Nigeria to deploy underwater drone as search continues for missing passengers, helicopter wreckage

Aviation Minister, Festus Keyamo  The search for the wreckage of a private helicopter that crashed in Nigeria on Thursday will continue this morning, an official has said. The authorities also announced the deployment of an underwater drone to aid in the search. The Sikorsky SK76 helicopter crashed on Thursday after leaving Port Harcourt, Rivers State, […]

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Passengers stranded as airlines cut domestic flights

Aircraft shortage in the domestic airline market has worsened, limiting available passenger flights. Findings by Daily Trust show that many passengers were stranded across the country on Tuesday as they could not secure flights to their destinations. The busiest routes, Lagos-Abuja and Abuja-Lagos, were hugely impacted as many passengers could not secure seats as of […]

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Import duty: FG may ground 60 private jets today

File: Private jets Top bank chairmen, business moguls affected, NAMA gets list of affected planes The Federal Government, through the Nigerian Customs Service, will on Monday (today) ground over 60 private jets owned by very important persons in the country over unpaid import duty running into several billions of naira. According to documents exchanged between […]

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No US ban on Nigerian airlines – FG

The Nigerian government has clarified that no ban has been imposed on Nigerian airlines by the United States government. Acting Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Chris Najomo, said this in a statement on Monday. He emphasized that Nigeria had successfully attained Category One status under the International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) […]

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Court stops Nigeria Air shares’ sale to Ethiopian Airlines

A Federal High Court in Lagos has halted the sale of Nigeria Air to Ethiopian Airlines. The court declared null and void the sale of the shares of Nigeria Air to Ethiopian Airlines after determining the issues in the suit. Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa on Monday ordered that the Federal Government’s plans to establish a national […]

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Why FAAN headquarters was relocated to Lagos – Keyamo

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, on Wednesday, gave an insight into why he approved the relocation of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria headquarters to Lagos State from the Federal Capital Territory. He had recently issued a directive for the relocation of FAAN headquarters from Abuja to Lagos. In an internal […]

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Reps summons Sirika over ‘Nigeria Air’ project

House of Representatives has summoned immediate past Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, over the national carrier project, “Nigeria Air.” The lawmakers ordered the Committee on Aviation to invite Sirika to brief the lower legislative chamber on the state of the project as of the time he left office. The ex-minister is to shed light on […]

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Reps invite Keyamo, Sirika over national carrier

The House of Representatives on Thursday invited the immediate past Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, for questioning over the controversial National Air Carrier, Air Nigeria. In a motion sponsored by Tarkighir Dickson on the floor of the House at Thursday’s plenary, the Green Chamber noted that in 2016, Sirika proposed an aviation roadmap with the national […]

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