Despite initial predictions that it would take aviation sector in Africa longer period to recover from the effect of the devastation of COVID-19 pandemic, Nigerian domestic flight operations made quick recovery and galvanised ancillary services to a high economic throttle. In November 2020, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) projected a slow restart for Africa […]
Many inbound passengers designated to arrive Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, are stranded in different parts of the world because they cannot successfully pay for their PCR test through the platform provided by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), THISDAY investigation has revealed. It was learnt that for several weeks […]
As the regulator of the aviation sector, whatever view the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Musa Nuhu holds about the industry, is regarded as very important and becomes an authoritative reference point. So when Nuhu gave overview of the sector in 2021 and his projections in 2022, a lot of […]
Since the demise of Nigeria Airways Limited, Nigeria has been consistently shortchanged by other nations through lopsided Bilateral Air Service Agreements and unfavourable commercial agreements. In July 2019 during a conference organised by League of Airports and Aviation Correspondents (LAAC), industry stakeholders called for a review of Bilateral Air Service Agreements (BASA) Nigeria signed with […]
The Managing Director of Kings Airlines Limited, Senator Musa Adede has urged the federal government to look at the politics of slot allocation and ensure that Nigeria is not shortchanged, using that system. He recommended that in the spirit of reciprocity, Nigeria should also adopt its own slot allocation system so that if after signing […]
