Aviation

Sanusi: Nigeria is Last Frontier for Aviation Investment in the World

The Chief Executive Officer of Aero Contractors, Captain Ado Sanusi, in this interview, says Nigeria’s aviation industry has huge potential for investment. Sanusi also predicts that air fares would rise astronomically in December due to inadequate number of operating aircraft. In the recently held Bubai Air Show, you collaborated to make a firm order of three […]

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Airlines’ Rising Order for New Aircraft

For the first time in many years, Nigerian airlines participated actively in air show by ordering new aircraft, just as other West African carriers They were two things that were outstanding at the Dubai Air Show that was concluded yesterday. The Nigerian and West African airlines conspicuously made firm orders. They largely ordered regional and […]

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FG Appoints New DG, NCAA

The federal government has appointed Captain Musa Nuhu as the new Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). A statement signed by the Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Aviation, James Odaudu said that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the appointment of Nuhu who would be screened later by the Senate. Nuhu replaces Captain Muthar Usman, the […]

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Aero Resumes Flight Operations to Benin City

Nigeria’s foremost airline, Aero Contractors resumes flight operations to Benin City, the Edo State capital on September 16, 2019. Aero, the first in Nigeria and West African aviation industry to operate a maintenance facility, which conducts C- Checks on both local and international airplanes, said that operating flights into the ancient city Benin is another […]

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Stakeholders Reject Ethiopian Airlines’ Plan to Fly Local Routes in Nigeria

  *Nigeria Loses $3 billion to Foreign Airlines as Capital Flight Annually Aviation industry stakeholders have rejected the plan by Ethiopian Airlines to set up a domestic carrier in Nigeria, using local investors. Industry players who spoke to THISDAY described Ethiopian Airlines’ plan as a strategy to sustain its existence amid challenges in the global […]