If you keep up with Nigerian news, you may have already heard about the plane (an Abuja to Lagos flight) that crashed in Lagos yesterday afternoon. All the passengers on board, approximately 150 people, died and an unknown number of people on the ground died. Most of the passengers were Nigerian but it has been reported that some Chinese nationals were on that flight. I've heard that a few Nigerian staff that work for our embassy or our implementing partners were also on that flight. Details about the crash are mixed which is pretty typical for Nigerian news reporting. But it is a terrible tragedy. The president has declared 3 days of national mourning. It is pretty scary because many people fly between Lagos and Abuja all the time, whether it's for business or pleasure. Just last weekend, several of my expat friends made the Abuja-Lagos journey just to relax and enjoy a change of scenery.
In other Nigerian news, not any more uplifting, there was a bombing up north in Bauchi. A suicide bomber blew up a church on Sunday. According to BBC, 10 people were killed and around 30 were wounded. I hate to report all these tragedies, but this is what is going on in Nigeria. Tragic tragic tragic.
Aside from that, my body decided it doesn't like to be healthy anymore. So for the last month, I was fighting a head cold on and off. Sick sick at the end of April. My body decided folliculitis might be fun to experience and my one toenail ripped off. Lovely times.
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