The Director of Public Affairs and Family Assistance, NSIB, Bimbo Oladeji, offered the explanation in a statement she issued.

The NSIB said the search and rescue efforts would resume Sunday morning after they were suspended on Saturday "due to the loss of daylight."

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), on Sunday, confirmed that no additional bodies have been found at the site of Thursday’s crash involving the Sikorsky SK76 helicopter in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. In an update, the NNPCL spokesman, Olufemi Soneye, said search and rescue operations by the relevant authorities at the site continue. The […]

The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has announced that neither the wreckage of the helicopter that crashed in the Port Harcourt area of Rivers State nor the remaining three passengers have been located. In a statement, Mrs. Bimbo Oladeji, NSIB’s Director of Public Affairs and Family Assistance, confirmed that as of 7:30 a.m. local time  […]

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, has said aside from the three bodies found in the ill-fated helicopter operated by East Winds

The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau, NSIB, has said there is no trace of three missing persons, as well as the debris of the helicopter that crashed

The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has announced a temporary suspension of search operations for the Eastwind Aviation Sikorsky SK76 helicopter that crashed off the coast of Port Harcourt. The suspension came as daylight diminished, making it difficult to continue the search safely. In a press statement released by NSIB’s Director of Public Affairs and […]

Police have issued an update concerning the whereabouts of the eight passengers on board the helicopter that crashed in Port Harcourt, the Rivers state capital.

A viral video allegedly showing the moment the bodies of some staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited being recovered from the ocean has emerged. Recall that a helicopter carrying personnel of the NNPC met a tragic fate on Thursday, crashing into the waters near Bonny Finima in the Atlantic Ocean, off the […]

The NNPC Ltd said the helicopter lost contact while flying from Port Harcourt to its Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Antan oil production facility.

The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB), on Friday, confirmed that two more bodies have been recovered from the Sikorsky S-76 helicopter that crashed in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Naija News, on Thursday, had reported that helicopter with registration 5N-BQG, operated by Eastwind Aviation, crashed one kilometre away from its destination. It was engaged […]

The identities of the six Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) employees who perished in the tragic helicopter crash last Thursday have been revealed. An electronic manifest obtained by Punch disclosed the names of the workers as Tamunoemi Suku, Alu Lawrence, Etim Emmanuel, Kenneth Chikwem, Frank Oriamre, and Borris Ndorbo. The fatal incident involved a […]