FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Aviation Sector Faces Funding Challenge as Airlines, Regulatory Agency Battle with Cash Squeeze

Poor passenger growth, high cost of operation and high exchange rate have impeded domestic airlines financing which calls for effective and prudent management of lean resources. This has also affected the revenue of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), which depends largely on five per cent passenger and cargo sales charge to generate revenue. As […]

Aviation

As NCAA Clocks 25 Years of Operation

There is cause for celebration as the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) clocks 25 years, even though the 25 years was full of challenges and successes, which include many accomplishments and some failures in terms of the high record of accidents and serious incidents that happened within the period. But the regulatory authority may have […]

NCAA

Growing Support for Najomo Confirmation as NCAA Boss

Not a few were elated when the Director General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) was confirmed at the Senate Committee level on Wednesday this week. Earlier, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had referred a letter to the Senate, requesting for the confirmation of the then acting Director General of the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, […]

Airlines

NCAA Confirms United Airlines’ Incident, Visits Injured in Hospital to Give Them Support

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has confirmed the mid-flight incident suffered by United Airlines Flight UA614 on Thursday, January 23, when it left the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, to Washington, United States, but was forced to declare emergency and made air return after about two hours of flight out of the departure airport. […]

NCAA

NCAA Charges Ibom Air Passenger to Court

The Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has announced that Ms. Chiamaka Don Ubani, the passenger responsible for the disruption of Ibom Air flight from Uyo to Abuja on January 8, 2025, has been charged to court. According to a statement issued by the Director, Public Affairs and Consumer Protection, NCAA, Mr. Michael Achimugu, the charges […]