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Compensation to hangar owners may gulp over N5 billion

Posted on February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 by Wole Shadare

The National Assembly has advised against the planned demolition of private hangars obstructing some of the boarding fingers at the new terminal of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, (MMIA) Lagos. Meanwhile, the National Assembly has asked the Managing Director of Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Capt. Rabiu Yadudu to submit the cost of demolition and compensation due to the owners of the hangars to the two committees for consideration before going ahead to demolish…

Olotu: How to reposition Skal for promotion of travel, tourism

Posted on February 14, 2022 by Wole Shadare

Ten years after lying prostrate, Skal International (Nigeria) came alive with the vision to work closely with both the state government and those at the federal level as well as all other relevant parastatals and government bodies overseeing the tourism sector in Nigeria to ensure growth and stability of the sector. This pledge was made by the newly inaugurated National President of Skal Nigeria, Mr. Daisi Olotu, and his executive in Lagos at the weekend….

Tour Brokers International Appoints Chigbufue Executive Director

Posted on February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 by Wole Shadare

Tour Brokers International (TBI) has approved the appointment of Mrs. Odion Mary Chigbufue as its Executive Director with effect from April 1, 2022. Chigbufue, the General Manager of TBI Group joined the company in 2007. In her 15 years with the company, she has effectively represented and promoted the business of the company at local, regional, and international travel and tourism-related exhibitions and events. She is a native of Edo State, graduating from the University…

Valentine’s Day: Arik Air offers hotel vouchers, free tickets to customers

Posted on February 11, 2022 by Wole Shadare

Arik Air is giving its customers a real treat on Monday, February 14, 2022, which marks this year’s Valentine’s Day. Passengers flying Arik Air on the day stand a chance to win a complimentary hotel stay (for couples) in selected 5-star hotels in Lagos and Abuja. Additionally, a good number of free return tickets will be won via raffles on the day. Arik Air is embarking on the Valentine’s Day giveaways as a show of…

National Assembly pledges support, lauds strides in aviation

Posted on February 11, 2022 by Wole Shadare

The huge infrastructure gap at many of the country’s airports may have convinced the National Assembly of the need to approve more funding for the country’s aviation industry as the lawmakers have pledged to lift the sector. This was the submission of the joint committees of the Senate and House of Representatives on Aviation during an oversight visit to the Accident Investigation Bureau, (AIB) and the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) in Lagos on Thursday….

Pursuing AIB of Nigeria’s dream

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Wole Shadare

The Civil Aviation Act 2006 established the Accident Investigation Bureau as an autonomous agency that reports to the President of the Federation through the Minister of Aviation. The agency had at inception remained almost unknown not just because of a lack of ideas to drive it but the political will to make it rank amongst its peers around the world. The appointment of Commissioner/CEO of the agency, Akin Olateru, an aircraft engineer in 2017 opened…

Your weather excuses, operational reasons not tenable, N’ Assembly tells airlines

Posted on February 10, 2022February 10, 2022 by Wole Shadare

Angst as National Assembly invites airlines, NCAA, others for talks FG to rehabilitate abandoned airstrips The incessant delays and cancellations of flight which has found expression in the rot in the aviation industry could be a thing of the past as the National Assembly is seeking a reduction in the problem that has taken the joy out of air travel and one that has exposed the helplessness of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority…

Court Dismisses Suit Filed by Foluso Adeagbo, 6 Others Against FAAN Conceasionaire

Posted on February 9, 2022 by Wole Shadare

Awards N3.15M in Firm’s Favour Justice Yellim Bogoro of a Lagos Federal High Court, today, struck out a suit filed against a company, Integrated Intelligent Imaging West Africa Limited, (iCUBE), a former concessionaire of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, its Managing Director, the Company Secretary and four banks for lack of diligent prosecution. The court also awarded a total punitive cost of N3.15 million against the seven applicants in the suit. The defendants include…

Extinction fear grips airlines, operate below unit cost

Posted on February 9, 2022 by Wole Shadare

…Operators in limbo as JET A1 skyrockets to N400 per litre How sunset operation at 18 airports hampers operations United Nigeria Airline mull interline Nigerian airlines are in a dire strait. They risk extinction unless the government comes to their rescue and urgently save the situation. The twin effects of the astronomical rise in the price of JET A1, otherwise known as aviation fuel and lack of support from the Federal Government including fluctuation in…

NANTA angered by ‘tout’ comment by US Embassy staff

Posted on February 8, 2022 by Wole Shadare

The National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA) has condemned the blanket stigmatization of the travel trade organization as touts by a staff of the United States Embassy and some other High Commissions in Nigeria. A video clip that had gone viral of a recorded television broadcast that captured an American Consular Officer describing Nigerian travel trade professionals as touts who must not be consulted on visa protocols, has drawn the ire of the agency….

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