The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has warned all industry stakeholders to avoid anti-competitive practices in the aviation sector, insisting that no airline can fly without adequate insurance and other safety certificates The Regulatory Authority is expressing concern over recent cases of disinformation prevalent in the industry. It is unfathomable that some questionable sources have […]
The Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, Captain Muhtar Usman, said in this interview that the Authority has intensified surveillance of Nigerian airlines. Excerpts: There have been reports that NCAA diverts money meant for training for the building of your new headquarters in Abuja. Is this true? That is not true. First of […]
Nigerian airlines may be forced to stop operation if Lloyd’s carries out its threat to blacklist and downgrade Nigerian airlines over their inability to pay insurance premium. The airlines are already beset by paucity and high price of aviation fuel, low passenger traffic as well inability to obtain foreign exchange to meet their aircraft and […]
Lloyd’s of London, the world’s leading insurance market, has issued a warning to Nigerian airline operators that it might be forced to blacklist the country in the face of continued failure of some operators to fulfill their obligations of paying their premiums to the insurer regularly. Nigerian airlines have been finding it increasingly difficult to […]
The declining number of operating aircraft in Nigerian airlines’ fleet is taking a toll on air transportation in the country as most flights are either delayed or cancelled leaving passengers stranded at various airports. THISDAY checks revealed that the air passengers that wait in departures are currently on the rise, as there are only few […]