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Sosoliso… December 10 may just be another day for millions of Nigerian, but for some it symbolises sorrow and tears, a day that left scars.
The reason? On December 10, 2005, a DC-9 plane operated by Sosoliso Airlines crash-landed in Port Harcourt resulting in the death of 108 of the 110 people aboard the plane.
According to reports, many of the victims survived the crash, but died in the resulting fire due to poor emergency services at the airport.
The fact that sixty-one secondary school pupils from Loyola Jesuit College, Abuja were aboard the flight made the crash more tragic and left the nation shell-shocked.
The pastor of Fountain of Life Church and relationship coach, Bimbo Odukoya, also died in the crash.
Ten years after, while the nation’s memory of the tragedy appeared to have been dulled, relatives and family members of the victims have come out to remember and honour them.
A former member of the House of Representatives, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, whose son was in the school at the time, tweeted, “We remember all victims of the Sosoliso crash, 10 years ago. Our 60 angels of Loyola Jesuit College will not die in vain.”
Many other people have also tweeted in honour of the victims, leading to the word Sosoliso to be trending on twitter.
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