As my Lagos bound commercial flight charged out on takeoff roll on Runway-26 at Enugu airport, my heart jumped out of my mouth as a sudden shock jolted the airplane fuselage when the landing gears hit the macadamised portion of the runway; a shoddy construction job embarrassingly delivered by PW construction company less than six […]
Abumbi II, the 11th fon, or king, of Bafut, Cameroon, has close to 100 wives. They weren’t all his to start. According to local tradition, when a fon dies, his successor inherits all his wives and then marries his own queens. “The queens have a great role to play in the fondom,” notes Prince Nickson, […]
NIGERIA’S foreign exchange crisis has taken another huge toll on its air travel industry as cost of air fares on some foreign routes have soared following the recent decision by some foreign airlines to relocate their ticketing and sales offices to Ghana. This was as Spanish national carrier, Iberia Airlines would suspend its Lagos-Madrid operation […]
This is an important story of a lost old-fashioned city you've probably never heard about. Benin City, originally known as Edo. It was once the capital of a pre-colonial African empire located in the present southern Nigeria. The Benin Empire was one of the oldest and most highly developed states in West Africa, dating back […]
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said the federal government will need as much as N1.7 trillion to complete about 206 road projects it awarded in the past. Fashola however noted that the three ministries under him have only N433 billion earmarked for them in the 2016 budget. He explained […]
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has banned the launching of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) in the Nigerian airspace without the permit of the authority and the Office of National Security Adviser (ONSA). This is contained in a statement issued by the General Manager, Public Relations, NCAA,Mr Sam Adurogboye, which was made available to the […]
The Minister for Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi has said that the ministry is concluding plans to acquire a national carrier. He said a vessel would soon be named as the national carrier to afford cadets sea time knowledge in their chosen fields. Also, the minister has called for a performance audit of the maritime sector, […]
Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Ltd (BASL), operator of the Murtala Muhammed Airport Two (MMA2), Lagos, on Sunday claimed that Arik Air was not indebted to the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), but to BASL. Bi-Courtney made the claim in a statement signed by its Chief Operations Officer, Adebisi Awoniyi, which was obtained by the News […]
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday expressed optimism that the activities lined up for the forthcoming Lagos International Jazz Day will go a long way to showcase the tourism potentials of the State to the World. Governor Ambode, who spoke at the Lagos House, Ikeja when he played host to some of the […]
Lagos is, without a doubt, the most popular city in Nigeria and possibly Africa. Not only is it cosmopolitan and all-encompassing, it offers countless opportunities to its inhabitants as well as visitors. The city literally adopts thousands of new residents each year and so it has become a daunting task identifying who the real Lagosians […]
