Category: Aviation

Search and rescue efforts are seen around a wreckage site in the Potomac River from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, early Thursday morning, Jan. 30, 2025, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) A passenger plane and a military helicopter collided mid-air near Ronald Reagan National Airport, killing 67 passengers. According to Al Jazeera, the incident […]

The Federal Government has no plans to renew the botched Nigeria Air project deal with Ethiopian Airlines. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence, Dr Ibrahim Kana, in a statement, yesterday, refuted the report that there was a mandate to revive the botched Nigeria Air deal with Ethiopian Airlines. He said, “I received no such instruction. […]

President Bola Tinubu has mandated the newly appointed Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Dr. Ibrahim Abubakar Kana, to revive the Nigeria Air Project. Tinubu also directed the civil servant to use his positions to sanitise Nigerian airports. Kana disclosed this during a meeting with heads of agencies of the […]

Air Peace has refuted a viral claim that it has raised the price of its one-way flights from Lagos to Abuja to N200,000. A viral post recently indicated that Air Peace’s one-way flight would now cost N200,000 from November 1, 2024. However a check on the the airline’s website showed that a one-way Lagos-Abuja flight […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]