Nigeria has again been re-elected into Part 2 of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) in Montreal, Canada. The country secured a resounding 163 votes out of 185, thus confirming its influence and leadership in international aviation. The announcement of the re-election was made by the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, […]
Canada yesterday banned travellers from Egypt, Nigeria and Malawi over fears of the spread of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, bringing to 10 the number of African countries targeted by Ottawa, according to AFP. “Foreign nationals who have transited or stayed in these 10 countries cannot enter Canada if they have been in those countries […]
British Airways, Lufthansa German Airlines have announced that they have temporarily stopped flight operations to Cairo, Egypt capital. British Airways and Lufthansa have suspended flights to Egypt’s capital, Cairo, over unspecified security concerns, giving no details about what may have prompted the move. “We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the […]
Nigeria’s Minister of State, Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika and the other Africa Ministers in charge of Transport urged the remaining countries in the continent who are yet to adopt the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM) to do so. Sirika who is attending the Second Ordinary Session of the African Union Specialised Technical Committee in […]
A search team on Thursday recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month in a major step towards establishing the cause of the tragedy. The device was found broken into pieces but the salvage experts managed to retrieve the recorder’s crucial memory unit, Egypt’s civil aviation authority […]
