Stakeholders have warned that if the challenges faced by domestic airlines in 2016 persist this year, the industry would go under. The year 2016 had many challenges for Nigerian airlines. Aviation fuel scarcity started from January that year till December. They faced the problem of accessing foreign exchange(fx) to take their aircraft for maintenance […]
The federal government may have lost over N43.48 billion ($144 million) remittances paid by international airlines as reciprocity charges in the Bilateral Air Service Agreement (BASA) from 2014 to the end of 2016 due to the decision of the Ministry of Transport to stop collecting the charges without providing alternative payment platform for the airlines. […]
At the recent International Air Transport Association global media day in Geneva, Switzerland, the Director-General and CEO of IATA, Alexander de Juniac said there is improved air safety in Africa, but the airlines face high costs in their operations. In 2012 there was ministerial meeting in Nigeria over air safety, it was agreed that in […]
The Lagos State command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized more drugs and won more convictions in 2016. The Agency seized a total of sixteen thousand, five hundred and seventy-one (16,571.289kgs) of narcotic drugs and successfully prosecuted two hundred and twelve (212) drug dealers last year while one hundred and forty […]
Airline Operators of Nigerian (AON) has elected new executives at its 2016 Annual General Meeting in Lagos, January 11, 2017. The operators said in a statement that it now has new Executive Council in place to pilot the activities of the association for the next two years. Captain Nogie Meggison, the Chief Executive Officer of […]