Author: Wole Shadare

For divine intervention, passengers onboard escaped unhurt as an Air Peace flight from Port Harcourt airport made a forceful landing in Lagos. Our correspondent gathered that the B737 aircraft dropped from about 20 feet into the Lagos airport runway causing substantial damage to the plane’s front wheel. The forceful landing LED to burst front tyre. As at the time of filing this report, the Accident Investigation Bureau are inspecting the accident. AIB said it would…

Arik Air, Nigeria’s leading airline has introduced a special fare for members of the Armed Forces of Nigeria. The applicable fare starts from N20, 000.00 for one-way economy class ticket on any of Arik Air’s domestic routes. The fare is applicable to all categories of serving and retired personnel of the Armed Forces of Nigeria. The Armed Forces covered by the scheme are Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy and Nigerian Air Force. The scheme, which is…

 The intrusion into the runway of Lagos airport by a foreigner, who was found close to a fully loaded aircraft, has again exposed security lapses at Nigerian airports, as the nation’s aviation security system constantly fails to anticipate threats, writes WOLE SHADARE Caught napping Not only the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) saw the incursion into a sensitive part of Lagos airport where a Nigerien, Usman Adamu, beat security architecture to crawl out and climb…

Following the breach of aviation security by an intruder identified as a Nigerien national last Friday, the secretary general of Association of Nigerian Aviation Professionals (ANAP)  Abdulrasaq Saidu has called on the government to commence total overhaul of aviation security across airports in the country. Speaking in an interview in Lagos over the weekend, Saidu lamented that those in authorities have not learned various calls and warnings from unions to recruit aviation security and fire…

The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has split successfully the Lagos  Sub-Flight Information Region (Sub-FIR) airspace into two sectors: Lagos West Area Control Centre on 120.9MHz radio frequency and Lagos East Area Control Centre on 127.3MHz frequency.  The agency disclosed that the sectorization which took off at exactly 00.01 UTC on last week Thursday was a culmination of a two-year strategic plan by the agency to achieve sectored operations in the Lagos sub-FIR owing to the…

The hammer has fallen on top aviation security officers following the unfortunate airside incursion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos early today. Embarrassed by the security lapses at the Lagos airport that led to a man gaining access to sterile area of the airport, the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) suspended indefinitely the Aviation Security unit heads who were on duty when the incident occurred, pending completion of ongoing investigation into the regrettable…

  Pandemonium, Police arrests intruder Captain took preemptive action-Airline Aviation rot seems to have found expression in lax security collapse as young man who had obviously hidden inside one of the engines of Azman Port-Harcourt bound plane was seen crawling out, leading to pandemonium by already checked in passengers at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos. Passengers inside the aircraft could be heard in a video sent by one of the passengers asking the airline crew to…

 Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has boosted safety of Nigerian airspace, as the agency commences installation of 14 new Very High Frequency (VHF) radio sites to ride on the new VSAT network.   Managing Director of NAMA, Capt. Folayele Akinkuotu, expressed gratitude to the Federal Government for its support and intervention leading to the final clearance of the agency’s VSAT equipment at the Apapa port.   Not a few believe that the installation of the…