20032019 -Petition: My case against Buhari, by Atiku

44 — VANGUARD, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2019
Boeing expects 737 Max software
fix by end of March
*To make changes to cockpit warning systems
oeing has told air tem used by a Lion Air 737
Blines it expects to Max which crashed off
have new software for its
737 Max plane ready by
the end of the month.
The plane has been
the coast of Indonesia last
year. Investigators say
there are “clear similarities”
between the two.
grounded following the Boeing’s Dennis
Ethiopian Airlines aircraft
crash earlier this month.
Documents seen by the
BBC confirm that the software
update will limit the
operation of the controversial
MCAS system.
That was the same sys-
Muilenburg, who is the
chairman, president and
chief executive of the
company, said in an open
letter: “Soon we’ll release
a software update and
related pilot training for
the 737 Max that will ad-
Cyclone hit millions across Africa
in record disaster — U.N
C
yclone winds and
floods that swept
across southeastern Africa
affected more than 2.6
million people and could
rank as one of the worst
weather-related disaster
recorded in the southern
hemisphere, U.N. officials
said on Tuesday.
Rescue crews are still
struggling to reach victims
five days after Cyclone
Idai raced in at
speeds of up to 170 kph
Plane catches
fire at Tehran
airport; 100
passengers
evacuated
unhurt
n airliner caught
A fire on landing at
Tehran’s Mehrabad airport
on Tuesday but all
100 passengers were
evacuated without injury,
the head of Iran’s emergency
department said
on state television.
Pir-Hossein Kolivand
said the fire broke out after
the aircraft’s landing
gear did not open properly,
and was later
brought under control.
The airplane was a Fokker
100 belonging to Iran
Air, the Fars news agency
reported. The pilot
was not able to open the
back wheels of the plane
and circled the airport attempting
to open all the
wheels before landing the
plane on its body, according
to Fars.
.S.-backed Syrian
U forces said they
were close to defeating Islamic
State in its final
scrap of territory at Baghouz
in eastern Syria after
seizing an encampment
from the jihadists on
Tuesday, though the battle
was not over yet.
Hardened militant
fighters holed up in the
encampment had been
mounting a last-stand
defence of the Baghouz
enclave, all that is left of
Islamic State’s self-proclaimed
“caliphate” that
(105 mph) from the Indian
Ocean into Mozambique,
then its inland
neighbours Zimbabwe
and Malawi. Aid groups
said many survivors were
trapped in remote areas,
surrounded by wrecked
roads, flattened buildings
and submerged villages.
“There’s a sense from
people on the ground that
the world still really
hasn’t caught on to how
severe this disaster is,”
Matthew Cochrane,
spokesman for International
Federation of Red
Cross and Red Crescent
Societies, told a U.N.
briefing in Geneva.
“The full horror, the full
impact is only going to
emerge over coming
days,” he added.
The official death count
in Mozambique stands at
84 - but its president Filipe
Nyusi said on Monday
he had flown over
some of the worst-hit
zones, seen bodies floating
in rivers and now estimated
more than 1,000
people may have died
there.
By Michael Eboh
he Nigerian Na
Ttional Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC, yesterday,
disclosed that it is
considering extending
the ongoing Ajaokuta-
Kaduna-Kano, AKK, gas
pipeline to Algeria in
North Africa.
In a statement in Abuja,
the NNPC also said
ISIS loses big part of enclave,
SDF sees defeat soon
once spanned a third of
both Syria and Iraq.
“This is not a victory
announcement, but a significant
progress in the
fight against Daesh,” said
Mustafa Bali, a media official
with the U.S.-backed
Syrian Democratic Forces
(SDF) on Twitter, using an
Arabic acronym for Islamic
State. Bali said late on
Tuesday clashes were ongoing
and that fighters remain
“in several pockets
and their presence is not
limited to a defined geography”.
dress concerns discovered
in the aftermath of
the Lion Air Flight 610
accident.”
He said the company
had been working in “full
co-operation” with the
relevant authorities and
regulators.
There will also be
changes to the cockpit
warning systems, the
flight crew operating
manual will be updated
and there will be computer-based
training for pilots.
Investigators looking
into the Ethiopian Airlines
received data from
the aircraft’s flight recorders,
downloaded by experts
in France, earlier
this week. They intend to
to issue a preliminary report
by mid-April.
On Tuesday, investigators
examining black box
recordings from the flight
said they had found
“clear similarities” with
the previous crash.
…Buhari
condoles with
Mozambique,
Zimbabwe,
Malawi
By Johnbosco Agbakwuru
RESIDENT Muham
Pmadu Buhari has sent
condolences to families,
who lost loved ones, homes
and means of livelihood in
Mozambique, Zimbabwe
and Malawi as Tropical Cyclone
Idai takes a toll on
Southern Africa.
The President, in a statement
by his Senior Special
Assistant on Media and
Publicity, Malam Garba
Shehu, said he deeply
shared the pain and struggle
of the governments and
people in the region.
NNPC to extend AKK pipeline
to Algeria
the NNPC was making
progress with oil exploration
activities at the
Kolmani River II Well,
noting that so far, the
corporation had drilled
6,700 feet in the well.
Group Managing Director
of the NNPC, Mr. Maikanti
Baru, explained
that the decision to extend
the AKK gas pipeline
to Algeria was in furtherance
of its African integration
drive, adding
that it was also in line
with plans to extend the
West African Gas Pipeline,
WAGP, to Morocco.
Baru, who was speaking
when executive officers
of the Petroleum Technology
Association of Nigeria,
PETAN, paid him
a visit in Abuja, noted
that the target for the Kolmani
River well was
14,200 feet, saying the
depth could be longer
depending on findings.
He explained that President
Muhammadu Buhari
should be commended
for the progress
being made on the drilling
of the well.