The efforts made to address the workers of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) by the Minister of Aviation; Senator Hadi Sirika to forestall one day warning strike was yesterday thwarted when the unions locked up the venue of the meeting at the headquarters of the agency located at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport […]
The federal government has projected that the major international airports: the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano and the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa would be processing about 55 million passengers annually by 2048. This was the estimate made by the Outline […]
Last week industry think-tank group, Aviation Round Table (ART) held a conference on concession and the Chairman of Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited (BASL), the builder and operator of domestic terminal at the Lagos airport, MMA2, Dr. Wale Babalakin, reeled out his experience as concessionaire and made recommendations on how concession of airport facilities could work […]
Aviation industry stakeholders have posited that concession is the only choice government have to attract private funds for the development of the airports It is becoming inexorably clear that the only option Nigeria has to develop its airports and deploy state of the art terminals, technology based facilitation utilities and synchronised security system is to […]
Stakeholders in the aviation industry have called for increased investment in the sector so as to stimulate economic growth. The experts argued that there has been a progressive decline of airline operations because the industry is not attractive to investors. This, they attributed to the low profit margin in the sector, despite high cost of […]
