Nigeria’s aviation industry is being threatened by the fast depreciating operating equipment, occasioned by the challenges faced by Nigerian carriers in acquiring or leasing aircraft to replace old ones. It was learnt that Nigerian carriers are finding it difficult to bring their airplanes that went for maintenance back to the country, due to foreign exchange […]
Labour unions in the aviation industry have expressed support for the plan of the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo to relocate the headquarters of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) to Lagos, where it had existed for several years. Air Transport Service Senior Staff Association (ATSSSAN), the National Union of Air […]
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has confirmed the internal memo from the Managing Director of the agency, Mrs. Olubumi Kuku to the Director of Human Resources and Administration to provide the implication of relocating its headquarters back to Lagos. In a statement signed by the Director, Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, Mrs. Obiageli […]
The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has admitted that many of its navigational aids have become obsolete but would start the modernization of the most critical of them all, communication in the airspace. The agency has been grappling with the Total Radar Coverage of Nigeria (TRACON), which became inefficient over the years because some of […]
In a move to put an end to security incursion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has deployed special security operatives to man porous areas of the airport. The effect of the reinforcement has started yielding fruit as the agency yesterday announced that the security operatives arrested […]
