{"id":56231,"date":"2026-10-06T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=56231"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:29:09","slug":"nigerian-president-confirms-death-of-32-military-personnel-in-aircraft-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/nigerian-president-confirms-death-of-32-military-personnel-in-aircraft-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian president confirms death of 32 military personnel in aircraft crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Monday confirmed that all 32 people aboard a military aircraft that crashed near a local community in the country&#8217;s southwestern Ondo State had died.<br \/>\nThe military aircraft, carrying 25 passengers and seven crew members, crashed near the Naval Base in Igbokoda, a riverine community in Ondo State, said Festus Keyamo, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement, Tinubu said that this is a painful moment for the Armed Forces and for the entire nation, adding that the sacrifice of the Air Force personnel &#8220;will never be forgotten.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Nigerian Air Force confirmed earlier that the aircraft was a twin-engine turboprop rather than a helicopter as previously believed. The ATR-42 aircraft was on a routine mission from Benin, a city in southern Nigeria, to Lagos when the incident occurred, the Air Force said.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu commended the Air Force for activating an immediate search and rescue operation following the accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Monday confirmed that all 32 people aboard a military aircraft that crashed near a local community in the country&#8217;s southwestern Ondo State had died. The military aircraft, carrying 25 passengers and seven crew members, crashed near the Naval Base in Igbokoda, a riverine community in Ondo State, said Festus Keyamo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56233,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56231\/revisions\/56233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}