Author: Wole Shadare

Air Medical Group Holdings, Inc. (AMGH), a leading medical transport and emergency medical service provider, has agreed to acquire Air Medical Resource Group (AMRG) of South Jordan, Utah. AMRG has operations in 15 states, including Alaska and Hawaii.   Lewisville-based AMGH already has hundreds of critical care aircraft in operation. With the acquisition of AMRG it will add 62 bases and new geographies to its customer service footprint.   “AMGH is delighted to add AMRG’s…

The Director General of Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET),  Prof. Sani Abubakar Mashi, has advocated better use of climate information in agriculture if Nigeria is to rebuild the sector and make it sustainable.   Mashi made this recommendation, while presenting a paper titled Agrometeorological Service Delivery forSustainable Agricultural Development in Nigeria to participants of the Senior Executive Course (SEC) No.39, 2017 Programme at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) in Plateau state.    Mashi noted…

Government is at a crossroads on what to do with Arik Air, having injected N1.5 billion since it took over the carrier. It’s time to take far reaching decision on the airline’s future, writes WOLE SHADARE   Arik on life support   For those who don’t know, Arik Air is currently dying a slow death and here are some of the signs. The airline has just five aircraft from the over 29 it acquired when…

Breaking news:   The first aircraft has landed on the N5.5b rehabilitated Abuja airport runway. The airplane belonging to The Nigerian Police with registration 5N-HAR airlifted the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika to the airport from Kaduna at 11.05am.     Ethiopian Airways is expected to land at noon. Sirika said he was happy that the project finished in record time. Detail shortly

*Ethiopian, first to land in Abuja, as aerodrome opens tomorrow   The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) will tomorrow begin the calibration of the navigational aids at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja in readiness for resumption of flight operations on Tuesday, according to its Managing Director, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu. The resumption of flights tomorrow would come ahead of Wednesday’s deadline originally planned for the opening of the facility. This is coming as Ethiopian Airways flight…

**Call for arrest of Arik promoters’ heightens **Nigerians wait for KPMG’s report-Ore A groundswell of condemnation has trailed the mismanagement of Arik Airline following additional revelations by the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) that the former management of the carrier systematically plunged the airline into N387bn debts. Former Director of Flight Operations, Capt. Dele Ore heaped the blame on the door step of Sir Johnson Arumeni-Ikhide allegedly appropriating what he said was the property of Nigerians. …

 …flay N14.7bn debts Airline operators under the aegis of Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has called on the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) to open its books to scrutiny just as it challenged the aviation regulatory body to release the breakdown of how it arrived at ‘phantom’ bills of N15 billon said to be debts of domestic carriers. This call was made in a position paper made available to Woleshadare.net by Chairman, AON, Capt. Noggie…