COVID-19: Expert Advises FG against Flight Restrictions, Lockdown

The Group Managing Director of Finchglow Group and Chairman, Airlines and Passengers Joint Committee, Mr. Bankole Bernard has said that despite the ravaging effects of the second phase of the coronavirus as well as efforts by the federal government to curtail its spread, Nigerians should not be stopped from traveling overseas because the country is […]

MMIA Aviation

Experts Seek Improved Welfare for Airport Workers

Airport users and aviation security experts have expressed concern over illicit activities by persons employed as cleaners at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. THISDAY investigations revealed that the concessionaire to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), which recruited the cleaners, allegedly pays them N15, 000 monthly and most often the payment is […]

Aviation

Why Labour is against Airport Concession

  Recently labour unions representing the workers at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria reiterated their rejection of plan by the federal government to concession major airports in the country, insisting that there will be lack of transparency in the process Although when transparently conducted and subjected to the right legal and administrative framework with […]

MMIA Aviation

FG Targets Processing 55mn Passengers at Airports by 2048

The federal government has projected that the major international airports: the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano and the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa would be processing about 55 million passengers annually by 2048. This was the estimate made by the Outline […]