What many African governments have found difficult doing is operating successful and profitable business. In Nigeria, the Nigeria National Shipping Line, Nigeria Airways Limited (NAL), NITEL and other businesses that were once successful eventually collapsed due to interference and corruption. Shortly before mobile phone network came to Nigeria, many technical officials of NITEL were induced […]
Ethiopia has announced that it has stopped issuing visas on arrival to Nigerian travelers with immediate effect. The East African nation did not explain what prompted that decision. This comes barely two months the United Arab Emirates (UAE) changed its visa policy for certain categories of Nigerian travellers to the Emirates. Ethiopia has also made […]
Nigeria’s major carrier, Air Peace, yesterday recorded full load factor of 240 passengers on its inaugural flight from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos to Guangzhou, China. This is also as the airline disclosed plans to code-share with Asian carriers to distribute passengers to other destinations outside Guangzhou, China. The airline operated the flight with […]
*Airfares to Nigeria Three-times Higher than What Obtains in Other Countries The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has disclosed that airlines unremitted revenues from Nigeria (known as blocked funds) has risen to $450 million, representing 25 per cent of the total amount of international carriers’ funds held back by central banks of many countries, put […]
Today makes it two weeks into the new year. That’s exactly the time the low season begins in domestic flight operations in Nigeria. After the hustle and bustle that characterised the Christmas holiday: the surging crowd of passengers at the airport terminals, the busy airspace hosting aircraft crisscrossing to land at various runways in the […]
