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 LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Nigeria's president on Tuesday ordered tighter stricter safety and maintenance procedures for all Nigerian aircraft and promised an exhaustive probe into the cause of a weekend plane crash that killed 117 people.
Making his first public appearance since the accident late Saturday and death of his wife only hours afterward, a somber President Olusegun Obasanjo told Nigeria in a televised broadcast that he rued the pair of "tragic events."
"I have already ordered a full and thorough investigation into the cause of the air crash with a view to ensuring that this sort of calamity does not repeat itself," said Obasanjo.
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