The Managing Director/ CEO of Aero Contractors Limited, Captain Ado Sanusi, yesterday, said recent infractions Nigerian carriers – ValueJet and Ibom Air – had with unruly passengers were part of the systemic problems occasioned by financial fragility plaguing Nigeria’s aviation industry. Sanusi who spoke to THISDAY yesterday in Lagos, said there was gradual disconnection in the aviation industry, adding […]
The federal government has given the management of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT), Zaria a marching order to make the college financially viable and independent. Currently the College gets its funding from government subvention, fees paid by students and a share of Ticket Sales Charge (TSC) and Cargo Sales Charge (CSC), which the […]
It was not the kind of news you expected when it rode on the wings of the evening breeze of Thursday, May 15, 2025. The opening months of the year have been bad enough with reference to the very sad, untimely departures of well-known colleagues with whom we served in the administration of former President […]
At the beginning, air travel was esoteric in Africa and it was awe inspiring and seemed very elusive. The great Nelson Mandela wrote in his book, ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ that he was apprehensive when he saw the first black pilot in his life in cockpit of the aircraft that was flying him. It was […]
Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Mr. Festus Keyamo, has urged aviation industry stakeholders to take it as responsibility to make Nigeria youths embrace aviation and develop their career in the sector. He said this would ensure a sustained supply of skilled manpower into Nigeria’s aviation sector to address the critical challenges of an aging […]
