•Project to be executed within 22 months •Okays N213.7bn for electrification of universities, rural communities •Awards multi billion naira road projects nationwide •Approves new Oncology centre for Ibadan Deji Elumoye in Abuja The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Thursday approved N712 billion for the full rehabilitation, upgrade, and modernisation of International Terminal One at […]
The management of MallamAminu Kano International Airport, Kano (MAKIA), has disclosed that the airport processed a total of 39, 159 passengers in 2024, made up 20, 472 inbound domestic passengers and 18, 687 inbound international passengers during the period, which amounted to over N20.83 billion revenue generated, as against the targeted N17.3 billion. The Regional […]
The government of Saudi Arabia has come out to explain why it turned back 177 passengers out of the 264 passengers ferried by Air Peace to Jeddah last Monday. It was reported that Air Peace Flight No. P4-752 had airlifted 264 passengers from the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos and the Aminu Kano International […]
Nigeria’s major carrier, Air Peace, has announced the commencement of direct flights from Lagos and Kano to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on October 31, 2023. The airline disclosed this during an engagement session with travel agents in Kano recently and explained that Lagos- and Kano-Jeddah service would operate three days every week with a possible connection from Abuja. The […]
Stakeholders in the aviation sector, especially members of the aviation unions have expressed fears over the perceived failure of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s aviation roadmap programme. They are therefore resisting the airport concession project, while calling for a complete stop of the project. According to them, the federal government may have failed in accomplishing two […]
