President Muhammaudu Buhari was clearheaded in his plan for the air transport sector, for which he appointed an aviator as minister – the first ’round peg in a round hole’ in the 95-year history of aviation in Nigeria. Eight years after, not only has the uneasy tenure failed to deliver on Buhari’s core promise of […]
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The Federal Government has announced that the Federal Ministry of Aviation has been renamed the Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace of Nigeria. The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. Sirika said the change became necessary because it […]
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Foreign airlines, yesterday, pushed back on the recent upward review of the Rate of Exchange (RoE) and attendant spike in the cost of international air travel, saying they were induced by the Central Bank’s exchange rate and local market volatility. The airlines, under the aegis of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), said the exchange […]
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NSIB begins investigation It was a chaotic scene at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, yesterday, as Max Air airline had a serious incident on landing, and abruptly cordoned off the busy runway. The emergency incident, which occurred at about 2:58 p.m., panicked onboard passengers, as much as it distressed all Abuja outbound and […]
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The bureaucratic bottlenecks stifling national export potential have taken another turn with the two major ground handlers in the air transport sector raising cargo processing charges by 100 per cent. The spike, courtesy Skyway Aviation Handling Company (SAHCO) and the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company’s (NAHCO) new pricing regime has grounded export activities, especially at the […]
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The recent warning strike by aviation industry workers’ unions over sundry issues, including poor welfare packages and the government’s move to pull down a building housing some key agencies at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, refocuses public attention on Nigeria’s troubled aviation sector. Beyond the sit-ins, the recent purchase of firefighting trucks at controversial […]
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The Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has ordered all illegal occupants to relocate from all airport lands for their own safety and security. FAAN General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Faithful Hope-Ivbaze, in a statement, said the recent demolition of 13 houses posed dangers to the operations of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos State. […]
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• Six-hour economy return-trip between N1.1m and N2.97m • Qatar, European carriers repatriate from I&E window, reopen naira inventories • Air travel goes elitist, exclusive to the rich, needs local capacity – experts say For the third time in less than a month, the rate of exchange (RoE) applicable to foreign airlines has ballooned, hitting […]
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Nigeria Air… New national carrier to know fate April 25 For the umpteenth time, airline operators have disagreed with the plan to open up the Nigerian air travel market to continental airlines, under the evolving Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) initiative. The local carriers said while the Nigerian virile travel market is “the target” […]
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•Minister keeps mum as NCAA broker truce with unions Aviation workers’ unions, yesterday, warned of an impending indefinite strike action should the authorities fail to resolve the nagging non-implementation of Condition of Service (CoS), and other welfare-related issues in the next seven days. At the end of their two-day warning strike on Tuesday, the unionists […]
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