Author: Wole Shadare

Lack of capacity by Nigerian insurance firms to provide cover for airlines and alleged multiple taxation are threatening the operations of many carriers in the country. Chairman, Air Peace Airlines, Mr. Allen Onyema, raised this alarm in a chat in Lagos. Besides, he said that all the insurance firms in the country do not have the capacity it takes to insure a single airline, explaining that this formed the decision of operators to be insured outside…

Multiple routes designation to foreign airlines has been one of the headaches of domestic airlines. The truth is that Nigerian airlines are so small, fragmented and not ready for competition. WOLE SHADARE writes   It first started as a subtle protest, but later assumed a wider dimension as airlines, particularly Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) and a few others sympathetic to the precarious situation of Nigerian carriers, have pleaded with the Federal Government to review…

 The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has conducted a random alcohol and drug tests on licensed aviation personnel in the industry. However, out of the 87 personnel tested, only one crew member tested positive to psychoactive substance, Tetrahydro – Cannabinol (Marijuana) and was immediately suspended by the authority from carrying out further flight operations.   Further investigations were later carried out to ascertain the quantity of the substance in the urine sample of the crew…

Many refer to Captain Dele Ore as an encyclopaedia on aviation matters in Nigeria having being around the sector for 54 years. He rose through the ranks, first as a graduate from Britain Air University (AST), Perth Scotland, Oxford Air Training School, Mannin University, U.K. culminating in the attainment of a commercial pilot licence with instrument rating, multi-engine rating. This early training set up Ore, described as one of the best pilots Nigeria ever had…

Air Peace has given its plan to launch itself on the international route a big push with the training of four of its pilots in the handling of Boeing 777 aircraft. The training which took place at the Boeing Training Centre in the United Kingdom was the first by any Nigerian airline. The carrier’s Chief Pilot, Captain Victor Egonu, Capt. Victor Iwo Brown, Senior First Officer Ahmad Abdullahi and First Officer Emmanuel Iwhiwhu participated in…

Airline operators have faulted the prevalent of fifth freedom right granted some airlines and have called for a review. Chairman, Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON), Capt. Noggie Meggison, said the right was damaging airlines in the continent, describing it as a rip-off on other carriers. Large European, American and Gulf carriers, by virtue of the Fifth Freedom, are able to operate flights directly from their respective bases into Accra and then fly into a neighbouring…

Former Aviation Minister, Professor Babalola Borisade is dead. According to family sources, Borisade died in the early hours of Wednesday in the United Kingdom (UK). He was aged 71. He was initially rushed to Reddington Hospital in Lagos, last week from where he was taken to London. The cause of death was lung and heart –related.Borishade was born in Usi- Ekiti on March 7, 1946 into the Ebi Ilotin family. He served as a minister…