Author: Wole Shadare

The Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja runway, which was constructed 34 years ago, has outlived its lifespan by over 14 years,woleshadare.net has learnt. A former Director of Airport Operation of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), who spoke under the condition of anonymity, disclosed this to our correspondent. The source stated that the Abuja airport runway and many others were built over 30 years ago, stressing that Abuja facility was built in 1982.  He…

Nigerian airspace safe, says NAMA The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has assured stakeholders that the nation’s airspace remains one of the safest on the continent of Africa for air navigation. Speaking while declaring open the demonstration of Aircraft e-Clearance User Acceptance Test Module to National Air Defence Corp, Security Agencies and other stakeholders in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, the Ag. Managing Director of NAMA,  Emma Anasi noted that the agency in the recent past…

*IATA, report rank Africa as highest in airport taxes *FAAN rakes $34 m annually from airport taxes      The International Air Transport Association (IATA) today ranked Nigeria and Venezuela as two countries with highest number of airlines’ funds trapped in their countries. This is coming at a time the clearing house for global airlines is engaging the Federal Government at all levels to ensure that issues with trapped funds are resolved. The group at…

The Airbus A320, the model of the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean on Thursday, is one of the most common planes in service around the world today. Some key facts about it: —Similar to the Boeing 737, the single-aisle, twin-engine jet is used to connect cities that are between one and five hours apart. —The A320 is generally considered one of the safest passenger planes in service. Airbus says it has had 11…

*Experts to debate pressing aviation issues The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has confirmed the lineup for its 2016 Aviation Day Africa Summit, with theme, “Driving African Economies through the Power of Aviation, scheduled to hold in Abuja, Nigeria on May 23-24, 2016. Senior IATA officials will be joined by the Director General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Captain Muhtar. S. Usman, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika. The Deputy Regional…

Ethiopian Airlines has announced that the largest and the most modern aviation academy in Africa, has been recognised as the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), Regional Training Center of Excellence at the ICAO’s Global Aviation Training and TRAINAIR PLUS symposium held at Conrad hotel in Seoul, Korea, recently. The academy attained the recognition following a rigorous assessment of the Training organization, Training & Procedures Manuals, Facilities, Training Processes, Qualification of Staff and Quality System. The…

*FAAN rakes in N7.5 million daily from JET A1 tax, scarcity ends *3 million litre fuel consumed daily          Except the Federal Government urgently repair the broken down pipelines linking the Atlas Cove to the airports, particularly the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, aviation fuel crisis would continue to persist. The pipelines ruptured in 1992 and since then, aviation fuel, otherwise known as Jet A1 is brought to the airports in tankers that in most cases have…