Parents are simply our fathers and mothers, the people through whom God has brought us to the world.  Brothers and Sisters,  the way to accept parental advice is by giving them due respect, that is obeying them.
 
Children should always be ready to obey their parents’ instructions.  It is the parents that are responsible for nurturing and caring for them. Therefore, a child should be ready to do whatever the parent asks him or her to do.
 
Sometimes our parents may lay down very strict rules for us like asking us not to go out at night, not to smoke, not to have love outside marriage.

As a young child or an adolescent, such rules may look difficult to follow and might even offend you. Some of us may even think that such rules are meant to prevent us from enjoying ourselves.

Any rule our parents lay down for us are intended for our future good.  They are an expression of their love for us.  There is the case of a boy called Sankung who was told by his parents not to attend parties at night because he was in school.

 But one night, Sankung ran away from the house while his parents were asleep to gate-crash nearby birthday party. Unfortunately, a fight broke out at the party and Sankung was hit with a bottle on the head.  He spent a week in hospital while his friends were at school. 

Therefore, to obey our parents is for our own good.  In fact, do you know that a person who respects his or her parents has fulfiled one of God’s requirements? Imagine someone who sacrificed a lot of his time to see that you are healthy, well fed and protected.  Will the same person give you bad advice?
Definitely not!

An airplane carrying humanitarian workers crashed on approach to Bukavu, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province, on 1 September.

“We don’t yet have the official [passenger] list so we don’t know the nationality of the passengers or their organisations,” said Christophe Illemasene, spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Illemasene said there had been 17 people, including two crew members, on board the aircraft, a Beechcraft 1900. He added that the UN Mission in the DRC (MONUC) had dispatched a helicopter to the scene early on the morning of 2 September with a search and rescue team.

“The helicopter landed far away [from the wreckage] and the search and rescue team headed to the site on foot,” he added.
The plane had flown from Kinshasa bound for Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, with stopovers scheduled in the provincial capitals of Mbandaka, Kisangani and Bukavu.

Amy Cathey of Air Serv International, the flight operator, said the accident happened on the approach to Bukavu amid bad weather.

Aviation accidents occur very frequently in DRC. For many people travelling long distances, planes are the only viable option because of the dire state of the country’s roads.

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There are conflicting reports on how many people were on board and how many died in the Bahr Gazal crash, but at least twenty people were on board. Some sources suggest nineteen fatalities and two survivors, and others say there were 26 deaths and no survivors; it should be noted that if either of these were correct then there were more than twenty on board. Lieutenant General Dominic Dim Deng, the area's defence minister, is confirmed to be dead.

"The plane had been rented from a charter company and was carrying a delegation of leaders from the (former rebel) Sudan People's Liberation Movement from Wau to the capital Juba," said Luka Mariak, spokesman for the Souther Sudan president Salva Kiir. This makes the journey around 450 kilometres (290 miles), with the plane crashing in a flat region 375 kilometres (around 220 miles) from Juba. It is reported it subsequently caught fire.

The United Nationssaid that the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) had dispatched a helicopter to assist the emergency response effort.

Justin Yak and his wife are also confirmed to be dead. Yak was the minister for cabinet affairs until a 2007 reshuffle left him removed from office. Bodies were flown into Juba Airport were relatives waited for hours for news. UNMIS is expected to fly the bodies on to their nearby airfield, to which there is no public access.

The disaster is thought to be an accident caused by mechanical trouble. The pilot had contacted Air Traffic Control (ATC) to report engine problems and requested permission to conduct an emergency landing at nearby Rumbek. ATC lost contact minutes later.

In Goma, on the eastern side of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), at least 70 people, according to officials, have died because of a plane crash yesterday.

VOA has reported that as many as 100 people could have been on board the plane at the time of its crash.

A director of Hewa Bora Airways, the airline involved in the incident said that "we [the airline] have managed to save most of the passengers who have been evacuated to hospitals."

Naomi Schwarz, a journalist on the scene described the incident. "The whole top of the plane is ripped off and the two buildings next door are pretty much destroyed too. People are carrying buckets full of water to try to put out the fire. Just buckets they found on the streets," she said.

