Tag: aviation
Aviation: Africa’s Risky Skies
By Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Africa is the second most populous continent on earth after Asia with more than a billion…
NAHCO Shed Shut Over Crisis
A crisis between clearing and forwarding agents and men of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, left NAHCO shed shut on…
Nigerian Airlines To Reimburse Passengers After 2-Hour Delay
Air travellers in Nigeria have the right to demand for reimbursement after a two-hour flight delay, aviation authorities said on…
Cannon Fodder
By Ademola Adegbamigbe As a reporter with Tempo in the early 1990s, during the military era (may Nigeria never experience…
Passengers Stranded As Benin Airport Is Shut
The administrative office of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, located inside the ever busy Benin City airport was…
Arik Airline New York Passengers Stranded
Hundreds of passengers with Nigeria’s largest airline, Arik Air, were exasperated on Wednesday night and Thursday morning after their flight…
Overland Airways Increases Flights To Ibadan, Asaba
Overland Airways, Nigeria’s commercial airline with the smallest aircraft has increased its flight frequencies from the country’s hinterland to Nigeria’s…
Arik Passengers Protest 9 Hours Delay
Arik Air passengers on Sunday erupted in anger and protested at the departure lounge of the Murtala Muhammed Airport Terminal…
Arik Unveils New Generation Plane
Arik Air, Nigeria’s largest airline, unveiled its latest plane on Wednesday, saying the new Airbus 330-200 twin-engine aircraft with a…
Abuja Court Summons Borishade
An Abuja High Court on Monday ordered Babalola Borishade, a former minister of Aviation to appear before it unfailingly on…
Arik Air Splashes $297m On Next Generation Planes
Nigeria’s largest airline, Arik Air, has signed a firm contract to acquire three CRJ1000 NextGen aircraft and four Q400 NextGen…
Junk Plane Found In Lagos Suburb
A junk plane belonging to flamboyant preacher and founder of Bethel Ministries, the late Gabriel Oduyemi, triggered panic across Lagos,…
Dana Plane Crash: Crew Members’ Names Not On Cenotaph
Names of Dana Air crew who perished along with 150 others in the 3 June, 2012 plane crash are not…
Dana, Aviation Industry And Families Of Victims
The mishap of Sunday, 3 June, 2012, involving the McDonnell Douglas MD-83, operated by Dana Air, in Iju-Ishaga, Lagos, again,…
Dana Crash: Fashola Unveils Cenotaph
Residents of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, as well as family members of victims of the ill-fated Dana aircraft that crashed…
Jonathan: Dana Plane Crash, A Monumental Tragedy
President Goodluck Jonathan Monday at a solemn, brief ceremony held at Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja unveiled a cenotaph in…
Arik Air, Varsity Partner On Manpower Dev
Arik Air and Cranfield University in the United Kingdom have entered into a partnership aimed at human capital development, Nigeria’s…
NDLEA Reads Riot Act To Airlines
Nigerian airlines must do all they can to prevent drug trafficking, Nigeria’s anti-drug trafficking boss, Ahmadu Giade, said on Thursday,…
Flight Cancellation: Court Fines Jimoh Ibrahim’s Air Nigeria N5m
A Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered Air Nigeria owned by Jimoh Ibrahim to pay N5 million to Mr…
Drug Trafficking: Cabin Crew Not Checked —Airport Sources
Hand luggage of cabin crew in Nigeria are hardly checked at airports because airline staff are expected to be upright,…
Arik Cabin Crew Had N180m Cocaine
Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said on Tuesday that one of the two Arik Air female cabin crew…
2 Arik Air Staff Caught With Cocaine In UK
Two members of staff of Nigerian largest airline, Arik Air, have been arrested at Heathrow airport in London for drug…
NAMA Workers Paralyse Flights Nationwide
Air travellers in Nigeria waited helplessly at terminal buildings on Monday as a strike by aggrieved workers of the Nigerian…
Aero Slashes Fares To N10k
Nigeria’s second largest airline, Aero Contractors, has slashed its air fares to N10,000 on all domestic routes when booked online,…
SAHCOL Acquires Modern Equipment
A Nigerian ground handling company on Tuesday unveiled newly acquired state-of-the-art equipment suitable in handling wide body aircraft and heavy…
Dana Air Crashes Fares
Dana Air has crashed fares on its Lagos-Abuja-Lagos route to N15,300, the airline said in a statement on Tuesday, as…
Aero Rotary Wing Shut
The rotary wing of Aero Contractors, Nigeria’s second largest airline, and preferred brand for oil companies, has been shut in…
Aero Madness
The labour crisis rocking Nigeria’s second largest airline, Aero Contractors, has now entered day fourteen and many Nigerians are asking:…
Striking Workers Picket Aero
Aero Contractors, Nigeria’s second largest airline, remained grounded on Wednesday, two weeks after a labour crisis paralysed its activities nationwide,…
Aero Workers Block Gates
Striking workers of Aero Contractors, Nigeria’s second largest airline, stormed the headquarters of the troubled airline on Tuesday, blocking its…