The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo has held discussions with the UK Department for Transport on how Nigeria’s major carrier, Air Peace can obtain favourable slot allocation to enable it operate non-stop flights to London. Air Peace had earlier received approval to operate to Gatwick Airport in London from Lagos but was […]
A former Special Advisor on Investment and Rapid Airport Development to the Minister of Aviation, Dr. Daniel Tarka has said in order to solve the major problem in air transport in Nigeria, which is obsolete infrastructure, the federal government should fully embrace public private partnership (PPP). Tarka who spoke to THISDAY in exclusive interview on […]
Recently, top financial experts in Africa met in Abuja to deliberate on how Africa could reduce capital flight and stop the loss of capital to the rest of the world. Writer states that their recommendations if implemented, could pull the region out of its current economic quagmire Recently experts from regional financial institutions in Africa […]
Tour Operators in Nigeria, aviation and tourism journalists and others who came from abroad recently hosted Ambassador Ikechi Uko to a surprise birthday party as he turned 60. Uko is a tourism legend and travel expert in Nigeria and the founder of Akwaaba African travel market, was literally ambushed by well-wishers in a surprise birthday […]
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 […]
