Ethiopian Airlines has now completed the installation of a flight simulator for Boeing B777 aircraft, the fifth such training equipment at their aviation academy. Other models are dedicated to the Boeing B757/767 series, the Boeing B737NG, the Bombardier Q 400 and the Boeing B787 Dreamliner, effectively completing an in-house cockpit crew training facilities for all […]
Twenty-three years after a military plane crash in which more than 159 officers lost their lives in Ejirin swamp in Lagos in 1992, then military ruler, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB) has finally spoken on the ill-fated incident. Babangida, in an exclusive chat in the maiden edition of The Interview, disclosed that the crashed aircraft […]
There was tension in Jos, the capital of Plateau State, Wednesday when it was learnt that a lion escaped from Jos Wildlife Park at feeding time, before it was killed. Many felt it was wrong to have killed the lion instead of tranquilising it. On inquiry from tourism officials of the Plateau Tourism Corporation on […]
On Thursday, December 10, it will be exactly 10 years since the Loyola Jesuit College community was struck by a tragedy of immense proportions. 60 of our students perished in Nigeria's worst air crash. Some of the students were in year 7(JS1) while some others were in their last year of high school. Naturally, they […]
Airport Council International (ACI) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for manpower development. During the signing, the Managing Director of FAAN, Saleh Dunoma said the partnership between FAAN and the Airports Council International would enhance skills, which would be deployed to enhance performance and improvement of […]
Taxi operators under the aegis of Airport Car Hire Association of Nigeria (ACHAN) have warned that terrorists may infiltrate the nation's airports as touts are allowed to mill everywhere around terminal facilities, especially at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja. The operators observed that the infiltration of these touts as […]
A Lagos lawmaker, Mr Fatai Mojeed, says the state House of Assembly will ensure appropriate funds are allocated to the ministry of transportation to enable it to curb gridlock on the roads. Mojeed, Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Transportation, spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday […]
Accident Investigation Bureau, AIB, yesterday faulted the Senate claim that the agency is keeping the reports of investigation into air crashes in the country from the public, describing the claim as untrue. A senator had during plenary, last Tuesday, said the investigative reports on Sosoliso crash of 2005, Bellview crash of 2005, ADC crash of […]
It came as cheering news that the two contractors engaged by the federal government to reconstruct the 167-kilometre Lagos/Ibadan Expressway have moved their equipment back to site to resume work. The Federal Government under former President Goodluck Jonathan had hired Julius Berger PLC to reconstruct and widen the portion from the Shagamu Exchange in Ogun […]
