Author: Wole Shadare

With 307 delays out of 438 flights, 190 missing/delayed baggage, Nigeria’s flag carrier airline, Arik, topped the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA)’s summary of complaints received against international and domestic airlines for the months of October and November 2016. The airline also received the highest number of complaints of discourtesy. In a report made available to Woleshadare.net, Arik, however, recorded 408 flights, 16,335 total number of inbound passengers and 16,393 number of outbound passengers during…

Newly appointed NAMA MD, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu (left), receives handover note from outgoing Ag. MD, Emma Anasi at the agency headquarters in Lagos, recently.  

The Chief Executive Officer of Eden & Mcwhit Aviation Security, Dr. Naima Fraser, has advised the Federal Government to upgrade Nigerian airports in order to be compliant with the ICAO and IATA’s regulations for aviation security.   This, according to her, is necessary in view of increasing global terrorism and to achieve a global airport security status.   The aviation security expert, in a statement on Sunday, commended the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi…

Nigeria’s flag carrier airline, Arik said it sent out on January 10, 2017  communication to passengers booked on its Friday, January 13, 2017 Lagos-New York flight that the flight had been rescheduled to operate on Saturday, January 14 at 4:00 pm. It said the rescheduling was necessitated by  the uncertainty of  getting aviation fuel to operate the flight because of the warning strike called by the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG)…

Facility expired 14 years ago –Minister   It was long overdue. The Abuja airport runway was constructed in 1982. It was designed to last for only 20 years. In fact, the runway of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) actually expired 14 years ago, making it very unsafe for aircraft. On many occasions, aircraft had encountered serious incidents on the sole facility, posing serious danger to lives and equipment. Every attempt to rehabilitate the existing…

Africa’s most profitable airline, Ethiopian Airlines has concluded plans to add Antananarivo, Madagascar to its network as of 28 March 2017.   Madagascar is expected to join the ever expanding Ethiopian network of 95 worldwide destinations. Antananarivo is the capital and the largest city of Madagascar. The island nation is known as a “biodiversity hot-spot” as over 90 per cent of its wildlife is found nowhere else on earth. Madagascar is home to lush rainforests…

By CAPT DELE ORE Speaking during a media briefing in Lagos, on Monday, November 9, I stressed the need for a stronger leadership in Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and that the industry needs very strong regulatory authority, which is lacking in the current Director General, Captain Murtar Usman who was spared in the latest sack of the aviation agencies heads. I observed that If there are better alternatives and the CEOs are not performing,…

Rising from its 2016 Annual General Meeting and Elections held on January 11, 2017 at its Secretariat in Lagos, the Airline Operators of Nigeria (AON) has announced that it now has a new Executive Council in place to pilot the activities of the association for the next two years.   Capt. Nogie Meggison, the Chief Executive Officer of Jedidiah Air Limited (JedAir) once again emerged as Chairman for a second term in office having served…

Akin Olateru is the new Commissioner, Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB). He is a multitalented, resourceful Aviation industry professional with vast Airline and Business Aviation management expertise.   His industry experience and pedigree acquired in more than 27 years’ versatile work exposure,crisscrosses the Aviation Industry in the UK, Europe and Nigeria:at hands-on operational, management and top executive levels.   Akin is passionate, “breaths and dreams aviation and aviation safety” and has strategically grown his career pathway…