Aviation

NIGERIA AIRWAYS: ASRTI urges Keyamo, Finance Ministry to release ex-workers’ entitlement

NIGERIA AIRWAYS: ASRTI urges Keyamo, Finance Ministry to release ex-workers’ entitlement

Aviation Safety Round Table Initiative, ASRTI, has lamented the continued delay in paying the entitlements of over 4,000 former staff of the defunct Nigeria Airways, describing it as a grave injustice. Nigeria Airways, the country’s national airline, was liquidated in September 2004 by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. ASRTI said that since the Minister of Aviation […]
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Why FG picked Ethiopian Airlines as national carrier partner – Aviation Minister

Why FG picked Ethiopian Airlines as national carrier partner – Aviation Minister

…Warns foreign airlines to stop threatening Nigeria over accumulated funds …Says all Nigerian airports must fit into approved masterplan or be demolished …Lists safe, strong, efficient aviation institutions as Buhari’s biggest achievement …We’ve no intention to ban any media in Nigeria-Lai Mohammed Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor With just a month before the inauguration of […]

Trapped funds of Emirates Airlines will be paid — FG

Trapped funds of Emirates Airlines will be paid — FG

By Henry Umoru  ABUJA – THE Federal Government told the Senate, Tuesday, that it was working to ensure that the trapped funds of Emirates Airlines are paid as quickly as possible.  Speaking in Abuja when he appeared before the Senator Biodun Olujimi, PDP, Ekiti South led Senate Committee on Aviation to defend the 2023 Budget […]

Begging at MMIA: DSS investigates allegation of staff involvement 

Begging at MMIA: DSS investigates allegation of staff involvement 

By Soni Daniel, Abuja The Department of State Services says it has commenced investigation into an allegation that its operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos were involved in unprofessional conducts, particularly begging arriving passengers for cash before allowing then passage. The Director of Public Relations, Dr. Peter Afunanya, made the disclosure following an […]

Tanzania plane crash leaves 19 dead

Tanzania plane crash leaves 19 dead

No fewer than 19 people died when a passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday while trying to land at a nearby airport, the prime minister and airline said.  The state Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) reported that the  Flight PW494, operated by Precision Air, hit the water during storms and heavy rain. […]

Passenger plane crashes into Lake Victoria in Tanzania

Passenger plane crashes into Lake Victoria in Tanzania

By Emmanuel Okogba A passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria on Sunday in Tanzania due to bad weather shortly before landing in the northwestern city of Bukoba. “There was an accident involving a Precision Air plane which… crashed into water about 100 metres from the airport,” regional police commander William Mwampaghale told reporters at Bukoba airport. […]

Dana Air resumes flight November 9

Dana Air resumes flight November 9

By Ezra Ukanwa, Abuja Dana Air has announced plans to resume flight operations on November 9, 2022 after a successful conclusion of the audit organised by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority. The development was disclosed in a statement issued and made available to newsmen Chief Operating Officer, Ememobong Ettete on Friday. Recall that the Nigerian […]

N72bn Abuja airport second runway ‘ll begin in six months — FG

N72bn Abuja airport second runway ‘ll begin in six months — FG

By Ezra Ukanwa ABUJA—MINISTER of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika has said the N72 billion Second Runway for the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, will be delivered in six months. Sirika disclosed this in Abuja, on Thursday, at the oversight visit by members of the National Assembly overseeing the aviation industry. According to him, “as you […]