NIGERIAN DIES ONBOARD ADDIS ABABA-LAGOS FLIGHT

A Nigerian, Hajiya Zainab Suleiman, 62, on Sunday died onboard an Ethiopian airlines flight from Addis Ababa to Abuja.
The deceased’s husband, Alhaji Suleiman Abdulra’uf, who is a businessman based in Kano, told the News Agency of Nigeria correspondent in Addis Ababa that they were returning from New Delhi, when they transited to Addis Ababa and boarded another plane for the onward journey to Nigeria.
“We travelled to New Delhi for treatment. She was discharged and on our way back, we stopped over here in Addis Ababa where we changed planes. But one and a half hours after take-off, she died and the plane returned to Addis Ababa,” Abdulra’uf said.
He described the death of his wife as ‘the will of God.’
He said his wife’s corpse had been deposited at a morgue, while Ethiopian immigration and airline officials were making necessary arrangements to fly it to Nigeria.
He said he took the deceased to New Delhi for cancer treatment.
NAN reports that some senior officials of the Nigerian Embassy in Ethiopia, headed by the Charge de Affairs of the embassy, Mr. John Ejinaka, on Monday met with the deceased’s husband at the chancery in Addis Ababa.
Another Nigerian was also reported to have died last week onboard an Ethiopian Airline flight from Abuja to New Delhi.
The deceased was also going for medical treatment in India. Ejinaka told NAN that the embassy recorded six of such cases in 2009.