With the acquisition of the International Air Transport Association’s Operational Safety Audit, IOSA, and one of the most modern global Operational Control Centres, OCC, Arik Air appears set to play in the very competitive global aviation market.

The first 11 months of 2011 were the safest period for commercial air travel on record. The global accident rate for January through November was 22 per cent better than the same time last year and marked the safest period since a United Nations aviation agency began collecting data in 1945, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA)

Reports that the national team head coach, Stephen Keshi and his employers; the Nigeria Football Federation are at logger-heads over friendly games have been dispelled, with the NFF acting Secretary-General, Musa Amadu, describing it as the figment of the imagination of those who reported it.

Nigeria aviation industry in 2011 witnessed a relatively safe year with no accident involving programmed, regular flights. There were very few cases of private flights involved in air mishap, like the Beech-craft C90 with registration number N364UZ that crashed in Kaduna killing its two occupants.

Despite the shaky start of 2011 due to the tsunami that engulfed the microfinance sector in the last quarter of 2010, which led to the liquidation of 103 microfinance banks (MfBs) by the regulatory bodies, MfB operators have rated their efforts at providing access to finance and enhancing financial inclusion above average, saying…