The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has revalidated the Category 1 Safety Status given to Nigeria about eight years ago. The safety status has been revalidated few months after the body carried out successful audit of the country’s aviation industry. This was confirmed by a top official from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) […]
Nigeria is starting flights to evacuate thousands of its citizens from Libya which will continue until all those wanting to return home have done so, its foreign minister said on Saturday. Nigerians have recently been the largest national group among African migrants traveling to Libya and trying to cross from there to Italy by sea. […]
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said the total amount of revenues owed to international carriers by some African countries have risen to N366 billion ($1.2 billion). This was disclosed by IATA’s Vice President for Africa, Raphale Kuuchi at the on-going aviation conference in Kigali, Rwandan capital. According to Reuters, out of the total amount, […]
It is a given fact that Nigerians are the most travelled in Africa; that while passenger traffic is higher in South Africa, Nigerians remain the highest number of indigenous travellers in the continent. In West and Central Africa, Nigerian travellers drive the highest number of traffic in the sub-regions. So both international carriers and regional […]
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Council has elected Nigerian Representative, Captain Musa Nuhu as the Second Vice-President of the Council during the last meeting of the recently concluded 211th Session of ICAO Council on Friday 30th June at its headquarters in Montreal, Canada. Also, the Council elected Mr. Tee Chiou Ng, the Representative […]