Arik Air has announced that it will resume direct flights from Lagos to Kano, effective Tuesday, April 27, 2021. The airline said the three weekly flights would operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Arik said the decision to reintroduce direct flights between Lagos and Kano was informed by the importance of both cities as centres […]
The increasing price of aviation fuel also called Jet A1 has pushed up airfares along all routes in the country. Investigations showed that the price of the aviation fuel has risen by 69 per cent from N160 per litre to between N250 and N270 per litre. This has led to a hike in airfares as […]
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) says it has received an alert from the ministry of aviation over planned attacks on airports across the country. This was contained in a memo signed by S.M. Mamman, FAAN deputy general manager of administration and logistics, and addressed to airport chiefs of security. According to the document […]
Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria, MWUN, yesterday, threatened to expose those it believed are sabotaging the e-Call-Up system by the management of Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, to tackle the perennial and chaotic gridlock bedeviling the Apapa-Oshodi expressway. This came as angry commuters, who are groaning over the worsening gridlock on the ever-busy expressway, urged the […]
The Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, has suspended trucks carrying export cargoes into ports for the next fourteen days. This measure, according to the Authority, was put in place to allow them clear the backlog currently causing congestion and consequently leading to the gridlock being experienced on the port corridor. Speaking on Radio yesterday in Lagos […]
Palpable tension now hovers along the access roads to Tin-Can Island Ports, second largest Seaports in Lagos, over Wednesday’s shooting of a clearing agent, Adeyemi Quadri, by a customs officer attached to the Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone A, Ikeja. The injured clearing agent was said to have had the injured leg amputated on Thursday. […]
Following complaints by stakeholders and air travellers about the delay in the reopening of other international operations at the Mallam Aminu Kano Airport, Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa and the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, the Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika has identified reasons for the delay. The minister in a statement signed by […]
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has threatened to deal decisively with the cabal behind Apapa gridlock that has defiled moves by successive governments in the state to free the roads in the axis. The governor who disclosed this on Wednesday, at the unveiling of the reconfigured Abraham Adesanya, Second and First Roundabouts on Lekki-Epe […]
The House of Representatives has called on the federal government to pay special attention to the construction of port access roads. It also urged the federal government to dedicate a greater part of two months revenue generated by the four commands of Apapa, Tincan Island, Kirikiri Lighter Terminal and PTML for the construction of all […]
The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) yesterday disclosed its revenues and expenses for the year 2020, revealing that it remitted N2billion into the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) account between January and September 2020. The Managing Director of FAAN, Captain Rabiu Yadudu, made this known when members of the House of Representatives Committee on Aviation […]
