Aviation

Africa’s most profitable airline, Ethiopian Airlines is celebrating 70 years of dedicated and highly successful air transport services to, from and within the continent of Africa. With its strong mission of bringing Africa together and closer to the world, Ethiopian has expanded much needed air connectivity within Africa and with the rest of the world in the last 70 years. Leading the way in the past, present and the future; Ethiopian has been an aviation…

Airspace managers across the nation’s airports under the aegis of Airspace Managers’ Forum have thrown their support behind the current management of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), in its effort to sustain the gains of air safety in the country.  Speaking at this year’s first quarter Airspace Manager’s Forum which held in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, the chairman of the forum, Mr Gabriel Akpen commended the new management for making sure that navigational infrastructure…

*CASE ADJOURNED TO APRIL 26 Justice Babs Kuewumi of the Federal High Lagos today granted N20m bail to each of the officials of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) accused of N6.9billion fraud. The Managing director of NAMA; Ibrahim Abdulsalam,  director of Finance,  Clara Aliche, Acting General Manager, Procurement Muyiwa Adegorite, his wife, Joy, General Manager Finance,  Segun Agbolade were led into Court six at about 11.45am where prosecuting and defence counsels argue their cases…

The embattled Managing Director of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Ibrahim Abdulsalam and other top officials of the agency were today arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). They were arraigned at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi this afternoon. They were arraigned for massive corruption among other charges. The EFCC told woleshadare.net that the officials were remanded in Kirikiri custody pending when they would meet their bail conditions.   The anti-graft agency had on…

 One of world’s biggest airlines, Emirates celebrated its 30 years operations to Sri Lanka amid fanfare. On April 6, 1986, an Emirates B727-200 Flight EK800 departed Dubai International Airport touching down in Colombo, Emirates’ fourth global destination.  Thirty years later, Emirates has logged 56 million miles, transported thousands of tonnes of cargo and continues to connect Sri Lanka to the world, with 34 flights a week to Dubai, Malé and Singapore. Pictured at the ceremonial cutting…

The year started slowly for the aviation industry due to myriads of issues and seemingly unknown policy direction. However, the period witnessed some flurry of events, some palatable, others not too good, WOLE SHADARE writes Bristow sets the pace with crashes The crash of Bristow Sikorsky helicopter in the Atlantic Ocean, labour unrests, arrest of top officials of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), excruciating flight delays…

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced a decision of its Board of Governors (BoG), which unanimously approved at an IATA BoG meeting today, to recommend Alexandre de Juniac, Chairman and CEO of Air France-KLM, to succeed retiring Director General and CEO, Tony Tyler. With confirmation by the IATA Annual General Meeting to be held 1-3 June 2016 in Dublin, Ireland, de Juniac will take up duties as the head of the association after a…