The Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Mrs. Olubunmi Kuku, has directed the Aviacargo Roadmap Committee to fast-track its implementation finds to enable the agency develop its new cargo freighting programme. Kuku gave the directive at the weekend in a meeting in Lagos, urging the Committee to give her a quicker schedule […]
With hundreds of kilometers of arable land from mangrove to the Savanna, agriculture can become the major source of foreign exchange for Nigeria Nigeria is sitting on huge wealth that it is almost slipping away. That wealth is agriculture, which has remained untapped as a huge source of foreign exchange because government has not shown […]
The Director General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Musa Nuhu has revealed that since the federal government embraced the Single African Air Transport Market (SAATM), it has created 17, 400 jobs in the aviation industry, increased aviation contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by $128 million and enhanced consumer benefits by $93 […]
Experts in air freighting have listed the major barriers stopping Nigeria from significantly profiting from the export of its agricultural produce, including getting the right certification. They alleged that the unscrupulous action of government agencies like Customs, NAFDAC and others, have continued to frustrate the easy movement of exports as obtained in other countries, and […]
Nigeria has failed to benefit from multibillion-dollar agricultural items exported from West Africa due to non-certification of its farm produce such as yam, mangoes, shrimps, garlic, ginger and others. Ghana, Cameroon, Mali and others have been benefitting from the export of their farm produce such as plantain, mangoes, yam; that Ghana in 2021 generated about […]
