Dramatic footage shows the aircraft exploding in a fireball on the runway, with the force of the blast throwing a huge panel from the plane into the air. Separate video captures the moment it scrapes along the runway before coming to a halt in a cloud of smoke.
The Democratic Party (DP), a moderate conservative political party in Uganda, has asked Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to reduce the number of political appointees instead of retrenching civil servants to cut the huge public expenditure reports Daily Monitor.
The Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday released four new guidelines for the banking industry, top of which was an approval for bank customers to make cheque deposits into their savings accounts.