Aviation

One of Nigeria’s most innovative financial institutions Sterling Bank is reinforcing its emerging position as the biggest supporter of transport and travel business in Nigeria. Sterling is partnering with the first aviation and cargo conference to help grow export and cargo business through the airports. Nigeria imports tonnes of cargo by air everyday but exports very little by air. Freighters arrive Nigerian airports everyday fully laden but leave empty. To address this problem the Chinet…

Provides new nationwide early lightning detection, others   Earth Networks, a global provider of weather intelligence, announced on Wednesday it formed a partnership with the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet). The agreement includes a five-year collaboration to build the Nigeria Total Lightning and Mesoscale AWS Network (NTLMAN) for early warning of severe weather. The partnership was commemorated during a live virtual Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony from Abuja and Germantown, Maryland. Under the agreement, Earth Networks…

Lists conditions for bidders The Federal Government in compliance with the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) and National Policy on Public-Private Partnership (N4P) has released a request for qualification for the concession of four International Airport terminals and related services. In the document signed by the Permanent Secretary, Federal  Ministry of Aviation, Hassan Musa,   the four major commercial airports, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja; Murtala Muhammed Internatıonal  Aırport Lagos, Malam Amınu Kano Internatıonal Aırport and…

The Director-General of Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA), Captain Gilbert Kibe has said that aviation contributes four per cent to his country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), just as he stated that domestic air travel is seeing quicker recovery than international operations. Kibe who disclosed this at a webinar hosted by President, African Business Aviation Association (AfBAA), Nick Fadugba monitored by Aviation Metric noted that the country had already started seeing over 400 daily aircraft movements and had…

FG plans rail to link Lagos airport terminals     The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika has said the concession of the four international airports in Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Port-Harcourt would fetch the nation enormous investments. The Minister specifically disclosed that the concession of the Murtala Muhammed Airport terminals would bring investment of over N30 billion annually which would be boosted by the construction of a rail line to link both the domestic and…

After months of uncertainty and apprehension, Green Africa, Nigeria’s Lagos-based value airline has been awarded an all-important Air Operator Certificate from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA). The AOC which was granted the carrier today allows it to commence soft launch of flight schedule immediately and first official commercial flight to take off on Thursday, 12thAugust 2021. The airline in a statement said, “Following the successful completion of all five phases of the AOC application…

 Lists reasons for skyrocketing aviation fuel price The continuous importation of Jet A1, inability of airline operators to have easy access to foreign exchange and airport taxes among others have been attributed to the skyrocketing price of the product in Nigeria. Rabiu Abdulmutalib, General Manager, TotalEnergies Nigeria in his presentation at a conference organised by aviation correspondents in Lagos, recently said that unless the aforementioned challenges are resolved, the prices of the products would continue…

There seems to be a ray of hope for one of the beleaguered African carriers, South African Airways as the carrier prepares to get out of its self-inflicted hiatus that led to a collapse. For a restart at regaining its prominence, the crisis-ridden airline is said to be preparing for a return to service by first operating domestically before it ventures into international operations, connecting its vast network to its hub in Johannesburg according to…

From Thursday August 5th, 2021, travellers from Nigeria who wish to travel to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) via a third country can now do as the UAE has finally decided to lift the on-transit flights from Nigeria, India and Pakistan. Although, direct flights ban to UAE from Nigeria is still in place, this would however bring relief to many Nigerians who had been deprived from visiting Dubai and other cities in the UAE due…

Former President of National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA), Mr. Bankole Bernard has put many of the problems of the aviation sector to lack of implementation of policies, adding that the situation has had a serious impact on peoples’ lives and their businesses. Bernard who spoke on the sidelines of the 25th League of Airports and Aviation Correspondents (LAAC) annual seminar held in Lagos said, “We have to shift focus on the impact over the…