Category: Aviation

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

United Nigeria Airlines (UNA) A few hours after one of a Lagos-Abuja bound aircraft of United Nigeria Airlines (UNA) diverted to Asaba International Airport, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), has suspended the particular wet-leased aircraft operated by the airline. A source close to NCAA on Monday said that the apex civil aviation regulatory body […]

The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, has summoned the heads of aviation agencies in the country over recurring safety issues in the industry. The meeting, scheduled for Monday in Abuja, will bring together executives from the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the Nigeria Safety Investigation […]

South Africa’s green fuel potential hits 3.2 to 4.5b litres yearly The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has once again bemoaned airlines’ trapped funds in African countries, currently estimated at $1.68 billion. IATA, which is the clearing house for over 290 world airlines, said the perennial challenge is hurting the airlines, the concerned economies, and […]

.177 travelers return to Nigeria Barely days after the two countries agreed to deepen trade ties, a diplomatic row is brewing between Nigeria and the kingdom of Saudi Arabia following the rejection of Nigerian air travellers at Jeddah yesterday. It was learnt that 264 passengers onboard Air Peace airlines had their visas canceled mid-air and […]

Air traffic at Hamburg airport remained suspended Sunday over a hostage situation on the tarmac involving a father and his child, German authorities said. The daily Bild newspaper said the man, a 35-year-old Turk, wanted to be allowed to board a plane to Turkey with his daughter, aged four. “The negotiations are continuing,” in Turkish, […]

The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau has requested the general public to support it in achieving a successful and credible investigation of the air crash which occurred on Friday night at the Ibadan Airport Runway 22, involving a private jet owned by Flint Aero. The bureau’s request was contained in a statement, on Saturday, by the […]

Tragedy was averted when an aircraft which had Adebayo Adelabu, Minister of Power, on board crash-landed near Ibadan Airport in Oyo State, Daily Trust reports. Information had earlier filtered in that the aircraft crashed, but it was later discovered that it crash-landed. Details of the incident were still sketchy as of press time but it […]