Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. HadiSirika, has pledged that the Federal Government would ensure full implementation of the Air Safety Recommendations released by the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB). Sirika who made the pledge when he received the report of the Safety Recommendation Committee headed by the Commissioner of AIB, Mr Akin Olateru on Tuesday […]
According to industry experts, there is a general saying by foreign airlines that Nigerian operating environment is insecure. They use this assumption to charge exorbitant fares and up insurance premium when compared to what is obtainable in other countries in the region. About two years ago, precisely during the Air Finance Conference for Africa in […]
The Dana Air Flight 992 crash on June 3, 2012, which killed all 153 passengersand some people on ground, could have been prevented by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), according to a recent report by the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB). The accident report, which made public by the AIB About a fortnight ago stated […]
*Experts Call for Proactive Measures in Nigeria There are new concerns over the possibility of explosives being hidden in laptop batteries and other electronic devices byunscrupuloustravellers, who would use them to blow up airliners while airborne. This, operatives said was what informed the recent ban of large electronics on flights from selected airports in the […]
Security operatives at the nation’s airports have imbibed the extortion of passengers as a culture and this has grave implications. An activist, Lanre David Lijadu recently wrote on his Facebook account what he went through on arrival and departure from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. He painted a sordid picture of how security operatives extort money from […]
