The writer urges the federal government to consider indigenous operators in its quest to set up a maintenance, repair and overhaul facility in Nigeria. The federal government recently notified members of the public in an advertorial that it intends to establish maintenance, repair and overhaul facility in Nigeria. The government in the advertorial stated […]
The Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Muhtar Usman, has said Nigeria’s airspace has remained safe in the last six years without any accident or major incident because the regulator has maintained strict adherence to safety regulations. Muhtar, who spoke to THISDAY in an exclusive interview in Lagos, said after many […]
Nigeria’s Minister of State, Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika and the other Africa Ministers in charge of Transport urged the remaining countries in the continent who are yet to adopt the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) to do so. Sirika who is attending the Second Ordinary Session of the African Union Specialised Technical Committee in […]
West and Central Africa’s biggest airline, Air Peace on Thursday pulled a big surprise on the travelling public with its plan to deploy its wide-body Boeing 777 aircraft for its domestic operations on the Port Harcourt-Abuja and Abuja-Port Harcourt routes on Easter Friday and Monday. Air Peace recently acquired four Boeing 777 aircraft for its […]
Expands CCTV coverage area, reinforces patrols, profiles security personnel Following rising cases of theft, including a recent robbery of a private jet waiting to take off after bandits accessed the airside of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, the federal government has reinforced the security apparatus at the nation’s airports, THISDAY has learnt. […]
