The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority recently warned travellersagainst patronising unregistered travel agencies. So while efforts are being made to reduce the number of fake agents in the system, the major challenge is how to identify them. During the last World Cup in Russia, about 230 Nigerians were defrauded by travel agents. While they were given […]
Many Nigerians are claiming the citizenship of other countries in West Africa in order to obtain passports from those countries to travel overseas, THISDAY has learnt. THISDAY gathered that among the Nigerians that do this include those whose passports have been seized by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Nigerians who are arranged by agents to […]
The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) said it has generated N6.112.8 billion ($16.98 million) as Ticket Sales Charge (TSC) from international airlines and over N9.16 billion from local airlines, totaling N15.273 billion between the months of January to August this year. This was disclosed to newsmen at the weekend in Lagos by the Director General […]
One of the major challenges the Nigerian aviation industry had before now is the long time it takes to investigate an accident. For example, it took over a decade to investigate the Bellview Airlines Flight 210 crash that happened at Lisa Village, Ogun state on October 22, 2005 and even when the result was released, […]
The Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Muhtar Usman has said the problem of obsolete and inadequate infrastructure in the aviation industry would be a thing of the past if the airports are concessioned. Muhtar who spoke to THISDAY in an exclusive interview in Lagos, said cost intensive projects such as […]
