Aviation

Domestic Carriers Brace for Competitive Fares as Low Season Comes after Yuletide

Today makes it two weeks into the new year. That’s exactly the time the low season begins in domestic flight operations in Nigeria. After the hustle and bustle that characterised the Christmas holiday: the surging crowd of passengers at the airport terminals, the busy airspace hosting aircraft crisscrossing to land at various runways in the […]

Qatar Airways Aircraft Aviation

Stakeholders Cry Out against Designation of Foreign Airlines in Nigeria

Operators and other stakeholders in the aviation industry have cried out against the continued designation of international airlines to multiple airports in Nigeria, saying that it would stifle the growth of domestic carriers. Many foreign carriers fly to more than one international airport in Nigeria and industry analysts said that it is injurious to growth […]

Emirates-Airlines Aviation

UAE Opens Visa Application Centre in Lagos

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has inaugurated a visa application and document attestation centre at the office of the UAE Consulate General in Lagos. This was disclosed to the media by the office of the UAE Consulate on yesterday. The inauguration was led by the Consul General Dr Abdulla Al Mandoos and was attended by […]

Akinkuotu Aviation

Akinkuotu Ends Tenure as NAMA MD

The former Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Captain Fola Akinkuotu has ended his tenure as the head of the agency after five years. The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika directed Mr. Mathew Lawrence Pwajok to replace him, pending the appointment of a substantive Managing Director. Akinkuotu tenure expired on January […]

Aviation

If You Win AFCON Cup, I’ll Give You 50 Million Naira- Air Peace CEO to Eagles

*Gifts 10 million naira for goal scored in opening match against Egypt ‘Air Peace Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Allen Onyema, in his characteristic culture of philanthropy and nationalism, has promised to give the Nigerian Super Eagles a whooping sum of fifty million naira, if they win the ongoing African Cup of Nations, which kicked […]