National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA) President, Bankole Bernard has called on the federal government to relocate the Ministry of Tourism to Aviation to fast track an immediate development of tourism in Nigeria. Bankole, who in recent weeks has consistently decried the obsolete facilities at of the nation’s airports and the entire aviation sector, […]
Pensioners of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) have expressed their opposition to the planned concession of airport facilities by the federal government. Government said that it does not wish to privatise the airports because it wishes to continue to retain their ownership but it plans to give them out in concession to private […]
by Yakubu Dati Last Tuesday, September 13,2016,the Minister of State, Aviation, Sen Hadi Sirika landed in Lagos from a trip and immediately moved to settle a trade dispute between Aero Contractors and its workers. When he got to the airline’s headquarters, the situation had even become worse as the workers were on a protest, over the […]
Officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos have made twin arrest on Nigeria-Brazil route. The Agency recovered 700 grammes of powdery substance that tested positive for cocaine from two suspects during the inward screening of passengers on a Royal Air Maroc flight from Sao […]
Minister of State, Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika has assured unions in the aviation industry that no worker would be sacked in the proposed concession programme of the federal government. Government has set out plan to concession four major airports in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt and Kano in the first phase of the programme, while the […]