The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, yesterday put the debts of Nigerian airlines over the last 10 years to aviation agencies at about N22.2 billion. Sirika also said the federal government would soon start the disbursement of the N5 billion bailout it approved for the operators of the aviation sector. The House of Representatives, […]
The Federal Government has approved N4 billion as a bailout fund to airlines to cushion the effects of the impact of the devastation of COVID-19 on their operations. Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika made the disclosure on Monday in Abuja at a three-day public hearing to repeal and enact Acts of Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), […]
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) recently disrupted the operations of airlines indebted to the agency by delaying the operations of two airlines at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. FAAN officials closed the counters of the two airlines during check in and it was after prolonged pleading by the domestic carriers that the […]
The Federal Government recently hinted at the plan to float a new national carrier already christened Nigeria Air. But the controversial venture is coming at a time of lean resources, global downturn, and investors’ fatigue, amid an unfriendly local environment for airlines’ survival. WOLE OYEBADE writes. After the 2018-botched take-off of the new national carrier, […]
The Akure Airport in Ondo State, which was temporarily shut down following the discovery of a suspicious crater, has reopened for operation. A source at the airport said the swift response of the Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, was helpful in bringing the airport back to business. "But for the prompt intervention of the governor, […]
The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, yesterday gave next year as the date for the take-off of a new national carrier. He also said 10 new airports were under construction nationwide just as the Senate lamented the deplorable state of Minna, Ilorin and Makurdi airports. Sirika, who was at the Senate to defend his […]
Travel agencies have again raised concerns over the activities of illegal operators, touts and fake agencies that have continued to dupe unsuspecting travellers and give other operators a bad name. The operators, under the aegis of National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA), Lagos Zone, said the local aviation industry, which is already stressed by […]
Air Peace will begin regular commercial flights from its Lagos hub to Johannesburg in South Africa, before the year ends, its management said. This is just as the airline has resumed flights to Enugu and Asaba which were suspended following the curfew occasioned by the #EndSARS protest aftermath. The airline said the Lagos-Johannesburg flight which […]
Local airlines, yesterday, resumed skeletal services following last week’s disruption by the EndSARS protests and the attendant curfew imposed by the Lagos State government. The demonstrations, which had forced some foreign operators to suspend flights, resulted in grounding of operations by indigenous carriers amid absence of travellers and riots in Nigeria’s economic capital. But yesterday, […]
The Minister of Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, said on Thursday that the Federal Government was ready to provide support and enabling environment to investors eager to invest in civil aviation. A statement issued in Abuja by Mr James Odaudu, Director of Public Affairs in the ministry, quoted Sirika as saying this when he inspected aviation […]
