Since it started operations more than three years ago, Air Peace has recorded surprising success to become the airline with the highest number of aircraft in West Africa. Now, it is poised to lead other Nigerian operators to take over the travel market of the sub-region, writes Chinedu Eze Since the past 20 years Nigerian […]
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 […]
Pope Francis greeted a group of activists from the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group, who are campaigning for secession from Nigeria, after they gathered at the Vatican on Sunday. IPOB is led by Nnamdi Kanu, a U.K.-Nigerian dual citizen who is currently detained in Nigeria, facing trial for treasonable felony. Kanu is the director […]
The governments of the United States and the United Kingdom have said they do not recognise the passports being issued by the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra. The National Director of Information, MASSOB, Sunny Okereafor, had said two weeks ago that the passport was valid worldwide, adding that the travel […]
“Kigali is a very clean city,” said Olabayo Veracruz, Managing Director of GTBank Rwanda at the just concluded Akwaaba African Travel Market (22-24 Nov. 2014). “From the airport to my hotel, I saw only five pieces of paper on the road. That’s how clean the city is.” Veracruz has lived in the country for a […]
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 […]
Following the controversy that trailed the report that Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the two British carriers that fly London- Nigeria route, had fired all its Nigerian employees, the airline has reacted. The airline was equally alleged to have sacked its crew members working in its Lagos office. Among its Nigerian workers that were reportedly sacked were […]
A Nigerian medical doctor based in the United States of America, Godwin Maduka, has built no fewer than 100 bungalows for widows and other indigent persons in his Umuchukwu community in Orumba South Local Government Area of the state. Umuchukwu, a boundary community between Anambra and Abia State, is relatively rural. An excited native of […]
The Consumer Protection Department (CPD) is a division of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). It was launched in March 2001, to ensure that all aviation consumers obtain the best services in air transportation. Its main mission is to serve as the eagle eye of the industry by being responsible for informing, educating and protecting […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has recovered and returned the sum of 10, 540 Euros to a polish victim of Internet love scam.The victim, simply identified as Jamina, was allegedly duped 40,000 Euros by the suspect, Gabriel Oseremen Xavi who operates a fake Facebook account with the name, Collins Page. The suspect was […]