As of 08:00 UTC, the majority of the Hewa Bora website was not available.

The remains of the late Captain Famara Jammeh, who died on 3rd March 2008 in a helicopter crash in Nepal where he was part of a United Nation peacekeeping mission, was on Friday, 14th March 2008, laid to rest in his home village of Gunjur, Kombo South.

Hundreds of mourners including the Deputy Chief of Defence Staff, Colonel Masanneh Kinteh, the Governor Western Region, Abdou F.M. Badjie, members of the Gambia Armed Forces and other important government officials attended the funeral.

Speaking at the Funeral the Deputy Chief of Defence Staff, Colonel Masanneh Kinteh, said that the late Major Jammeh was loyal to his nation and the army. He revealed that the deceased was a good Muslim who has sympathy for his colleagues and elderly people. He commended the late Major Jammeh’s commitment, dedication and hardwork during his service and he urged the family of late Major Jammeh to forbear and continue to trust in Almighty Allah.

For his part, the Deputy Imam of Gunjur, Muhammed Lamin Touray, said that the late Major Jammeh was a good Muslim and a member of State House Mosque Committee.

He expressed appreciation to the Gambia Armed Forces for what he termed their tremendous contribution to the protection of citizens and their properties.

Baba Leigh, the Imam of Kanifing Estate Mosque, said that late Major Jammeh had sympathy for humanity and was always contributing immensely towards the development and promotion of Islam in The Gambia. He confirmed that Major Jammeh was faithful to his boss and his colleagues.

Captain Famara Jammeh, alias Famo, a Gambian soldier serving as an international arms monitor in Nepal under the United Nations (UNMIN), has died in Monday’s helicopter accident in Nepal, The Point has gathered. 

The United Nations has confirmed that seven of its staff and three crew members died when one of its helicopters crashed last Monday afternoon.

Captain Jammeh is among the four international arms monitors who lost their lives in the crash. The three others are from Indonesia, Republic of Korea and Sweden.

Three Nepal UN personnel and three crew-members, two from Russia and one from Belarus, are also among the casualties.

The helicopter was said to be flying to Kathmandu from the Maoist Cantonment site at Sindhuli, about 65 kilometers (40 miles) from the Nepalese capital, and crashed in the vicinity of the Bethan village, in the east of the country. It was reported to be flying in bad weather. 

The late Captain Jammeh hailed from Gunjur in southern Western Region of The Gambia. He joined The Gambia National Army some 13 years  ago.

As Mali, Others Get Through to Semi-Finals

Despite making an impressive performance last evening, the Scorpions of The Gambia, under the guidance of head coach Jose Martinez, were the next causalities to fall out from the Zone II Tournament at group stages.

The Scorpions now joined Guinea Conakry and Sierra Leone who had earlier on crashed on the way-side.

After a lackluster performance in their first match, which resulted to their 2-0 defeat by Mali and a draw with Cape Verde, the Scorpions and defending Champions Sily Nationale of Guinea Conakry were last evening singing from a different song-sheet when the Scorpions thrashed the defending champions 3-0. Yesterday’s victory gave Gambia four points but so much for their dream for the championship title as this was not enough for the Scorpions to get through to the next stage of the sub-regional tourney. Last evening victory of Cape Verde over Mali meant Cape Verde had one point ahead of Gambia as Cape Verde now reaches the semi-final stage.

Cape Verde and The Gambia were battling it out for the second place in their group but Cape Verde outclassed Gambia by securing two points from their two goalless games with Guinea Conakry and the Scorpions. Last evening, they raked three more points to sail through to semi-finals.

The Scorpions of The Gambia, who were counting on Mali to either draw or win Cape Verde, had their hopes dashed when the result could not tilted to their favour.

Football enthusiasts, who were very elated about the Scorpions’ last evening performance, later in the evening became despondent when news reached town that  Cape Verde instead of Gambia are the semi-finalists. This could be related to Gambia’s lack of chance of winning the bi-annual event despite many years of participation.

As winners of group B with six points, Mali will on Thursday take on Senegal in the semis. Host Guinea Bissau will meet Cape Verde the same day.

