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  • Bristol helicopter crash: Leadway, Scib lead insurer, broker

    Leaday Assurance Limited and Scib Nigeria Company Limited are both lead insurer and broker of the Bristow Sirkorsky S-76 Helicopter that crashed into the lagoon in Lagos last week, The Nation has learnt..

    Both firms confirmed via Sms text messages that the aircraft was insured in Nigeria and the premium paid up to date, adding that the aircraft was insured in Nigeria by Nigerian underwriters, led by Leadway and that the contract has both local and foreign reinsurance backing. They were however silent on the sum assured,

    Meanwhile, efforts to confirm sum assured and other type of insurance claim available to the victims proved abortive as the company’s Public Relations Officer, Cornelius Onuora, was yet to respond to inquiries as at press time.

    The Managing Director, Leadway Assurance,  Hassan Odukale, said the aircraft was insured in Nigeria by a panel of Nigerian insurers and the contract was handled by Scib Nigeria Insurance Brokers. On the details of the contract, Odukale replied : “Yes we are leading the panel of underwriters with Scib Nig & Co as the broker.As per ethics of our profession, we would suggest you approach the brokers for information on the claim.This is already in public domain and I agree with you that the public should be informed,” Odukale stated.

    When contacted,  the Managing Director, Scib Insurance Brokers, Mr Sola Tinubu, who said he was on a trip outside Lagos referred our reporter to the General Manager and Head of Technical of the company, Ayo Akande, who was not on seat, but in his SMS response on the details of insurance of the aircraft, he said: Akande confirmed that the aircraft was insured.

    He said: “The insurance was arranged by Scib Nigeria and Co Ltd.The programme is written by a panel of local underwriters and offshore reinsurers.

    “The insurance is fully compliant with Nigerian laws and regulations as well as international standards and requirements .This is the information available at this point in time”, Mr Akande said.

    Based on the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) global requirement for insurance claims, a minimum of $100,000 is to be paid to the family of each passenger who died in plane crashes. Thirty per cent of the total claims, or $30,000 per head, is expected to be paid within 30 days of the loss as the initial liability, while the balance is to be paid after the presentation of letters of administration by the victims’ family members.

  • Lagos crash: American pilot’s sister mourns

    Lagos crash: American pilot’s sister mourns

    Samantha Wyatt,  a sister of the American pilot of the crashed Bristow helicopter, Capt. Joseph “Jay” Wyat, has mourned the death of her brother.

    When news of the crash first broke on Wednesday, Samantha took to Twitter to confirm if her brother survived the accident.

    “My brother, American Capt. Joseph Wyatt, MISSING after Lagos crash.

    “Can you confirm or provide a source? We know he isn’t in the hospital,” she said on her Twitter handle.

    When the death of her brother and five others was confirmed, she tweeted, “We are heartbroken. I have never known such grief.”

  • Photo: Aviation ministry visits helicopter crash site

    Photo: Aviation ministry visits helicopter crash site

  • Helicopter crash: Two remaining bodies recovered

    Helicopter crash: Two remaining bodies recovered

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  • Photos: Lagos helicopter crash

    Photos: Lagos helicopter crash

  • Pupil killed, others injured in crash

    A pupil of Covenant Secondary School, Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, died on Sunday and others sustained injuries in an accident in the metropolis.

    The deceased, Jalekaiye Dominion, reportedly died from head injuries. His body has been deposited in the mortuary. The injured are receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Lokoja.

    It was learnt that 50 boarding pupils were on their way to school after a Sunday service at the Living Faith Church at Phase II when the crash occurred.

    According to an eyewitness account, a truck trying to avoid a pothole on the Murtala Muhammed Way, hit the state mass transit bus conveying the pupils to school, from the back.

    Three persons were said to have died and many sustained injuries in another accident at Felele, Lokoja.

    It was said to have involved a cement company truck, which lost control and veered into a market, ramming into commercial motorcyclists conveying passengers from the market.

    The Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps

    (FRSC) could not be reached for confirmation on the phone, as his line was unreachable.

     

  • Youth leader injured in crash

    Youth leader injured in crash

    Lagos State chapter of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) Chairman Comrade Taofeek Gbadebo was injured in an accident on Isiwu-Ikorodu Road last Thursday night.

    An 18-seater bus heading towards Epe hit Gbadebo’s car at Adamo bus stop at 8: 45 p.m.

