The airlift of Muslim pilgrims commenced with the inaugural flight to Saudi Arabia from the Sultan Abubakar III airport, Sokoto. According to Adamu Wakil, a director in the Ministry of Transport and Chairman of the Aviation monitoring committee, about 80 thousand pilgrims will be airlifted in the next 5 weeks through flight operations in 17 […]
The world’s longest aircraft was brought out of its hangar in England over the weekend. But the first thing most people noticed about the Airlander 10, besides its enormous size, was that its front looked like a huge behind. At 302 feet long, the Airlander 10 is 50 feet longer than the largest configuration of […]
A top official in the Malaysian government has finally admitted that a pilot on Malaysia Airlines MH370 had plotted a plane crash into the ocean on his home flight simulator — just weeks before the actual jetliner disappeared. Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai made the remarks Thursday, confirming a fact detailed by New York Magazine […]
President John Mahama has announced that following consultations he had with the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), on the cost of aviation fuel in the country, it had agreed to reduce it by 20 per cent. The objective is to further improve the volumes of airlines that fly into the country. The President explained that […]
There is no doubt that the political developments in the polity have preoccupied the minds of commentators and pundits. Sensational stories like the 2016 Budget scandal rocking the House of Representatives, unending PDP crises—being fueled by contradictory rulings of learned Justices of Federal High Courts, Niger Delta imbroglio, and other pressing national issues, have succeeded […]
