Ambode Harps On Opportunities in Tourism Sector

Lagos State Governor Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has acknowledged the huge potentials of the hospitality sector, saying that the industry was capable of generating huge revenues for the state. Ambode stated this at the official commissioning of The George, a hospitality centre in Ikoyi, Lagos, adding that his administration would access the opportunities in the sector. […]

Commercial Flights Resume in Maiduguri

Maiduguri — After 18 months of closure, commercial airline operations resumed yesterday at the Maiduguri International Airport. The airport was closed to commercial operations over a deadly Boko Haram attack on the 79 Composite Group of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) base on December 2, 2013. The attack equally affected some facilities at the nearby […]

Kenya Threatens SA With Visa Sanctions

Kenya has threatened to slap visa sanctions on South Africa if the southern African nation does not relax its stringent visa rules on Kenyans. The east African country is set to have talks with the South Africans in August to discuss the issue that has brought great displeasure to Kenyans. South Africa last year imposed […]

Airline chief blast Ghana CAA over discrimination regarding 5th freedom rights to foreign carriers

ACCRA, Ghana – Ghana’s government has been urged to bring back local carrier, ANTRAK by rescuing the airline from its woes and to ensure that all other domestic or local airlines are given the necessary and needed support to enable them thrive, remain viable and profitable. Chief Executive officer of Goldstar Airlines, Mr. Eric Bannerman […]

Buhari Administration to explore alternative funding for road construction

President Muhammadu Buhari has said his administration would adopt alternative fiscal measures of funding the construction of roads aside the country’s budget, while also hinting to implement essential reforms to protect Nigerian manufacturers from unfair competition from abroad. These pronouncements were the outcome of separate meetings the president had with the permanent secretaries of the […]

Ebola: NCAA Has No Plans To Stop Liberia Flights

Following a fresh outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease in Liberia, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority , NCAA says it has no plan to ban the country’s  airlines from coming into Nigeria. According to Fan Ndubuoke, general manager for public affairs at NCAA, rather than banning the airlines, the various agencies have intensified necessary preventive measures […]

How to spend less on vacation abroad.

I was listening to a radio show a few days ago as people called in to complain fiercely about exorbitant airfares. People complained that a round-trip to the United Kingdom was costing between N300, 000 to N500, 000. “The airlines are a rip off”, “our government is at fault”, and “taxes make up one-third of […]

Aviation Stakeholders Seek Merger, Listing of Local Airlines

Stakeholders in Nigeria's Aviation Industry, have called for regula­tion to compel existing airlines to merge and seek listing for bigger capitalization from the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). According to them, these moves will ease awa the threat of an m­minent collapse of the nation’s aviation industry. At a press conference held in Lagos recently, stakeholders including travel […]

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