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Deputy General Manager, Public Affairs, Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA), Evelyn Njoku has been inaugurated as a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations after a rigorous presentation and other screening processes.   She was last week inaugurated during the 2022 NIPR Summit and Annual General Meeting at the International Conference Center in Abuja.   Njoku expressed gratitude to the Acting Managing Director of NAMA, Mr. Lawrence Pwajok, the management and staff of the…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) may have bowed to both internal and external pressure as the country’s apex Bank released the sum of $265 million out of the total $464 million trapped funds to the carriers. Just this week, the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed told reporters at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos that the Federal Government was working on resolving the impasse arising from keeping the airlines’ funds in the country. The…

Starting a business is no easy feat. There is a lot of research, planning, and capital that goes into it. It often feels like there are 1,000 things to do at the same time. New small business owners are often faced with this reality, but, over the years, Nigeria’s leading e-commerce platform, Jumia, has helped several vendors get online, reduce and, in most cases, eliminate some of the costs associated with running their business. The…

Key top stakeholders in the African aviation, travel, and tourism industries will meet to discuss the promotion and the advancement of the development and sustainability of the continent’s aviation and its allied industries at the fourth Aviators Africa conference and awards. It is an event organized for the aviation, travel, and tourism sectors in Africa. The full-day conference will attract over 200 delegates and will feature panel sessions and presentations of papers from airline operators,…

Skyway Aviation Handling Company PLC (SAHCO) has declared its continuous support for Nigeria’s fight against the peddling of controlled substances. The Managing Director/CEO of SAHCO, Basil Agboarumi stated that SAHCO boasts of well-trained staff that is equipped to know what to look out for according to world best practices before accepting Cargo and are also trained to be cooperative with Government agencies like The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) assigned to SAHCO’s Import and…

  Nigeria Aviation Forum (NAF) holds its inaugural summit with the theme: “Fraud Trigger, Detection, and Prevention: An experience from Nigerian Airline Industry”. The online summit will be held on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, at 11 am via Zoom with speakers from Aero, Dana, Arik, Peace, NCAA, AMOs, among others. Other speakers lined up are Chief Executive Officer at West Link Airlines ·Capt. Ibrahim Mshella, former Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Benedict…

Lists high jet fuel, forex fluctuation, others as sector’s problem Gives 365 free tickets to customers     Green Africa has relived its experience in the tough aviation industry one year after starting scheduled passenger operations, attributing its survival and success to the support and patronage it has enjoyed in the past 365 days from its loyal clientele and other stakeholders. The carrier in a statement said it had weathered many challenges in the difficult…

Aircraft giant, Airbus delivered 46 jets in July, bringing physical deliveries so far this year to 343 aircraft – just under halfway towards the planemaker’s revised full-year target of 700. Airbus also said in a monthly update that it had formally booked a major order for almost 300 jets from the main airlines in China, announced last month. [L1N2YI0M4] However, it canceled orders for four A350s from Aeroflot, representing 30% of the outstanding orders for…

SAA sole operator on lucrative route  That all is not well with the country’s aviation sector is manifesting as Nigeria’s flag carrier, Air Peace has stopped flight services to Johannesburg, South Africa. The airline’s Johannesburg operations will be suspended till October 8, 2022. The carrier in a statement on Monday said the development was regretted but has become inevitable due to the delayed issuance of South African visas to travellers, worsening forex crunch and the…

Continent’s traffic close to pre-pandemic level       The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced passenger data for June 2022 showing that the recovery in air travel remains strong. In June, African airlines experienced a 103.6% rise in Revenue Passenger Kilometres (RPKs) versus June 2021  RPKs is the standard measure of demand for air travel, with a 61.9% increase in capacity. The continent airlines’ load factor climbed 15.2 percentage points to 74.2%, the lowest…