Industry consultant and CEO of Belujane Konsult, Chris Aligbe has said the National Assembly is contributing to the retardation of the aviation industry and called for the transparent concession of airport facilities. Before the Senate backed down on Tuesday, the members opposed the planned closure of the Abuja airport for comprehensive work on the runway. […]
At the recent International Air Transport Association global media day in Geneva, Switzerland, the Director-General and CEO of IATA, Alexander de Juniac said there is improved air safety in Africa, but the airlines face high costs in their operations. In 2012 there was ministerial meeting in Nigeria over air safety, it was agreed that in […]
In the last few months, the National Assembly has raised concerns about the state of the aviation industry. But despite the efforts to draw the parlous attention to the Nigerian authorities, their solutions appear to have fallen on deaf ears. About two months ago, the House Committee on Aviation came to Lagos on a fact-finding mission, to […]
Government’s lean resources have forced it to fully adopt Public, Private Partnership (PPP) to develop and manage critical facilities in the aviation industry. Over the years that the strategy was introduced there has not been any legislation to back it, so the decision is always at the whim of the ministers appointed by government to […]
With poor and obsolete airport infrastructure, airlines threatened by high cost of operation and agencies laden with over bloated workforce, key stakeholders in the aviation sector on Friday called on the federal government to declare a state of emergency in the industry. The stakeholders in various presentations ventilated their frustrations with what they referred to […]