As the largest African nation with high passenger traffic, Nigeria is expected to play leading role in air transport in the continent. But 56 years after the country’s independence, smaller countries lead aviation development in the region. Aviators, airport users and air travellers do not have much to cheer about Nigeria’s aviation industry. They unanimously […]
Lagos State Commissioner for Tourism, Art and Culture, Folorunso Coker, who spoke at the launch of Flavours of Lagos, said the state is being made a tourist attraction and create wealth for the citizens. understand that some of these things you cannot do them over night. We have created three tourist brands in Lagos in […]
Government’s lean resources have forced it to fully adopt Public, Private Partnership (PPP) to develop and manage critical facilities in the aviation industry. Over the years that the strategy was introduced there has not been any legislation to back it, so the decision is always at the whim of the ministers appointed by government to […]
The hope that Nigeria’s foremost airline, Aero Contractors may resume schedule commercial operations soon has been dashed as the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) and the management of the airline are yet to reach a compromise on how the airline could resume flight services. Aero Contractors stopped schedule operation on September 1, 2016 […]
Malaysia said on Friday that a piece of plane debris discovered in Mauritius was from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared in March 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board. The Boeing 777 disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, sparking a two-year search has turned up few leads. Analysis by […]