Tag: aviation
Arik Air, IATA sign Weblink agreement
Simon Ateba/Aviation correspondent Nigeria’s largest airline, Arik Air, and the International Air Transport Association, IATA, have signed a weblink agreement,…
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,…