Author: Wole Shadare

*Airport gets new facilities, commercial activities pick up      Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika today said that some foreign airlines that hitherto said they would avoid services to Kaduna Airport are now re-considering their stance.   He disclosed Lufthansa German Airlines has expressed the desire to fly to Kaduna as alternate airport to Abuja which was closed yesterday for repair work on the runway.   The Minister said this during inspection of…

The Margaret Ekpo International Airport, Calabar, has clinched the “Best Airport Cleanliness award” for the year 2016 amongst the airports nationwide as well as among all airports managed by the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria. At the award ceremony, the organizers of the event, Nigeria Aviation Awards (NIGAV), acknowledged the vital role played by MEIA leadership in turning the terminal around among its contemporaries nationwide. The Chief Executive Officer for NIGAV, Fortune Idu, said, “the…

*IOM, NEMA rescued 643 nationals since Dec 2016 The Nigerian Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in collaboration International Organisation for Migration (IOM) today brought back 171 Nigerians who were stranded in Libya following the harsh treatment they were subjected to by their host country. This is coming as 91 Nigerians were deported from Italy.  They were being expected back in the country tonight at 10pm aboard a chartered aircraft from Rome. This fresh deportation from Libya…

A total of 32 airlines made up of scheduled and non-scheduled operators are currently listed as holding the all-important Air Operator Certificate (AOC) and are on the register of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) as at January 10, 2017 till date, Woleshadare.net has learnt. Airlines are categorised into scheduled and non-scheduled on the strength of the type of operations they carry out. A scheduled flight is a trip by airplane that has been planned…

*Ethiopian Airlines expected to land at aerodrome The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has declared the Kaduna International Airport, Kaduna, fit and ready for 24 hours local and international operations. It said all necessary steps to ensure that the status of the Airport as an alternate Airport to the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, (NAIA), during the closure have been put in place. Spokesman for the agency, Sam Adurogboye stated that the navigational aids have…

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has attributed the rapid demise of Nigerian airlines to lack of corporate governance, just as its strict regulation has forced the number of carriers to keep going down. Spokesman for NCAA, Sam Adurogboye, said most of them lack corporate governance because individuals own them, Besides, he said that if NCAA finds out that a particular airline does not demonstrate to NCAA that it has the financial muscle to operate,…

*Condemns false claims by unions   Landover Company Limited has condemned the picketing of its head office on yesterday by the labour union under the umbrella body of the Air Transport Services Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (ATSSSAN).   The management of the airline in a press statement explained that negotiations on the Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) renewal between the Company and the Union were still ongoing at the Ministry of Labour when the Union…

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) today released data for global air freight markets showing that demand, measured in freight tonne kilometers (FTKs), rose by 6.9 per cent in January 2017 compared to the year-earlier period.   While this was down from the 10 per cent annual growth recorded in December 2016 it still was well above the average annual growth rate of three per cent over the past five years. African carriers’ saw freight demand…