{"id":73038,"date":"2025-08-13T17:52:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73038"},"modified":"2025-08-13T17:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T17:52:40","slug":"eyewitness-emerges-as-ncaa-probes-ibom-air-altercation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/13\/eyewitness-emerges-as-ncaa-probes-ibom-air-altercation\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyewitness Emerges as NCAA Probes Ibom Air Altercation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), says a key eyewitness has come forward with fresh details on the viral altercation between a passenger and an Ibom Air crew member during an August 10 Uyo-Lagos flight.<\/p>\n<p>NCAA Director of Public Affairs, Michael Achimugu, confirmed that the witness, who sat directly beside passenger Comfort Emmanson, provided a boarding pass for verification.<\/p>\n<p>The account reportedly sheds new light on the incident, including the conduct of other parties and the handling of passengers before takeoff.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA has issued a Letter of Investigation to Ibom Air and plans to meet with the airline and other eyewitnesses to resolve the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Achimugu reiterated the commitment of the Minister of Aviation and the NCAA to safeguarding the rights of all aviation stakeholders and ensuring accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), says a key eyewitness has come forward with fresh details on the viral altercation between a passenger and an Ibom Air crew member during an August 10 Uyo-Lagos flight. NCAA Director of Public Affairs, Michael Achimugu, confirmed that the witness, who sat directly beside passenger Comfort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73040,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73038\/revisions\/73040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}