One of the challenges Nigerian aviation industry faces is infrastructural limitation, which has plodded the rapid growth of the sector. Our Correspondent reports that the inclination of government to embrace private sector investment in development of airport facilities may be the key to fast track development in the industry Over the years, inadequate or obsolete […]
The Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mrs. Olubunmi Kuku, has directed the Aviacargo Roadmap Committee to fast-track its implementation finds to enable the agency develop its new cargo freighting programme. Kuku gave the directive at the weekend in a meeting in Lagos, urging the Committee to give her a quicker schedule […]
Operators of state and privately owned airports have cried out over the exorbitant cost of compulsory services provided by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) and the Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NIMET). According to the regulatory policy of the federal government on air travel, the agencies must provide these […]
Nigerians are inundated with several plans by the federal government to concession the country’s airports and bring the private sector to invest in infrastructural development of airport facilities. This has been a sing-song for years but at the end of the day nothing is being achieved and the status quo remains. The former Minister of […]
Pilgrims, stakeholders airline operators have commended the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) over the successful commencement of the 2024 airlift of pilgrims to the Holy Land, Saudi Arabia. The stakeholders said that at all the airports the airlifting is taking place, there is absence of hiccups that characterized the exercise in the previous years. […]
