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Seven Killed In South Sudan Plane Crash

Seven Dead In Small Plane Crash In Canada

Five Americans and two Canadians were killed when a light aircraft crashed in a wooded area on the north shore of Lake Ontario, Canada’s transport safety agency said Thursday.

The US-registered single-engine Piper PA-32 departed Toronto’s Buttonville Airport and was apparently headed to Quebec City when it crashed on approach to the Kingston, Ontario airport on Wednesday just after five pm (2200 GMT), Transportation Safety Board (TSB) investigator Ken Webster told a press conference.

Emergency services, including police on all-terrain vehicles and a military search and rescue helicopter, were dispatched to locate the downed plane, which was found in a …

Farmers

Small Scale Farmers Lament Lack Of Insurance Covers

The National President of Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria (SWOFON), Mary Afan has bewailed the inability of smallholder farmers’ to access agricultural insurance cover particularly, for women rural farmers in Nigeria.

Afan revealed this at the side line of the Validation of Community Participatory Assessment of Government Expenditure on Agriculture/Community Score Cards on Smallholder Women Farmers Access to Agricultural Insurance Services in Nigeria.

According to her, insurance is a major problem to small holder farmers as many women in the rural area do not have access to insurance covers that will indemnify their projects even those who have,

OPWS Allegedly Destroys Gana’s Small London Hotel

Troops of Operation Whirl Stroke (OPWS) on Tuesday allegedly destroyed a hotel belonging to wanted militia leader Terwase Akwaza, alias ‘Gana’, in Gbishe, Katsina-Ala Local Government area of Benue State.

The hotel known as Small London Hotel located on Gudu Road in Gbishe is said to have been used as a hideout for kidnapping by the kingpin and members of his gang.

The hotel, according to sources from the area, was under construction before it was destroyed on Monday by OPWS troops.

Our sources, who did not want to be named, disclosed further that a number of vehicles and …