Namadi Sambo, a former vice president during the administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has the Peoples Democratic Party for the ruling All Progressives Party, on Wednesday.

He had earlier on Friday last week  joined the PDP in Kaduna State.

An APC stalwart, Imran Muhammad, confirmed Sambo’s defection in his X account.

Barrister Allen Onyema, the Chairman/CEO of Air Peace, has raised the alarm over deliberate smear campaign by some Nigerians, in cohoot with a section of the media, aimed at damaging the airline’s reputation.

He stated this in Lagos on Wednesday while also announcing that Air Peace has secured approval to commence Abuja- London flight from October this year.

Onyema told journalists that “Air Peace has done a lot for our fatherland and we will continue to do it because we see it as a calling, not to make money.”

This comes amid a public spat between the airline and former Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole, over a check-in issue in Lagos.

According to him, rather than spreading falsehood against the organisation as is being done by some interests, Air Peace  deserves support and respect from Nigerians.

“We demand to be applauded. We demand to be appreciated by our country.

“Nigerians should jettison this pull-him-down syndrome. Both government agencies and citizens must stop trying to destroy their own,” he said.

Onyema warned that destroying local businesses harms the country “If you destroy any indigenous business that provides massive job opportunities, you don’t know where the next suicide bomber, armed robber, or kidnapper will come from.”

On a positive note, he said the Abuja -London’s Heathrow Airport flight will begin from October 26.

“Our daily flights to London are going well. Come October 26, we start Abuja-London. The British authorities have granted Air Peace Heathrow.

“That is a testament to their belief in what we are doing,” Onyema said.

He thanked the Minister of Aviation, Festus Keyamo and President Bola Tinubu for supporting the airline’s international growth.

A female navigator in the Israeli Defence Force, IDF, simply identified as Maj. Shin, has said she undertook a recent attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities to safeguard her country and people today and for the future.

According to her, though the mission was an emotional one, she was convinced that Iranian regime was an existential threat that must dealt with.

“I felt the responsibility in the cockpit to remove a real and existential threat to the State of Israel,” says Maj. Shin, identified only by the first Hebrew initial of her name, in rare public remarks for a female member of an IAF air crew.

“We’re doing this for the peace of tomorrow. For our home. That is our mission,” she adds.

Maj. Shin flew over 1,500 kilometers (about 1,000 miles) from Israel in what she describes as a “complex and powerful aerial operation designed to ensure that our children will have a better and safer future.”