The finals of the 2007 Amilcar Cabral Zone II will take place on 9 December 2007.

An Antonov cargo plane has crashed in Congo, killing thirteen people on board.

The plane had just taken off from Kongolo, Katanga with a cargo of tin ore when the aircraft developed engine problems, causing the Russian pilot to attempt to return for an emergency landing. However, the plane instead crashed short of the runway, busting into flames.

Although thirteen have been confirmed dead, the bodies two of whom have not been recovered, two people were rescued from the aircraft before it caught fire. The pair, one a young child and the other a man in his twenties, are being treated in a local hospital.

The plane had been destined for Goma, Kivu Province's capital city, carrying a cargo of around nin tonnes of cassiterite (tin oxide) and other minerals. Goma is one of Congo's main mineral transportation centres.

Air travel has a poor safety record in Africa. According to the Aviation Safety Network, last year Africa accounted for just 3% of all airliner flights, but also accounted for 18.5% of all fatal accidents in the commercial aviation sector. Mining flights in particular have caused safety concersn, with officials banning flights into Goma from Walikale, also in Kivu, in June. Prior to the ban, aircraft had been using a stretch of road as a temporary runway while a purpose-built one was being constructed.

The European Union banned all of Indonesia's air carriers yesterday, none of which presently operate services to Europe, as well as several from Russia, Ukraine and Angola. They are the latest additions to the already extensive List of air carriers banned in the EU. The ban is scheduled to come into effect on July 6. Just hours after the ban a Boeing 737 operated by one of the blacklisted airlines, TAAG Angola Airlines, crashed into a house during landing, causing at least six fatalities in Northern Angola.

Indonesia currently has 51 airlines, having grounded several and revoked the licences of others on June 25. The EU said that substandard maintenance and operation and a slow reaction by Indonesia to solve the problem were the main causes of the ban. EU holidaymakers who have booked flights with banned airlines via travel agents will be refunded for the services.

EU transport commissioner Jacques Barrot said of the ban "Once more, the EU blacklist will prove to be an essential tool not only to prevent unsafe airlines from flying to Europe and to inform passengers travelling worldwide, but also to make sure that airlines and civil aviation authorities take appropriate actions to improve safety."

Operations and safety editor at Flight International David Learmount commented that Indonesia, whose airline industry was deregulated the early 1990s, is one of a handful of cases where deregulation has lowered safety standards instead of improving them, saying of the move by the EU "Standards in aviation safety have been going up dramatically on a worldwide basis, but there are still places where they are [of the standards of] the 70s and 80s. In Indonesia the safety watchdog was told earlier this year to pull its socks up, but the EU is clearly convinced that it has not done so."

One unnamed EU official was reported by The Guardian to have described Indonesia's civil aviation authority as "not very reliable", referring to a lack of reaction to warnings of an imminent ban and requests that Indonesia reassured officials that the problem was being dealt with.

Indonesia has responded to the ban by saying that, according to information unseen by the EU, Indonesian safety standards are rising. Director-general of civil aviation at the Indonesian transport ministry Budhi Mulyawan Suyitno said that "Our data can show them that we have improved on every line," to Reuters. The US had already downgraded Indonesia's safety rating earlier this year.

Also affected by the bans are Ukraine's Volare Aviation, while Russia has imposed bans on four of its airlines after consulting the EU and restricted six others, Bulgaria has revoked the licences of six cargo airlines and Moldova has banned eight airlines.

Meanwhile, Pakistan International Airlines, subject of a controversial EU ban earlier this year, had restrictions on some of its aircraft lifted. The airline's fleet of Boeing 777s and some of their Boeing 747s and Airbus 310s will now be allowed back into European airspace.

The announcements come after three accidents involving Indonesian airliners - the New Year's Day crash of Adam Air Flight 574, which killed 102 people, the subsequent accident involving Adam Air Flight 172, which cracked in half on a hard landing but held together, preventing serious injury, and the March crash of state-run Garuda Indonesia Flight 200, which claimed 23 lives. All the accidents involved ageing Boeing 737 aircraft.