Nahco handling a flight HANDLING

Aviation Ground Handling Companies Seek Duty Waivers, Concessionary Loans from FG

Ground handling companies in the Nigerian aviation industry have urged the federal government to grant them duty waivers and concessionary loans  in order to expand their business, acquire more state of art equipment and render better service to airlines. The operators argued that that the low  profit margin for operators in the sector, made business toxic, with […]

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. […]