By Lawani Mikairu The Muritala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos was in the early hours of yesterday thrown into complete darkness as there was a total power outage at the airport. The terminal, where both incoming and outgoing passengers are processed, was without light. A video clip of the outage sent to Vanguardearly Wednesday morning […]

Major international airline, Emirates, is asking staff to take unpaid leave for up to a month at a time due to the rapidly spreading coronavirus that has led to flight cancellations around the world. Emirates has cancelled flights to Iran, Bahrain and to most of China because of the virus, and countries around the world […]

By Lawani Mikairu Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, Director General, Captain Musa Nuhu yesterday said the agency is harmonizing all the measures being taken by the various agencies and organizations saddled with the responsibility of screening and preventing the spread of the dreaded Coronavirus at the nation’s airports. This is coming after the first recorded […]

Air Peace, Nigeria’s leading air carrier, is leading Nigeria’s re-branding on the global stage, says the Anambra State government. In a statement today in Awka, the state capital, the Anambra government noted that there “is no individual or organization anywhere in the world helping as much as Air Peace to re-brand Nigeria in the comity […]

By Lawani Mikairu The shabby treatment Nigerians who boarded foreign airlines from their respective destinations to Lagos got in the last two weeks has once again brought to the fore the urgent need to support domestic airlines who are already doing international flight and encourage those who are yet to, to commence international operations. More […]

…Says Nigeria’s domestic airlines should benefit from aviation agreements By Tordue Salem Hon. Nnolim Nnaji, Chairman house of representatives committee on aviation, in this interview with Tordue Salem, speaks on a myriad of problems bedevilling the aviation sector, the need for reforms and suggests stringent sanctions against foreign airlines in breach of aviation sector agreements. […]

By Lawani Mikairu More than 1,500 Nigerians have been stranded in Kotoka International Airport, Accra, Ghana after they were dumped there by British Airways, BA, Delta Air, and other foreign airlines. Their flights were diverted by these foreign airlines to Ghana due to the inclement weather in Lagos and poor visibility at the Muritala Muhammed […]

By Lawani Mikairu Following the improvement in the weather and visibility at Lagos, foreign airlines who hitherto diverted their Lagos bound flights to Ghana have started landing at the Murtala Muhammed International airport Lagos. For over two weeks all international flights were diverting to Accra, Ghana due to poor visibility and inclement weather in Lagos. […]

By Rasheed Sobowale Harmattan haze which has been intense since Monday delayed and caused flights cancellation in West African countries notably Nigeria, the largest economy and most populated nation in the Africa continent. The flight diversions was a blessing to the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in Ghana. The airport considered one of the safest airports […]

By Lawani Mikairu Federal government said it has granted one of the foreign airlines permission to divert its flight to Abuja instead of going to the neighbouring countries to land Lagos Airport bound flights In the last one week, foreign airlines like British Airways, Delta airlines etc have been diverting their Lagos bound flights to […]