Nigeria, April 25 -- A former Director-General of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms, Joe Abah, has narrated how the proactiveness of an aircraft engineer averted a "potential disaster" in an aircraft belonging to Ibom Airlines Thursday.

Mr Abah narrated his experience in a series of tweets posted on his X handle (formerly Twitter) on Thursday.

The flight was scheduled to depart Lagos for Abuja.

Mr Abah noted that he boarded a 7:00 a.m. flight from Lagos to Abuja on Thursday morning and the flight was ready to take off when something unusual happened.

"I boarded a 7 am @ibomairlines flight in Lagos this morning, heading to Abuja. My brother @seunonigbinde was on the same flight and we had chatted briefly about work. The aircraft doo...