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 […]

Airports

FAAN MD Calls for Streamlining of Security Checks at Airports

The Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mrs. Olubunmi Kuku, has called on security operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos to streamline the screening process in order to reduce delays incurred in passenger facilitation. Travellers go through different stages of screening conducted by security operatives from Aviation Security […]

Airports

FAAN’s Bizarre N2.5bn Flights, Hotel Accommodation Cost

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) spent additional N2.5 billion on personnel allowances, hotel accommodation and flight tickets annually since the agency was forced to relocate its headquarters from Lagos to Abuja by the former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika in 2020, THISDAY investigation has revealed. Officials of FAAN told THISDAY that the expenditures […]