On Tuesday, a Dana Air plane veered off the Lagos airport runway, leading to the diversion of other flights to the international airport.

In a post by X user, BelemaMhart — who boarded another airline — it was stated that there were no casualties.

“We were about to land in Lagos and the pilot announced, he had to land at international and Taxi to local airport,” BelemaMhart said.

“On getting here, we learnt Dana Air had issues on landing, that was the reason our pilot was asked to land at the international airport.

“Thank God all passengers on Dana are safe.”

Six months before this incident, the aircraft engine of a Dana Air plane reportedly exploded shortly before take-off from Lagos.

However, in a statement by the company, Dana Air denied the explosion, saying its aircraft only experienced “some operational challenges” leading to “non-scheduled maintenance”.

Also, in July 2022, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) suspended Dana Air for multiple regulatory infractions.

The authority said it suspended the operating licences of the company after “discovering that the airline is no longer in a position to meet its financial obligations and to conduct safe flight operations”.

Dana Air resumed flight operations five months after the suspension.

The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has sealed the Chinese supermarket located within the China General Chamber of Commerce in Abuja, the nation’s capital.

Officials of the FCCPC stormed the premises and shut the supermarket on Monday.

The commission’s officials sealed up the place following the interrogation of Nigerian workers at the supermarket.

Recall that Nigerians had expressed outrage over a discriminatory policy implemented by the Chinese Supermarket for barring Nigerians.

The supermarket only granted exclusive entry to Chinese nationals in the country.

According to the facility manager of the complex, Shaibu Sanusi, Nigerians from outside the complex do not shop but Nigerians within can access it.

This was as facilities workers at the store disclosed that the owner of the supermarket had fled the premises.

The workers, who were largely Nigerians, disclosed that the owner of the supermarket had fled when the officials of the Commission stormed the supermarket on Monday.

The workers said that the owner of the supermarket, a Chinese lady, Cindy Liu Bei, fled on Monday at 8:26 am with her family as confirmed on the Closed-Circuit Television camera.

The FCCPC officials subsequently shut down the supermarket.

The Kogi state governorship election petition tribunal has ordered Olayemi Cardoso, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to appear before it on Tuesday.

A three-member panel of justices led by Ado Birnin-Kudu agreed with Alex Izinyon, counsel to Usman Ododo, governor of Kogi state, that Cardoso is in contempt of court by failing to honour a subpoena.

The court had on April 18, issued a “subpoena to compel the CBN governor or any of its officials to attend the proceedings to give explanations on the role of the apex bank in the November 11, 2023, off-cycle election” in Kogi.

Although the panel directed the “CBN governor or its official to appear on April 19 to testify”, there was no representative from the apex bank on the hearing day.

At the resumed proceedings on Monday, Izinyon said he was aware that the CBN management, in a letter to the tribunal, said they would not be available until April 26.

He said though his team had planned to call witnesses within five days, the issue of the subpoena must be dealt with before proceeding.

Izinyon, who said he expected an officer from the legal department of CBN to be at the tribunal on Monday, described the letter by the apex bank as “an act of contempt.”

He said the CBN team should be at the tribunal on Tuesday to give evidence, noting that if they failed to appear, it would be in the court record, going by the fact that the matter is time-bound.

“If by tomorrow, we call our last witnesses and they (CBN officers) are not here, we urge my lord to look at our application in the interest of justice,” he said.

Other respondents’ lawyers and counsel for the petitioners aligned with Izinyon’s application.

Delivering the ruling, Birnin-Kudu held that the subpoena was to the CBN governor and director of the corporate service of the apex bank.

He said the subpoena is a command in the name of the president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The judge held that the act of writing to the tribunal by the apex bank that its officials will be available on April 26 “is contemptuous and condemnable”.

The panel then adjourned the matter until April 23 for the continuation of the 2nd respondent’s defence and for the CBN to show cause.