Author: Wole Shadare

*Lament poor treatment of Airways ex-workers by govt.   President of aviation think-tank, Aviation Round Table (ART), Mr. Gabriel Olowo has kicked against the move by the Federal Government to earmark  N8.5bn for the suspended national carrier project, Nigeria Air in the 2019 budget proposal to the National Assembly. Olowo who saw the sum as huge waste of resources noted that setting aside  the sum of N500m for Transaction Advisers in the budget was too…

 For its non-compliance with safety regulations, the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has refused to sanction for use, the helipad built two years ago by Lagos State government near the medical emergency unit of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja. The facility had been completed but yet to be used for emergency medical services because of masts and high rise building inside the hospital which the aviation regulatory body said would expose emergency helicopter operations…

  It  will no longer be business as usual for touts whose stock in trade is to hawk and sell the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis (ICVP), international health certificate popularly called Yellow card to travellers at Lagos airports. This is because concerned agencies at the airports have put plans in place to ensure no traveller leaves the country with fake yellow card or avoid being vaccinated. With the approval of the Federal Government…

IATA, UK firm partner, demonstrate payment platform The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced the successful completion of the first “IATA Pay” ticket purchase transaction in a live test environment. The transaction was conducted in partnership with ipagoo, a UK-based fintech company. IATA Pay is an industry-supported initiative to develop a new payment option for consumers when purchasing a ticket directly from an airline website. It is made possible by the European Commission’s second…

Nigeria’s flag carrier airline, Air Peace’s determination to begin long haul flight operations has begun with a demonstration flight to Dakar, Senegal. The carrier was granted rights to operate Dubai, Sharjah, London, Houston, Guangzhou-China, Mumbai and Johannesburg.  A short WhatsApp message by spokesman for the carrier, Chris Iwarah said the demonstration flight to Dakar took off at 8am with Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) inspectors onboard. He explained that the non-revenue flight was to demonstrate,…

WOLE SHADARE writes on the need for the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to reinvent and guarantee efficient safety regulations Inconsistency The recent sanction of four nameless airlines by the Nigerian Civil Aviation (NCAA) last week is one of the many inconsistencies of a supposedly watchdog of a critical sector like aviation. The fact that the aviation regulatory body may have passed some international aviation audits does not in way leave the NCAA without major…

The domestic Terminal One of the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA) Ikeja, also referred to as the General Aviation Terminal One (GAT) recorded a total of 228, 239 passengers in the month of December 2018. Statistic made available to Woleshadarenews in Lagos by the Terminal Manager (TM), MMA, Mr Aderigbigbe Adekunle, revealed that104,168 passengers arrived through the terminal while a total of 124,071passengers were processed out during the period under review. According to Adekunle, the management of the…