mortal embrace like two sides of the same coin. Indeed nothing ever promised tomorrow today and on Saturday evening (2nd June) a cargo plane over shot the Kotoka International Airport tarmac and landed on a bus in the capital of Accra, Ghana. This air accident killed 10 innocent people in circumstances yet to be understood. If we were still reeling in shock, this was only a fore warning of what lay in store. The very next day the now infamous Dana aircraft flight 0992 took off from Nigeria's administrative capital Abuja to the commercial capital of Lagos. Barely three minutes to its arrival at the Lagos Airport (11 nautical miles away) it landed on buildings at Iju a suburb of Lagos. It claimed all 153 passengers on board, several others on the ground and threw a ...
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