QUICK BITS ON THE WORLD NOMAD GAMES 2016

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The World Nomad Games 2016 was recently concluded in the Republic of Kyrgyzstan. The event held between the 3rd - 8th September, 2016 with 40 countries attending including about 8 African countries (Benin Republic, Botswana, DR Congo, Madagascar, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe). More than 2000 athletes participated in the 23 ethnosports events. 

AIRASIA PILOT FLIES TO MELBOURNE INSTEAD OF MALAYSIA AFTER NAVIGATION ERROR

An AirAsia flight from Sydney to Malaysia ended up in Melbourne instead when the pilot entered the wrong coordinates into the internal navigation system, an air safety investigation has found.

The Airbus A330 was scheduled to leave Sydney international airport at 11.55am on 10 March 2015, and arrive in Kuala Lumpur just under nine hours later. 

Instead, through a combination of data entry errors, crew ignoring unexplained chimes from the computer system, and bad weather in Sydney, it landed in Melbourne just after 2pm.

Melbourne airport is 722km southwest of Sydney. Kuala Lumpur is 6,611km northwest.

According to a report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) published on Wednesday, the problem occurred when faulty earmuffs prompted the captain and first officer to swap their usual pre-flight checks.

HURRAY!, THE CALABAR MONORAIL IS SET FOR OPERATION

The multi-billion Naira Calabar Light rail project, the first in Nigeria, would soon be inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari.

SOUTH AFRICA'S TOP 10 RESIDENTIAL ESTATES

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New World Wealth just completed its annual review of the top 10 residential estates in South Africa. The results are revealed below:

EMIRATES TO FLY AIRBUS A380 ON THE DUBAI - JOHANNESBURG ROUTE

Emirates will be upgrading one of its four daily flights between Dubai and Johannesburg to an Airbus A380-800 from February 2017.

Emirates currently uses Boeing 777 aircraft for each of the four daily flights between the two cities, making it the busiest route in the airline’s African network with over three million passengers carried in the last five years.

Once launched, Johannesburg will join more than 40 destinations in Emirates’ extensive global network that is served by its flagship A380 aircraft.