FAAN

FAAN Assures New Directorate Will Push for Fresh Innovations

  The Director, Public Affairs and Consumer Protection of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mrs Obiageli Orah has said the newly created directorates in the agency will be bringing fresh ideas and innovations into the country’s airports operations and their management. She said FAAN has gone through tremendous changes with the upgrade of […]

FAAN

ICAO Certification Reveals How Nigeria International Airports Are Poorly Rated in Africa

It has emerged that the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), poorly rates Nigeria’s international airports in Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Port Harcourt and Enugu, because they lack needed state-of-the art facilities to make them friendly to travellers. For airports to meet given standard in accordance to ICAO regulations, international airports are supposed to have both security […]

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Nigeria Scales Global Aviation Safety, Security Audit

The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has cleared Nigeria in the just-concluded Security Audit Programme, the Continuous Monitoring Approach (USAP-CMA). This was announced at the weekend by the Team Lead, Callum Vine, at the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Headquarters in Abuja. The audit which started about two weeks ago, focused on critical elements that […]

FAAN

Historic Reopening of Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Airport

The Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to the Managing Director and Chief Executive of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Gbenga Olorunpomi, recently captured the efforts made by the agency to rejuvenate the now, Bola Ahmed Tinubu Airport, Minna through infrastructural renewal and the installation of critical facilities to make it ready for resumption […]

NAMA

Air Traffic Controllers Threaten to Suspend Service over Shoddy Treatment by FAAN Management

For refusing to allow them access to their working place at the control tower of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, Air Traffic Controllers (ATC) have threatened to suspend service over alleged shoddy treatment by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN).  The Controllers, under the aegis of the Nigeria Air Traffic Controllers’ Association (NATCA), have […]