A family source who confirmed the incident however said the corpse was dropped in Cairo, the Egyptian capital, by the airline
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This occurred just Obi, who was without a security aide, returned from Egypt, where he travelled to on July 14, 2022
Hon Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, has denied a story credited to her that Egypt Air and Ethiopian Airlines run drug cartels in Nigeria.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said this when she appeared before the Senate Adhoc Committee set up by the Senate to look into circumstances that led to the arrest of Zainab Aliyu in Saudi Arabia last year over alleged possession of a banned substance, Tramadol.
The Airbus A320 en route from Cairo to Paris crashed into the eastern Mediterranean on May 19, 2016, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board, including 15 French citizens.
The Egypt-led investigation committee added in a statement that it had sent medical forensic reports on the traces to the Egyptian prosecutors
It said further that the data and information in both recorders, if they are sound, would be extracted after the ongoing electrical tests.
Meanwhile, the investigation committee said earlier that the hired vessel, Lethbridge John, located several wreckage sites of the crashed plane in the Mediterranean
The memory unit, which contains the conversations between the pilot and co-pilot inside the cockpit during the last 30 minutes before the plane crashed, will be unloaded and analysed by a special unit at the Civil Aviation Ministry
According to the committee, the recorder is being transferred to Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria, where it will be handed over to investigators for analysis
The Egyptian-led investigation committee said in a statement that it had accepted a request by the United States’ National Transportation Safety Board to have a representative join the investigation team
A specially equipped French vessel that had been commissioned to locate the plane’s two black boxes received signals from sea bed that are believed to from one of the flight data recorders, the statement said
Onwuliri summoned the Egypt Ambassador to Nigeria, Ashraf Salama, to formally lodge a protest over the treatment meted out to Joshua Abdul-Azeez by the flag carrier airline of Egypt