Lagos — Following Wednesday's controlled ditching of a Bristow Helicopter, the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has suspended the operation of the Bristow Helicopters Limited's Sikorsky S-76X++ type till further notice. The Helicopter ditched inside the high sea around 10 a.m on Wednesday with 11 passengers including two crew members on board. Daily Trust reports […]
The Minister of State, Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, has said that the aviation sector is collapsing but the federal government is determined to revamp the sector to meet international standard. Sirika said this when Guillemette Jaffrin and Bayo Oyewole, from the World Bank, visited him in his office in Abuja to discuss the possibility of […]
The suspension of three top officials of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria FAAN at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja recently by the Minister of State, Aviation following a serious safety breach at the airport should not come as a surprise to many Nigerians because of the serious security and safety challenges in many […]
Nigeria's major airline, Arik Air has introduced new service between Nigeria and Gabon as part of the airline's expansion programme. Commencing February 12, the airline said it would be flying from both Nigerian cities of Lagos and Port Harcourt to Libreville, Gabon. It noted that this would be the first international route launch in 2016 […]
No fewer than 14 companies have indicated their interest to bid for the proposed concession of the Asaba International Airport. They include the BGL Consortium, FBN Capital, Infrastructural Bank Plc, One Dott Aviation, Rougton International Consortium, Ponclef Associates Limited and Planet Capital Consortium, Enterprise Integratus. Others are Halcro Infrastructure Consortium, Deloids, PWC, Rosecross, Ed-field Partners […]
An aviation expert, Herbert Odika, has advised domestic carriers in Nigeria to dispose their large aircraft, Boeing 737s and opt for smaller planes in order to cut running cost and return to profitable ventures. Chief executive of FMC Aviation Services Limited, Odika in an interaction with some aviation correspondents said to revive the airline business in […]
Nigerians like things big. Nigeria is the biggest economy in Africa. Nigeria has the largest population in Africa. Lagos is one of the largest (if not the largest) cities in Africa. The fleet of private jets owned by Nigerians is also probably the largest in Africa. Yet... there's no Nigerian airline that can lay claim […]
Contrary to trending news that Virgin Atlantic is about pulling out of the Lagos route, the airline has said it has no plans of stopping its operation on the route it has operated for fourteen years. The media was awash with the news that Virgin Atlantic was about pulling out of the Lagos route after […]
For the incoming minister that will be in charge of Nigeria's aviation sector, there can't be any idle moment. Over the years, the sector has so underperformed that it pales below even some of its competitors in Africa when it has all the potentials to match the fast pace of aviation business in other continents. […]
The National Union of Air Transport Employees (NUATE) on Wednesday faulted the scrapping of the Ministry of Aviation by the Federal Government. The Assistant General-Secretary of NUATE, Mr Olayinka Abioye, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. The Federal Government had on Tuesday merged the ministry with […]
