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Experts Explain Why Nigerian Airlines Don’t Benefit from International Aircraft Financing

Aviation experts have identified fluctuating value of the naira as one of the factors that discourage international financiers and other credit institutions from funding aircraft acquisition for Nigerian airlines. They have also identified the failure of Nigerian airlines to allow lessors repossess their aircraft at the breach of leasing contract or purchasing agreement as a […]

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SUSPENSION OF AIRPORT TAXI SERVICES AT NNAMDI AZIKIWE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, ABUJA

The FAAN wishes to inform the general public that the airport car hire service at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja has been suspended with immediate effect. This is as a result of the unresolved factional dispute amongst the car hire operators which has been affecting airport car hire service operations. Consequent upon this suspension, FAAN […]

Aviation

Abuja as Model of Contemporary Airport Infrastructure

In the last few years, the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja has advanced to become the best airport facility in Nigeria. Government should replicate it at other airports in Nigeria. As at December 12, 1991 when the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, took over as Nigerian capital, the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport was a make-shift […]

Aviation

FG Renames Airports after Political Leaders, Other Prominent Nigerians

President Bola Tinubu has renamed some airports owned by the federal government after political leaders and other prominent Nigerians. The renaming of the airports was announced in a memo released by the Federal Ministry of Aviation dated June 1, 2023, and signed by Mrs Joke Olatunji for the Director of Airport Operations yesterday. The memo stated, “I am […]