Airports

NEXT GENERATION FIBRE-OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS FOR DATA-INTENSIVE AIRPORTS

  SITA Passive Optical LAN (PON) infrastructure with Tellabs unveiled for ultra-reliable, scalable and secure connectivity across airport campuses and other critical operational area The increasing pressure to support data-intensive applications with real-time communication across sprawling airport infrastructure is now greater than ever before. But bandwidth limitations, high latency and costly maintenance mean that current platforms […]

NCAA

NCAA, FCTA Declare Index Suspect Negative of Ebola Virus

The FCT Administration has officially declared that there was no case of Ebola in the territory after the index patient, who returned from Rwanda, suspected of having the virus that causes haemorrhagic tested negative for Ebola and Marburg disease. Equally, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) confirmed the development. Also yesterday, FCT […]

Airlines

Airlines Incur Damages, Loss of Funds Due to Non-insurance of Nigerian Airports

  Non-insurance of Nigeria’s airports forced airlines to lose an estimated N15 billion annually expended on repairs of aircraft damaged at the airports, including bird strikes and other mishaps. The Managing Director of Overland Airways, Captain Edward Boyo, explained that if the airports were insured, such expenses would be defrayed by insurance claims. He therefore […]

Aviation Policy

Rewane: Govt Operates Nigerian Airports at Huge Cost, Advocates Facilities’ Concession

The CEO of Financial Derivatives Company, Bismarck Rewane, has said the federal government spends outrageous amounts of money to run Nigeria’s airports which processes less than 15 million passengers per annum and advocated concession of the airports to the private sector under the PPP arrangement. This is just as the Chairman and CEO of Air […]