    His Mitsubishi Gallant, with number-plate NYCN 01, was damaged.

    Gbadebo sustained injuries in his eyes, nose and arms.

    The windscreen of his car was shattered and the driver’s door condemned.

    The tyre, shock absorber and side mirrors were also affected.

    The bus veered into the bush and hit a log, resulting in the shattering of the rear windscreen.

    Gbadebotold The Nation that no one was injured in the bus.

    “It was shocking; I can’t really say how it happened. All I know was that it was in the night. I saw the bus coming and the next thing I heard was a bang. We hit ourselves. When I saw the wreck of my car, I immediately took a bike to the nearest hospital for treatment; because I noticed that blood was oozing out of my nose, even as I experienced sharp pains in my eyes and arms,” he said.

    The NYCN leader blamed the accident on the bad road.

    According to him, the bus driver was trying to avoid potholes and collided with him

    “There are lots of potholes on that road; it’s actually a federal road and most vehicles avoid plying the road due to the potholes. The driver was trying to do same, which led to the collision,” he said.

    Asked if he is pressing for any compensation, Gbadebo said: “I am not.”

    “I just thank God that no life was lost. Will I be pressing for compensation from the grave if I had died?” he asked.

  • ASUU chiefs in road crash

    The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Nasiru Isa Fage and a member of the union’s board of trustees, Dr. Dipo Fashina, have survived an accident on the Anyigba – Enugu road in Kogi State.

    The duo, who along with other leaders of the union, including Prof Suleiman Abdul of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, were on their way to Abia State University, Uturu, for the union’s National Executive Council meeting in Fage’s bus when a commercial vehicle ran into them.

    Though Fage and Fashina escaped unhurt, Prof Suleiman Abdul sustained a dislocation on his shoulder and was rushed to an orthopaedic specialist hospital in Abuja.

  • Henrietta Kosoko survives car crash

    Henrietta Kosoko survives car crash

    Actress Henrietta Kosoko who at the weekend, was involved in a car crash, is responding to treatment, her husband and co-actor, Jide Kosoko announced in a statement.

    Henrietta was said to have ran her car into an electricity pole on her way to Abeokuta, and she is currently receiving treatment at Lajoro hospital, Abeokuta.

    The actress was traveling in her brown colour Toyoto Sienna, when the car veered off the road and hit the electric pole. Residents in the area were said to have been of great help in rescuing the actress.

    “God took total control,” said her husband.

  • Alcohol, hemp-smoking crash marriage

    After about two years of irreconcilable differences orchestrated by the husband’s alleged excessive alcoholism and hemp smoking, a Lagos court yesterday dissolved the marriage between Segun Falaye and his wife, Celestina.

    The Customary Court in Igando, a Lagos suburb, ordered that the couple should cease to be husband and wife immediately.

    The petitioner, Celestina (33), a business woman, had filed a suit seeking the dissolution of her marriage, citing her husband’s heavy drinking and hemp smoking habit.

    “My husband takes alcoholic drinks excessively and gets drunk after which he falls inside gutter, misbehaving and disgracing me,” she told the court.

    Celestina said after smoking hemp, her former husband had always behaved strangely.

    “My husband is always mentally disturbed after smoking hemp …he always descends on me giving me serious beating,” she added.

    She regretted that the man could not manage the business she established for him as it collapsed two months after.

    Celestina said: “I opened a bookshop for my husband, but he mismanaged it; the capital and the profit were spent on beer. He is lazy and does not want to work. He depends solely on me for feeding, paying the children’s school fees and for house rent.”

    The mother of two pleaded with the court to dissolve the marriage, saying there is no love lost between them.

    However, Falaye (40), who denied some of the allegations, said: “I am used to drinking, but not always. I have never taken Indian hemp before. I take alcoholic drinks moderately not excessively. I used to pay the bills when I was working, but now that I have no job I cannot steal to fend for my family. My wife controls and commands me like a baby, all because she pays the bills. My wife is aggressive; she gets angry easily and always.’’

    He, however, urged the court not to grant his wife’s request for the dissolution of the marriage, saying: “I still love her.”

    The court’s President, Mr Ruphus Adeyeri, who said all efforts to reconcile both parties were unsuccessful, ruled: “Both parties are no longer husband and wife; they are free to go their separate ways.”