Bonny Finima
25 Oct
President Bola Tinubu has expressed condolences to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited and the families of victims involved in the helicopter crash near Bonny Finima, Rivers State. In a statement issued Friday by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Tinubu offered his “deepest sympathies” to those affected by…
25 Oct
Tragedy struck yesterday as a helicopter which left a Port Harcourt military base for an oil rig crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, near Bonny Finima, off the coast of Calabar.
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